• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Meanwhile the boomers built a Lemon Trust Score that says you need to start squeezing lemons from day one to be trusted to make lemonade, so the lemon bank will give you a lemon loaf that takes 30 years to pay back with twice as much juice as any lemon can make. All while the news tells us that outsiders who never had a lemon in their life want to take our juice, but really it’s juice lord propaganda against any new juicers.

    We are drowning in lemons and can’t make lemonade without giving it all away, leaving us with all the labor and none of the juice.

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      11 months ago

      Here we go again, focus on the class of people who did this, not an entire generation. That would be like saying all millennials are school shooters. All generations got out of college and thought they were doing good while the millionaire/billionaire class widdled away at everyone’s rights so they could make more money and pay less taxes.

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        11 months ago

        I used to feel the way you do. Now I’m a 40-something feel a lot less that way. You know why?

        The same reason I blame “good cops” that watch bad cops murder a black man while politely saying “please stop, aren’t you afraid of your dash cam catching it? Just let him go man”… but don’t actually intervene.

        The generation we’re mad at aren’t the ones who did this. They’re the ones who said “the billionaires are right. None of us are working hard enough for them. I’m going to teach my children to work harder for less”. The boomers/silent (even early-X) are the enablers, and enablers are guilty, too.

        I’ll put it this way. I know a guy who thinks his daughter is lazy because she won’t pick up minimum wage work part-time at a factory to supplement her 6-figure salary. “It’s not about the money, it’s about work ethic”. I know another, a small business owner that’s mad he can’t keep a head chef at his mom&pop restaurant for $18/hr “because this generation is all too lazy”. The living wage here is in the $22/hr range. I know a third small business owner (this one technically a millenial) who gives his workers paycuts each year then calls them lazy princesses when they refuse shifts that require them to drive 2 hours at minimum wage.

        NONE of them are the real villain. But ALL of them are still responsible.

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          11 months ago

          So what are you doing about them taking away our rights then right now? You are an enabler right now if we go by what you’re saying.