• Etterra@discuss.online
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    16 hours ago

    They’re not unique there. Gen X and even boomers have the same problems exact problem. We live in hell, after all.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Take a boomer with you to cosign a shit ton of loans. Go to college, get your cancer treated, whatever; then flee the country to a less shitty part of the world. You get a better quality of life, and the debt goes back to the ones that fucked us! Win win!

    (normally I can’t stand using the /s, but just in case it needs to actually be said, this is not a serious comment)

    • MBech@feddit.dk
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      6 hours ago

      Not the dumbest shit I’ve heard today though. With the way the US is headed right now, you’ll be taken in by your new home as a refugee.

  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    23 hours ago

    There isn’t a lack of wealth in the world. It’s just hoarded by a few covetous billionaires. Sounds like it’s time for a redistribution. Your survival is on the line.

  • AwkwardBroccolli@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    It’s all okay. We can all sell our blood and organs to the mega billionaires so they can all go to space and construct an empire there.

    • BertramDitore@lemm.ee
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      3 hours ago

      Yeah, definitely. I delayed my career after grad school because I was assured (by people who were already set for life) that working as an unpaid intern and doing academic fellowships for slave wages would get me a higher-paying job, especially if I waited long enough for the financial system to recover after the ‘08 crash. That was utter bullshit, and now I have significantly fewer assets than most other elder millennials, am way behind on my retirement savings (which lost thousands in the last week thanks to Trump lighting it on fire…), I will never own a home, will never be able to pay off my student debt, and will probably never be able to start a family. Oh and I have good credit, despite my hundreds of thousands of dollars of student debt. I’ve even had a good job for the last 5 years, but it’s all worthless bullshit when upward mobility is practically impossible, and even maintaining my current “wealth” becomes more unrealistic every day. I’m just surviving, that’s all. And I have it relatively good.