“Once in a lifetime” crises.
same as it ever was.
Makes you just want to slap someone
I don’t know what Chris Rick did or said, but… blows threateningly on palm
Gen X here, I’ve been fighting against this future my whole life… I’m tired
We are going to need an early retirement home. We’ve already lived 2 lifetimes in the span of one.
I feel like your generation really got poisoned by the boomer lies…“trust the system, put in your time, and you’ll get your turn on top if you work hard”
Most of your cohorts just seem to be wandering around confused, struggling to reconcile their worldview with the reality that everything sucks (and is rapidly getting worse)
Not to dump on gen Xers but lets not give them too much woe(Note this is going to be more a US perspective). Yeah they grew up during(and were) the crime boom of the mid century that plagued American cities. Yeah they had the oil crisis and the dot com bubble. Yeah they were old enough to buy houses during the housing bubble bursting.
Lets not also forget they were born 1965-1980. They were the tail end of being able to work up a company, they were a gen that still came into an office to still turn in applications in person and all that dated cliche stuff an older family member tells you to do if your unemployed. Theyre the ones who got alright enough paying jobs doing things like data entry while complaining about it. Theyre the ones who were the right age during emerging tech industry to do things like take a quick community college network certification course and now are making six figures as head of IT department. Theyre the ones who picked up those high paying independent reporter jobs before print media started dying off when the getting was still good. They were the ones who were at prime earning and home buying age before the market became nationwide screwed. Yes the interest rate was higher, but that meant it wasnt as attractive of an investment or business opportunity which meant prices were lower.
But again it all depends who you are. The US went through some insane times in the mid century with urban decline thanks to sprawl and white flight, factories shutting down and de-industrialization, consolidation of banks and regional franchises and other businesses(leading to layoffs and in some cases the death of said merged company all together), and multiple collapses, the crack epidemic, aids and etc. And of course its not like gen xers or even boomers died once the elder millennials turned 18, they also experience covid, and the housing bubble crashing.
Wait, genx was till 1980? Then, are Millenials since 1981?
Generations cutoffs are a messy thing and the cutoffs are vague(like its already been a few years and the cutoff for gen z is still ambiguous) but generally yeah the cutoff is generally around 1980 or 1979.
I’m tired boss.
We got through the economic crisis? I never got them memo guys.
We haven’t had a recession yet… So not even started it.
You’re typing on a device, on a recreational website. You made it, this is as good as it gets now
3 major economic crisis and a few dozen catestrophic events so far
- so far
I mean, technically boomers saw Korea, Vietnam, Cuban missile crisis, Yom Kippur, (sorry if it’s misspelled), and the 70s oil crisis. I think the world has really just been interesting all this time
You say interesting, but I find the slow decay of our society as it’s eroded by greedy corporations to be rather dull.
Or you could look at the progress of science, morality and general kindness.
Your view is also valid. There are good and bad things to turn your focus on.
I’d personally rather live in 2023 than 1923, so for me, the total change seems generally interesting/good.
I mean as an educated white man, 1923 doesn’t seem all that bad to me…
Does 2023 look worse for educated white men?
Yes. Granted not due to being a white educated man so much as a human who doesn’t have loads of money or influence. At least in 1923 you didn’t have every corporation trying to micromanage your life and life was affordable.
Maybe not 1923 exactly, but you can look at Europe in that time… That was right around the time Mussolini got to power, and why? Because of white males (and more) facing a cost of living crisis. America at that time had the “golden 20s”, true, but then you go a few years later and the fucking great depression starts, probably the biggest cost of living crisis there was.
And then also compare the standard of living from that time with now, even though we are struggling, our standard of living in general is much better than it was at that time due to technology and other factors.
Right in the middle between two world wars you’re going to experience and probably die in.
I’m not saying you are wrong in the sense that all is good now, and that it doesn’t suck majorly for a lot of people, all I’m saying is that I think you overestimate how good the past was.
Don’t worry, the real economic crisis is just now coming with the Fed planning on raising interest rates next year. That’s been a pretty reliable indicator that shit is about to hit the fan for the last few financial crisis. What we got after the Pandemic was just a little entrée.
Who doesn’t love a good old “stock market correction”, where rich people lose money that never existed, and claw back real money from the poor.
Honestly that’s nothing compared to WWI, the great depression and WWII
So basically baby boomers had it easy
The problem these days is everyone is self centered and unwilling to work hard. I see lots of complaints about how the world has been unfair but in reality we are unfair to each other.
The problem these days is everyone is self centered and unwilling to work hard
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but in reality we are unfair to each other.
The last part of your sentence is correct. So maybe the reason everyone is “unwilling” to work is actually because they are unwilling to be exploited. Considering how capitalism utterly failed to regulate the market and wages are still piss poor despite every CEO and their henchmen crying about the labour shortage, when according to capitalist theory the solution should have been to immediately raise wages as the low supply and high demand of labour necessitates higher prices. That’s the excuse they give us when they jack up the prices on food and basic supplies yet they reject the same logic when applied to workers.
I think there isn’t much alternative to a free market. As it turns out everyone is ready to exploit everyone else.
That’s me every evening
The plural of ‘crisis’ is ‘crises’.
I thought it was crisisis
No I’m pretty sure its crisi
Criss Cross make u wanna jump
I think you just keep adding more ‘is’ to the ending depending on how severe the event is
crisis - your toast is burnt
crisisis - your toast is on fire
crisisisis - your toast is on fire and the flames have spread through your kitchen
crisisisisis - your toast fire has spread to your house and your neigbhours house
crisisisisisis - your toast fire has opened a massive portal to hell
crisisisisisisisis - your toast has opened a portal to hell and has allowed Satan and his minions into our realm
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You saying that someone’s going to make a remark at my wife on a public stage and I’m going go up and slap them in front of everyone for a minor faux pas?
I feel like there have been duels to death over stuff like this at some point…
I’m 33 and I don’t mind. Be glad you didn’t have to fight in a WW with 16. Or starve to death with 12 in the middle ages.
Nah, you’re just worked to death and still not able to own a home instead
I’m 31 and I do. I’d rather be dead.
