While stagnating wages.
Remember kids: the higher the productivity graph climbs, the more proof there is that no one wants to work!
Quadrupled (probably) healthcare costs
To be fair this does hit them first as they age
But also they just strike even by metabolizing their life savings / real estate to pay for this
Leaving us… with no inheritance and holding the bag
Just two years ago I thought they wouldn't see the effect of global warming and would die comfidently ignorant. I was wrong, but somehow it doesn't make things better.
And blame us for not having kids.
They need that new generation to exploit.
Mine just accused me of being gay via hearty use of homophobic slurs, because only women and gays cry, and i wasnt no woman.
That's lame. Real men aren't afraid to cry, whether straight or otherwise.
Everyone said I was disadvantaged by having a single parent, but I didn't have to live through any of that shit except for 1 year my mother married (and then left the guy because he was an ass)
Yeah I had a similar situation. My dad was a toxic person who thought it was wrong when I cried (which I did a lot; I was a very emotional kiddo) and my mom did everything she could to protect me from that. They eventually separated the year I went into high school, and guess which one I still talk to now in my adult life.
That hurt to read, I'm so sorry
Maybe it's because i hang around the queer parts of the Internet so much but this story just feels incomplete to me without an "I showed him, I'm a woman now" at the end :)
I had subtly internalized that idea from growing up in a small, narrow-minded town. I don't remember it explicitly being said to me but probably it has. Don't think it came from my parents though. Definitely not from my mom, maybe from my dad.
My point is that despite the subtlety of it all (as far as I can remember), I had a hard time getting over this internalised toxic masculinity. I can only imagine if it was much more explicit.
But you are you! You define your own masculinity. And as paradoxal as it may seem, being comfortable in your own masculinity, however you define it, is the most manly thing you can do.
Sorry to hear about your parents, they suffer from emotional immaturity. Don't let them hold you back from what makes you happy.
No offense, but fuck 'em, go enjoy your life! 😂
Haha ok this meme was good.
I'm one of the parents. Sorry for my generation. :)
We know it's not all of you. Your generation also fought for civil rights, explored space, invented jogging I think.
We have shitheels in our generation too. And I fear they'll become more and more prominent as we get older. I hope we're able to dampen their greed and intolerance.
I'm pretty sure boomers didn't invent running.
Minor correction, boomers weren't the ones fighting for civil rights. Boomers would have been in kindergarten during the civil rights movement.
It's not them. It's the super rich 0.1% who have screwed this generation.
They didn't , same class did it same class is doing it. Fuck this stupid fake generation shit
Both are true. Boomers as a bloc have consistently voted for cutting social programs that they benefited from in favor of lower taxes, moreso than preceding and succeeding generations. The wealthy indeed shape the bills and reap the benefits, but it wouldn't happen without boomer support.
Thank you. Millennials and Gen Z are the same mindless consumers that boomers were, by and large. It wasn't their generation, it was the bourgeoisie.
Yeah, but if we blame the boomers we never have to take any responsibility and we can just continue mindlessly fucking the world up
And that's why you always leave a note!
Oh my god, that guy's arm just came off!
So....they did give us something to cry about.
They played the long game.
Too real for me irl
It can be four things.
Well they weren’t lying
That's a plot twist
Probably could have tossed in destroyed the planet and the stagnation of employee wages.
Is boomerhumor@lemmy.ml a thing yet?
I'll start crying about reposts if this goes on
I'm chronically online and just saw this, so it's not worth complaining about yet.
Instead of groiping about problems all the time, we should also be thankful for all the great things they invented, like microchips and food abundance.
Food abundance? Have you seen food prices lately?
Have you gone hungry lately, or are you struggling to shed a few kilos like most of us?
I don't disagree but I'm going to let these people yell at you because they scare me. I can't take anymore downvotes.
I cry every time…
