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TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Lived experience and/or delusion. Many can’t seem to absorb that the labour market didn’t stop changing in 19-fucking-73, and it shows.

I couldn’t believe how dogshit so much of their advice was the last time I was searching for new work, and how irate they were that I wouldn’t take it - because it was useless and/or hazardous to my financial stability in the situation at hand. That coffee drinks-avocado toast shit seemed like satire at first, but some of them actually believe it, and had I been spineless/stupid enough to allow them to push me into the courses of action they were insisting on I think that it might have killed me.

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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

and had I been spineless/stupid enough to allow them to push me into the courses of action they were insisting on I think that it might have killed me.

yep, my experience exactly

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- TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Glad to hear that you made it out the other side as well, I’m worried about contemporaries stuck eating shit, or worse living back at home with Boomer parents eating shit.
  
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  - gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    yep that is definitely happening. development is a slow progress.
    
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Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“Naughty corporations” made me chuckle, but “I don’t know what the solution is” definitely rang true.

Most boomers actually don’t know where to begin, even though many of the solutions would be a 6-year-old’s first guess, and are actually proven to work, simply because they grew up being told that every single one of those obvious, proven solutions were “socialist” and that socialism was anti-American.

That indoctrination was so thorough that these solutions can be put right in front of them, gift-wrapped, with a neon arrow pointing at an easy button labeled “fix that shit,” and they’ll still shrug and say “we’re all out of ideas, maybe ask a billionaire what to do, surely they know how to fix the system.”

And the sad part is that they do and, in fact, already did.

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- CarrmynCarnage@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Children, when given appropriate tools and knowledge can function well together, that is until the parents get involved. The kid cities in Mexico (more of a theme park parents weren’t allowed to interfere in) proved this. Kids can get shit right because they’re not clouded by the dirt and crap by everyone around them yet.
  
  By the way those aforementioned kid cities, they always seemed to fall into chaos when parents were allowed to to put their direct involvement in them. Which always ended up happening.
  
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