How boomers will "hand over the reins" to the younger gens

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[@thelaughingrouge]

Literally my boomer uncle: "We had it rough when we were starting out too." Me: "I'm 47."

[@justsomenobody889]

RIGHT?! I 'started out' after I finished my PhD (the only way to get a livable paying job in my field) at which point I was 32, was homeless for two weeks nevertheless looking for a job. That's 10 years later of a start than my brother who graduated college in 2001 and was able to get a job straight out of college no problemo.

[@Jose04537]

​@@justsomenobody889"Why people aren't having children, it's such a mystery"

[@TsukiNaito1]

Buying a house for $30,000 at age 24 was real rough.

[@zarroth]

@@TsukiNaito1 only when you show your ignorance by not comparing it to their wages at the time. The biggest problem is you guys live in a vacuum of ignorance. Almost everything you learned as kids was a lie and all you do about it is complain. No one is going to give you a hand out, nor should they. That being said, yes things are out of control price wise, but they are purposely trying to remove the consitution. Think things are bad now, if they succeed we will be smack dab in the beginning of a dark age and it will become far far worse. Your ignorant whining won't help prevent it. No, I'm not a boomer, but I did take the time to look into things and you're full of ignorant BS.

[@mtb416]

I can totally relate to the boomer class. I bought my first house at 37 and it cost me 425k.

[@laracroft293]

"We've tried to leave the world nice and tidy for you" "no but okay" the relationship between boomers and younger generations could not have been summarized in a better way

[@SpewnyBard]

The word "tried" is pulling a lot of weight in that sentence.

[@johnanon658]

For real😂

[@itsgonnabeanaurfromme]

@@SpewnyBard they didn't

[@crstewart92]

@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme (That's what Spewny is saying, and also the joke)

[@tjs200]

​@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme I think they think they did

[@danhatter6823]

“Boomers were the generation that was given everything, and has spend the past 35 years making sure that no one after them will have anything.”

[@WhiskeyPatriot]

@@markcalhoun8219considering fbi crime stats they did that one to themselves.

[@mattflynnter]

@@markcalhoun8219 that's.... not why

[@aschenmelody]

@@mattflynnter History lesson time: Reagan was all "no social safety nets from now on because 'welfare queens' will take advantage of it". Yeah, his imaginary welfare queens were NEVER coded as white.

[@crustykeycap5670]

⁠@@mattflynnteras a black guy I’m not normally for baseless accusations of racism, but for boomers that’s fine

[@My-Pal-Hal]

We learned English Too. Without a Chinese Device that could do it for us. ... time well "spent" 😂

[@FirstLast-cg2nk]

"Your generation was given participation trophies." "Who were the ones who insisted their children get those trophies?"

[@katie7748]

THIS!!! HOLY SHT THIS!!! Idk about you but I always threw mine out. They were insulting af. I knew I hadn't earned anything. And guess what...it was to make them feel better about themselves. Oh your little Susie is an honor student? My little Johnny got a participation ribbon on track n field day.

[@D1sc0rd-]

In middle school we had this end of the year award ceremony, you’d only get an invitation if you got REALLY good grades (95+ in every class with gifted classes), did something extraordinary, or were a gifted teacher’s best student (subjective personal choice by them, they could only choose one from any class any grade). 6th grade I wasn’t invited. 7th grade I was invited. Little did I know they’d changed the criteria for invitations that year. So I got to the ceremony and all I got was a piece of paper for participating in science olympiad. I won freakin first place in the state for anatomy in sci oly and they wasted my evening on a participation certificate. 8th grade I was invited again. I did not go because I didn’t want to waste my time getting a lil paper telling me I did something. Turns out that wasn’t my award. I had a teacher named Mrs. P, she’d been my gifted science teacher for 3 years, she ran the science olympiad program, and she chose me as her best student. The last year of middle school, and the last year she ever taught. Me. I was never ‘the one’ for anything, but I was to her. And I wasn’t there to experience that because I thought I was just gonna get some crappy piece of paper. Mfers

[@InspectorDilligaf-fv5nq]

Hit the nail on the head

[@user-gh8sg7oc9r]

​@@D1sc0rd-sad story. When everything gets rewarded, accomplishments fade into all the noise.

[@foolsfolly3476]

I’m originally from occupied Ireland, what exactly is a “participation trophy“

[@pietrosigismondodelvalenti6371]

So tired of paying to clean up after a party I was not invited to.

[@theMedicatedCitizen]

well put

[@jonathanwells223]

Why not take some collateral as compensation? Is your great uncle really going to miss his fifth sports car?

[@interstellarsurfer]

SO much cocain, amphetamines, and opiates --- all for the asking from your friendly doctor, and all of them non-addictive too. 👴

[@user-gh8sg7oc9r]

The "party" being having a family and owning a home... not an asset, a _HOME._ Gotta be friking wealthy just to have a life anymore.

[@Keys879]

Everyone acting like Boomers were somehow special humans when their own generation, given the opportunity, would have done the very same thing.

[@carlblix7794]

Boomers looking at achievements of their parents:"-We did that!" Boomers looking at the mess they've made:"-Millenials did that!" *points to a group of Gen Z:s*

[@BatDad-qu4fo]

Painfully accurate lol

[@TsukiNaito1]

I'll never get over when, during the pandemic, boomers started screaming about "Millenial" spring breakers spreading the virus and we all looked around like, "we graduated college already." In 2020 the youngest of us (me) were 26. 😂

[@Heresor]

@@TsukiNaito1 Depending on which metric you are using, it's to 1995 or 1996 (me) though I refer to us late millenials as Milleni-zoomers. Early enough to still witness the analog era, late enough to not shape the internet substantially. So... even the youngest Millenials were 23-25 in 2020, but I agree with you. It definitely was more the early Zoomers ^^ Though generations get shorter anyways. Adult Zoomers have little in common with teenagers who are still considered Zoomers.

[@_NobodySpecial_]

​@@Heresoras an adult zoomer who the fuck cares about generational divides to that micro level anymore. The world moves too fast and there are too many other things to worry about than if im a zoomer a microzoomer a zoolinial a xooner a gooner or anything else i just want to make enough money to eat for the week and im failing at that. I dont think the kids in high school now will have it any better and i dont think this divisive ass shit is good for anyone with how weaponized it is. Put people in boxes all day if you want but we all burn under Reagans mistakes and bush srs mistakes and clintons mistakes and bush jrs mistakes and obamas mistakes and trumps mistakes and bidens mistakes. We all suffer and the suffering just gets worse divide people up into whatever category you want the only ones that matter are that the rich get richer and the peasants get abused.

[@TheDSasterX]

Inb4 gen X chimes in here about they were forgotten about (as usual). No one forgot about you, you just aren't the biggest target. We'll be back to blame you for all the bad things the internet has brought about AFTER we can afford rent... and food... and maybe water... and hopefully a breath or two of sweet sweet air, assuming that hasn't been monopolized by then.

[@obsessionmine]

The other day I mentioned to my dad in passing how the only reason I could see for buying a house at this point is so you could leave something to your children and the whole concept of thinking about your children's future must have been such a novel idea to him that he went on this whole side-tangent about how he is "not going to limit himself in life to leave something to us" and if that doesn't perfectly encapsulate the boomer spirit idk what does lol

[@DLG24]

Same here. I'm left speechless in the face of so much arrogance and ignorance.

[@Lv-nq9qz]

it's an entire generation of spoiled brats. My father said he'd kick me out and move to Florida in a heart beat if he could (but he can't because he cant even figure out how to pay his bills online.)

[@nairda55555]

"Why did you even have us in the first place" Seriously we couldn't even consent to be here. And you stigmatize and shame us if we suggest quitting life, plus throw the literal fear of God at us. You brought us here to be poor and or homeless and then make it hard for us to opt out?

[@amidaobscura]

When I was about to graduate, my father told me he didn't want me to be staying home for long. Like I'd somehow immediately get a job and be able to rent something alone. His girlfriend, who has 3 children, once told me she'd spend everything she wants and basically leave scraps to her children if any. Later, I was told my father wanted to avoid selling the house because half of it would go to my sister and I by law because we lost our mother. He tried to make us sign a contract where in case of his death, his girlfriend should be allowed to stay for free at our expense. These two were made for each other. Oh yeah, they own multiple houses and apartments in different countries...

[@crimsondynamo615]

@@nairda55555for a lot of boomer parents, children were nothing more than little props to show off and talk about to their friends. Seen, but never heard.

[@Lore-mc7zw]

Boomers are the personification of pulling the ladder up after climbing it.

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

Yep, triple locked pensions in the uk where their struggling grandchildren are paying for with no hope of any retirement in the future...

[@NTJedi]

Parents choosing to leave their children NOTHING... that's an individual family problem and not a generation problem.

[@diegoflores9237]

The US is a different country now then it was then. We are post deregulation. The Country back then actually built things. The US went on a spending spree building infrastructure, invading countries, and racking up debt. We can't expect our lives to be the same as the lives of people in the 60s. It's reality

[@katydid2877]

Zero idea what you’re talking about. I don’t know anybody my age doing that.

[@diegoflores9237]

Sounds like you're generalizing. What if I generalize about gays, Muslims, blacks, or women? Would that be ok?

[@illumi9044]

“Hand over the reins” “Promote to captain while the ship is sinking”

[@christiangutierrez4569]

Someone's gotta explain the situation to the coast guard 😂

[@Jose04537]

That tends to happen a lot in war.

[@free_at_last8141]

As they float off in the lifeboats. "No free rides! Sink or swim! Bootstraps!"

[@AlphaMachina]

"Hand over the reins as the horses carry the carriage off a cliff"

[@keanuxu5435]

And it was the Boomers who caused the ship to sink!

[@hp1515]

“ Kids today have it so easy, why don’t they just pay their college tuition with a summer job like I did?”

[@thelostcosmonaut5555]

Exactly, they keep whining about how expensive everything is. Why don't they just work a part time job in the summer to pay for college? Geez.

[@krunchie101]

Reminds me a few years ago when my grandpa was legitimately confused why most of us grandchildren didn't own a home yet.

[@user-uk4pb4di1e]

College is a scam. Wake up!

[@kaj7135]

@@krunchie101That’s because old people are just toddlers in a convincing disguise.

[@Kitajima2]

My dad actually paid for college in the 70's mowing lawns. So that's not even a joke

[@comack669]

Before they were known as Boomers, their elders and parents (the Silent generation and Greatest generation), named them the 'Me generation.' Talk about prophetic intuition.

[@Bronasaxon]

didn't know that but that makes sense.

[@TheSubwizzle]

Hardly. That’s what every older generation thinks of the ones who come after them. That idea just happened to actually stay relevant, for Boomers.

[@interstellarsurfer]

​@@TheSubwizzleThe Lost Generation knew entitled little shit grandkids when they saw them.

[@nevisysbryd7450]

The 'Greatest' got suckered into WWII and _raised_ the Boomers, so I am not exactly singing their graces, either.

[@Orly90]

@@nevisysbryd7450to be fair, you have to look at it from their standpoint. Imagine living most of your late teens and early to mid 20s in hell. From Great Depression to WW2. Would you want to make sure that your children did not have to experience that?

[@blindmown]

I've been explicitly told by my dad that he's going to sell the house and any assets so he can pay for the most expensive retirement home he can which is just leased until he dies. I asked if I'd be left with anything and he said no and I'd figure it out.. he got that house from my grandad.. I don't like boomers.

[@TheSamuraiGoomba]

>he got that house from my grandad If that isn't the most boomer-ass shit I've heard all day. Absolutely perfect. So he benefited from generational wealth but refuses to pass any on to you.

[@LeQuack147]

Our Grandma passed a little while ago. Did our aunt and uncle who took her house offer it to any of us? Nope. Sold it, when they already live a lavish lifestyle. My retirement plan is a .45. It was supposed to be “a .45 and a bottle of scotch” but you’ve seen what inflation is like.

[@NormanSaxon331]

I knew a few kids (Generation X) who were kicked out the door at 18 by Boomer parents being told to fend for themselves, and a couple wanted their kids to pay them for the cost of being raised. Generational wealth is how many families have survived throughout history and across cultures, it's bad enough the government tries to abolish it with inheritance taxes so many farmers have to sell the family home, but now Boomers assume the unique circumstances they grew up in apply to everyone so make your own fortune, it worked so easy for them.

[@EdBoi18]

​@@LeQuack147I'm thinking that's what my retirement plan is gonna be. Except the ammo is going to be for the boomers I come across

[@Future-Corpse]

​@@EdBoi18 amen

[@michaelg8642]

Your entire inheritance is just the memory of them telling you to your face that they “need to use up this money.. can’t spend it when we’re gone”…

[@alexhamilton3522]

at this point though I'm pretty sure people are used to it.

[@Heresor]

My mum is late Boomer/early Gen-X. She told my brother and me pretty early that she uses her money how she pleases, and we'll have to see if something will be left over. That's alright, she worked for it and invested in good education and stuff... my grandpa's last and only wish that the house he will leave will remain in the family for at least one generation. The week after he died, he wasn't even buried yet, my mum sobbed and cried that she would have to sell the house to fund her vanity project. I was never more disgusted by a human being than in that moment.

[@LernestW]

My dad made it very clear his whole life that he did not want to be embalmed, just immediately cremated. What do you think my mom did?

[@Heresor]

@@LernestW but... why? Cremating is even cheaper, so it's not even a money issue. That is just disrespectful

[@ShivaInu42]

Yuuuup.

[@BigPatFenis_]

Boomers: "I'm so glad we bought this house for 12K and a bag of potatoes." GenZ and Millennials: "I think I can afford to buy eggs this week!"

[@KaworuSylph]

...because chicken, pork and beef have long-since become unaffordable, yeah I feel that

[@arat2376]

​@@KaworuSylph and they're working on getting bug burgers in. Which is dirty and unhealthy, and very inefficient. Gods this is a hopeless life

[@markcalhoun8219]

@@KaworuSylph and vegetables and grains

[@tongpoo8985]

​@@KaworuSylphyeah it's crazy, I still buy meat but the fact that it feels like a luxury is kinda wild. Like what are we in China?

[@downix]

Gen X is sitting there nursing a bottle of vodka

[@GijsTheDog]

The Boomers are a generation that wants to do better than their children.

[@averywhitaker3513]

... by making the lives of their children worse. In every sector

[@dtermnedone4872]

100% agree!!!!!!!!

[@AkaiAzul]

​@@averywhitaker3513I was about to say.

[@user-wo1nf1vz4c]

So true 😅 I’m realizing this now at the age of 46

[@jayk3551]

Mission Accomplished!

[@thatsanope4864]

It's crazy how this generation doesn't even know you could literally just walk in somewhere, and if the manager liked you, you were hired on the spot. Being experienced was just time saved on training you. Now, you have to jump through hoops and have 30 years of experience for entry-level jobs. College is a lie for anyone born after 1990 and isn't in a select handful of vocational studies. Crazy how old people would rather wait till they die before helping out the families they created, though. My grandparents do this type of stuff. I was sleeping in my car at 20, but they decided to pour a new driveway extension so they didnt get penalized for not using their retirement money. Like an 8000 dollar job while I'm starving and being bitten by mosquitos in the summer heat. I would never let my grandchild go through that.

[@harmhoeks5996]

I agree with most. Maybe you should have a driveway making business.

[@typemasters2871]

Too bad you didn’t decide to park your car in their driveway, they paid for it so you could have made use of it, plus if they complain you could have said “if you’re willing to spend money on the driveway then you can spend money on me to leave your driveway”

[@youtubename7819]

My only regret is going no contact with my birth parents is that I won’t have the opportunity to abuse them back when they’re too frail to work. It’s for the best, though.

[@schizotakes]

@@youtubename7819 nah no need to become what you hate. i feel that tho parents of our generation are fucking asswipes

[@HwoarangtheBoomerang]

😢

[@whatbreaksthesilence8508]

Hands over resume… Immediately falls into the “you need experience to get experience” loophole

[@ThorsShadow]

Oh, I know that glitch. Sucks really bad. But I heard there's a way you get out of that loop. Involves the Konami code and pause buffering and arbitrary code execution and looking under a truck for a pink floating vaguely humanoid creature, that says its name all the time and can learn EVERY dance and martial arts move ever known to man. Although the last one might just be a hoax. I'm sure you have to get a giant bird or private plane, that flies you away just when some random guy notices you and wants to talk to you.

[@Jvclyn]

Same

[@tsunamie1015]

Real World: “you need experience to get experience” while playing an MMO: "We won't take you into our party. You need to have raided this dungeon to raid this dungeon."

[@NIGHTSTALKER973]

This is the bane of my existence at the moment I want a job like I REALLY want a job I haven't ever really had a real one I've had work experience in secondary school (I'm 27 now) but that's it. There are so many places that I'd be a good fit for but each time I look at a job application I tick most of the boxes but then I read further down the page and it says "by the way you need 6 months to a years experience to apply for this job" like good god how am I supposed to get experience for a job if I need experience to get that job. It has knocked my confidence and my mental health to an extent like when I apply for a job I know I can be a good worker but so many places don't want to take that chance and demand experience.

[@xanthor4266]

@@NIGHTSTALKER973 An advice I can give you is to just straight up lie about your experience. They almost never do an actual background check and they'll just take at face value what you say your experience is. If on the job they seem surprised there's a few things that you should know and you don't (which will most likely not even happen), you can just say that in your past workplace they had a weird program or they way of operating was different. Of course, you shouldn't do that with a job with high responsability. The reason I say all that is because I worked with an HR representative that said that the only reason they demand experience is because if they don't they receive a ton on people applying for the job and it's a logistical nightmare to choose among all the candidates, but that in reality they didn't even cared that much if they had experience or not, since most of the stuff you need to know they'll teach you when you start the job.

[@billbadson7598]

All those homes getting reverse-mortgaged so the kids can inherit literally nothing lol

[@yolobuttrill]

No one planned for the future and now we can all be serfs renting land from feudal tech corporations who own everything including the air :D

[@jasonmoss-qk8oh]

@@yolobuttrill we already own nothing just don't realize it, stop paying any kind of taxes and they'll take what "you" own

[@LordVader1094]

@@jasonmoss-qk8oh Yeah let's get all metaphysical about how currency isn't real and taxes are theft, while we can't buy food for a reasonable price lol. Taxes have always existed. The economic disparity left behind by boomers has not always existed.

[@map3384]

I live around several boomer communities. It’s laughable to see these boomer women at age 77 getting Botox, fake boobs and bleach blonde hair. They think they can turn the clock back to 1968. Not happening.

[@imaloser5689]

@@yolobuttrill We will honest to God have less time off and own less than serfs did.

[@MarcAlcatraz]

Reminder that you will never receive any of the money you’re paying social security for

[@HonestDepression101]

This comment should be at the top. It's probably the most important aspect to this entire conversation

[@helloidharbl6753]

Yep. Payed in your whole life JUST to fuel boomers. SS will run out by 2035.

[@katie7748]

"When people ask me why did I have so many children I tell them, 'to pay for YOUR Social Security.'"

[@pro_154]

Lmaooooooooo

[@helloidharbl6753]

lmao my comment got removed? Whatever. Boomers quite happily made sure that Gen Z will not have SS at all. Thank Grandpa, Gen Z. He sold your future without thinking twice.

[@jackvancekirkland]

I'm a millennial. My pre-boomer grandpa sold his home and will now blow all his money on cruises, elderly care, medical expenses. My boomer/genx father (worst of both worlds) will likely do similar. He is turning 60 next year. They are determined to leave nothing but bad advice behind.

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

Are they both single and lonely? Is that any consolation?

[@jackvancekirkland]

@@itcouldbelupus2842 No it's not really any consolation. I feel bad for them even though they have "failed" a large part of what I see as their duty to build and pass on a legacy.

[@brendensangster3571]

Just go homestead

[@user-zf3xb3qx8w]

And listening patiently for decades to their pronunciation of solving all the worlds' issues must be worth something!!

[@timmjackson]

@@jackvancekirkland That sounds pretty entitled. Why is it their duty to pass on a legacy?

[@myroc1]

Years ago my mother insisted i drive around and apply for jobs in person. Everywhere i went they ushered me to some half alive computer connected to the internet and had me apply on the website.

[@rsethc]

Yeah it's all about giving that computer mouse a firm handshake and looking the monitor right in the screen.

[@TheActionBastard]

Shit mine would ask me what I did with "all that gas money" like the $20 they gave me was going to get me very far. Even at the ridiculously low (relatively) gas prices of the time $20 did not cut it. You could burn that in a single day just pointlessly filling out applications no one is going to read.

[@adityaadi2116]

@@rsethc Brother, this comment is absolute gold, and you have elicited a hearty chuckle out of me.

[@gmork1090]

@@rsethc That one got me good. Throw my head back guffawing even. Bravo to you good si...uh.. person.

[@schmo49]

I remember sitting in some forgotten corner of a Macy's department store using a computer that was more dead than alive to fill out their 150 question personality test for a minimum wage receiving dock job.

[@jakemcman1858]

Well at least I’ll have a home when they’re gone… Boomer:”Hey I just heard about this amazing thing called a reverse mortgage!”

[@markcalhoun8219]

plus I put all my money in an annuity!

[@BittermanAndy]

I just Googled reverse mortgages. Stop the world. I want to get off.

[@malcontender6319]

@@BittermanAndy Was huge in the mid 2010's - pretty sure it was blackrock behind it then, too.

[@CrescentUmbreon]

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is that "reverse mortgage" people speak of?

[@markcalhoun8219]

@@CrescentUmbreon so a bank offers you to pay YOU a mortgage payment monthly every month for the rest of your life on a home you own outright... until you die... in which case they take your house for $0 more.

[@trymbruset3868]

I'm seeing a trend of the previous generation thinking they don't owe their kids anything, and would rather spend their inheritance/accumulated wealth on all kinds of things rather than allowing their kids gain any sort of benefit from it (even just using their house as collateral for a mortgage of their own). Instead maxing out their mortgage, investing in all kinds of random stuff like boats, houses in different countries (that can't be used as collateral by their kids trying to get a mortgage) or just downright spending it. Pulling the ladder up behind you taken to the next level

[@AngryVikingwGuitar]

Ladder-pulling is so old-school. We have hydraulic-actuated fast-yank ascending devices now

[@youtubename7819]

Most narcissistic generation of all time. They resent their own children.

[@tetrahedron9196]

@@youtubename7819 Their own children represent the sole reminder of reasonability to another human being. Everything in the west is warped around preserving the illusion of wealth in society in a bubble around boomers. They can likely remember a time when their parents or grandparents helped them establish themselves tremendously and all the wealth they inherited from them.

[@bcj842]

"Investing" in boats is a very polite term for "pissing money like a racehorse"

[@XCeazyX]

Jokes on them they get no grandkids now. Not that they cared about them aside from looking at pictures of them on Facebook and feeling important

[@axelmilan4292]

"We ruined the economy, perpetuated the welfare state, eliminated the single-income family, plunged the country into an endless series of foreign conflicts, wasted your inheritance on ourselves, voted out the gold standard, and offshored countless well-paying careers for our own selfish short-term gain. But you're gonna get stuck with the bill because we are incapable of accepting responsibility for our own selfish actions." -boomers in a nutshell.

[@HwoarangtheBoomerang]

I read that in Mark Levin's voice. Pulls back the veil and adds perspective, huh?

[@DMAN590]

Boomers did not vote out the gold standard. They were in their twenties in 1971 at the oldest. Nixon took us off the gold standard. There was no vote. It was supposed to be a temporary measure but we know how that goes

[@NTJedi]

Your parents leaving you with nothing is a family problem... not a generation problem.

[@NTJedi]

So your last sentence should read -my family in a nutshell.

[@galenschultz3239]

​@@NTJediI wonder why so many people have this idea about boomers. But yeah, gottem with a #NotAllBoomers so you win. My mom is not like this. My stepdad was not like this. My dad is. Every other boomer I know is. It is definitely the norm.

[@Nick_las_seafarer]

“Paying taxes to a death cult” if only the rabble masses understood how true that statement is.

[@KBarry525]

Wikileaks was recently forced to take down the Podesta email drops which showed Hillary Clintons former Chief of Staff, Tamara Luzzato, using FBI recognized pedophilia code language to coordinate the transfer of children sex slaves to Hillary's 2016 campaign manager, John Podesta. This stuff is 100% real, and people need to look into it for themselves.

[@laylonlee229]

True

[@DBD120]

Tell me so I may understand.

[@banzaipiegaming]

I think they do, it's just that they can't do anything about it

[@roostre5254]

@@DBD120 Look up Bohemian Grove

[@JB_Hobbies]

Boomers working way too long then all deciding to retire at the same time is the ultimate chef’s kiss of chaos. Messy to the bitter end.

[@Rexhunterj]

And also not passing on the skills to the youth, leaving us to figure all this shit out ourselves via the internet and enormous amounts of trial and error that humanity did already and the boomers just failed to pass on to us.

[@chetmanley1885]

​@@Rexhunterjthe boomers where I work didn't have any skills, so I basically had to start from scratch regardless. I just gave them busywork for a few months until they shuffled off.

[@theMRsome12]

You know the youngest are 70 now right? That's gen x, they're as shitty as boomers but think they aren't because they don't know everyone calls them boomers.

[@lilporky8565]

What what did i miss?

[@katie7748]

​@@Rexhunterj But but but...KiDs ThEsE dAyS dOnT wAnT tO LeArN BULL. Look how many whippersnappers are turning to the Net to learn how fix, guild, garden, preserve food, sew, all kinds of stuff because the real people in their real lives won't teach them...or worse...don't know how to do it themselves to even have the ability to teach others! It's STAGGERING.

[@draxthedarkreaper]

I've seen literally every boomer that I know sell their property to move in to senior homes instead of giving it to their kids or grandkids with right of survivorship, Fucking Despicable.

[@Tempusverum]

“They gotta pull themselves up by those bootstraps, just like I did”

[@robertmusil1107]

To be fair, kids don't even want the house because "it isn't in the city" or whatever xD

[@draxthedarkreaper]

@@robertmusil1107 can't be me, lol, at this point I'd rather not be near people.

[@-lord1754]

@@robertmusil1107 making shit up lol.

[@OzixiThrill]

@@robertmusil1107 Ah yes. The straw children in your head running their mouths. Meanwhile, here on planet Earth, if you offered a 75k$ worth fixer-upper (That's bordering on the price of buildings that don't need to be just straight up demolished, mind you) to one of your children, you'd quickly go from 5 children to 1 as they tear each other to shreds over it.

[@deuterium2718]

to my beloved child i leave all my hard earned debt

[@TreeHairedGingerAle]

It's disturbing how many young people today are already struggling as hard as they can, just to lose a parent and have credit card companies foaming at the mouth to collect the parent's debt from them all while they're grieving. This economic system is INSANE.

[@shroomer3867]

Legally speaking they don’t have any right to ask the debt to be paid by the heirs. If you need to speak to a lawyer, even if expensive, it can save your ass on the long run from these fuckers

[@leatcanned]

And.... I kindly reject it, I told them I refuse any form of hand out, I got me, I'll survive.

[@NTJedi]

If your parents leave you NOTHING except debts... that's your family problem.... not a generation problem.

[@HamsterPants522]

@@NTJedi Every problem is an individual problem, because the generations are abstractions that don't exist at all. That doesn't mean there aren't systemic factors which cause widespread patterns on a societal level, though, so you are still wrong.

[@RedTTHayo]

'When you see a coral reef teeming with life. Think of me." Such a great line.

[@GubekochiGoury]

That one made me so angry!

[@theprophetofhate7188]

@@GubekochiGoury The great barrier reef has almost entirely recovered... and now the cultists are complaining about it growing back the wrong way.

[@gordonfreeman7187]

@@theprophetofhate7188 As an Australian who knows someone who works in this field this is definitely not true. Parts of the great barrier reef are recovering however not all of it as there are still areas where lots of reefs are being bleached. Please show me your sources that the reef is entirely recovered.

[@ninjatoriumnova2483]

@@gordonfreeman7187 Pfft, asking for a source? That's obvious cultist behavior.

[@SPAMMAN123456789]

@@ninjatoriumnova2483 no its asking for sources. If you are a reasonable person who believes data thats been checked and double checked by 3rd independent parties, and will change your opinion based on new info, then asking for sources isnt cultist behavior. Deflecting and saying reputable, vetted and tested sources cant be trusted, or implying as such, is cultist behavior. Bleaching of corals is directly related to acidification of the ocean. if you look at just a simple question, 'whats the ph of the ocean over time', you see its going down (therefore becoming more acidic) There is also a relation to the increased temperatures having a negative effect on the algae that is in symbiosis with the coral. You can also google 'average ocean temperature over time' you will see its increased. You can find several countries taking their own data on the matter, and saying the same thing. Thats consensus. A way people are combating this bleaching problem, and finding some success, is transplanting acid and/or heat resistant coral, onto reefs that are declining. But that is treating a symptom, not solving the problem.

[@ZeroEx131]

My inlaws tried to give us their house...which they owed 200k on...and they wanted us to pay them 600k...and their house is only worth 450k and needs 100k in repairs. Oh, they also want us to pay all that and let them live there with us for free. Ahaha...no.

[@biazacha]

They should sell their house and pick their own retirement home cause otherwise is not gonna be a very good one if that’s how they treat their children…

[@ZeroEx131]

@@biazacha I have told them to sell their house and move to a state that's cheaper and that I won't be buying it lol.

[@SenseiLlama]

My parents tried to do that voluntarily for my grandparents. Buy the house let them live in it. Keeps wealth in the family helps them out with "care". They acted like we were tyring to Rob them. Boomer generation is the vampire generation.

[@user-zf3xb3qx8w]

@@biazacha and that's how they structure a "deal" after decades of life??? uh, ok.

[@ZeroEx131]

@@SenseiLlama my inlaws are nuts so, living with them is not an option. My wife refused more than I did lol

[@Pythonhier]

"I worked hard all my life for what I have" "Mom working one minimum wage job and never getting a raise, but still affording a home, car, vacations, children, and life does not mean you worked hard. I'm sorry to break it to you" "AFTER EVERYTHING I DID FOR YOU, YOU TALK TO ME LIKE THAT?!"

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

Spot on. A friend who is a financial advisor told me recently all her older clients will refuse to even consider more responsible investing options, and will only relinquish control when it's pried from thier 'cold dead hands.' Bratty, self indulgent selfish bunch of narcissists, the lot of them.

[@scotts148]

What exactly do you mean by more responsible investing options?

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

@@scotts148 Sectors that have less of a negative social or environmental impact. They are few and far between, and may not have that fat DIV payout, but are an option.

[@scotts148]

Hahahaha lol no I don’t blame them for not investing in that crap.

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

@@scotts148 Didn’t ask and don’t care bud.

[@Lore-mc7zw]

@@Panzer_the_Merganser this is a public forum you don't have to ask for responses, if you wanted a bubble try DMing someone who meets your criteria.

[@chaotictrash4909]

recently tried to hand a physical resume to a place i wanted to work the employee physically recoiled and acted like i was giving him a disease and said "we only accept online applications" im sick of being unemployed

[@carlbrown8966]

So AI can auto reject you

[@noneofyourbusiness4133]

I tried to apply for a job at a stop and shop- they said I had to do it online ffs. I couldn’t even find which store it was for.

[@psychicbyinternet]

If it makes you feel any better my workplace does physical resumes/applications. But yeah I remember when I was applying years ago a lot of the places were online only and I imagine it's even more online now.

[@MyShiroyuki]

@@carlbrown8966 Especially if you're straight, white, and male.

[@doomlord10]

@@MyShiroyuki there's always that one dude...

[@gauravvarma3645]

"Won World War II" "That wasn't you..." I cracked up HAHAHA

[@archmagoshazrael]

So commonly misattributed too haha

[@foruwantto3621]

They confuse watching hundreds of hours of documentaries with actually being there.

[@koy540]

They lost the Veitnam war pretty good though.

[@blueberrymcphuckerson9821]

Boomers were literally created cause of WWII lol.

[@jacknathaniel5203]

The red army beat the nazis, but the US (fascism) still won. German fascism was retaken by the US alliance. Nazi's were hired by NASA or allowed to exile to S America. Israel was created for control of the middle east. Capitalism ruins everything around me.

[@jeanmartin6410]

I’m a boomer. My daughter’s name is on my house with me. She has access to all my income. She’s better with money than I am. If I have anything left when I die, it’s hers. I will not retire. There’s not enough social security to support me. Did we mess up? Yep.

[@williamrobinson6055]

I'm sorry, that sounds rough. But good on you for seeing life through unclouded eyes. Advice from a zillennial, find joy where you can and focus on what makes you happy.

[@dandeother8621]

My delusional narcissistic mother is eaxctly like this. And then bitches to my sister about why ive gone no contact with her. Little does she know my sisters about to do the same

[@carpespasm]

I hope you and your sister have a good relationship without your mother. It's tough having to cut loose from a close family member, even if they do suck, and who better than you two to know what that was like growing up.

[@TsukiNaito1]

"Won World War II..." Boomers in a nutshell. Taking credit for what someone else did for them or helped them do. I know one that lets his daughter struggle to pay her rent and buy food because she has so many medical issues that cost her money. He calls her a loser, while his momma drove to his college every week to do his laundry for him, he dropped out of college, and he literally had his boss hand him his business, which he runs very poorly but survives because he has a monopoly on that particular service in the region. He is the epitome of spoiled boomer. Truly, a self-made... I can't even sarcastically call him a "man."

[@winzyl9546]

Are you the daughter?

[@DLG24]

That's my dad, exactly the same type of guy. He built a small trucking company. I asked him for a job once just so I could get through some tough times. He told me "we don't work in the same industry." I was unemployed. Damn. I lost any bit of respect I had for him. I saw the man he really is. Such people a better left alone with their wealth and empty homes.

[@greasybumpkin1661]

​@@winzyl9546my bet is he's an employee

[@samfisherxboxog8925]

Greatest generation is the one who won world war 2. Boomers are the generation that lost Vietnam.

[@tongpoo8985]

It's crazy how they literally did nothing good other than the civil rights movement (and then undid most of the good they did with inflammatory identity politics in their later years, both left and right wing boomers), despite being the most privileged generation (in the literal sense) in the history of humanity.

[@alexmannen1991]

im completely convinced that the boomerposting my parents do on facebook to flaunt their wealth is just a big f u to me who is borderline homeless

[@kraptastic333]

It's definitely part of them confronting their insecurities by completely avoiding any treatment of source behaviors hahahah... Haha... I'm sobbing actually the laughter is just compulsive at this point

[@6ic6ic6ic]

If you have parents it's definitely past time to have left Facebook.

[@DLG24]

I agree 100%

[@justice_1337]

Get a job that pays more than you waste. Or waste less than you are paid.

[@andrewharriscampbell]

it's like the old white boomers doing sex tourism in places post-slavery/colonization 😅

[@jeffpv7468]

These old people don't understand, you can work as hard as they did, if not harder in a lot of areas, but your crops won't grow if the farmer before you salted the soil after sucking all the nutrients out.

[@user-xl8pc4rh2h]

Dies aged 115, house goes to Blackrock...

[@Arc_Viper]

Hand over the reins? More like hand over those debt chains.

[@DLG24]

And property taxes.

[@helloidharbl6753]

And stagnation inflation.

[@Gamerguy826]

Smart Millennials: No thanks. *lives economically smart, minimalistic life* Entitled, manipulative Boomers: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@iller3]

don't forget all those tax cuts they got that went straight into equity markets to cause even MORE inflation on everything

[@granudisimo]

​@@Gamerguy826Boomers, in this particular, react to millennial frugality by screaming not just "REEEEEEE" but "REEEEEEE YOU'RE KILLING INDUSTRIES 😭😭"

[@Pluralofvinylisvinyls]

It isn’t a dialogue with a boomer without unsolicited career advice 😂

[@IvyShady-ih3ni]

not just that, but unsolicited career advice that is most likely wildly incorrect and proof they haven't applied for a job since 1982 😂

[@ftlfrog8738]

Boomers got life on easy mode. They grew up with cheap education, and jobs that competed for employees, and an amazing economy with low inflation. They have spent their entire life working to pull the ladder up behind them and are baffled that the younger generations are having trouble. Like I would love to have a family and children but just seeming how much it costs and it all just looks completely unattainable.

[@WeeG-bwc77]

And the nation was 95% White and safe. Never forgetti

[@Lore-mc7zw]

not just costs that turn me away from relationships and children, too much psychological baggage in general out there, I have too many problems of my own to potentially end up saddled with someone elses problems, and I refuse to bring a child into a world this utterly sinister and evil.

[@novaxdjokovic9592]

@@WeeG-bwc77 exactly. Baffles my mind that libs can't understand this

[@davidcampbell6104]

@@WeeG-bwc77And yet, from my experience, it’s the WASPs who do the least to help their kids- this video describes that. Non-white ethnic groups help their kids far more…there’s a lesson in there.

[@john-ic5pz]

@WeeG-bwc77 safe? from what... 😆 the government doesn't ng experiments on you without your knowledge or consent? was it safe for JFK? was it safe for anyone who didn't fit the narrow conservative model? in my experience, no. the world you're reminiscing for never really existed outside the TV.

[@morbid333]

"You can have whats left over."

[@TheSamuraiGoomba]

But what will I do with all of that nothing?

[@katie7748]

"They had the best of the milk and honey. All that's left now are a few drops of sour milk." Who said that? Me. A few months ago. People got MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD cuz truth hurts.

[@uberneanderthal]

"AI robots and cheap non-union labor have utterly destroyed our economic prospects" boomer: "if the economy is bad then explain how I was able to afford 3 vacations this year, hm? stop being lazy"

[@neempata3274]

cheap non union labor? Uh oh, we have le heckin racist who doesnt want a million immigrants from mexico or india every year!

[@jaythemachine3845]

Also no labor laws in China have these American corporations buying from China instead of America!. We either have to convince china to stop exploiting children/employees or we gotta get rid of our labor laws if we want to compete. Or we can ban all Chinese made products.

[@barneyboyle6933]

If you think unions are part of the solution and not the problem then you’re just the modern version of a boomer. Imagine trying to argue that the mafia is great for workers because they treat THEIR workers well. Yah, they treat them well at YOUR expense. You’re like a dude getting extorted at gunpoint by a mafia thug, watching him put your money in his pocket and walk away, and then somehow thinking you just made money

[@SorenVoices]

Their concept of vacation is very different as well, most younger generations will mean 2 days to a week max to domestic locations (MAYBE) international. Older gens be like..."I went 2 weeks for a small stay in Italy" 😮

[@GabeSweetMan]

The intergenerational equivalent to "it works fine for me" response when you're trying to figure out why [random tech snafu] is happening to your computer.

[@shawnhenderson2091]

The end is the best part, "ITS YOUR FAULT, YOU'RE F*CKIN LAZY!!"...so accurate of how boomers talk about the youth...ok boomer, thanks.

[@malcontender6319]

Incoming "deserved elder abuse crisis".

[@ScienceReasonLove]

Assuming it’s true that we’re lazy I have to ask WHO FUCKING RAISED US?

[@badsubtitles498]

True. I'm all for personal responsibility but when it comes to this kind of thing it's definitely the parent's fault.

[@ViridianFlow]

Woah now, remember you can't say "ok boomer", that's worse than the n word according to boomers. You'll get arrested for elder abuse. Because people dismissing them is the worst thing to ever happen in their privileged lives

[@caesarstrings]

“Weak men create hard times.” “YOU WERE THE WEAK MEN!”

[@killerkira1192]

I know this is satyrical ,but i genuinely feel angry when i think how accurate this sounds

[@averywhitaker3513]

Satire is something that uses humour specifically to point out problems. There's no but, you're feeling exactly the correct emotions here

[@Anamnesis]

Gen X here who can speak with some authority and actual experience: yeah the Boomers definitely had a free ride.

[@polydex108]

The forgotten generation, but the one who knows.

[@TheActionBastard]

I mean they lived during one of the greatest eras of prosperity ever to grace our nation...

[@jernaugurgeh451]

Gen X here too, though in UK. I don’t want to appear #NotAllBoomers but I don’t think my boomer parents had a free ride. They certainly had access to inexpensive housing compared to their relatively low income… totally free health and dental and eye care… free higher education (which they never went for but which I was lucky to get the tail end of before the Tories phased out grants and introduced student loans and tuition fees)… and no worries about the coming climate apocalypse. However, they also grew up in a world that was bigoted, judgemental, and highly unsupportive of those in need or in difficulties… and did suffer because of it. Which is why they don’t ever vote Tory (Conservative Party), and try to be understanding and supportive within their means.

[@matthewjohnson1891]

​@@jernaugurgeh451well said

[@gmork1090]

@@jernaugurgeh451 You have great parents. Who can see that as much as they 'may' want the roaring 20s to stay forever, know change is inevitable.

[@KCFOSF]

Hello I'd like to own a house sometime in my lifetime. "You can have one of mine! I own 4! Just pay market value" How much is that? "$565,000"

[@nwatson2773]

It’s your fault you can’t buy a house, get two full-time jobs and a side hustle/s You should have starting investing in kindergarten/s

[@sovietunion7643]

1/3 of that is just land value. seriously people need to get TF out of big cities because the amount of BS people pull is insane

[@bfitz5610]

@@sovietunion7643 you're not wrong, we don't need to all centralize the way we did decades ago.

[@iamwhoyousayiam6773]

lmfao ½ mil was so 15 years ago. A shack is $1.5m

[@phantomspaceman]

"Oh that one in Florida? I only stay there for 6 months at a time and the Californians rent it for $3000 a month."

[@Frederic_104]

My villain arc in life started when i got out of the army at 26 and started going into places to talk to people and get applications. Multiple establishments laughed at me and told me to fill out one online.

[@bodhixxx1]

I agree I felt like a Detective working on a cold case with zero leads it felt like I would of been better off throwing my resumes out the window driving down the street.

[@Polyphemus.]

My parents are boomers, both born in 1954. They had me and my sister early enough that we both sneak into Gen X. My dad kinda gets it, but my mum is defiantly boomer. Loves to claim "kids these days don't want to work" and "we worked hard for what we've got". What the hell are you talking about mum? You had me at 23. I was literally there for most of your life, watching you _not_ work very hard. My wealthy granddad _gave_ you the deposit for your first home loan, which, incidentally, was only 3 times dad's annual salary.

[@mistermoo7602]

They know they had it easy. They know they're making it worse for the rest of us. And they RELISH in it. It makes them feel powerful to be able to make up any excuse they want with no consequences to themselves.

[@level5650]

I doubt it, most people still want to think of themselves as good and deserving of happening good things happen to them. Between a monster who knows full well what they’re doing is wrong and admits it and a person who does the same thing while calling you the problem, the monster is slightly less evil because at least they’re self-aware. That’s why a character like the Emperor from Star Wars is less hateable then a real person like Brett Kavaungh, whose response to having the innumerable counts of rape he was involved with in college was to cry and call the accusing women bullies.

[@mrszmatan2727]

Nah they are on cosmic level of denial. They don't even understand what planet they live on but they sure as hell pretend that they know everything better than others. Sad part is that since they have money, they have power, so even if everyone knows that it's just pretending to know better, then still no one is able to do anything about that.

[@Da_yeeteth]

100%

[@Azuria969]

such a phenomenally WRONG opinion, emperor palpatine tortured many beings, killed even more, enslaved used annihilated civilizations, alderon was annihilated on his behalf... Palpatine es EVIL ITSELF NOTHING IS MORE EVIL than him, you dont know evil

[@naeberli9120]

Oh, there will be consequences. I read an article about the Home health industry and its concerns for its future because no one wants to work in home health because of the type of generation that needs to be taken care of. At this conference a statement was made that if they didn't do something to change the behavior of this generation and or state of nursing care for the elderly, that there would be a shortage of workers like no industry has seen and their elder years could be fraught with extremely poor care. That's right, we won't do the job of taking care of them. And start telling these assholes you're gonna vote to take social security away because you need that money to live. It scares the crap out of em😂

[@j.r.6142]

Just got an ad right after this saying "procrastination is not laziness, its a trauma response"

[@jbri1]

now the answer to all our problems is, 'go to therapy' (if you can pay £50 an hour for someone's who's probably not very good) or use a shitty therapy app...

[@exilestudios9546]

​@@jbri1the entire Field of psychology is a fucking pseudoscience and a scam. Literally none of their claims can be backed with real evidence or tested in a lab setting. It's all subjective nonsense that helps no one.

[@nwatson2773]

@@jbri1 I don’t know what is worse the problem or telling people to solve problems by going to therapy, and most of our problems are solved by changing the way we interact, socially and economically.

[@lecapitaine1017]

"Just get therapy, because what am I supposed to do, empathise with a fellow human being? BTW I got you written up, so I'm the one who's getting that $0.03 pay raise."

[@WeeG-bwc77]

imagine not using adblock

[@Tommy1977777]

The Boomers werent called the "Me Generation" for nothing.

[@William_Bryant]

“When you see a beautiful coral reef teeming with life, think of me.” I won’t think of you at all.

[@oreseur513]

Ah...fvck. I'm getting job hunting flashbacks.

[@promethiac2641]

"I was in nam (Canada).. you kids these day with your rock and roll and drag racing.. playing chicken with helicopters.. chicken sandwich... i'm hungry.. Is Country Kitchen open? What year is it?" - Most of Congress

[@anmax]

I'm getting job hunting flashnows

[@james35813]

Requirements: Relevant degree, 3 years experience in lithographic printing Salary: $20-$25/hr DOE

[@catta11]

Can't even count how often I've heard some variation of "It's so easy to get a job, just walk into any business, ask for the manager and don't leave until you're hired"

[@benonaru]

@@promethiac2641no🤢🖕

[@noblepenn4816]

Let them make a budget for you. Tell em how much you make and give them ALL your expenses. That usually shuts them up.

[@Rexhunterj]

They'll reset in two weeks after a few of the Current Things the Hypnobox tells them about. Then they'll be back to grating on your nerves and being a general waste of oxygen.

[@schmo49]

"Why do you need internet? There's an expense you could cut right there!"

[@sidhackney8831]

"There's no way you need to be spending that much on food, why aren't you just buying powdered milk and bulk rice?"

[@jeffersonclippership2588]

@@sidhackney8831 Hey don't bring bulk rice into this. Rice goes with almost everything and a big sac from the Asian grocery store can last you months.

[@crimsondynamo615]

@@schmo49while they binge Facebook and surprisingly TikTok for the strange things.

[@MrTuneslol]

*_"It's your fault, your fucking lazy"_* Perfectly sums up any argument I've ever had with a boomer regarding the current cost of living and quality of life.

[@johnskinner2329]

Me paying for their social security is extremely frustrating, especially when i know I'll never see a dime of that program

[@TheRedBrethren]

Boomers are the most entitled generation lol. Literally the only ones to have everything actually handed to them

[@Rexhunterj]

And the only generation to deny the leftovers to their children across human history. They'll be hated forever in the history books, if we even survive long enough to write them.

[@sovietunion7643]

gen Z Mfs will literally have a freak out if you misgender them. boomers may be entitled but gen Z has taken that entitlement to an entirely new extreme just without the money

[@hoilst265]

In Australia, they were the first to grow up with a solid welfare state behind them, and strong unions. Now, of course, as soon as they got into power they started dismantling those things. I love my parents, and they're not as bad as typical boomers, but even some of the stuff they said in innocence no longer applies. Need a job? Go down to the Commonwealth Employment Service - noted boomer John Howard canned that in that late 90s and traded it for series of private sector parasites. Need more qualifications? University's free (nope, not since Keating made it user-pays in the eighties). And my mum, bless her, suggested I take the Public Service Exam - doesn't exist any more. The Public Service - what little that hasn't been hollowed out and replaced by consultants from KPMG - now hires (and fires!) like your average private company. Sure, here's a six month contract...maybe we'll extend it if you do good. Then after another three six-month contracts we might look at bumping you up to a 12-month! And then...maybe see if any actual full-time positions have opened up!

[@pinguludd6586]

​@@sovietunion7643 i believe you are an idiot but this is an incredibly funny comment so congratulations

[@mrszmatan2727]

​@@sovietunion7643Log off take a walk, that's not how people actually act in real life, don't take your perspective on society from social media. Thanks

[@HereForTheComments]

I gave the hiring manager at Walgreen's a firm handshake and security kicked me out. Next time I'll just steal their cough syrup, there's no law against that.

[@blindmown]

It's only illegal if you take it out the store. If you finish the bottle of cough syrup before leaving then you're all good..

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

I LOVE LEEEEEAAAAN

[@sovietunion7643]

ah yes, theft is always the answer to a broken system. why try to fix the problem when you can just become apart of it /s

[@christianriddler5063]

@@blindmown Hahahaha, I imagine some dude just drinking the whole thing in one go going "WOOOOOOOOOOH"

[@NormanSaxon331]

I'm Generation X, the ones right after the Boomers, who had these people as older co-workers and bosses. I remember when I was living in a studio apartment in a bad neighborhood and walking to work, my take home pay about $700 a month, and I remarked to someone that would it would be nice if I could spend $50 on something and not have it knock me out for a month. A Boomer overheard that and snapped, "How old are you, 25? You have to work your way up to that!" Lady, this was AFTER I'd gotten my college degree. Fast forward to middle age and one of them clued in my 401K was pretty meager, and he was going on "If you're not on your second or third million at your age then you've done something wrong!" Sure.....go on about Woodstock and all the great sex in the Disco era and all the money you made in the 80's. I'll just keep on paying taxes and bills.

[@katie7748]

Mmhmm. And I love when they say wah I made x amount in whatever year...I had it hard! First of all, adjusted for inflation that $5 an hour or however much was frickin BANK!!! Secondly, ok fine sure maybe it WAS hard...but you could still manage working just one job...or two if you were married...and had a house to come home to at night. I know a lot of younger people working 2 or 3 jobs each today and still struggling to afford the down payment for a house. You had it hard. For whippersnappers, it's hardER now.

[@wideawake5630]

There are assholes of every age and that was a big one. Read my comment above.

[@TattyDarling]

“You’re not getting everything I worked so hard for, you selfish wretch” -My mum, after manipulating, and sleeping her way into home ownership, while using me as the outlet for all her rage like a punching bag.

[@paulgallagher5889]

Boomers: *break everything in sight, quickly run around behind Millenials and Gen Z as if approaching the situation after them* Jeez what'd you guys DO?!?!?

[@andrejka_talking_out_loud]

the fact is no one can afford rent to work an entry level job... homeowners fail to understand rent is $2000 not including the car payments, med ins costs and food not to mention when people have children. But the insulated upper middle class keep telling themselves "no one wants to work". If fast food chains offered housing people would relocate to work there just for housing. even bad housing.

[@Rexhunterj]

The middle class has since it's inception always existed on the basic idea of "Ignorance is bliss until the issue is on your doorstep." Upper middle class-ites tend to exhibit the narcissistic traits of the successful wealthy upper class but fail to realise that all the wealth that they sit on and the wealth of the upper class is generated not by themselves but by the lower working classes. A three tier society is not what we live in, there are homeless and jobless people, there are homeless people with jobs, and jobless people with homes, then there are people with a home and a job but they are poor, living paycheck to paycheck, then there are 'poor' people who dont earn more than they need and live within their means, finally you move up into the middle class range where it starts to refine down into two distinct groups, lower and upper middle class. The issue is middle class-ites really just never want to hear or admit that the lower classes exist and their struggles are real.

[@reticentblue]

No one's fucking saying that. I haven't heard one person saying that ever. My boomer parents are struggling themselves

[@rgemail]

Those are called "factory towns". They were a big thing during the industrial revolution. Problem was, they're basically then indentured servitude. All your money comes from, and goes right back to, the Company. Your entire life exists on their property. If you want a different job, you need another place to live.

[@doomlord10]

@@reticentblue employers are absolutely saying that. the phrase has been said for hundreds of years

[@kaj7135]

@@reticentblueA struggling boomer is a moronic boomer.

[@Numan87]

1:14 AHHH... there we go, that's what I was waiting for

[@ineedtostopwatchingyoutube5211]

Was not expecting him to mention the fuggin death cult

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

I love how radicalized he's getting, the skits are funnier than ever but homie is still speaking truth to power

[@elishafollet5347]

What is this death cult people are speaking of?

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

@@elishafollet5347 capitalism

[@bcj842]

@@elishafollet5347The Global Luciferian Cabal.

[@wyattgrodzins5214]

"Walk into a store with a firm handshake" I swear I heard my father's voice.

[@user-cf6yp7qg1h]

"I've been paying taxes for years to a death cult"😅😂😅 You were already a comedic artistic genius in my eyes but now I know you're awake as well and my respect for you is now on a whole other level. Hats off to you sir...

[@SavantPete]

Somethings I wish my father passed onto me before he passed away was how fix cars

[@AngryVikingwGuitar]

Just jump in, if you're passionate about it you'll make it. Start with something old and carbureted, insanely low tech and easy. (I daily a 1984 Honda CRX when I'm not on a motorcycle, I prefer 2 wheels)

[@carpespasm]

That's a bummer man, but the great thing with most modern cars is that most of them will last a good long time as long as you keep up with the oil changes and brakes. If you don't know yet how, start with simple things like changing your own oil, changing a flat tire, plugging a nail hole with a plug patch, changing/jump starting a dead battery and changing your engine air filter. With that much alone you'll be able to get yourself out of a lot of jams that make having a car feel like an expensive mystery. If you can, join up with a makerspace if they have an auto bay and see if anyone's willing to trade a case of beer for some car experience. looking on youtube for something like "2008 corolla 2.2L(that's the engine size, good to know) oil change" or whatever you're curious about learning will yield plenty of help from loads of folks who have more car repair than camerawork expertise.

[@SavantPete]

@@carpespasm Thanks for the advice

[@Sasq420]

I thoroughly enjoy calling my parents on a holiday or their birthday only to have them cut the conversation short because I don't have enough good news to feed them. Always a disappointment, haven't even seen them in person for over a decade. Apparently I'm a terrible person because I cannot afford to drive my family of 5 half way across the country when I live paycheck to paycheck. Meanwhile they keep selling their house for 3 times the amount they spent (77k when I was little is now somehow 3/4 of a million for a ranch style home in Denver) and upgrading. Swallowed my pride a decade ago and asked for help sending my son to Church Camp, $400 was required but I was afraid it would leave our holiday fund (money saved to buy the kids presents) would be depleted and thought it a worthy cause to ask for help. Help was pledged, help never appeared. When they talk about inheritance I tune them out. There will be no inheritance, I won't live as long as they do because I have never been able to afford health insurance. At least I won't have to listen to them explain just how disappointing I was as their child for another 45 years.

[@NeedsContent]

This isn't even satire, bro is droppin straight truth bombs.

[@kaj7135]

Especially with the “paying taxes to a death cult” part. That was a megaton thermonuclear truth bomb and most people won’t even notice it.

[@RockSmithStudio]

"We tried to leave the world nice and tidy for you" "No but okay"🤣

[@jmoast]

“We’ve tried to leave the world nice and tidy for you” - “no.. but okay?” 😂😂😂

[@FullRevive7]

i’m 33. may not have a house, a wife or kids, and struggle paying rent. but i have an iphone, a playstation, a car, an ebt card, some beer, and some internet friends. wish i could level up a notch but im maintaining.

[@GaurdsmanJoe]

Keep at it bro!

[@FullRevive7]

@@GaurdsmanJoe nah, there’s nothing worth keeping at it for. nobody cares anymore

[@ArtificialDjDAGX]

@@FullRevive7 at least stay alive until UBI becomes hard enforced due to global economic upheaval and the inevitable destruction of capitalism brought on by AI? Might be fun?

[@willtheoct]

what amazes me is just how much boomer media has gotten boomers to say this stuff

[@The_Stockfather]

I think they’re literal robots programmed by tv programming. No way these people have an active brain.

[@tetrahedron9196]

All mainstream media is designed as cope for boomers to maintain their world view which is literally Sam Hyde's paradigm shift 2070. They think of themselves as rugged individualists who achieved so much through their own merit and determination. None of that is true, its just a cope because their own world view can't withstand the hypocrisy of them benefiting massively from the ascendance of capital over labor. The worst part is they were also given generational wealth and functional, high trust societies to abuse.

[@BronzeAgePepper]

at least we're not speaking German! 🙃

[@acecardhi]

These documentaries are getting way too real.

[@boerbol9422]

The anger. The pain. The punishment. The fire. It's coming.

[@knightofficer]

I just wish they weren't holding us in the way as human shields

[@dingus6317]

@@knightofficerTheir money won’t be able to save them when it really happens

[@sandermez3856]

Karma is something I have NEVER seen actually happen in this life. Ill be very surprised if I get to live to see their comeuppance! but it would make my life!

[@dmp9609]

This needs more views. Paying taxes to a death cult.

[@HattiesVlogs]

Started out like an advert for butter and turned into a fever dream.

[@EpochDarkleaf]

i actually got an ad for butter after the video

[@RainbowFlowerCrow]

​​@@EpochDarkleafButter Help🌱

[@ScarriorIII]

It always does.

[@jernaugurgeh451]

I Can't Believe It's Not Late-Stage Capitalism

[@thevine2010]

When "Logan's Run" and "Soylent Green" start looking like viable futures.

[@jernaugurgeh451]

No. They weren’t dystopian enough compared to the coming reality.

[@palaceofwisdom9448]

GMO stands for Gary, Mike and Olivia. IT'S PEOPLE!!!

[@tubbyrainbow111]

Westworld or Idiocracy would be my choice 😂😂

[@isaackellogg3493]

The Purge and Fury Road

[@aawallace98]

imean soylent green is a sustainable protein

[@aloofraccoon667]

Let’s be honest, when millennials go to boomers funerals and say „my condolences“ to their children, what they actually mean is „congratulations“

[@sandermez3856]

why would we go to their funerals?

[@LettyMatamoros]

My boomer parents are gone, siblings and i had to support them soon as we all turned 17 even though they pretty much neglected us through our childhoods.. oh well we've moved on raising our own kids with affection, love and hope for the future. I'm not bitter just happy to break that cycle 😊

[@ccl1195]

"I've been paying taxes for years to.. a death cult." Amen, brother.

[@brent4073]

Lol our 401k contributions prop up their inflated stock market that they view as cash.. then we pay social security and taxes that go to them. We are their fiat debt slaves..

[@kyteavytrius4194]

I love how when the boomer says they invented fire, Rousso doesn't even have a response because of how colossally wrong it is

[@Jose04537]

You have to learn to pick your battles. Arguing against someone who abandoned the use of reason, is as useful as giving medicine to a corpse.

[@falnelliah2084]

Thankfully, i live in an area where Boomers understand the economy. Theyve actively told me they understand how bad it is and they hope something changes for my sake and the generations. They've even offered good tips which have helped but barely. I live in a dime and a dozen place where even the older generation knows.

[@EugenTemba]

We live in hell.

[@sandermez3856]

the heaven of the rich comes from the hell of the poor.

[@YosiahW]

I apply, and apply, and apply. I use job training agencies, I've tried going in in person, applying online, getting help job searching through different programs, even having my resume professionally reworked, 3 times. Nobody wants to hire people. All while the cost of everything is going up and new taxes DLC just dropped.

[@Taylor_Lindise]

Nah, not new tax dlc. It's the old dlc with a built in update that nerfs after 6 years. But those that paid for the elite dlc update keep the same old dlc benefits (ie. The tax bill back in 2017 was designed to end for people under a certain income and go back up after 6 years but the cuts to those above a certain income and business were made to stay the same.)

[@YosiahW]

@@Taylor_Lindise Canada just introduced a rainwater tax because using the sewer system needs to cost money. Oh, there's also a carbon tax too. Everything has a new tax now.

[@draco_1876]

It’s because those places get government subsidies for saying that they’re hiring. They also steal your personal information.

[@RKNGL]

Learn to lie, exaggerate, and fundamentally know the credentials you need. Say only what they want to hear or you’ll be homeless. An interviewer once told me someone had applied with a related Masters and a Bachelors before breaking off interviews. That was for an extreme entry level job I was going for, after that I realised why I never got call backs. If everyone is lying that much. You'll never be picked if you play a rigged game fairly.

[@YosiahW]

@@RKNGL I'm gonna have to at this point. Even my friends were telling me that they lie on their resume and say that they're a bisexual indigenous person of colour just to get in on a diversity hire if possible. It's a crazy world out there 😅

[@KhaosGorvin]

My dad: I won't be here forever. Me: Thank god for that. You've been calling me a lazy f*** because I only sent 300 cv's this week. Dad: GO GET A JOB!!! Ahhh, the memories of last tuesday.

[@Aneliuse]

No way you can send 300 CVs without just mass spamming them. And if ypu mass spam, you get nowhere.

[@renanfelipedossantos5913]

"I won't be here forever" I know, that's my last hope of ever owning a house.

[@abaren730]

@@Aneliuse actually, spam is low-key expected. Half the reason hiring practices suck so much is because they’re trying to filter out online spam applications, which ironically pushes people to spam even more because their time is actively being wasted. The other half is good ole fashioned corporate pre-hire hazing.

[@Aneliuse]

@@abaren730 thats not what i meant. I meant that if you spam and dont highlight your relevant qualifications, you most likely wont get invited to an interview.

[@TsukiNaito1]

@@renanfelipedossantos5913 I have a fine relationship with my parents and have actually had that thought. "This 1980s, cigarette-smelling, pos you bought for some reason might have to be my first house when you die."

[@bubbadarth]

The older generations act like they wernt set up for success and literally handed everything.

[@HotaruGlaive]

Because not all of them were? The younger generation act like the older generations were exactly what they see on TV and movies. It's almost like that stuff is fiction.

[@spoopyidk]

“I bought this house with my snow shoveling money I saved up from 1959 to 1961. Hard work pays off, kiddo.”

[@JLyck]

Did he.... Did he spray-paint his hair?

[@jeradlarkey390]

Who? The old man? That's just what happens when you live to be 100.

[@typoriver3651]

Its likely dry shampoo. Leaves a grey dust in the hair. Though it looks like he used three cans of the stuff😅

[@villainova]

There is such a thing as temporary color hair spray you know. For like Halloween and stuff. Washes out fine.

[@joshpelletier974]

If he did he'll regret it lol. I remember using a spray hair dye for a goof, it made my hair rock hard and took an hour and alot of shampoo to get out.

[@occidziggys9496]

Dedication ❤

[@EayuProuxm]

When you see a beautiful coral reef, teeming with life - ... Probably not

[@NimbleBard48]

Oh yeah. That one hit right where it was aimed at....

[@jameson1239]

It’s also has a fantastic double meaning not only did they fuck up the planet they also fucked how the economy so we couldn’t vacation to see one if we wanted to

[@AntoDesormeaux]

This is the meaning of “Saturn devouring his son”

[@emjay3066]

I was working full time, renting a place on my own after a break up, falling behind on a few bills after rent and council tax etc. My nan had just died, leaving her house in suburban London worth god knows how much to my dad which he sold off. I waited a few months and after no contact, I asked my dad if I was left anything as I was falling behind on living costs and struggling. He made me feel so awkward and uncomfortable, gave me a lecture on how there wasn’t really anything to give and then made me specifically tell him how much I needed to make up rent. He gave me £500 and that was it. I felt like I should have taken a payday loan and kept my dignity. He owns his own apartment outright in a desirable location, my nan’s house was worth over half a million. He bought an Audi and takes three or more holidays every year. I have two kids and he gives them £20 Amazon gift cards for their birthdays. We fell out because I didn’t get the vaccine and I haven’t spoken to him in three years. I fucking despise the boomers.

[@crstewart92]

I'm suddenly taken right back to fresh-out-of-college me, doing my best to explain to my parents that 'a firm handshake,' and 'calling the business every day to show your interest,' is not actually a guaranteed recipe to getting a job.

[@skycloud5695]

The future is now old man! *"No."*

[@jakesechrist]

Old man: “I have always been and will forever be the future!”

[@promethiac2641]

The future is robots.. let me tell ya somethin.. they can breed.. the robots. I'm trying to play it cool.

[@KoylTrane]

The future is now old, man!

[@starfox300]

The old man is now, future!

[@rugbyf0rlife]

You know the worst part? We can joke about it. But the fact is millions of us have had decades of our life ruined by this generation that had many decades of a free pass. We cant ever get that back. We will never have the house at 20. Family at 24 and retirement at 50.

[@sandermez3856]

im 40 n id love the house and a normal life. worked 80+ hours a week all my 20s. wtf??

[@davidszabo1618]

The price of housing is so ridiculous in Australia now. In the late 70's Early 80's, the price of an average house was 3 times the average income. Now, it's 10 - 13 times the average income.

[@daffodil1017]

*correction the average FULL TIME income. Less than half of all jobs are full time. It pisses me off big time how they calculate it-- like everyone who's in casual or part time or contract work or disabled simply don't exist, the only humans in Australia are permanent full-time employees. Think how much worse it is in reality!