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I see a lot of propagada on this thread, blaming older people for society's woes. Well shit! All we have to do to fix things, is abolish pensions, Social Security, and Medicare........just like the ruling party wants to do?
You're buying bullshit. Getting angry at boomers, Zoomers, Xers, etc., while the ruling class laugh their asses off at the useful idiots who actually help further their agenda.
There are no laws against the masters organizing, only for workers.
-Adam Smith
"Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
This is your reminder that division along age or generation lines is as much of a distraction as division along race lines is. The real division is between who works for a living and who owns for a living. Simple as that. Sadly, the owning also includes owning the media and politicians (why yes, also most democrats), so there's not much you can do either way. Get used to not owning a home.
Those entry level jobs not only provide pay/benefits, but also essential training and instruction for young adults. I would call this extremely short sighted if the US wasn't being run by the most evil people imaginable.
I would love for this to be a US thing, this seems to be a capitalism thing though.
yeah , I don't think things look great across the board but I really struggle to see any light for the younger generations that are either in the education system or just coming out of it. With no real incentive to educate out side of a desire to just be educated I could see a strong dystopian future where those generations have less and less skills to critically judge information ... but also clearly the older generations can't critically judge information as well - which is how we got here. But , perhaps things will look dystopian enought that it will trigger change.
Slow down. Don't ever believe FORTUNE about anything employment-related. They exist to make bosses feel good about bad decisions. Period.
This has nothing to do with generation warfare and everything to do with wealth. AI is a smokescreen, a scam, a waste of word count.
The Great American Decline continues.
This is going to be a very bleak nation to live in within another decade or two. I mean it already is for many.
If you are a United States Citizen over 18 years old PLEASE make sure to check your voter registration and PLEASE vote!
I recommend woodworking or metal fabrication in anticipation of future guillotine demand.
Or the collapse of society in general. Being a craftsman is a valuable skill when your society loses the ability to buy the cheap products of slave labor.
If they don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
Not really complete. We did not shift the wealth from young to old. The old have money, because in their time, they still participated in the wealth they generated.
Nowadays most of the generated wealth goes to the wealthy, not to those who generated it. This hits both old and young.
The money that the youth is lacking went to the rich, not to the old.
The old have money, because in their time, they still ~~participated~~ had opportunities to participate
Fixed it for you.
Nowadays most of the generated wealth goes to the wealthy, not to those who generated it.
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This hits both old and young.
But the vast majority of the rich are old, and the vast majority of the young are poor.
The money that the youth is lacking went to the rich, not to the old.
Again, the rich are mostly the old.
Far from all old people are rich, but the vast majority of rich people are old and/or have inherited wealth.
The vast majority of the old are poor also. And the vast majority of the Rich would fit in a moderate concert venue.
Its the working class vs the 1%, not generation vs generation.
This WILL backfire, manual labor creates angrier, stronger, more cohesive mobs
Speedrunning empire decline at levels unimaginable to past generations. Bankrupt the rising generations to squeeze just a little more for the billionaires.
We need to vote these people out. We need to also vote with our wallets. And if it’s necessary then we riot for a change. People have rioted for less, tbh
Unprecedented wealth transfer from young to old
I mean, you lost me here. The notion that people are being distributed money based on their age is wildly off the mark. The US has an enormous population of impoverished elderly people and a tiny population of extraordinarily rich elderly people. The wealth isn't anywhere approaching evenly distributed.
So much of this is just blaming "The Olds". Nevermind that much of the AI rollout is being performed by the cartel of mega-influential Millennials and Zoomers and a smattering of GenAs. How do you square this? The tech industry is dominated by folks under 50. The people coming out of college to join the tech sector are being paid salaries to perform this automation. The thing you're complaining about is people maybe 4-10 years your senior doing the work that you would be doing if you'd gotten there a bit earlier.
Nothing in this bit implies any amount of class solidarity. It's all just crabs in a bucket.
This. The essential struggle is a class struggle.
Posse up, start raiding the homes of the rich for anything of value, burn down the rest, along with the inhabitants. Rainy/snowy nights are excellent opportunities.
Rainy/snowy nights are excellent opportunities.
Can confirm. Used to be a security guard. On rainy/foggy nights, exterior camera lenses tend to get wet and blurry and the cameras can't see shit. They'll be able to maybe tell that someone was there, but they won't be able to make out any significant details. (Interior cameras will be unaffected, of course, so be careful of those.)
Extra bonus tip: wear a disguise! Just a wig and glasses or something can make you look like a totally different person. It may not fool people face-to-face, but it's much easier to fool a grainy security camera picture. And if you have short, dark hair while the police are looking for someone with long, blonde hair, they're very unlikely to ever figure out it was you.
And always leave your phone at home.
Not just phone. All electronics. And your car, which also has a modem talking to every coms tower and GPS at all times.
Yup, pull the fuse on the onstar or use an e bike, motorcycle, etc
Yep. And be careful which ebike or motorcycle.
I know I can completely disable--deenergize from the fuse box--my car's "SOS" modem, but that isn't possible on all cars. Mine is also like 10 years old and I imagine it's getting harder and harder. (It being 10 years old also means there aren't many 3G towers left around for it to talk to, but I'm not taking any chances.)
Simple fix: just as there's a minimum age to be involved in politics, add a maximum one too (50). Can't be a representative either.
Boom, done.
Too bad the people that can make that change are like 80. A fucking vegetable got to vote this month.
And also setting up a massive surveillance network to keep those poors (aka nearly everyone) in line.
i truly think it's about climate change and how they'll maintain control over a depressing society ripping apart at the seams
I'm not too worried about the entry level jobs. My current theory, which changes every few weeks this world is too fast now, is that businesses are going to start to worry about business continuity. It's a very real concern, and it's going to cause them to hire entry level people simply to have the next generation of management.
So soon we'll need a major global conflict to cull a good portion of the disgruntled unfortunates that might be inclined to rise up against the system
Trying to get an internship around the time iPhones got popular was a nightmare.
So much scut work and entry level work (i.e. assistant and basic secretarial) just didn't need a person any more.
I can't imagine how bad it is right now.