Gen Z is coming into the workforce and — in the grand tradition of what Millennials cringe-ily called “adulting” — they’re complaining about how much easier older generations have had it financially.
I asked my mother recently, now that she’s in her twilight years, or more accurately, her political years, why she isn’t absolutely FURIOUS that inflation essentially took away ever pay raise she had ever earned, effectively making rhe same wage, purchasing power-wise, her entire working career
I’d be burning granite building down.
I told her that we, her children and her grandchildren need her voice now more than ever because as everything has risen to wildly unsustainable levels the thing we can’t afford the most is hope, because without the retired being oversight on legislators, they’ll continue to take any and every thing away from us, and making a permenant underclass of wage slaves. Oh we’re free, sure, free to decide what food we can’t afford, what car to drive to work, what clothes we need and free to go into debt just trying to stay healthy enough to work. There is no anything for anything else, and that makes a slave the same as any chains do.
I asked my mother recently, now that she’s in her twilight years, or more accurately, her political years, why she isn’t absolutely FURIOUS that inflation essentially took away ever pay raise she had ever earned, effectively making rhe same wage, purchasing power-wise, her entire working career
I’d be burning granite building down.
I told her that we, her children and her grandchildren need her voice now more than ever because as everything has risen to wildly unsustainable levels the thing we can’t afford the most is hope, because without the retired being oversight on legislators, they’ll continue to take any and every thing away from us, and making a permenant underclass of wage slaves. Oh we’re free, sure, free to decide what food we can’t afford, what car to drive to work, what clothes we need and free to go into debt just trying to stay healthy enough to work. There is no anything for anything else, and that makes a slave the same as any chains do.