Suddenly
As if this hasn’t been going on for decades.
My solution is to do the very minimum I can to get by and otherwise enjoy my minimalist life. Fuck consumerism with a 10ft pole. Let it rot.
Yeah, after being taken advantage of by every employer I ever had and still struggling financially I started to realize it’s beneficial for my mental health to fuck off as much as I can without getting fired. Just ride that fine line. If they treat you like they want subpar work, give them subpar work.
And yeah, stay minimalist. Don’t burden yourself with subscriptions. Don’t buy things that require a lot of maintenance. Don’t over-extend yourself. It’s better for your mental health.
Can’t be sad about being poor if you just stop wanting things.
Most millennials graduated shortly after the crisis of 2008. Its a major reason so many of us are unusually much much poorer than the average Gen Xer (who are only somewhat poorer compared to Boomers).
Older millennial here. Economy took a shit right as I was getting out of college and into the workforce. Good times.
My friends and I weren’t financially stable-ish until our mid-30s. And by that I mean we were able to start buying some name brand stuff instead of the knock-offs. Felt like we were kings. But only if we had a significant other to split the bills with.
I’m tired and I don’t care about this country anymore.
Immediately before, in my case. I’m thinking of welding some armor to a bulldozer.
This guy sucks ass and the mythology behind him is fucked. He was a nightmare neighbor who dumped his literal shit in an open creek and eventually went crazy and had visions from god to kill people. The only reason he didn’t is because of an effective evacuation.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Yep, got out of school right in time for a recession.
Changed paths, got certified as a pharmacy tech. You can work for a year without being certified as a pharmacy tech, so I was applying before I ever had my piece of paper. I didn’t receive my first call about any of those applications until 2012.
I never found work in that field, and left my home state for seasonal work. I later came back home and crashed into a two year depression. Like, clinical emergency intervention depression. Not sleeping, not eating, not bathing, all that shit.
This time Trump is at the helm. I have no hope. I have no faith in the country I was born in to do the right thing. I assume the military oath all service members take will be forgotten under a banner dripping the blood of “undesirables”, and chants of MAGA.
Makes me fucking sick.
I started working in shops around 2000. I’m so fucken over it.
Learn a trade, may not always pay great but you can always find something.
Live below your means, assume you could be laid off at any time. If you’re able to buy a house, don’t buy too much house.
The economy is always bad. The idea is to make people feel insecure and desperate so that they take on more/worse work for less pay. They’ll use every excuse under the sun, from “we can’t afford to pay workers” to “AI could do your job” and it doesn’t matter if it’s true because there are fewer companies growing larger who control so much of the employment landscape that they can unify against workers and make it so.
As someone born in the early 80’s, just for once I’d like a nice, boring decade. Pretty please.
Saw the fall of communism, the Balkan wars, 9/11, the rise and fall of the internet, the dotcom bust, the 2008 financial crisis, Arab Spring, Brexit, global pandemic, war in Europe again, US politics, middle-east still fucked as usual. And then there’s climate change to fuck over everything in general.
So yeah, I’d love a decade where nothing happens. Heck, I’ll take a boring six months at this point. Gimme a fucking break.
Every generation could have a “We didn’t start the fire song.”. It is just politics and the human race on repeat, until it can’t or won’t.
It was always burning, since the world’s been turning.
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We didn’t start the fire comes to mind. Things have always been crazy, welcome to life since the dawn of society as we know it.
Fall of the internet? The interet does not appear fallen to me
It’s hard to see it falling when you’re falling right along with it.
But that is falling as it if its a process thats happening right now, not as something that has already happend
“The Fall of X” does not imply a past event. You can live during the fall of something quite easily. Such a us currently living through the fall of the American hegemony.
If your read closely he says he “saw the fall of the internet”. Saw…
I got my MBA a couple months before the dot com bubble burst. Tell me about it.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
The US is in decline. Hastened by Republican ideology, accelerationists, and general willful stupidity and ignorance to varying degrees across the board. The “economy” revolves more and more around the stock market which only serves to enrich the already well off and wealthy while the rest of the ~90% flounder.
Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose
*Gen Y graduating from high school directly into Great Recession*
Is this Miyasaki or Mr Lahey?
Their son.
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Time to adult up and start practicing counter-economics.
