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and every time the rich get richer, funny that.
Crisis seems like the natural operating mode of c*pitalism
If it worked to funnel money to the wealthy the first time why not the second? Or third… and so on.
well new time iwth gen z, people dont want to work for the richest people for minium salary and opputinity, meanwhile boomer generation just work to work and earn some money, and get some children to fight for even more spare jobs… AI days coming sooner or later yep yep. still respect them for building our country. but honestly idk why your life should be the job your working on, when the job treats you like bad fish that when you do something to get any attention, your fired.
Pretty much, all that stocks getting sold must be bought by someone.
what did you expect? You were born in 1984 ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
edit: added link to book
Born then too, I always hoped it wasn’t prophetic.
Nah what we have is way worse
I don’t know who came up with this “once a generation” bullshit, but you can see that economic crises were more often than once a decade in 20th century https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_economic_crises#20th_century
They were every fifteen years pretty regularly
Sounds like it’s time to stop believing the way headlines and pundits phrase things.
…fucked
This tracks as generation’s are getting increasingly closer together now. I’m supposedly the same “generation” as people who graduated from school before I was born. Last few years there’s a new generation every few months - zoomers, generation alpha, beta cucks, etc.
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Seems to math to me? 2002 to 2008 is 6 years, 2008 to 2020 is 12 years, 2020 to 2025 is 5 years
Oh hey. Can I join this bullshit party? Fuck boomers.
edit: lol at the downvote. how did grandpa figure out alt socials?
And the wealthy manage to come out on top every single time.
When you’re the ones manufacturing the crisis, it’s easier to prepare and profit from it
When they should really come out 6 feet under.
Buy blue chip stocks during recessions and sell after recovery
Kinda hard to buy when you dont have any fuckin money
If you didn’t buy so many pumpkin spice lattes and avocado toasts you would have been rich by now
Instructions unclear, invested life savings in pumpkin spice latte and avocado toast stocks
You god dang gen z’s are going to get my CFA designation revoked
I’m actually an elder millennial, but I guess I can hold off on any further investment until you get your Classified Fowl Arbitration cert reinstated 🤷
I see you’re also an expert in bird law
I renounced my Chick-fil-A designation after I got disciplined for playing the south park episode
Got it. I’m gonna have a nice hot avocado late and some cinnamon sticks on pumpkin toast
I’m starting to notice a problem…
Wait are you serious?
I’ve never joked in my life
Instructions unclear, invested life savings in a company that produces blue corn tortilla chips.
Well tostitos is owned by pepsico which is a matured company of 126 years so I would consider that a blue chip blue corn chip stock
I invested early but ate them after a month because I was afraid they’d get stale.
I accidentally ended up with a semi trailer full of blue corn tortilla chips?
Brother I’m still recovering from the last time I took the internet’s advice on stocks.
Unrelated, but fuck Ryan Cohen.
I think this thread has been very clear about what stocks to buy and it’s your fault if you don’t get it (when you figure it out, let me know too)
It starts to make sense when you realize that each of those events is basically a fire sale for billionaire investors.
Just look at income inequality before/after each of those events.
This is the truth.
The economic crisis’s have all been real, they all really have been huge events that have restructured life for everyone, it’s just that they’re not accidental, they’re not unforseen consequences of policy decisions nobody could have imagined… they’re engineered, or foreseen with great clarity.
And every time, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the so-called middle-class shrinks even more. Prices go up, we all have to work a few more hours in the week, we get less in return, our future dreams dwindle, and we plug into social media and AI slop and drugs and alcohol to placate us while we say “I just gotta save up enough so I can…”
And those savings NEVER increase. There is always some event, some family crisis, some medical problem or a car breaks down or your parent dies or the company you work at gets bought out and your 6 years of experience only makes you a liability for the new management team who wants to make a culture of “young, energetic pioneers.” (who they can pay less.)
The wealthy are at their happiest and strongest when they exist as they have for centuries, land-owners up high, living off the hard work and struggles of thousands of people beneath them, shaving a bit off everyone’s pay, offloading their problems to people who are already struggling. They want to run around in the manor and keep getting wasted and banging winches while we serfs toil in the fields we don’t own.
Seeing shit like this play out just makes it harder to keep going. At this point it’s a matter of when I do it, not if. What point is there if it’s only getting worse? I’ve seen my best years by now
Your choice, of course.
But there’s something to be said for living as well as well can in spite of the bullshit. Especially if there’s folks that rely on us.
The most punk thing for me to to as a person of queer is to keep living, but God is it hard to find the spirit.
I get that.
I take some comfort that - I know I won’t outlive every asshole, but I think I can outlive a bunch of them.
(This bunch in particular. A bunch of them are ancient.)
I wish upon a star that we could be a generation that takes power back for the average worker and uses our strength in numbers as leverage to have a better quality of life by making the wealthy pay their fair share.
But it’s looking like our historic legacy is going to be that of a fool generation that votes against their own interests and refuses to stand up for themselves.
A very embarrassing time to be an American.
we could be a generation that takes power back
The bigger problem right now is that unlike revolutions of old, this time there are millions of people who adore and cherish their overlords and would literally fight to the death to protect them for no other reason than ideological.
Even if it all went down tomorrow, even if we all locked arms and marched on Washington and installed a group of compassionate leaders who want to make sure all people are treated fairly and that we all had basic rights… we would still have to share this land with the millions of people who hate us for wanting better outcomes. There would still be hostile, evil forces twisting the minds of the stupid into hating their neighbors.
It’s such a larger problem than the wealthy hoarding all the money. We’re facing the absolute limit of human capacity to mitigate outside influence, we have every possible entity, commercial or political, trying to make us feel a thing, make us think a thing, make us serve them. We are attacked all day from every side with malicious lies and narratives meant to make us be quiet and hide. Even if it doesn’t work on most of us, if it only works on a fraction of a fraction of the people, we still have millions who hate you and want you dead simply because you might think that your tax money should go into making all our lives better equally.
The bigger problem right now is that unlike revolutions of old, this time there are millions of people who adore and cherish their overlords and would literally fight to the death to protect them for no other reason than ideological.
This is a message the media owners want us all to accept.
In my experience, very few people want to die or commit violence for some billionaire’s agenda.
Most people just want to live their lives and maybe live to see the assholes in charge have to pretend to care what the rest of us think.
Reactionaries are paper tigers. They’ll flee or switch sides when the going gets rough.
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I was going to say I live in a “50 year flood plain” and I’ve seen 3 floods in the last 16 years.
I know there have been people predicting they live in the “end times” for all of humanity. But I can’t help but feel like our generation isn’t crying wolf like the others.
Don’t forget the wildfires.
Good thing we dumped the california agriculture water reserves to solve their winter fires.
Don’t worry tho, because although everyone’s broke as shit, the houses you bought in the 90s when you were a young child are worth like 10 times as much now!
I bought houses as a child?
What, you didn’t use your 1994 influencer money to buy houses?
Pffft, I used money from delivering the morning papers to buy my first house. When I was 11, ELEVEN!!
However it was the delivering of milk that really helped me afford my first yacht! Every morning for months I got at 4am to deliver it. That was a hard 3 and a half months I can tell you!You guys should just pull yourselves up by the avocados, and stop eating so many bootstraps!!
You didn’t know to sell one of your beanie babies to pay for a house? That’s like wu tangs #1 rule: diversify. Going all in on beanie babies is all fun and games until your divorce has you fighting over the most precious things in your life.
Don’t forget - you were also BORN into a once in a generation economic crisis: The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s was the failure of approximately a third of the savings and loan associations in the United States between 1986 and 1995. These thrifts were banks that historically specialized in fixed-rate mortgage lending.
