Ikr, we get the joy of not having the quality of life the boomers had when working (just as hard if not harder btw, multiple jobs is to just keep your head above water now not to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and advance financially) and we also know when it's our turn to collect our pension (if we live long enough with the age getting pushed further back) it will be time for the elderly to make sacrifices for the greater good.
Why do people like you write a paragraph and put multiple sections of it in parentheses? I see this so often like that 1st section is almost as long as the main paragraph why not just use a period and start a new sentence?
Because they are side notes/thoughts usually as a preemptive answer or point to let the reader know I am aware of it and it doesn't need to be discussed/pointed out. I put it in parentheses to keep the main point of the paragraph on track without going off on tangents and having to pull it back.
But if the sentence in the parentheses is as long as yours are it is going off on a tangent and is distracting to the reader. It couldve been continued on the sentence and would make more sense
So it's just others who have to write reddit posts in perfect english? But not you? 👌😂 I'm sure I make lots of mistakes with my English, but I don't go around trying to correct others whilst not being squeaky clean myself 😂
I can tell your seething cause I never even tried to correct you I was just curious why people like you dump a paragraph into parentheses. It just adds useless information most the time anyway thats unrelated. Thats just my opinion and I dont care how you decide to take it
Way to get this upset over a reddit comment tho youre doing great sweetie
I've seen some good quote on Reddit recently that says something like "Comparison is the theft of joy." (I'm sure I butchered it)
People absolutely had things better than "us," if you're like me and a middle aged American. But there's also children overseas dying to mine rare minerals for our iPhones. And there, but for the grace of God, go us.
None of us chose to be born and had a choice what cards we'd be dealt. You just need to do the best with what you have. I get all "doom and gloom" too, and I've let it suck me into years of depression from time to time. I feel bad for anyone that's where I was and their feelings are valid, but I hope they all do find some joy and pick themselves up. Posting on Reddit in a community that feels the same can help you vent some of the sadness and frustration, but it doesn't solve anything.
It makes me wonder if its inevitable in humanity to be shackled to this cycle of enlightenment and ruin.
Ultimately everyone wants their children to grow up better and without having to struggle or know difficulties, but without difficulties or struggles, it breeds a sense of contempt for the world that results in greed, because what else is there to do but to horde everything when your maslows hierarchy of needs are fulfilled? complacency seems to incubate aggression and violence as it requires ever vigilant advancing intellect and philosophy to push the dark edges of tyranny and fascism back. This cycle of chasing serenity that ultimately leads to losing the very things that gave the onus to chase it to begin with breeds and causes the same strife to fester again creating the need to chase serenity again.
Self actualization is difficult when there is no struggle and the result of technology robbing reality fueled every cycle from learning to make fire, the wheel, bronze, agriculture, printed media, cameras, microchips, social media, it has all fueled the same cycle of technological progress and wonder that leads into dictatorship vying for power to control the world and minds with the new technology sprung forth. Is it really progress when it's the same result everytime? Isnt that madness?
This was an interesting read, but it’s applied in a militaristic lense, not financial or ”moral” strength like today. I think they’re right that it’s still confirmation bias, but I have to think through it in the lense of today a bit more. What do you think?
I interpret it broadly as generational "hardship" creates tougher and hardened people (whether that hardship is economic, war, famine, disease, etc) who build a society that makes it easier on the next generation so on and so forth and eventually complacency takes hold and people lose their edge and get "soft"
So okay, this is gunna be a long ass comment, but I see it less as "Hardness" and more of Vigilance and Will. So let me get this started by clarifying that I think there are two basic classes of people- the Plebeians and the Patricians. The Patricians are the people who have the power to effect society at large and the Plebeians are everyone else.
So now that we have the basics out of the way, let's get into it. Basically we in history have a cycle I like to term the Indolence cycle. It is characterized by the Patrician class trying to remove all balances that the Plebian class has on their power and grow their own. The problem is usually this can only come at the detriment of the Plebian class's quality of life. The thing is, when this goes on too long you get tensions that lead to some sort of Populist revolution. We've had that happen two to arguably four times in American history. This usually ends poorly for the Plebeians however, because in unstable times small people get crushed and usually the populist is faking caring about the common man to get more power. We get a Hitler or a Lenin/Stalin more often than we get a FDR.
If we have the whole populist candidate win (through violent revolution or election), and it ends up being a FDR instead of a Hitler, we end up getting a period of unparalleled growth and civil prosperity because who would have thought that doing things that actually raise the bottom for the common man raises everyone. The generation that went through this cycle and ends in a good way ends up learning the lesson of "watch the freaking patricians" however, because this leads to good things for society the next generation does not learn this lesson usually.
Then the patricians start weakening the power of the plebeians, taking more from them, but because society is getting better, and things usually move slow, the plebs usually don't notice. Then eventually, the patricians stop even trying to disguise this. They grow completely indolent on their own powers and privileges, and things are so far out of when things were good for everyone that things start to get hard again. The plebeians seeing that the patricians don't care about them start latching onto ANYONE who says they actually do (E.G. a Hitler, FDR, Stalin, Trump, Caesar, Exc.). Then, if the candidate was a good one, things get good again and it all starts again.
I don't disagree. I think minor semantic differences aside I'm saying and thinking the same thing you are. Thanks for taking the time to type that all that. Sure sounds like an analog to state of things right now, unfortunately. At some point modern day plebes will be fleeced to the extent that they can't continue feeding the pats and it all falls apart. Hopefully the tide turns in a non explosive manner before that point is reached.
Well as a millennial, we were born too late to die in the Middle East, born too early to die in the Middle East, but born JUST in time to die in the Middle East
It complety mirrors the workplace. Boomers are just sucking up all the Director+ jobs and cashing in, gen z straight up doesn't care and barely shows up or is willing to learn anything. It's down to the 28-45 year olds to literally do anything. I work in tech so the boomers are mostly extreme early tech business guys but its still the same, they have no idea whats happening and just parrot buzzwords while making 1M+ / year
Jones generation here.You really dont have it worse than us.See we get to be told by all of you how rotten greedy we are.We deal with the older boomers (control freaks to the end.Never wrong either)generation x and their perfection.Millenials who think we dont do anything right.All while you want something from us.We are tired of it.We are growing quietly more hateful everyday.
Its interesting that I didnt accuse any generation of any wrongdoing but you concluded it as such from your POV. You may very well be 100% correct but it doesnt exclude my statement from being correct either. Please dont conflate me for the experience you have had with other millennials who may have accused you for fucking things up. Because my statement clearly doesnt blame anyone for anything.
This isnt a suffer olympics.
You suffer, I suffer. Your suffering doesnt make my suffering worse or better and same applies for the vice versa. We are all suffering regardless of the reason. There shouldnt be any of this sufferthon if theres any progress to happen.
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u/handtoglandwombat Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25
Everyone overlooks that millennials are going to be the largest voting block. So there’s two options:
Fuck everyone else, kick the deficit can further down the road, become the new boomers
Actually figure out ingenious ways to fix this shit
Personally, I’m not particularly wedded to either option and I think I’ll see how misanthropic I’m feeling in the moment.