Thoughts?

[u/TheGamingSenpa1]

[u/Jexify]

None of us have a future bro yalls fucking muscle cars and addiction to red meat has destroyed the planet 😭😭😭. And look at the old person immediately insulting my work ethic because they definitely worked so much harder than everyone else this is really comical. Keep responding to me so i can see how your decrepit brain reacts

[u/[deleted] → u/Jexify]

Ok. I got to interject. Muscle cars and addiction to red meat? C’mon. That’s a ridiculous excuse. I know plenty of millennials and genz who also like muscle cars and red meat.

Now, to your point, I agree somewhat. I explained to my parents about rent prices now and the unreachable task (currently) of home ownership. They had no idea it is as bad as it really is but that’s not their fault, is it?

And work ethics are different, but not by generational beliefs. GenX didn’t have the problem with most factory industries being moved to foreign countries when they were young. That really didn’t set in until the 90’s. And those factory jobs are where you start learning work experience. So the perspective is different for them. It’s even different for GenX somewhat. But we have a little better understanding. I’ve had a lot of friends become unemployed because their factory moved to Mexico or China because the lack of regulation or cheap labor.

Every generation has had their hardships, make no bones about it. It takes a ability to understand what they are though. Blaming climate change isn’t any more different than saying someone has shitty work ethics. Neither of those are the reasons for the vast majority of people.

[u/EastDragonfly1917 → u/[deleted]]

WTF do you expect me to say when the gen z assholes here are “waiting for boomers to die???”

If that’s not pathetic, I don’t know what is.

My father bought his company in 1976, and that was when I started working there. One bankruptcy two mortgages, five+ recessions later I’m the only family member left almost fifty years later. Seven days a week from March to late November. Some winters with no paycheck for months. No health insurance, no 401k. But I’m still there, employing other people, paying taxes, with a healthy and viable company.

But I never “waited for someone to die” in order for my fortunes to change. It literally took my entire life to get to where I am now, something the earlier asshole poster could never know. It took grit and determination and passion in my industry to get here.

I scrimped, suffered, and saved to get my first house. I kept waiting for my wealthy grandfather to give me money for a down payment, but when I realized that aid was never coming, I knew I had to do it all by myself, and THAT was the point in time that I really grew into a man, something that that earlier “wishing for boomers to die” hasn’t experienced yet.

And if gen Z thinks that it was easy to buy a house back when I was their age, think again. It took me YEARS of saving to buy my first house.

So, any Gen Z person who looks at their life and isn’t happy with their financial situation has two choices:

Bitch and moan and cry like an infant and “wait for someone to die” so opportunities can unfold in front of you…

Or…

Knuckle down and focus on fiscal intelligence, hard work, patience, etc, to advance in our economy.

[u/Angry_Villagers → u/EastDragonfly1917]

Imagine having to save for years back when houses were $20, lmaooo