A Boring Dystopia

Unfortunately, they fucked around for us to find out. I don't feel bad if they find out a little bit too.

Children cost, who would have thought.

Tbf, the boomers came of age in the 70s, so the economic system was well in decline by then.

Part of the problem is a secular cycle. The baby boom of the postwar period helped fuel a big economic expansion that helped people for a while, but eventually the power of individuals fall because there's so many people.

Most boomers didn't want their jobs to move to China. China is starting to experience the same secular cycle ironically.

Many millennials were the same age during the gfc. Are you to blame for that? Are you to blame for the debt expansion and money printing that have promised to destroy the next generation? Zoomers came of age during covid, are you to blame for covid policies that destroyed the economy?

I mean, is it really surprising that a generation full of Karens who have blamed other people their whole life for their problems are now blaming their posterity?

Late Gen X with a Gen Z kid here, not contributing nearly as much to my retirement as I should be because I'm supporting her through college (without loans). We inherited this shit and we're sacrificing ourselves for the sake of our kids. I don't know who's to blame, but we've been dealing with this shit our whole lives. Don't blame us; we're trying to help

The system needs changing.

The goal should be overtime everything gets relatively cheaper and relatively better. Housing is the big exception.

Stop immigration as a mean of increasing population and keeping wages down.

In crease density in cities even if it means new taxes (LVT) or forced government buy outs.

Built new cities or high density suburbs with direct train links to the city centre.

Have they not figured out yet that this whole capitalism thing is imploding on itself

What's retirement? -the adult children

It is, at least partially, an inevitable consequence of an educational system that, whether by design or by accident, makes social mobility really difficult. Accessing advanced education often requires financial or personal sacrifices that are harder to make for lower income parents and kids. This is also compounded with the fact that in many places there's a perception that if you want a really good job you will need to go through this advanced education.

I was in that situation myself, I was always told that I couldn't expect to get a really great job in IT unless I went to college, which was unfeasible for me both financially and in terms of my aptitudes as a student. But fortunately for me, I discovered that my country had a vocational education system that prioritized the quick transition from education to employment, and a mere year and a half later I had a decent job, six years later I am an engineer. Turns out it wasn't necessary to go through four years of extremely expensive, pointless hoops, I only needed a chance to prove myself in a professional environment. It only cost my family 800 euros in two payments, now we are doing well financially.

So yeah, maybe just maybe if there were more systems in place like that, we wouldn't be reading how more and more parents are having to sacrifice everything just to give their kids a chance at some sort of future, you know?

Idk maybe I'm rambling.