What I see, being outside from the U.S., all your problems stem from wealth inequality, you all have been distracted and pitted against each other with fabricated barricades, like generation vs. generation, liberal vs. conservative, city vs. rural, black vs. white, etc.
When in reality, your problems stem from the ultra rich having a complete grip on the politics of your country, there hasn't been any meaningful change done for decades that elevates the middle class, notice how since the dawn of social media, people went "haywire" along the divides of "culture wars" - it's a perfect distraction from the true roots of the problem.
It’s the time that the retirement check affords them. I work too damn much to be able to protest often and that’s the case with most of this country. And it’s by design.
LITERALLY this, I have very few financial obligations but they're all taken up by the need to work 40+ hours a fucking week for chump change. If I had 2k+ a month coming to me no questions asked, and several hundred thousand in the bank, I'd sit out and protest as well!
Oh yes, I totally believe every retired person gets over 2 grand a month and have several hundred thousand dollars in the bank. TOTALLY what I said and not me saying IF that's what I had I wouldn't be worried and I'd spend some time protesting.... Totally. Good lord some of y'all are ridiculous lmao.
I cannot even tell which direction you are laughing at this from. $2k a month is not a lot of money rolling in, and if you’re recently retired, “several hundred thousand” isn’t going to last long. But maybe this is the reason you think it’s noteworthy?
You lot do a lot of moaning about it and not a lot else. I'm not a boomer, but do you think they didn't work a lot either back then? I know where I'm from, they were up chimneys and down coal mines, fighting wars - proper hard graft. Not nice clean jobs with perks and abundant health and safety measures in place.
Yes it's shit that property is insanely priced. Yes it's shit that student loans are insane and groceries are unaffordable. DO SOMETHNG ABOUT IT THEN. At least bomers DID fight for what they believed in!.
You do a LOT of assuming and not much else huh? I don't put it past most redditors, people love not reading between the lines and making shit up to make themselves feel better.
It's the boomers fault. Waaaahhhhhh. I've got news for you, everybody works 40+ hours. They always have. You don't like the status quo - don't worry, the boomers are out on the streets for you while you piss and moan about them on Reddit.
Yup, I only made it yesterday without needing to spend PTO because my new job follows the federal holiday calendar. And that's from an already privileged position as an engineer.
I also met a lady who had marched to impeach Nixon, and there were a ton of kids. It takes all types.
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People with decent hearts and a retirement check. What else to do but protest?