Woman Explains How Millennials Are Systematically Infantilized By Previous Generations And It’s Spot On
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According to the Pew Research Center, today roughly 24% of young adults could be deemed financially independent by 22 years old, compared to 32% in 1980. It was also found that almost half (45%) the adults between the ages of 18 to 29 receive financial help from their parents. Pew Research Center further reports that young adults today are staying in school longer and marrying and establishing their own households later compared to the previous generations.
While it’s easy to jump to reductive claims and say that the current generation is lazy and entitled, the financial independence and other adulthood markers are not so easy to reach for today’s youth. The point was proven perfectly by a young woman on Twitter – Louisa shared her opinion on the so-called adulthood markers. According to her, the system is built to keep people just barely above water while at the same time bullying them for not conforming to the standards set by previous generations. Scroll down below to read Louisa’s tweets and don’t forget to tell us what you think in the comment section.
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Recently, one woman shared her opinion on the ‘infantilized generation’
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Louisa argues that today’s young adults are infantilized against their own will and then mocked for not being able to meet the expectations of adulthood. She says that people in power price the youth out of the aforementioned adulthood markers (a house, wedding, nuclear family) and makes them unreachable. Quickly enough, Louisa received praise for her on-point thread, but not everyone was agreeing with her. “Being financially independent is not hard. Pay off your debt. You can easily do this by living without using a credit card and living within your means. Then once your debt is paid off, build wealth. Budgeting will save your life,” one person wrote. Another man argued that the secret is, “kids as soon as you have room in your heart,” and then, “the money works itself out.”
Soon enough, Louisa’s thread on Twitter went viral
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People chimed in by offering a further extension of Louisa’s list
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People were particularly annoyed by the forced monetization of one’s hobbies and argued that “any hobbies or sources of enjoyment (i.e playing an instrument, drawing, photography, etc.) [are] only valuable if they are used as a source of income.”
“Don’t forget that the money spent on a said hobby, no matter how small, is a sign of our immaturity and the reason we can’t afford the things they had,” someone added.
People found Louisa’s thread relatable and some even responded with memes
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Boomer here and I think the article is spot on. We didn't have cell phones, internet, and most of the new electronic miracles back in the day. What we did have is a decent wage, almost free health care, jobs-jobs-jobs that paid real wages and had these weird things they used to call "benefits". Oh yes, and there were pensions so you didn't have to sock away money for your retirement. While interest rates were higher, the cost of housing (and everything else) was WAY cheaper. Examples: gas bill for heat $3.50/month, first cable bill in 1978 was $6.50/month. My grandparents purchased their 1st home in Philadelphia around 1905 for $600. My father purchased my childhood home for $12,000 in 1960. I purchased my 1st home for $49,000 in 1983. My childhood home sold recently for $250,000. See anything wrong with this picture?
@Carol Emory no Carol your weak assumptions are completely incorrect. I graduated college in 2013. I should have graduated in 2011 but I couldn't afford to do I worked full time between 2010 and 2013 and went to school online WHEN I had the extra cash. My wife and I bought our first home in Denver for 240K in Oct of 2012.... Right before the market started to get better. We sold that home in summer of 2017 for just short of $400K. We moved to Ohio for a better work/life balance and bought a home a few doors off Lake Erie for just under $200K. with the equity we earned from Denver, we put down $125K and now we are down to about 50K left. Your husband should transition to a network engineer or a systems administrator... thats where the $$$ is. My brother just got out of the USMC and is making $80K as a network admin. Your husband just chose a career thats a bit hard to make 6 figures... nothing wrong with that either.
Oh..and not every illness is foreseeable. I like how people say "Well if you eat right and exercise, you won't get sick." Slightly off point but very very true. I was young attending university, met a guy with stable job, vehicle, dated for years and got engaged, had baby....fiance got into drugs became abusive, put on anklet very dangerous and unpredictable....I left: since then 8 years of harassment from him, and then my health went. From age 24 to 30 (considering i already have spinabifida) I had a severe clot in my vein, one in my artery, went into sepsis and had half my intestines taken, shattered my femur slipping in kitchen while making bottle, raised son from 5 months to 2 years on a zimmerframe unable to carry him, used a stroller indoors......my point is, after all this, i receive criticism for being in an abusive relationship, having a kid when i have poor health, being a single mum, needing govt supported living allowance to get by (nm I worked hard until illness) X(
My parents purchased our 2200 sf home in '74 for $36k. It sold in '17 for $480k. The only real change to the home is the swimming pool my parents put in around '80. $480k. That is insane.
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Thanks Monty (python?), GenX here, my parents are not boomers though, but had the same priviledges than you. The problem really is the attitude of a few boomers, who had a sheer number of demographics supporting them, that every thing belongs to them. I call that: "Big Brother Syndrome"; a bigger brother comes into your room, takes your toys and locks them up in his closet: "they're mine now. You'll do the same to your younger bro". See what I mean? The boomers who didn't want that deal got assassinated (JFKennedy, JHendrix, MLKing...) by the CIA and als. It's in fact crazier than reality: it started in 1776 with the Illuminati of Bavières. They had a plan: 432Hz (note: A or La) to 440Hz, so music is a bit off the real natural frequencies (Real Natural C: 1Hz, C: 2Hz and G: 3Hz, so when you get to A it's 432Hz). You should tune your instruments to 432Hz instead of 440Hz: it's healing properties that come from natural symmetrical vibrations (cymatics). The Rockefeller Foundation is (*).
The Rockefeller and Rothschild are owning the World Bank through "Commision for International Settlement" (BIS), central banks fund them (Federal Reserve, Bank of Canada, Europe's banks, etc) as well as their own kind of people, rich, wealthy and crooked. The trilateral commision is under the WB: Them, Russia and Asia. That's how they planned to steal the world. Now you know: Bilderberg group has Bill Gates (PC) and all media owners and politicans talk under seal of secrety every year: WHERE is DEMOCRACY? Ask your politicians about it. Power to the People is what DemoCracy means. Get yourself a free education by reading as many wikis you can: download the pages for further access (Farenheit451 (Louis Malle) should be coming soon to a theater near you). If you haven't watched "The Matrix", take the blue pill, 'cause every one loves Keanu, right? Good Luck, Neo!
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And you probably have the top of the line cell phone plan, cable, newer car, refuses to have a roommate and eats out multiple times a week. What a piece of shit you are.
@m o'connell Agreed but one also has to account for the population explosion since then: every person thinks they need a child regardless of expense or practicality so supply and demand have outpaced availability of traditional homes - skyrocketing price.
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Those numbers you just threw out mean nothing. You need to factor in inflation across the board.
$12,000 in 1960, factored for inflation becomes just over $100,000 in 2019 dollars. I would be ABLE to buy a house for $100,000!! The only houses that cheap around here are usually hell-holes being auctioned for back-taxes, or foreclosures.
And minimum wage equivalent to the 80's should be $17, at least as of a few years ago. It's higher now. But they're SCREAMING that the country will collapse if they pay it. Every time they raise the minimum wage, the economy has gotten better over the next few years. If you want to good information on this from an actual investor, check out the essays of Nick Hanauer, the only original non-family-member investor in Amazon. "The Pitchforks Are Coming" is one of his best & shows the games corporations play to make people voluntarily give up their hard-earned pay.
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Lets break that down to buying power of the dollar as it relates to inflation. 1905: House Cost $600. Average income was $438/year 1978: Gas and cable in was $10 total. Income back then was $15,060 on average. 1983: House was $49,000 and income was $25,400 TODAY: Average house $315,000. Average income $83,000. From what I see, even boomers could make the same argument against the previous generation. Im not well off, I didnt get a scholarship or free college, and I worked my ass off. I didn't believe the lie of taking out student loans is how you go to college and I worked 50+ hours a week from the age of 16 till about 25. And now at 31, I have about $50k left on my mortgage, my wife and I bring in just over 100K a year and we havent had any debt other than the house from the day we were married.
Just don't get seriously sick or injured. I've seen many smug people talk about how they are just fine & everyone else is lazy, until a crisis hits.
Totally, your anecdotal story is proof that everyone is just whining and have no point to make. Unfortunately you didn't even include the Boomer generation in your stats, weird that you would leave them out. But your point remains, that things have progressively gotten worse to the point that they are now untenable. That is what you were trying to say, correct?
Explain to me how you worked 50 hours per week and still managed to attend classes and complete coursework.
Oh..and not every illness is foreseeable. I like how people say "Well if you eat right and exercise, you won't get sick." Yeah..well car accidents and cancer don't give a crap how much kale you eat or how much yoga you do each week. And being healthy while giving birth to a healthy baby doesn't keep you from receiving a $12,000 hospital bill that includes the hospital charging you for "skin to skin contact" meaning they charge you for holding your own baby after it's born. And don't even give me the "Well if you can't afford kids, don't have them." That's just the kind of statement I would expect from a TINK.
I wanna know what fantasy world you live in where the average income is $83,000. My husband is a professional Web Developer and he's never been able to crack above 65k in the 19+ years he's been doing it because he's self taught and doesn't have a college degree to attract the big businesses into hiring him. Every job he's had has never had health benefits which means we pay insurance and medical costs that nearly equal our rent each month. And our rent has nearly doubled in less than 10 years while our salaries have not. And if you only have $50k left on your mortgage, then you bought it long before the real estate prices jacked up to over 3 times their original price just 10 years ago. My father's home was worth about $140k not more than 15 years ago. It's listed today at $556k. That's not a normal increase when minimum wage only increased about 40 cents an hour in that same time frame.
Alpha puck..given your statements, I'm guessing you went to college back in the late 80's, early 90's when colleges were much cheaper than they are today. Which means, that's when you most likely bought your home, worked your way through college, and managed to do it all without taking out student loans. College costs have radically increased since your day and jobs are not as frequent or pay as much as you think. College apartments in our small town cost upwards of $650 per person...not a flat rent rate like most normal places..that's per person. And before you say "Live in the dorms," there aren't enough dorms to go around. In-state tuition for a 4-year college including books is over $20k a year..and that doesn't include living expenses. Now if you earn minimum wage at 50 hours per week (and that's 2 jobs..because places that pay minimum aren't going to pay overtime), you can make $18,850/year. Hmm...see a problem here. I can't imagine why they take out financial aid loans?
It seems that some people here don't like the truth to be told. But that's BP today; Either you go with the flow and don't critise or you get loads of downvotes.
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@M O'Connell dont be petty. Surely you are bright enough to realize that during the school months, I didn't work 50 hours. I would usually work 25 hours a week during school and 50+ during the summer months. And it still paid for my college. Lets try to use that big brain of yours! I know you can do it!
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Alphapuck - thank you. Only sane, intelligent comment so far.
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@Renee Gauthier I have saved enough money to pay my deductible and the percentage of what my insurance wont pay up to a $500,000 health crisis. But you are also right in saying that people say just dont get sick... eat healthy and exercise and you can control a great portion of that. If you dont do that, then yes you are lazy. Stop making excuses for your poor decisions.
GenX here and this article is correct. Except! These rules apply to ALL of us. Yes, my generation got a head start. I do have wealthy friends but most of my friends are like me: struggling to keep up and get by every month, and knowing the system is stacked against EVERYone but the wealthy. Many Boomers and Silent Generations are also feeling this pain, if they were working class, if they did not save enough, if they are ill or in an accident (in the U.S., where illness can make you homeless) if they were not rich to begin with. So it's idiotic for anyone to knock Millennials when we are all in the same boat that pits us against each other and is perfectly unbalanced to favor the rich. We need to join forces and take down the systems that harm decent, hardworking people.
Gen X was the beginning of the end, thanks to Reagan. I kept wondering when companies would realize that the less they paid their employees, the less money they spent at those companies. However, I didn't count on the same people not worrying about their companies making money, but just gambling with stocks prices & bailing with their golden parachutes. Individual CEOs were making money even as the companies were crashing & burning & laying off people. Then they'd start the next round. I was born in 1963, on the cusp between Boomers & Gen X, so I had a bit of insight on both & was affected somewhat by the financial crisis. I started out okay, then in the late 80's & early 90's, our basic 7% annual raise was changed to 3%. It's now 0%. I did get a pension, but since my salary hasn't gone up much, it won't be much, but I'm still better off than most millenials. However, it wasn't just Boomers who did this. Too many Gen X took the Reagan mythology & greed is good to heart.
Greed isn't a magic emotion that makes our economy run. It's what they told us so they (and we) could justify our greed & think we were helping the economy. While we were listening to that, they were picking our pockets.
You're absolutely right! Reagan's policies destroyed the middle class and produced our nightmare health care. So many blame just Trump, but he's finishing off what Reagan started. The lower classes are paying more in taxers than huge corporations and the ultra-wealthy. That's what Trump's tax break did; I wish so much people would educate themselves.
Alib: "We need to join forces and take down the systems that harm decent, hardworking people." We must do it pacifically. Heal yourselves first with 432hz music (A is now 440Hz). Just get an app that shifts 440 to 432 for your mp3, or make music yourself with string instruments tuned in 432Hz. It's between A and G#, so it feels a lot smoother and deeper in your body. Electronic instruments can be tuned too, just with a turn of a knob. 444Hz for A is also a very good healing frequency tuning. Play your usual 60s, 70s, 80s hits in 432hz, or get an app or device that tells you the tuning of the audio, so you shift it to 432 manually. Test it and see for yourself, hear for yourself. If it works, wake up someone else. 2020 is the year of action: The Woman of the Year according to TIME said their generation is ready. Join forces, wake up the hearts and minds, every one is in the same boat, and they are Men in a Highcastle (PKDick): UnGlorious Basterds (Tarantino): fascist/communist/globalist
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"We need to join forces and take down the systems that harm decent, hardworking people.". This is so ignorant it's almost unbelievable. This system has brought about raising the standard of living all over the world at a rate that's almost unfathomable. In almost every metric possible the world has gotten better but people want to tear that system down. Sure, take down the rest of the word's progress because you can't afford everything you want. That's the most selfish, entitled thing ever. I'm saddened that a genxer has decided to join the cult of victimhood.
Full Name - I am not a victim; I'm empowered. I agree that the world now has a higher standard of living, but the power gap and the wage gap is rapidly growing, and it's the wealthy who feel entitled and selfish, not I. There is much to be done to improve living conditions and healthcare for those of us who work hard and find ourselves in vulnerable situations because of the greed and entitlement of corporations.
No system can ever be perfect, human nature just doesn't seem to allow this. The creation of buy now pay later, an excellent way for banks to make revenue, great on paper...not great in real life experience. I'm sure I read a piece a while back that talked about capitalism in that it has always been expected, to some extent, that it is a model designed to ultimately get too big and fall (similar to rome), but the first half of the model is so prosperous ppl couldn't resist. Look at China, although socialist it's commerce is capitalistic: they are where we westerners used to be in that phase, with high industry and pollution, growing wealth and middle class expanding. This is because we started earlier than them, we are now at the unavoidable end phase of this model: money shifting to an extreme ownership by few, and a disappearing middle class. I really really hope the projection model got the societal collapse part wrong...but my cynical self knows what is coming
I find it annoying that political discusions are put under generation tags. This way, it seems it is an issue between younger and older people. In fact, we are looking at political failures of the last 50 or so years.
Boomer here and I think the article is spot on. We didn't have cell phones, internet, and most of the new electronic miracles back in the day. What we did have is a decent wage, almost free health care, jobs-jobs-jobs that paid real wages and had these weird things they used to call "benefits". Oh yes, and there were pensions so you didn't have to sock away money for your retirement. While interest rates were higher, the cost of housing (and everything else) was WAY cheaper. Examples: gas bill for heat $3.50/month, first cable bill in 1978 was $6.50/month. My grandparents purchased their 1st home in Philadelphia around 1905 for $600. My father purchased my childhood home for $12,000 in 1960. I purchased my 1st home for $49,000 in 1983. My childhood home sold recently for $250,000. See anything wrong with this picture?
@Carol Emory no Carol your weak assumptions are completely incorrect. I graduated college in 2013. I should have graduated in 2011 but I couldn't afford to do I worked full time between 2010 and 2013 and went to school online WHEN I had the extra cash. My wife and I bought our first home in Denver for 240K in Oct of 2012.... Right before the market started to get better. We sold that home in summer of 2017 for just short of $400K. We moved to Ohio for a better work/life balance and bought a home a few doors off Lake Erie for just under $200K. with the equity we earned from Denver, we put down $125K and now we are down to about 50K left. Your husband should transition to a network engineer or a systems administrator... thats where the $$$ is. My brother just got out of the USMC and is making $80K as a network admin. Your husband just chose a career thats a bit hard to make 6 figures... nothing wrong with that either.
Oh..and not every illness is foreseeable. I like how people say "Well if you eat right and exercise, you won't get sick." Slightly off point but very very true. I was young attending university, met a guy with stable job, vehicle, dated for years and got engaged, had baby....fiance got into drugs became abusive, put on anklet very dangerous and unpredictable....I left: since then 8 years of harassment from him, and then my health went. From age 24 to 30 (considering i already have spinabifida) I had a severe clot in my vein, one in my artery, went into sepsis and had half my intestines taken, shattered my femur slipping in kitchen while making bottle, raised son from 5 months to 2 years on a zimmerframe unable to carry him, used a stroller indoors......my point is, after all this, i receive criticism for being in an abusive relationship, having a kid when i have poor health, being a single mum, needing govt supported living allowance to get by (nm I worked hard until illness) X(
My parents purchased our 2200 sf home in '74 for $36k. It sold in '17 for $480k. The only real change to the home is the swimming pool my parents put in around '80. $480k. That is insane.
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Thanks Monty (python?), GenX here, my parents are not boomers though, but had the same priviledges than you. The problem really is the attitude of a few boomers, who had a sheer number of demographics supporting them, that every thing belongs to them. I call that: "Big Brother Syndrome"; a bigger brother comes into your room, takes your toys and locks them up in his closet: "they're mine now. You'll do the same to your younger bro". See what I mean? The boomers who didn't want that deal got assassinated (JFKennedy, JHendrix, MLKing...) by the CIA and als. It's in fact crazier than reality: it started in 1776 with the Illuminati of Bavières. They had a plan: 432Hz (note: A or La) to 440Hz, so music is a bit off the real natural frequencies (Real Natural C: 1Hz, C: 2Hz and G: 3Hz, so when you get to A it's 432Hz). You should tune your instruments to 432Hz instead of 440Hz: it's healing properties that come from natural symmetrical vibrations (cymatics). The Rockefeller Foundation is (*).
The Rockefeller and Rothschild are owning the World Bank through "Commision for International Settlement" (BIS), central banks fund them (Federal Reserve, Bank of Canada, Europe's banks, etc) as well as their own kind of people, rich, wealthy and crooked. The trilateral commision is under the WB: Them, Russia and Asia. That's how they planned to steal the world. Now you know: Bilderberg group has Bill Gates (PC) and all media owners and politicans talk under seal of secrety every year: WHERE is DEMOCRACY? Ask your politicians about it. Power to the People is what DemoCracy means. Get yourself a free education by reading as many wikis you can: download the pages for further access (Farenheit451 (Louis Malle) should be coming soon to a theater near you). If you haven't watched "The Matrix", take the blue pill, 'cause every one loves Keanu, right? Good Luck, Neo!
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And you probably have the top of the line cell phone plan, cable, newer car, refuses to have a roommate and eats out multiple times a week. What a piece of shit you are.
@m o'connell Agreed but one also has to account for the population explosion since then: every person thinks they need a child regardless of expense or practicality so supply and demand have outpaced availability of traditional homes - skyrocketing price.
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Those numbers you just threw out mean nothing. You need to factor in inflation across the board.
$12,000 in 1960, factored for inflation becomes just over $100,000 in 2019 dollars. I would be ABLE to buy a house for $100,000!! The only houses that cheap around here are usually hell-holes being auctioned for back-taxes, or foreclosures.
And minimum wage equivalent to the 80's should be $17, at least as of a few years ago. It's higher now. But they're SCREAMING that the country will collapse if they pay it. Every time they raise the minimum wage, the economy has gotten better over the next few years. If you want to good information on this from an actual investor, check out the essays of Nick Hanauer, the only original non-family-member investor in Amazon. "The Pitchforks Are Coming" is one of his best & shows the games corporations play to make people voluntarily give up their hard-earned pay.
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Lets break that down to buying power of the dollar as it relates to inflation. 1905: House Cost $600. Average income was $438/year 1978: Gas and cable in was $10 total. Income back then was $15,060 on average. 1983: House was $49,000 and income was $25,400 TODAY: Average house $315,000. Average income $83,000. From what I see, even boomers could make the same argument against the previous generation. Im not well off, I didnt get a scholarship or free college, and I worked my ass off. I didn't believe the lie of taking out student loans is how you go to college and I worked 50+ hours a week from the age of 16 till about 25. And now at 31, I have about $50k left on my mortgage, my wife and I bring in just over 100K a year and we havent had any debt other than the house from the day we were married.
Just don't get seriously sick or injured. I've seen many smug people talk about how they are just fine & everyone else is lazy, until a crisis hits.
Totally, your anecdotal story is proof that everyone is just whining and have no point to make. Unfortunately you didn't even include the Boomer generation in your stats, weird that you would leave them out. But your point remains, that things have progressively gotten worse to the point that they are now untenable. That is what you were trying to say, correct?
Explain to me how you worked 50 hours per week and still managed to attend classes and complete coursework.
Oh..and not every illness is foreseeable. I like how people say "Well if you eat right and exercise, you won't get sick." Yeah..well car accidents and cancer don't give a crap how much kale you eat or how much yoga you do each week. And being healthy while giving birth to a healthy baby doesn't keep you from receiving a $12,000 hospital bill that includes the hospital charging you for "skin to skin contact" meaning they charge you for holding your own baby after it's born. And don't even give me the "Well if you can't afford kids, don't have them." That's just the kind of statement I would expect from a TINK.
I wanna know what fantasy world you live in where the average income is $83,000. My husband is a professional Web Developer and he's never been able to crack above 65k in the 19+ years he's been doing it because he's self taught and doesn't have a college degree to attract the big businesses into hiring him. Every job he's had has never had health benefits which means we pay insurance and medical costs that nearly equal our rent each month. And our rent has nearly doubled in less than 10 years while our salaries have not. And if you only have $50k left on your mortgage, then you bought it long before the real estate prices jacked up to over 3 times their original price just 10 years ago. My father's home was worth about $140k not more than 15 years ago. It's listed today at $556k. That's not a normal increase when minimum wage only increased about 40 cents an hour in that same time frame.
Alpha puck..given your statements, I'm guessing you went to college back in the late 80's, early 90's when colleges were much cheaper than they are today. Which means, that's when you most likely bought your home, worked your way through college, and managed to do it all without taking out student loans. College costs have radically increased since your day and jobs are not as frequent or pay as much as you think. College apartments in our small town cost upwards of $650 per person...not a flat rent rate like most normal places..that's per person. And before you say "Live in the dorms," there aren't enough dorms to go around. In-state tuition for a 4-year college including books is over $20k a year..and that doesn't include living expenses. Now if you earn minimum wage at 50 hours per week (and that's 2 jobs..because places that pay minimum aren't going to pay overtime), you can make $18,850/year. Hmm...see a problem here. I can't imagine why they take out financial aid loans?
It seems that some people here don't like the truth to be told. But that's BP today; Either you go with the flow and don't critise or you get loads of downvotes.
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@M O'Connell dont be petty. Surely you are bright enough to realize that during the school months, I didn't work 50 hours. I would usually work 25 hours a week during school and 50+ during the summer months. And it still paid for my college. Lets try to use that big brain of yours! I know you can do it!
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Alphapuck - thank you. Only sane, intelligent comment so far.
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@Renee Gauthier I have saved enough money to pay my deductible and the percentage of what my insurance wont pay up to a $500,000 health crisis. But you are also right in saying that people say just dont get sick... eat healthy and exercise and you can control a great portion of that. If you dont do that, then yes you are lazy. Stop making excuses for your poor decisions.
GenX here and this article is correct. Except! These rules apply to ALL of us. Yes, my generation got a head start. I do have wealthy friends but most of my friends are like me: struggling to keep up and get by every month, and knowing the system is stacked against EVERYone but the wealthy. Many Boomers and Silent Generations are also feeling this pain, if they were working class, if they did not save enough, if they are ill or in an accident (in the U.S., where illness can make you homeless) if they were not rich to begin with. So it's idiotic for anyone to knock Millennials when we are all in the same boat that pits us against each other and is perfectly unbalanced to favor the rich. We need to join forces and take down the systems that harm decent, hardworking people.
Gen X was the beginning of the end, thanks to Reagan. I kept wondering when companies would realize that the less they paid their employees, the less money they spent at those companies. However, I didn't count on the same people not worrying about their companies making money, but just gambling with stocks prices & bailing with their golden parachutes. Individual CEOs were making money even as the companies were crashing & burning & laying off people. Then they'd start the next round. I was born in 1963, on the cusp between Boomers & Gen X, so I had a bit of insight on both & was affected somewhat by the financial crisis. I started out okay, then in the late 80's & early 90's, our basic 7% annual raise was changed to 3%. It's now 0%. I did get a pension, but since my salary hasn't gone up much, it won't be much, but I'm still better off than most millenials. However, it wasn't just Boomers who did this. Too many Gen X took the Reagan mythology & greed is good to heart.
Greed isn't a magic emotion that makes our economy run. It's what they told us so they (and we) could justify our greed & think we were helping the economy. While we were listening to that, they were picking our pockets.
You're absolutely right! Reagan's policies destroyed the middle class and produced our nightmare health care. So many blame just Trump, but he's finishing off what Reagan started. The lower classes are paying more in taxers than huge corporations and the ultra-wealthy. That's what Trump's tax break did; I wish so much people would educate themselves.
Alib: "We need to join forces and take down the systems that harm decent, hardworking people." We must do it pacifically. Heal yourselves first with 432hz music (A is now 440Hz). Just get an app that shifts 440 to 432 for your mp3, or make music yourself with string instruments tuned in 432Hz. It's between A and G#, so it feels a lot smoother and deeper in your body. Electronic instruments can be tuned too, just with a turn of a knob. 444Hz for A is also a very good healing frequency tuning. Play your usual 60s, 70s, 80s hits in 432hz, or get an app or device that tells you the tuning of the audio, so you shift it to 432 manually. Test it and see for yourself, hear for yourself. If it works, wake up someone else. 2020 is the year of action: The Woman of the Year according to TIME said their generation is ready. Join forces, wake up the hearts and minds, every one is in the same boat, and they are Men in a Highcastle (PKDick): UnGlorious Basterds (Tarantino): fascist/communist/globalist
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"We need to join forces and take down the systems that harm decent, hardworking people.". This is so ignorant it's almost unbelievable. This system has brought about raising the standard of living all over the world at a rate that's almost unfathomable. In almost every metric possible the world has gotten better but people want to tear that system down. Sure, take down the rest of the word's progress because you can't afford everything you want. That's the most selfish, entitled thing ever. I'm saddened that a genxer has decided to join the cult of victimhood.
Full Name - I am not a victim; I'm empowered. I agree that the world now has a higher standard of living, but the power gap and the wage gap is rapidly growing, and it's the wealthy who feel entitled and selfish, not I. There is much to be done to improve living conditions and healthcare for those of us who work hard and find ourselves in vulnerable situations because of the greed and entitlement of corporations.
No system can ever be perfect, human nature just doesn't seem to allow this. The creation of buy now pay later, an excellent way for banks to make revenue, great on paper...not great in real life experience. I'm sure I read a piece a while back that talked about capitalism in that it has always been expected, to some extent, that it is a model designed to ultimately get too big and fall (similar to rome), but the first half of the model is so prosperous ppl couldn't resist. Look at China, although socialist it's commerce is capitalistic: they are where we westerners used to be in that phase, with high industry and pollution, growing wealth and middle class expanding. This is because we started earlier than them, we are now at the unavoidable end phase of this model: money shifting to an extreme ownership by few, and a disappearing middle class. I really really hope the projection model got the societal collapse part wrong...but my cynical self knows what is coming
I find it annoying that political discusions are put under generation tags. This way, it seems it is an issue between younger and older people. In fact, we are looking at political failures of the last 50 or so years.