Originally Posted By motoguzzi:
When I first started out there were five of us sharing rent on a house, we had hand me down furniture (including a couch you slowly sank into).
No TV at all but two of us had stereo systems.

Originally Posted By Bacon_Grease:


The scariest thing about the beginning of the year wasn't the amount of financial struggles I faced.  It was understanding this was probably the most financially demanding year since starting a family. Then seeing my W2 and realizing I made more money last year than I ever had before.  Knowing that in 2024 I'll make even more.  Only for rising costs and other issues likely to appear leading to an even greater struggle.

Before I reach retirement age I'll likely be making that elusive 6 figures.  But it will feel like the 40k I was making when I started.

Originally Posted By BillofRights:
And yet everyone spent those Stimmy checks and double unemployment bucks Gleefully.  

People are completely unable to understand Cause and Effect when it’s more than 3 months apart.

Originally Posted By doubleclaw:


I knew some people who decided to quit work just because they could make more money with the stimulus checks than at their jobs.

They voted for the D, of course, and now they’re complaining about how “tough” life is because “everything costs more.”

One in particular makes crazy money, like, she’s clearing more than $8k a month, and ends up broke at the end of every pay period. No savings, no investments, nothing, just spend, spend and spend.

I’m forced to take refuge in incredulity.

Originally Posted By ramairthree:
This spin is a fairly recent development.
For decades it was the boomer way or the highway through decades of cultural, social, political, etc. Boomer dominance.

Boomers started in on the younger generations mercilessly.

As boomer dominance fades, and the consequences of those decades of dominance snowball, and they get called out on it-
NOW it’s all-
“Hey, we are in this together.  Don’t let them divide us.”

Despite decades of amazingly low proportional costs education, transportation, insurance, housing, etc. The average boomer has a retirement savings of 200K, owes 190K on a house, and has another 25K or so of unsecured debt.  And will average 100K spent on them in the last six months of life.  (Not including the baseline already spent on them in the years previous to that). Keep in mind MC reimbursement is typically a fraction of the billing, real expenses of this category of patients.

As a generation, they were handed a fine steed, rode it hard and put it away wet repeatedly, and even as it lies on the ground struggling to breath want to whip it back up and keep going.

Now, plenty of individuals of that generation were not like this-
But for some odd reason refuse to accept the impact of that generation as a whole.

I find that odd because X-ERs and millennials and zoomers who are unlike the “stereotypes” of their generations don’t seem to give two shits about the generations reputation as a whole.

Originally Posted By RRA_223:
Fucker needs a roommate to split the $2200 2-bedroom.   Id suggest a female...  but LOL

Learn to code, suck some cock or take a fucking shower so you can play the Big Corporate game and make $60k a year for simply showing up

But Cuckolopolous doesn't want to earn it.   He/Him deserves it!

Originally Posted By FMJ3:

I'm pretty sure every GenX and older male owned that couch when they first left the nest.    

Lotta shit went down on that couch, good and bad.  

Originally Posted By bulump:
voting has consequences

Originally Posted By AbleArcher:
Doesn't look like me, therefore must be lying about ever having voted Republican.

Originally Posted By PeepEater:
Hope you enjoyed the stimmy checks.

Originally Posted By PatriotAr15:
One thing that a lot of people dont understand, is that not all hard work pays off.

Some people work their ass off to better themselves, and *STILL* not get ahead. Imagine someone spends 4 years studying for some IT certifications for a specific IT track... but after 4 years pass... that specific field suddenly gets over-saturated, and no one is willing to hire you for that position unless you have like 5 years experience. Imagine wasting 4 years of your life, all that hard work... and all you got out of it, was losing time with family, friends, or even just recreational time for yourself. For nothing.

It demoralizes people. It discourages them from putting any more effort... figuring they're cursed and stuck in a rut.. This happens to *A LOT* of people.

Working your ass off, only to be no further than you were before you started on that track... just deflates people.
I'm not sure I would entirely describe my situation like that, but there are times I feel like it. I've worked my butt off to try to improve myself, and while I got myself into a more preferable career.... objectively it seems to have been more of a "side-move" and not any real advancement.

I'm probably currently making the same amount of money I probably could have earned at my old job working Armed Security. Only difference is my job provides benefits.

Originally Posted By jerrwhy01:
Is this the part where GD will pounce on this guy for daring to complain, not pulling himself up by his bootstraps, or getting a better paying job? Is this also the part where GD will have a thread bitching, moaning, and pissing about inflation and how everything is so expensive but refuses to pull themselves up by their bootstraps or get a better paying job?

Originally Posted By exponentialpi:

I've seen it as well since I have ethics and I am a millennial also.  The worst part is there are no consequences for the unethical behavior, just look at TARP.

Originally Posted By bulump:
voting has consequences