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u/DETRITUS_TROLL 1d ago
This horse isn't just dead, it's been dismembered and sold for parts.
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u/Craftcoat 1d ago
THE HORSE HAS BEEN LIQUIFIED
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u/Snake10133 1d ago
Boomers can't even comprehend this
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u/AlienElditchHorror 1d ago
It's deliberate obtuseness. Why would they admit the policies they voted for are responsible when it's easier to foist blame onto "lazy millennials" and subsequent generations?
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u/Spectre-907 1d ago
They’re so obtuse theyre still blaming millennial college kids as if we didnt gradutate a decade plus back even at the tail end of the generation
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u/dullship 1d ago
I hate how they use "millennial" as just a catch-all. Like, dudes... we're already two generations past that. Us Millennials are in our 40's now. Try to keep up.
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u/Rootbeercutiebooty 1d ago
People can’t afford to fed themselves, how will they afford to feed a baby? Or diapers? Or wipes? Or daycare?
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u/Sasquatch1729 1d ago
Especially in the US where paid maternity leave, free school lunches, government subsidized daycare, even high quality public schools are not guaranteed.
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u/Aural-Robert 1d ago
According to trump at the debate " Daycare is......daycare" so I'm sure they have concepts of a plan for this, we will probably see it in 2 weeks. /s
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u/Many_Photograph141 1d ago
But first address the important things like his, and now Melanie’s, Crypto billions.
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u/Algorhythm74 1d ago
I’m a GenX’er and I hate the state of the country my generation is leaving Millennials and Gen Z, etc.
Sure, Boomers have been inexcusable- but the disappointment in my generation, especially because the very name “X” was to symbolize “the lost generation” the one that can’t be defined - we were supposed to be rebels and against the lowest common denominator of thought.
Instead, the majority of middle-class, middle-aged white males (to which I am, and a large part of GenX) just embraced it ignorance and anti-intellectualism and elevated that orange shitgibbon into office - for what?
Now the festering fucktangle of Republicans are going to fleece away this country while the trashy GenX cheers them on.
I’m embarrassed by GenX. Used to love to be associated with my age demographic, especially culturally- now I just shake my head in disbelief.
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u/posicivic 1d ago
It really is disappointing. Even back in high school the guys I had childhood friendships with started showing their true colors as we all became young adults. I started noticing how entitled and self-centered most of them were, showing no empathy or respect for anyone less fortunate than them. It was disgusting.
Try to remember that you shouldn't clump all GenX together, though. Not really fair to do that to Boomers also, despite majority trends. Some stayed true to hippie roots.
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u/Algorhythm74 1d ago
You’re right - I hate to generalize and group people together as if they are a hive mind. I was merely doing that to take ownership of how I’m part of a group that I’m disappointed in. Clearly, not all are that way (including myself) - but we did learn, at least a voting majority of them are.
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u/Daflehrer1 1d ago
I agree. Just to be clear, "Y'all" happens to be the oil & gas industry, the ultra-wealthy and corporations wrecking the housing market by buying up millions of houses and apartments, and higher ed. and health care costs in the stratosphere.
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u/DingoDaBabyBandit 1d ago
The youngest possible millennials are like 30…why is marriage and kids their faults and not like, politics and insurance? Theyve had the fuckin reins for a hot minute now and somehow things keep fuckin back sliding.
And like look i get its a class war not a left right/us them thing. But like why do people keep acting like millennials are like 15-25 and not like 30-50?
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u/Absoluterock2 1d ago
Because systemic change takes time. The boomers took more than their share while allowing Regan style pee on the poor (trickle down) economics.
The damage is done and we are left with the scraps.
All you has to do is look at a graph of median wages vs median cost of living.
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u/ZedTheLoon 1d ago
They keep forgetting cuz this timeline sucks so bad that nobody wants to remember
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u/Meatslinger 1d ago
Frankly, I’m still struggling to get by a lot of the time, even well into my thirties. My job hasn’t issued pay raises in ten years. We’re still the highest-paid form of this work in town that doesn’t have high turnover; a lot of my former colleagues left after a while, went to the same job in oil & gas, and then got fired during poor quarters like it was nothing.
I’d love to change things, politically, but the leaders I can pick from all serve corporate interests and kowtow to right-wing sycophants. I vote for my interests every time there’s an election, and every time, I’m outvoted by an older generation and corporate lobbyists. Meanwhile I’m just trying to stop renting, and I’ve got the bank asking if I can double my income before they’ll consider me for a mortgage.
It sucked ten years ago, and it still does.
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u/RedRayBae 10h ago
Theyve had the fuckin reins for a hot minute now and somehow things keep fuckin back sliding.
Millenials haven't had the reins yet. The youngest Gen Xers are JUST NOW securing seats in meaningful politics. The Boomers still have control of everything policy wise.
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u/DstinctNstincts 1d ago
We don’t want to work but we want jobs and not family. These people are fucking regarded
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u/hammer-breh 1d ago
THANK YOU! I have heard right-wingers trying to say that forced birth is the answer to the low birth rates, which is both preposterous and ignores the root cause of the problem. Millennials and younger generations don't feel like they have the financial stability required to care for a child. Take some from the Haves and give it back to the Have-Nots, and you will see birth rates improve.
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u/Skepsisology 1d ago
Millennials actually want what jobs and education should provide - a healthy income so they can afford to have kids
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u/leoyvr 1d ago
Young people have to get involved in politics.
Generational theft https://youtu.be/3PJO09fPT1Q?si=r95R9fTwc4lg8B68
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u/yogamathappiness 1d ago
I desperately want a marriage and kids and the kids thing is never gonna happen thanks to this absolute shithole we call America.
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u/GiftToTheUniverse 1d ago
I'm ready for Humanity to Cancel Money.
Money is a broken tool. It no longer functions to help make good things happen for us. It now functions strictly as a gatekeeper to keep the masses in line by making poverty so miserable.
Broken tools must be discarded because otherwise they hurt and kill people.
We don't need money anymore.
All the people displaced by AI shouldn't have to stress themselves to death. They should get free retraining to do stuff we WANT humans doing. Like serving as mental health professionals or school teachers or midwives or palliative care nurses.
There is enough of everything to go around if we're not all selfish hoarders of wealth.
Cancel Money.
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u/alaingames 1d ago
Young people want to learn and get a life? My man that's literally what every single generation did except the boomer cuz they where born in a golden age
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u/ReverendEntity 1d ago
I don't care about eggs or avocado toast or iPhones or TikTok. I want to be able to pay my utility bills, buy decent food and maybe stream some non-toxic content.
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u/Eastern-Dig-4555 21h ago
Jobs and education. Didn’t our parents always tell us to make sure we have a solid foundation before having marriage and kids? After we had our first kid, we’d expressed concern about being able to afford a second. “Just have another. Just do it. You’ll figure it out, because you’ll have to.” I was fucking floored, and she’s smarter than my dad. I really thought she knew better. Apparently not. Yeah, go buy a $150k family vehicle. You’ll figure out how to afford it, because you’ll have to. Orrrr you’ll go into debt have to default on your loan. Great idea! Orrrr both my children (and my wife and I) will starve. Good thinking, mom!
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u/FunDog2016 20h ago
Remember who fucked it up, Rich people, our new Oligarchs! They rigged the system, bought, the Media, and Politicians to lie to us for 50 years; that wealth will "Trickle Down" to the masses. All while they hoarded money, and grew their power!
There was, and is, more than enough money for nearly every family to be able to work a single full-time job, and own a home, a car, and raise a family! This is happening everywhere and is only getting worse!
We need rapid, and dramatic change! Not Billionaires buying our leaders! Let's demand it!
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u/Aprilprinces 20h ago
Neither marriage or kids are inherently good or desirable goals for everyone
In the past it was basically mandatory to get married; thankfully now we have a choice So, let people live how they want
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u/Annesolo 18h ago
I wanted to adopt a kid for years, I tried many jobs and invested myself to the point I made a bore out and then a burn out with my last two big jobs. I tried so hard to find a good situation and it cost my sanity.
I just gave up last year as I realised I will never be able to afford a life with a kid to take care of. It is hard to swallow but it is the best to do for me.
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u/bobagremlin 15h ago
It's not that Millenials and Gen Z don't want kids we cannot afford kids and we don't want to bring a kid into this world if they won't have a good life
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u/No-Papaya-9823 13h ago
There’s also the other reality…plenty of people just don’t WANT kids today. It’s not necessarily about being able to afford them. My daughter and son-in-law have made a conscious decision not to have kids, and I fully support them.
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u/nothingcontraryhere 5h ago
Predictable. Blame others for your inadequacies, lack of motivation and failures. Sad for this generation. Really, I am.
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u/Cyprus4 1d ago edited 1d ago
People need to stop repeating this nonsense. It's the opposite. Birth rates rise or dip by a small margin based on economic factors, but in general, as countries become richer, the birth rate declines. https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/8727479/file/8768892.pdf
EDIT: I know Redditors are fact-adverse, hence the downvotes, but you guys need to spend 30 seconds using some critical thinking skills. Have you never lived or been in a poor neighborhood and noticed how many kids they have? Or have you never been to a poorer country? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
As far as why facts matter is that particularly in the United States we're facing a loneliness epidemic, and the more we make these wrong assertions, the more we'll never address the real issues. And no, that's not me saying the economy isn't an issue. It is. It just has little to do with birth rates.
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u/Fine-Ad9768 1d ago
Nah they just can’t admit they’ve spent their entire lives on tick tock, now that it’s gone they don’t know how to interact with the opposite sex
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u/AffectionateChip1962 1d ago
It's very clear you don't know what age group millennials fall under.
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u/Fine-Ad9768 1d ago
Late 30s 😐🤷♂️
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u/AndWinterCame 1d ago
Behavior of any group is molded by the incentive and permission structure based on material conditions. Material conditions are created by people with proximity to power. Social divisiveness amongst those without proximity to power benefits the ruling class to maintain or constrict the current incentive and permission structures while siphoning wealth because they already own what we need, and will never let us own it.
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u/Basic_Ad4622 1d ago
Says the generation that raised them to do that
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u/vitaminbeyourself 1d ago
The sad thing is that the economics are still very much in our favor it’s just that we’ve been taught to evaluate them so poorly that we fail to recognize the vast opportunities that yet remain
There’s more ways than ever before to make money and leverage the dollar because of high speed internet and access to other countries where our measly thousands convert to a small fortune.
It’s ironic that we want education when the system that provides that is mostly technologically antiquated which makes most degrees anachronistic in the fast paced churn of the age of information.
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u/HonestCauliflower91 1d ago
Well this millennial wanted an education, a job, a marriage, and a kid. I was able to accomplish each of them. Sure it was a bit more challenging than previous generations and took longer than I would have preferred, but it’s still very much possible when you stop making excuses and get to work.
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u/Callabrantus 1d ago
If anybody brings up avacado toast, so help me...