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I’d pay good money to see them going door to door with their résumés, only to be met with the blank gen Z stare of children who don’t even know who owns the shop they work at, or why an old man is trying to hand them a scrap of paper with their life story on it.
A bigger show would be made of people handing over their parents for social justice like this, based on bullshit they inflict upon their kids. And I mean all of it: jobs, economy, romance, marriage, everything. Lots of people’s heads become full of advice that has aged like milk, but are too stubborn to admit that’s the case.
Back it up with an intervention style forum and follow-up episodes about the inevitable counseling to follow and I’m in.
My dad had to do it because he was too old at 56 (office job). In 3 years (government support and savings) he could not find anyone who would take him. Eventually he started working small construction jobs (which he enjoys doing) through someone that did work on his house.
So I think there are plenty older people that actually know the difficulty.
Yeah, they’ve had time to build networks which definitely help.
That is the thing, the old connections were worthless. This was a connection he made after looking for a job for 3 years.
The thing that kept his head above the water were his savings and the European safety net.
Just walk in ,demand to see the Big Boss, look him in the eye and ask for a job!
That was among the nuggets of whizdum from my Silent Gen parents.
Even in late 2000s companies were just doing resume collecting at internship or career fairs.
Hell think king of the hill was even doing episodes of how hard it was to get jobs it during its early seasons. When wallmart causes every business to go out of business
This would make for a good YouTube video. Wouldn’t even be difficult to make.
I’d rather one where we make lawmakers live the average life of their constituents.
That show would last one episode before everyone starts questioning their own advice 😭
Yeah, as a millennial I can feel this. Graduated in 2008 from university and couldn’t find a single job in my field. Couldn’t find a job out of my field. Couldn’t even get hired by fucking Taco Bell.
Eventually sold my body for money.
Did you get good money for it at least?
What
Didn’t have a vehicle?
I also wanna see their face when they see their first pay check and how little it gets you
It’s called a recession, can be caused by indiscriminate tariffs and trade wars, chaotic policies. If someone nearing retirement but not able to afford it gets laid off ….
We’ve been in a constant stage of recession/silent depression since the 2008 collapse
Don’t forget the dot com bubble and 9/11 collapses before 2008
Since the first Iran oil crisis in '73.
Would be better if they had to apply online with an 18-25 year olds resume.
Boomers have the advantage of personal connections that they have built up over the course of a lifetime. Many of them will still be able to find a job “the old fashioned way” just through those connections.
Many still will not. Because job hunting is still garbage. But it’s still not a good way to show them reality unless they have a blank slate with 100k in student loan debt.
Stop making this a generational war, boomers aren’t the problem. Unrestrained capitalism is.
Who do you think it is that voted for unrestrained capitalism and has been its most ardent crusaders for 50+ years?
Boomers are a big part of the problem
If they weren’t yanking up the drawbridge and making sure the rest of us have to pay for their pensions and to sit around doing nothing but collect rent, I’d agree.
(this is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek look at some reporting/analysis)
Hard disagree.
The boomer generation’s biggest crime was being a frog in a pot that’s only just coming to boil. The leopards were still in the distance and life for the most part looked good if you lack the ability to see beneath the surface.
Most people lack this ability. They are incapable of making abstract contextual links and stumble through their lives relatively blind to how the world works. Ignorant.
For most Boomers their ignorance does not make them guilty. Just foolish and weak. Fallible. That’s not enough to lay blame at their feet.
The criminals have and only ever will be the ridiculously wealthy; who’ve orchestrated this mess for wealth, power and hubris. Who’ve stood on the backs of all workers for all written history. Who’ve caused untold suffering and death. Our ire belongs with them.
Division along any other lines only serves those wealthy bastards reaping the rewards from our division.
You write as if the billionaires are the only crooks, there’s a long line of millionaires eager to commit crimes for their billionaire overlords and an even longer line of middle class folks desperate to do anything illegal or not to please their millionaire bosses. It wasn’t only millionaires that voted for brexit or voted for trump in the US.
“Unrestrained capitalism” is boomer pension funds acting within the bounds of policies that boomers voted to optimize for the greatest return on investment for those pension funds over the course of their life expectancy.
Yeah boomers kind of are the problem they were handed much of what they have on a silver platter and then punch out at anyone else that did not get a silver platter and chalk it up to personal failure
They were lucky to be born in a period of relative wealth, and most don’t get why it’s more difficult these days, but they are not responsible for the fact that you get generations have it harder then them.
Those who have all the power are very happy when the plebs fight among themselves you know.
My boomer parents were lucky enough to buy a house and then mortgage renwel rate came in at 21% there was no silver platter, it was fries on paper plates and beans lots of beans
but they are not responsible for the fact that you get generations have it harder then them.
Are you kidding? The people who are responsible are almost all boomers
A lot of boomers stand in the way of change and are ULTRA shitty about it
True but also who was voting in Regan? John Howard? Everyone was happy to vote in the social rapists for a cheap paycheque as long as their specific demographic wasn’t getting raped and now we’re all paying the price.
Also when we say that things were handed on a silver platter, we need to factor in the western oppression over the east.
The point I am trying to make here is just to ensure Western bommers have it on a silver plate, the Eastern boomers had to suffer for it. Now we live in a world where everyone except Western boomers are suffering! The hints capitalism being shit was evident and the west did not do anything to change it now is the time for a fresh new world
Like the feather of Mario World, the cycle of good/bad times and good/bad men/people, there is the oscillation, but a general upward status.
It’s been generally downwards for about 25 years now actually, still waiting on that oscillation. Assuming that just because things kept getting better up until the 90s so they must start getting better again soon is the kind of attitude that’s enabled capitalism to run rampant and ruin our society and our planet.
Assuming that just because things kept getting better up until the 90s so they must start getting better again soon is the kind of attitude that’s enabled capitalism to run rampant and ruin our society and our planet.
Fucking right
Trump’s a cop. We’re doing something. Wheat, weeds, remember like We said We would do?
The Earth doesn’t exist. Everything reconciles with the Omega. Focus on you and the entanglements keeping you from being the one stopping “the downward,” as you perceive it. Of course, that involves defending your position.
Por que no los dos
who do you think threw whom under the bus for that?
Mostly it’s that in the 1950s, most of the world’s population was still pre-industrial. Industrization massively increases a country’s wealth and ability to bid for resources.
Now the whole world is industrialized, but the planet is still the same planet. The same barrel of oil can go to a refinery worker by Americans in Louisiana or workers in any number of countries that were completely undeveloped backwaters back in 1950.
I don’t really care about boomerism any more
make people who believe in late stage capitalism have to survive the low end of it. regardless of who they are
I’d pay to see one of those little DOGE wankers forced to work on a construction site
Fuck construction, put them in customer service
Have them apply for all these programs that people are supposedly abusing.
Woah there Satan
I have always said, if I were elected President, my first act would be to eliminate the draft and institute mandatory retail service of 2 years for everyone - especially those above a certain age and who make above a certain annual salary.
It would either force people to learn empathy and make the world a better place, or it would destroy the country. And I don’t care which.
Totally agree.
Just the well-to-do Boomers? Otherwise the rest are just as broke and wondering what the hell went wrong.
If they don’t know what went wrong then they were, abd continue to be, part of the problem.
The generation war, the political war is just to distract us from the fact we are all under assault by a class war from the super rich. If we fight each other, we can’t fight the rich.
Blame it on the billionaires, not other generations.
we are all under assault by a class war from the super rich
It isn’t strictly from the super rich. There’s layers to the class conflict. It’s like an onion.
You have a large and entrenched class of pensioners who do actively resist any form of liberal economic reforms. You have an incredibly lucrative tech sector that rent-seeks off the political paranoia of the internet age. You have a bloated leviathan of police state, upon which tens of thousands of parasitic Kandy Krush Kops subsist. You have legions of ex-military mercenaries, security guards, consultants, D-list celebrity personalities, and bouncers. Then you’ve got sheriff’s offices and prison companies and home security sellers and media propagandists and outright scammers, all drawing their incomes off a social fear of the underclass.
Plutocracy doesn’t exist in a vacuum. A sizable chunk of the consumer economy is predicated on the process of violently suppressing the tier of labor below your own. We are not all under assault. Many of us are doing the assaulting.
It’s still a class war. Not a generational war.
Pensions change class alignment. Especially when those pensions are predicated on a perpetually increasingly equities market.
not when those generations actively support the bullshit by being stubborn and ignorant
They still aren’t your enemy. At worst, they are a burden.
lol when they do it over and over and over again
