Sorry we’re doing class war, fuck off with this generational in-fighting
Billionaires are the problem, clear and simple
Millenials retire?! Even Gen Xers aren’t old enough to retire yet (the oldest ones still have 6 years to go)! Even some boomers aren’t old enough to retire yet.
Yeah, I figure the ragebait over having 20-somethings demand that politicians all just retire if they are over some arbitrary age (regardless of their position on, you know, the issues. Or their efficacy or anything like that, no, we need magical “term limits” and/or some age limit jammed down our throats instead of actually letting voters decide) was not enough to fling into the “national conversation”; the authors of this article and their outlet needed to involve everyone else in the ageist ragebait.
This is indeed eye-poppingly stupid, but I think the people they quoted have no idea what the age range of Gen Y even is. Also, maybe they do, but people very young often think anyone older than about 30 is “old”, so…shrug?
So why term limits on the president? Let voters decide. There should be term limits for senators but surprise they voted that down when they voted for the presidential term limits.
What do you imagine term limits would do for senators?
It’s not working all that well for Presidents, BTW. Given how popular Obama and Clinton both were, they might have had 3rd, 4th or even more terms instead of shitstains like W and donnie.
Lol I read this exact article 30 yrs ago about my “boomer” parents.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Sincerely the generation they always forget in these dumb fuck articles
Yep. Boomers were saying the same thing when they entered the workforce (hell, it’s probably been captured in a few movies and shows). I think it tends revolve mostly around how large a give age demo is, as to how much this gets catered to by the culture. Gen X had similar sentiments, but we were mostly told to shut up and/or ignored by the media.
I’d hear this kind of thing in my twenties - bitching about boomers was an OG X thing, but appropriated by Gen Y - Gen X would grumble that all the boomers were choking off all the jobs, including the entry-level ones.
But I thought it was stupid then, too - do people in their twenties really expect to only have people in their 20s and 30s in the workforce or something? As people generally start to live longer, I’d not be surprised at all to be working with people from late teens all the way even into the 80s. Maybe even further if healthspans get extended.
I mean, if we hit some kind of abundance inflection point where everyone only works as much as they want in some kind of endless creative utopia, and everyone is getting a UBI to have all their needs met and then some, I’m all for dropping out. Until then, the way our system works, people pretty much need to work from adolescence to at least 67 just in order to eat and have basic healthcare. But probably past that age, too. Obviously that is going to span more than one artificially-constructed “generation”.
I see this week’s “Platforming the two dumbest motherfuckers we could find on Twitter/TikTok and pretending it’s a social phenomenon” article has arrived
lol trust me, I would if I fuckin could. Sick of this shit.
Oh. It’s “viral TikTok’s”.
Yeah. That’s a great source for what millions of people are thinking.
(Also, 45 isn’t exactly retirement age, so this feels more like the tiktoker in question is being paid to stir shit.)
Kaleb, @ys0ser10us on TikTok, talked about the issue in a video that also made waves on the platform. “How is Gen-Z supposed to climb the corporate ladder if Boomers and Millennials won’t retire?” he asked.
Gen-X being ignored again, just the way we like it. We were the last feral generation, whose moms kicked us out of the house on most Summer mornings and expected us to entertain ourselves until dinnertime.
Gen X erasure is real.
Don’t you think I’d retire if I could?
Holy shit, this smacks of so much entitlement it boggles the mind.
We still have boomers and Gen X in the workforce! And the people that just showed up expect others to opt out of a paycheck? Well, you can fuck right off with that attitude.
What even the fuck.
I swear that this is orchestrated. Get Gen Y yelling at boomers. Get Gen Z yelling at Gen Y. Get alpha geared up to start yelling at Gen Z. Get Gen X overlooked and erased (hey, we’ve been the middle child all our lives, we are used to this treatment by now).
Meanwhile, we have all the centi-millionaires and billionaires and now a trillionaire just sitting right there…
So an untalented hack wrote a puff-piece about an algorithmically amplified bit of rage-bait from a small group of young people who can’t do math or define “Millennial” running their mouths on TikTok, to try to provoke some kind of pissing contest and somehow this counts as Politics? This Millennial is not taking the bait nor should anyone else. Gen Z doesn’t want our jobs. They want jobs that pay money. And so do we. Anyone amplifying this nonsense is helping the people with a cookie factory convince the guys with a half a cookie, that the guys with a crumb of a cookie are trying to “Take our Jobs” for the entertainment of watching us fight.
Get a grip, we’ve been watching this for decades. Stop letting them play you.
Edit: autocorrect
…I want to retire, too, but then who the fuck would pay the mortgage?
Bad news kids, we’re all working til we drop at this point.
