I’d like to send a special “fuck you buddy” to all the boomers that told me “oh you’ll get more conservative as you get older, once you get some money”
I don’t know what world those people live in, but every day since probably 1989 everything I have seen in the world has only convinced me more and more that capitalism is a disease that is destroying lives and the planet.
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@cobweb
A double-fuck-you to all the boomers who told us that, then enacted policies which, amazingly, prevented us from accumulating any money.
Bonus points go to my father, who insisted that he was able to start a comfortable and fiscally-stable life while going to college and working a gas station job, and didn't quite get why that's no longer a viable option for any of us.
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I was assigned boomer at birth, catching the last year or so of that demographic. All my conscious existence I thought to myself, “no fucking way are these my people” (or as close to that as my 6-year old brain had the vocabulary for).
Thanks to whoever defined Generation Jones to bring me (and countless others) out of the last half of the boomer demographic.
It would be interesting to know what the ratio of hourly wage (maybe expressed as an annual salary) to tuition, both in your father’s time and today.
As for student loans (okay, you didn’t mention them, this free bonus content, worth what it costs), I recall reading about a boomer going to university in the late 1960s/early 1970s. He had some student loan money left over at the time of graduation.
So he used it to buy an entire car. (I couldn’t make this up). Maybe it was an exceptional case.
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