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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 262 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (27 children)

"In many ways, this age group is in a better place financially, on average, than their parents were at this age. The problem is that they don’t seem to know it."

Yeah? What ways are those?

Is this one?

“Our expectations are so much higher today,” says Melissa Kearney, an economist at the University of Maryland whose research focuses on children and family. “Generations before us didn’t expect to have large houses where every kid had a bedroom and there were multiple vacations.”

We just shouldn't expect to have mansions for our many many kids? Fuck you. I don't have kids, am experienced in a well paying career and I can't afford a house at all unless I go somewhere that I can't find the kind of work I do in. That's not even considering the lack of kids many of us have, because we can't afford them.

Fuck this out of touch shit. I'm so sick of these people who already got theirs telling the people who can't do the same that it's their own fault. This fucking article goes further than that suggesting it's worse than our own fault because we're better situated somehow.

Avocado toast ass argument. This country needs more guillotines.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 95 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Yeah, they cherry-pick that average income is up vs previous generations, adjusted for inflation.

Okay, but… cost of living has gone up.

Not just for the things that existed 40 years ago, but also from the new things that are necessary for maintaining a career, like broadband internet and a smartphone.

Needing a fucking subscription for your toaster or hair dryer or stairs or whatever. Having to tip your landlord.

They had a guy in the article that owes 200k in student loans! This is not apples-to-apples.

And also, so what if it’s up in average? Inequality is the worst it’s ever been. They barely sneak an asterisk in to address that, too.

[–] Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Average income isn't even useful because the only salaries that have gone up are CEOs.

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Average real income (adjusted for inflation) has been pretty steady in the last 50 years for the bottom 50% bracket. The higher up you go in the income bracket the higher the growth becomes. The real income of the top 0.01% has grown by 670% in that same time. So you can see where all that extra wealth generated from 2x productivity boost has gone. Trickle up economics.

Source with nice graphs

*This is for the USA, but if you look at data for other countries the tendency is the same.

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[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 69 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Your parents had one dollar, you have three. Much rich. Nevermind the fact that your parents one dollar was the down payment on a car and you cant afford a bowl of lettuce.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember reading this in an Uncle Scrooge comic when I was a kid. For context, Uncle Scrooge was explaining how money works to his nephews. The gist was "it's not how much money, but how much it will buy that counts".

I learned that lesson from a Scottish cartoon duck.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How many hours did I have to work for this?

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[–] waspentalive@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They had $1.00, but the bread was 50 cents. The 30-somethings have $3.00, but bread is now $5.00, just saying how many slips of green paper a has compared to b is useless when those slips buy less and less.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aaaaah nooooo they actually used the words "arrested development" which is the name of the show that this quote comes from:

It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_Qyk9DSUw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's not out of touch, its deliberate gaslighting.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Are those smaller houses in the room with us?

Lmao, like in 95% of the US people can't build anything but single family houses.

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[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Just more propaganda from the haves to the have-nots. Everything that sucks about your life is directly related to your personal lack of willpower, your unwillingness to hustle, your inability to see the ways the market moves and pivot in just the right way and at just the right moment. No, don't look at your neighbors, stop noticing all the other crabs in the bucket, this is your shortcoming. This is because you suck. Work more hours, sacrifice more of your connection to nature and friends and family, stop asking questions. What is life if not servitude? What is existence if not submission? Stop thinking and start doing what you're told. Don't look up. Don't you EVER look up.

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 176 points 1 week ago (6 children)

How are so many people still on Xitter?

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 113 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The same way people are still on heroin.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Yes. Dopamine is a helluva drug.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago

People are fine with nazis as long as it benefits them or they don’t have to change.

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[–] etherphon@midwest.social 102 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Most of us just realized long ago the game is fucking rigged so what's the fuckin point.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Been saying all this shit since 6th or 7th (stupid meme not intended) grade when I saw the writing on the wall. It's fucking annoying that only since the COVID lockdowns does it appear anyone else started seeing it, too.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, I'm not going to turn away allies just because they woke up later. I might be a little suspicious, but allies are allies.

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 86 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn't skip my loan payment, I bypassed it. You've made me bypass numerous meals over the years.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Or better yet .... more and more people will start to realize that it's cheaper in the long run to just skip your loan payments. Even if you lose everything, how much more can you lose?

And when enough people lose, the banks and corporations start losing as well. So it's in the best interest of the banks to keep everyone afloat as long as possible to keep up the illusion that the system is still working.

It's a precarious balance between making people believe that they need to stay in the game and stopping them from thinking that the game is rigged.

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[–] dellish@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago

In Capitalist America, milestones bypass you!

[–] Reality_Suit@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (9 children)

The answer is so easy:: make doing things affordable, and people will do things... anything, it doesn't matter. Do you want people to have kids? Make having kids affordable. This is unregulated capitalists' fault. Plain and simple.

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[–] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Whoa, I feel like I jumped back in time 10 years when these corporate meat-riders were blaming us for their beer businesses failing while simultaneously telling us the reason we're struggling is that we're being irresponsible with our money. The "arrested development" is the USA's disillusionment with capitalism.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

It's actually a pretty good article that gets into all that...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/what-happens-when-a-whole-generation-never-grows-up/ar-AA1wMMaJ

The fact that someone dumb enough to still be on Twitter only reads headlines shouldn't surprise anyone.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This image popped into my mind upon reading the headline; I hope my meaning comes across:

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 19 points 1 week ago

Tax those bourgeois shits into the ground. Tax their wealth. All of it.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The milestones have become outcroppings on a sheer rock face. Gripping like hell to one while searching for the next one. Stretching, grasping, searching, missing.

No rope.

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh I'm gonna involve a rope

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[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

lol. buying a house? having kids? I can barely afford to EAT, let alone bring another person into the world.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s because we’re all accepting this unfair system even though the social contract has been broken. The first step is to stop accepting this system.

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The only growing emotionally that needs to happen is for the American people to grow some class consciousness.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 25 points 1 week ago

I wasn’t going to have kids and become poor just to feed some stupid orphan-crushing machine.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

WSJ motto: always be punching down.

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Speaking of never being an adult, what about addressing the nazi trolls in politics?

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A murdoch tabloid says as much. its for boomer/older gen x consumption.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Let me guess: the article doesn't mention how the CEO-to-worker pay ratio has grown like cancer over the years.

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Sounds like a shitty gaslight attempt

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[–] ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Imagine renting or getting a mortgage in this shitty society with no job security.

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