Discontent Towards Boomers

[CornbreadFed]

Personal anecdotes do not address the topic at hand. Boomers had more opportunity to have a decent financial life then millennials and gen Z. This is just a fact. Any one of our individual experiences is irrelevant.

Facts are facts, a 100k job was hitting big for Boomers and Gen Xers, now 100k is basically I can afford to have some fun and put money in savings if I don't have debt or anything holding me back.

 

[Millard Fillmore]

Facts are facts, a 100k job was hitting big for Boomers and Gen Xers, now 100k is basically I can afford to have some fun and put money in savings if I don't have debt or anything holding me back.

Bro you are making 100k a year and are struggling? What are you spending your $ on?

Also 100k in 1975 is like half a million today.

 

[CAPSLOCK BANDIT]

Bro you are making 100k a year and are struggling? What are you spending your $ on?

Also 100k in 1975 is like half a million today.

Living wages in some places will surprise you

 

[EyeBRollin]

Living wages in some places will surprise you

Where? I’m in NYC area, make over a 100K and live rather comfortably.

 

[CAPSLOCK BANDIT]

Where? I’m in NYC area, make over a 100K and live rather comfortably.

The cost of living in New York City varies depending on factors like housing, transportation, and lifestyle. On average, you'll need an annual salary of $75,000 to $100,000 to live comfortably in NYC. - Google

A good salary in Boston, MA is anything over $53,000. That's because the median income in Boston is $53,000, which means if you earn more than that you're earning more than 50% of the people living in Boston. The average salary in Boston is $63,751. - Google

Just off the cuff there is a spectrum of costs of living across the country, certainly in Canada as well.

 

[CornbreadFed]

Bro you are making 100k a year and are struggling? What are you spending your $ on?

Also 100k in 1975 is like half a million today.

Because it is recent, and I was unemployed and then underemployed with bills from my previous job which caused credit debt. Plus, I have student loan debt too. In addition, there's inflation and other BS too. Not everyone has an easy path to 6 figs. Plus I am in sales, so there's added stress and my income isn't guaranteed.

 

[EyeBRollin]

The cost of living in New York City varies depending on factors like housing, transportation, and lifestyle. On average, you'll need an annual salary of $75,000 to $100,000 to live comfortably in NYC. - Google

Sounds about right. Single in NYC really just comes down to rent. All you need is an apartment and your metro card ($132 / month) to be set. Having a family is what is difficult. You have to damn near move to PA to find an affordable house.

 

[Millard Fillmore]

The cost of living in New York City varies depending on factors like housing, transportation, and lifestyle. On average, you'll need an annual salary of $75,000 to $100,000 to live comfortably in NYC. - Google

NYC - you can get almost anywhere 24/7 for $132 a month.

Housing - big difference between Midtown and, say, Ozone Park or Fresh Meadows.

Lifestyle - adjustable.

But people are easily seduced by the need to appear baller.

 

[CornbreadFed]

NYC - you can get almost anywhere 24/7 for $132 a month.

Housing - big difference between Midtown and, say, Ozone Park or Fresh Meadows.

Lifestyle - adjustable.

But people are easily seduced by the need to appear baller.

Anywhere outside manhattan sounds miserable lol. There’s a thread about or brings up dating in NYC and the conclusion was Manhattan or you are overpaying to live in a crappy suburb.

 

[Dash Riprock]

I’m solid gen-x. I inherited nothing from the boomers except my bad attitude.

Sounds like jealousy to me. The world owes you nothing. Make your own pile and do with it what you want. Bitter lemons…

Instead of whining about their good fortune and your own lack of motivation, why not build something yourself. Or you waiting for mommy and daddy to drop in on a chopper to save your pathetic selves? Poor little unique snowflakes…

Don’t hate the playah, hate the game.

I'm Gen X.

Maybe if Gen Y and Z could put down their phones for 5 minutes and look around, they'd see ample opportunities to make money by starting a business, getting a low-priced online education, or even running for office if they don't like the way things are going.

It's no mistake Gen Y and Gen Z are widely and largely seen as entitled, effeminate, and whiny. These stereotypes didn’t pop out of thin air. I’ve owned a business consulting company for 22 years (I started in 2001 on the kitchen table with a phone and a legal tablet, now 8 offices in 7 states and 20+ employees) and can say that the females in Gen Z and Gen Y are FAR MORE motivated than the men. FAR MORE.

Maybe some Gen Z and Gen Y men can chime in and tell me why this is so when men still have the strength and DNA to lead but opt for the "slacker" lifestyle instead. Then, they get all p*ssed off at those who are self-made and have worked their asses off and are successful.

I welcome feedback and responses on my observation.

 

[EyeBRollin]

Anywhere outside manhattan sounds miserable lol. There’s a thread about or brings up dating in NYC and the conclusion was Manhattan or you are overpaying to live in a crappy suburb.

It was a silly take. You pay twice as much to be in Manhattan. You can find areas in Brooklyn, Queens, and Jersey City that will have you a comparable experience and only a 20-30 subway ride. 95% of the women don’t even live in Manhattan. I live an hour away on the commuter train and was swimming in NYC pvssy. So I know that was cap.

 

[kavi]

I'm Gen X.

Maybe if Gen Y and Z could put down their phones for 5 minutes and look around, they'd see ample opportunities to make money by starting a business, getting a low-priced online education, or even running for office if they don't like the way things are going.

It's no mistake Gen Y and Gen Z are widely and largely seen as entitled, effeminate, and whiny. These stereotypes didn’t pop out of thin air. I’ve owned a business consulting company for 22 years (I started in 2001 on the kitchen table with a phone and a legal tablet, now 8 offices in 7 states and 20+ employees) and can say that the females in Gen Z and Gen Y are FAR MORE motivated than the men. FAR MORE.

Maybe some Gen Z and Gen Y men can chime in tell me why this is so when men still have the strength and DNA to lead but opt for the "slacker" lifestyle instead. Then, they get all p*ssed off at those who are self-made and have worked their asses off and are successful.

I welcome feedback and responses on my observation.

How are you as a consutling company provding value for society? Why shouldnt the state (society, community, whatever) provide this service instead of some guy with a phone and a tablet.

If this service you are providing has value for society then the state should be ensuring it exists and businesses get the level of 'consultation' they require, as this would benefit businesses, workers and the economy and nation as a whole. For that things need to be organised at a higher level.

If you are proviiding value to society then there is a moral argument that the state should ensure businesses have access to consultants, if not then you should not be operating within the economy.

Either way none of this has anything do with individual action and it has everything to do with collective understanding and action.

 

[Pierce Manhammer]

I can hear the teeth gnashing already! I can’t wait to hear the responses.

Inevitably they will all be platitudes but at least it’ll be fun to read them and make fun of them.

I'm Gen X.

Maybe if Gen Y and Z could put down their phones for 5 minutes and look around, they'd see ample opportunities to make money by starting a business, getting a low-priced online education, or even running for office if they don't like the way things are going.

It's no mistake Gen Y and Gen Z are widely and largely seen as entitled, effeminate, and whiny. These stereotypes didn’t pop out of thin air. I’ve owned a business consulting company for 22 years (I started in 2001 on the kitchen table with a phone and a legal tablet, now 8 offices in 7 states and 20+ employees) and can say that the females in Gen Z and Gen Y are FAR MORE motivated than the men. FAR MORE.

Maybe some Gen Z and Gen Y men can chime in tell me why this is so when men still have the strength and DNA to lead but opt for the "slacker" lifestyle instead. Then, they get all p*ssed off at those who are self-made and have worked their asses off and are successful.

I welcome feedback and responses on my observation.

 

[Pierce Manhammer]

I see value in wiping my ass after I take a dump, I think you do too? Should we have the government take care of that for us too?

And what kind of a weird non sequitur is your post to this to the discussion?

How are you as a consutling company provding value for society? Why shouldnt the state (society, community, whatever) provide this service instead of some guy with a phone and a tablet.

If this service you are providing has value for society then the state should be ensuring it exists and businesses get the level of 'consultation' they require, as this would benefit businesses, workers and the economy and nation as a whole. For that things need to be organised at a higher level.

If you are proviiding value to society then there is a moral argument that the state should ensure businesses have access to consultants, if not then you should not be operating within the economy.

Either way none of this has anything do with individual action and it has everything to do with collective understanding and action.

 

[EyeBRollin]

I'm Gen X.

Maybe if Gen Y and Z could put down their phones for 5 minutes and look around, they'd see ample opportunities to make money by starting a business, getting a low-priced online education, or even running for office if they don't like the way things are going.

It's no mistake Gen Y and Gen Z are widely and largely seen as entitled, effeminate, and whiny. These stereotypes didn’t pop out of thin air. I’ve owned a business consulting company for 22 years (I started in 2001 on the kitchen table with a phone and a legal tablet, now 8 offices in 7 states and 20+ employees) and can say that the females in Gen Z and Gen Y are FAR MORE motivated than the men. FAR MORE.

Maybe some Gen Z and Gen Y men can chime in tell me why this is so when men still have the strength and DNA to lead but opt for the "slacker" lifestyle instead. Then, they get all p*ssed off at those who are self-made and have worked their asses off and are successful.

I welcome feedback and responses on my observation.

None of the younger lads in this thread argued that we don’t have an opportunity to make money today. This is unfortunately a strawman argument. The argument is that on a macro level, boomers had way more opportunity financially than the youngsters today. It’s hard to even argue the contrary.

 

[Pierce Manhammer]

I think that could be said of any generation and the one preceding it.

But OK, let’s say that’s strictly true
for purposes of this discussion.

Now what?

The argument is that on a macro level, boomers had way more opportunity financially than the youngsters today. It’s hard to even argue the contrary.

 

[kavi]

I see value in wiping my ass after I take a dump, I think you do too? Should we have the government take care of that for us too?

And what kind of a weird non sequitur is your post to this to the discussion?

If men walked around without wiping their ass then ofcourse the gov should make a law to ensure men wipe before coming out.

its just based on the knowledge that wiped asses are better than non-wiped hence there is no reason for individualism because we know there is no value in non-wiped configurations.

The post is not exactly a non-sequitor.

The difference between Boomers and Younger Generations seem to be exactly this. Boomers just continue making money. But yoiunger generations are questioning the moral framework under which economic growth is happening.

A good example is Tinder. The boomer gov is incapable of understanding the dating market. Now Tinder is coming out with a 500 dollar monthly membership. This can only further detoriorate the dating world.

We all know how TInder and OLD ruined the dating market,ppl blame young ppl but the whole system is driven by greed and capitalism, and the boomers who are in power are not doing anything to rectifiy the dating market, they actually think Tinder making money from pushing a hookup culture is good for the economy and they should be praised blah blah. We can blame indivduals all we want but at the end of the day there is big money pushing hookup culture so they can make money from it, and the negative effects of that are not being acknowledged by the boomer capitalists.

Ofcourse Tinder makes money from Hookup Culture they wouldnt make money if ppl were in LTRs cos no one would be on TInder.

 

[CornbreadFed]

A good example is Tinder. The boomer gov is incapable of understanding the dating market. Now Tinder is coming out with a 500 dollar monthly membership. This can only further detoriorate the dating world.

WTF does Tinder have to do with baby boomers

 

[kavi]

WTF does Tinder have to do with baby boomers

Cant you follow the convo im talking about boomers and capitalism.

All their investors are gonna be boomers.

The younger generation are capable to discussing whether Tinder and such things are to the benefit or detriment of society. Boomers are not capable of having this discussion, they are living in a different world. While boomers remain in power and dont allow younger ppl to have these conversations at a larger, national scale, the provblems with relationships will not be solved.

Tinder and similar businesses are making money destroying the dating market and we cannot even have this conversation until boomers step back from the levers of power.

This is happening to every part of society not just dating.

 

[Bigpapa]

It’s not just inflation, our jobs aren’t as stable and take more time and money to get in to. Yes, we can make 100k, but that took student loan debt, 5 plus years of schooling, and etc. Politics aside, the boomers benefited from more government than my generation. The only thing I ever remember receiving from the government was the Covid stimulus check.

That”s pure bullsh1t

I paid a contractor 2k euros + materials to paint my walls of 2 bedroom apartment in Spain ( way poorer country than USA ) . 2k is the average salary in Madrid or a Barcelona ( the richest cities in Spain ) . And it actually took me a while to get this quote as on average it was like 2.5k

It is a job that took 2 days. 1 day of you are super eager.
Start at 6 am and finish at 6-7 pm

Every contractor when something broken asks for a lot of money. Electricians, plumbers, etc. even a very simple thing costs that takes 10 minutes to fix costs like 100 euros

And you do not need any debt or going to college to be a contractor for these kind of stuff.

By the time your friends graduate college you can be a master electrician ( you have a small salary as an apprentice but neverless you will not make debt ) and set up your own shop

But yeah, I agree… you have to actually work something that most people are not ok with

Even going to college, if you are not ok with manual jobs like I mentioned above , is quite affordable if you go the public universities ( the vast majority of them are well ranked too ). Costs like 5k a year to go to one of them + further discounts if you are at least a decent student. They have quite high admission rates too

Stop blaming others for your poor decisions

You want freedom, it comes with a cost

In communism everything is planned and you have nothing to say. In that kind of society you can blame the government. But even there, usually the competition is so tight that only the bright ones actually go where they should be

The government is not telling you what to do, it just gives you options as they think that the individual is smart enough to make the best choice for him. Clearly is not the case though