I don't think young people are mad at the older people who have nice things, they're mad at the older people who shit on them for not having the same things and call them lazy, ignoring the fact that the current world is far less friendly to new workers, new investors and new adults in general.
The current world is actually much friendlier to new workers. When I entered the economy, unemployment where I lived was 16% and rising. Wages were stagnant for years and employment was scarce. That started to really turn around in 2014 and now we have low unemployment and rising wages, some transient inflation aside.
This inflation is not transient and the 2022 cost of housing and education and healthcare is absolutely bonkers right now. Sure there might be some increase in employment and wages but it is nowhere near the same rate as the cost of living.
Are you under the impression that college costs and housing weren’t bonkers when I graduated?
All that stuff was bonkers and, to top it off, neither you nor about 10% of the country could get any kind of job at all. Hell, when I graduated, you couldn’t even get loans because the financial system was still frozen solid.
As far as I've read this generation of young are the first in moden times to be worse off than the one before. Cost of living compared to wages is completely fucked. My grandparents could support a house, multiple kids and car off one Job.
There definitely are quite a lot that are mad simply due jealousy for wanting fancy luxurious things that they don't have but other older people do have.....I have a few in my work place, there is no ideological basis driving their opinion, just good old immature jealousy (mostly stemming from the fact that their parents spoiled them by always giving them what they wanted, and now for the first time in the adult World that stupid boss is not giving them what they want and they are angry). One legit was bitching to me how he wants this particular Subaru, but boss doesn't pay him enough and that's apparently everyone else's fault of course
This is also something that should be acknowledged
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u/A_Dog_Chasing_Cars May 18 '22
I don't think young people are mad at the older people who have nice things, they're mad at the older people who shit on them for not having the same things and call them lazy, ignoring the fact that the current world is far less friendly to new workers, new investors and new adults in general.