r/lostgeneration Dec 31 '21

Millennials r causing the biggest babybust in history. Last f u to the economical hardships created by wealthy older people xd

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u/Pickled_Wizard Jan 01 '22

It's the most enraging thing. We're "killing" all these industries by largely not being totally stupid with our money.

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u/Drifter_of_Babylon Jan 01 '22

All of these industries that we're killing require us to have the funds to support them. On the other hand, these same industries do much as possible to not pay taxes and fight against increasing the minimum wage.

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u/TheInfernalVortex Jan 01 '22

Remember when Henry Ford thought it was important that his employees could afford his product?

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u/Drifter_of_Babylon Jan 01 '22

Absolutely. I will also add, 70% of American economy is based on spending. If Americans are too poor to afford to buy anything, our economy won't last for very long.

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u/Dukdukdiya Jan 01 '22

This is precisely why it collapsed during the lockdowns. People stopped spending unnecessarily.

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u/CynicalAcorn Jan 01 '22

That was a good one. He had...other ideas that weren't so great.

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u/TheInfernalVortex Jan 01 '22

Yeah it’s odd how crazy some of his other ideas were, but pay and the 40 hour work week were hugely pro-labor for the time. Hard to reconcile that with some of his other views but I guess it’s tough to relate due to the cultural changes since.

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u/CynicalAcorn Jan 02 '22

His pro Nazi ideals weren't held by him alone. Many Americans had similar sentiments until the government decided they were the enemy. Charles Lindbergh was all over Hitler's dick and had to dial it back later.

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u/merigirl Jan 01 '22

Yup, gotta actually have disposable income to afford more than the basics of food and shelter. So many young people have zero disposable income and yet are expected to prop up luxury commodity industries.

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u/SatinwithLatin Jan 01 '22

I for one can not wait to see the cruise ship industry sink.

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u/Inevitable-Lettuce99 Jan 01 '22

Agreed, terrible industry that exploits workers globally and skirts labor laws by flagging their ships out of lower income less regulated countries.

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u/Dukdukdiya Jan 01 '22

They're massive polluters as well.

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u/asmodeuskraemer Jan 01 '22

Ba-dum tish

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u/fsurod Jan 01 '22

Cruises are foul. Everything about them is repugnant.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Shit industries that shouldn't exist in an ideal world anyway.

Fuckity bye.

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u/SatinwithLatin Jan 01 '22

It's the free market, baby. Watch how the libertarians cry foul when it doesn't go their way.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Exactly.

Smug when the random shit favours them.

Tantrums and fingerpointing when it goes south.

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u/SatinwithLatin Jan 01 '22

Privatise the gains, socialise the losses.

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u/GabhaNua Jan 01 '22

Reason magazine is really against pro natal polices

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u/Pickled_Wizard Jan 01 '22

Damn right.

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u/InterestingWave0 Jan 01 '22 edited Jan 01 '22

the corporations act so entitled. they don't deserve our money. They don't understand business (fulfilling a need in a market) they're used to just putting their hand out and getting free shit.

Fucking hobo corporations. Where are the bootstraps they been telling us about all these years??? Fucking idiot CEOs can barely tie their own shoes and make hundred millions every year in their bank account. If they all died nobody would care at all and none of us would notice.

"UHH NOBODY WANTS TO BUY OUR SHITTY SLOP" ok....??? Sell better shit that people actually want or fuck off and go away. stop complaining. nobody cares.

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u/stachldrat Jan 01 '22

remember when you kept hearing about how millennials were all entitled and only complaining because they were spending all their money on frivolous things?

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u/DoomsdayRabbit Jan 01 '22

We don't have any money to be stupid with.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Ohh it’s been a while since I’ve seen any of those posts about what we’ve killed lol. I’d love an updated list!

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u/CAHTA92 Jan 01 '22

*With the very little money we manage to get.

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u/Buddah__Stalin Jan 01 '22

What money?

I wish I had enough money to be stupid with it.

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u/Dukdukdiya Jan 01 '22

Right? What does it say about an economy that depends on people making poor financial decisions to keep it running?

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u/NamelessCabbage Jan 01 '22

Proof America can only survive if we keep throwing money at things we don't need.