Gen X here, I've been fighting against this future my whole life... I'm tired
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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We are going to need an early retirement home. We've already lived 2 lifetimes in the span of one.
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Who doesn't love a good old "stock market correction", where rich people lose money that never existed, and claw back real money from the poor.
On the cheap, too! Almost as if... by design. .
How about
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pandemic
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multiple different catastrophes
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war
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multiple economic crises, including inflation so big, it actually goes into changing money
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world turning into cyberpunk
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tyrans staying alive while there are news about cure for cancer
And many fucking more
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Don't we already have like three "millennials after facing 3 major crises in their lifetime" memes? Why did we need a will smith one? They're all the same joke with different pictures.
The right response to this meme would be that other meme: first time?
:)
What I mean to say is : this bullshit is of all times.
Just look back in recent history. A long string of wars and economic downturns. GEN Xers have everything you have and the wonderful 70s, 80s & 90s added to the mix. You know, the never ending Vietnam war, Afghanistan, iran, gulf wars, yugoslavia, kaukasus, latin america in flames and a lot of other bullshit.
Economics? Ad to present day woes the oil crisis, housing crisis of the 80s where 15% mortgage rates meant that yes, housing was cheap and no, nobody could pay the mortgage and that bullshit in the 90s which I cant remember by name. And the dot.com burst of the 00's.
We all want it to stop. Like forever. But you know the line :
Money talks , bullshit walks.
The money is talking. We're just sitting here bullshitting. And, to end with that other meme, apparently: this is fine.
Because we in Europe are all voting hard right and across the pond people seem hell bend on the return of the orange faced demented warrior. And can we really blame 'em? Because what choice do they really have? Grandpa1 vs grandpa2? A competition about whose dementia is the worst? What's this? The soviet polit bureau of the 80s? ?
So. Yes, you reap what you sow.
The economic crisis are also just the same crisis of capitalism with different pictures. Did that make them stop and make changes to the system?
If the meme quota is not met, we might see crisis #4 start.
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I mean, technically boomers saw Korea, Vietnam, Cuban missile crisis, Yom Kippur, (sorry if it’s misspelled), and the 70s oil crisis. I think the world has really just been interesting all this time
You say interesting, but I find the slow decay of our society as it's eroded by greedy corporations to be rather dull.
Or you could look at the progress of science, morality and general kindness.
Your view is also valid. There are good and bad things to turn your focus on.
I'd personally rather live in 2023 than 1923, so for me, the total change seems generally interesting/good.
I mean as an educated white man, 1923 doesn't seem all that bad to me...
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They also got to own their own homes.
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Makes you just want to slap someone
I don't know what Chris Rick did or said, but... blows threateningly on palm
Honestly that's nothing compared to WWI, the great depression and WWII
I'm tired boss.
Joke's on you. I'm past 35 for the next economic crisis.
I want to get off Mr Bones' wild ride.
I'm 33 and I don't mind. Be glad you didn't have to fight in a WW with 16. Or starve to death with 12 in the middle ages.
Don’t look now but the entire goddamn planet is hurtling towards another WW
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Don't worry, the real economic crisis is just now coming with the Fed planning on raising interest rates next year. That's been a pretty reliable indicator that shit is about to hit the fan for the last few financial crisis. What we got after the Pandemic was just a little entrée.
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we didn't start the fire
The plural of 'crisis' is 'crises'.
A clouder of crisis is called a "wtf"
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But will it run crisis? Yes, yes it will.
Living the dream
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