My blood boils over gen Xers

capitalism is inherently bad because every year you need to squeeze the employees more and more, that's why we all suffer

capitalism don't want you happy, capitalism just want numbers to go up

I kind of agree. Almost every gen X I've known personally is a total burnout who never made any money. They grew up with all of their cultural influence coming from a few corporations while not being old enough to understand that, and not having alternatives (like the internet) to help them understand that, except for out-of-touch pearl-clutching religious types. They thought they were all rebelling together with MTV and bands like all the grunge guys signed to major labels and ODing before turning 30. They thought they could mess around for a while and then come back to well-paying unskilled labor, but practically overnight it became "skilled labor in the right fields can pay a ton starting, or you can just be stuck at the bottom rung making nothing -- basically nothing in-between". Millennials at least had the internet to help have a broader perspective from a younger age so they don't have unrealistic expectations. But still, that was just the lucky ones, mostly. Plenty still didn't have the internet until later in life, or were fed the lie of "oh you're not sure which field is right for you to specialize in? Don't worry about it, just get *a* degree. A degree itself unlocks opportunities!". Zoomers had kind of an opposite thing to the X'ers in that instead of limited information coming from limited sources, they technically had all information at their disposal, but behind all of the entertainment the internet also has to offer, on-demand and for free. As usual it's not until you're a bit older that you realize you probably did squander a practically unlimited amount of opportunities.

That's just generations as a whole, though. Every generation has had straightforward ways to make plenty of money, there's just a lot of luck around whether you're gonna know what that is and actually pursue it when you're young. Gen X as a whole at least had fathers, who are generally a lot better than moms at thinking long-term with real careers for their kids.

i forgot i typed up that novel of a blogpost intended to lead into: who gives a shit if anyone "gave a fuck about them"? Nobody ever gave a fuck about any generation. There is a lot of luck involved with when you're born and in what circumstances. A ton, really. But at some point you can't be concerned with if anyone gives a fuck about you, that's just stupid.

Imagine getting out of high school, after 12 years of near worthless education, and blaming your future instead of your past.

Schools are literally just legalized underage gambling

t. Was forced to gamble and lost

I disagree. Each generation since boomers has had a progressively worse social and economic outlook. I think we are on trajectory for Gen Z to be worse off than millennials too, but things could turn around, and this hyper inflation early in the careers has been a great boon and a increasing negative for people the older they are.

Are there any neets here? I gave up 3 years ago and I've been neeting ever since. And I'm definitely not working again. I've always thought it would be cool to have a neet general thread but I don't know if there are enough of us. Jannies would probably close it too

happy to gobble up your money and turn you into debt slaves while refusing to advocate on your behalf in the labor market.

yep
raise your property taxes by crying about how they can't educate the illegal brown slaves they "took in" (you see them in adulthood manning every desk in town until they die young)
they refuse to advocate damn right on a white males behalf because if you're german worse you caused the holocaust and silence is your punishment
then they manipulate you that it's your issue of reaching out and not being polite enough bullshit
you can give them so much until you realize they will surround head of household family men and try to eliminate you
once you start to see subjects in highly decided fields like circumcision in medical are in complete doublethink you begin to wonder if every field is false and meant to mislead you
and it is meant to mislead you

I would plow that pussy like the last day of frost

the funniest shit is the colleges actively doing this while taking tuition money and in return giving students some autistic ESL indian TA named Sanjeet trying to teach a bunch of 20 year olds differential equations

I've always thought it would be cool to have a neet general thread

isn't a neet general a bit antithetical to Anon Babble

Look closer. Thats an orc. You really want that?

my gen x boss literally raised kids and a stay at home wife in a tier 1 city from just his engineer salary alone

COLLEGE ISN'T FOR JOB TRAINING

IT'S EDUCATION FOR THE SAKE OF EDUCATION

I'M TOUGH BUT FAIR

THAT'S WHY THE CLASS AVERAGE IS A 50%

YOU'RE HERE TO LEARN, SUCK IT UP

...

*charges $50k/year tuition*

*deliberately half asses teaching to instead focus on research*

*probably just outsources it all to grad student slaves with indecipherable accents*

*ultimately curves everything so american students dont lose loan eligibility*

*admits thousands of foreign undergrads who literally cant speak english because they pay 100% cash*

Why not just make one and see?

neet

Oh right...

Why? Even we neet needs money. Neetbux, crypto staking, ways to save money, general advices, whatever

These days you get banned on Anon Babble for literally anything. I got banned a few weeks ago for making a thread about SUI.

So when we make it, we've got our pick of zoomerette house sluts to own?

I really wasn't offended enough by being taught by a bunch of illiterate foreign autists after shelling over $10k+ per year

reminder that a lot of superwealthy ceos have degrees in art, language and philosophy.
the difference is that they are already connected to big money and had mentors which pulled them up into their high networth network because they were tall, handsome and seen as "bright". it doesn't matter what you know, it matters only who you know and how well you can impress them and the plebs around you.

the CEO at my old job was just some sales and marketing retard who worked his ways up the ranks. last i checked he left his $10M/year job for a $20M+/year job at GE Healthcare.

Your mother will die eventually and you will be forced on the streets lmao.
If you aren't a moralfag retard you would make serious money in 'art'.
It's not about art get it?

everything cost keep rising without hiting a limit

jobs are harder and harder to find and pay like shit, also nepotism+boomers

the pay itself is shit and you can barely survive with what you get duo to inflation and greed for MegaCorporations and billionaires

you need to fight 10 people or more for a single job, don't forget about immigrants who will do overtime for free

why are kids not working

total boomer, capitalsm and corporations death

Which is a shame. We already know what skills/traits make for highly effective execs. But that's never part of the hiring criteria, sheer popularity contest. And that's why companies fail over and over again.

The only person that was ever "tested", were the founders. The original execs. Once those guys are gone the corporation is toast. Slow death of bureaucracy and politics. All it would take is actually hiring hyper competent people at the exec level, putting them through a slew of tests to find the right fit.

I always thought a strategy style game, like a Paradox game or tycoon simulator, that was modified to reflect your business/industry, would make for a fantastic test of someone's ability at the exec level. High level strategy, abstract thinking, generalism, strong reasoning.

absolutely retarded take.
I have nothing but gen x uncles and every single one of them make six figures and have been doing so for decades because of the same thing:

businesses start using computers

they are able to use a computer

no experience, no degree, just capable of plugging a keyboard in and they are hired as "programmers" and "Technicians"

theres a whole fucking subgenre of comedy shows about x'ers being in cushy do-nothing tech jobs that were just handed to them.

Meanwhile, as a millennial:

spend life building and working on computers

have portfolio of entire video games, websites, storefronts

get rejected from "entry level" job because I dont have a degree

start asking what degree they want

told anything works

get general education degree because its the quickest

not getting rejected for not having 10 years experience for entry level job

point out my 30 years experience

"That wasnt in an office setting"

100th time this month ive been rejected from a job who's description was "install software on computers, run updates on computers, install new equipment"

meanwhile, as a zoomer:

cant operate anything more complex than an ipad

60% keyboards

type with two fingers

unfinished degree in tiktok studies

ai generated resume

get offered 60k salary to plug computers in

reject it because your floor is 120k and mom will pay your bills regardless.

be zoomer high school student

look at what the job market is like, what pays the best

consistently big tech, finance, and expert level trades

decide to not go to college and instead trade school

now make a comfy 60k as an electrician

Skill issue.
People need to take accountability of the decisions they make. Once you're in high school, you're not a kid and no one forces you to take out the most jewish loans just to get a degree.

i make 60k as sparky

Unless someone fronted you enough money to get a license, registration, truck, tools and supplies you make 30k working with someone else's shit.

Where do you live? Rates are not the same across the country, retard.

So then what the fuck was the point of your post, faggot?

comfy $60k

7 years ago i made $57k and it was fuck all.

YEAH WELL I LIVE IN A BASED RURAL TRAD TOWN CITYFAG BTFO

1 bedroom rents in my 2000 population 99% white rural hometown are now only $100/month less than what i was paying for a suburbs apartment in 2018.

That trades are by and large an easy decision to make, and anyone going to college to waste their money and get in debt have no one to blame but themselves.

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I did as much when I realized I was never going to afford a degree worth anything and I was never getting hired to do tech despite a portfolio proving competence, the problem is that its very easy to permanently damage yourself with it.
I was very deliberate in the way I worked and I tended to stick to finish work but it didnt stop me from taking a job to help a framer that resulted in a crane op goofing up and sending a truss down on top of some guys that werent paying much attention, I grabbed the truss to stop it and ended up with a shredded delt.
I got a buddy who fell through some mexican's garbage work on a porch and tore apart his leg and another who ripped up his back doing steel work. The trades are great if you are some kind of idiot or drug addict, but thats about it.

I'm not even saying college is the answer, im saying that the college standard should be abolished and we should go back to iq tests and assessments so someone who would be of use to an industry doesnt end up getting brain damage because a guatamalan dropped a hammer on his skull.

everyone wants to act like job seekers are being over dramatic about requirements but the ten year experience bullshit is true they all ask this.

I still haven't seen any statistics for these so called "Meme degree pickers" compared to other generations. Where did people get these numbers from?

gen x got even more fucked

No they didn't, they got fucked sure but they still enjoyed most of the benefits boomers did such as:

An opportunity to buy cheap housing, live in a generally non pozzed world, didn't have their dating lives controlled by massive corporations, didn't have trannies in every aspect of their life, could afford basic necessities, didn't have a mind control flu virus take over half the planet, and they also had an opportunity to get a foothold in decent careers.

Oh also baby boomers were the era of hippies. How are they talking to others about making bad financial choices?

I would have honestly preferred to live as a Gen Xer getting to take advantage of the rise of tech/software in the 90's and 00's.

As I said in a previous post, they have gotten to the point now where you point to schooling and personal experience and they will clarify you need to specifically to have "experience using microsoft update in an office setting"
When I was a kid boomers and even x'ers marveled at video games and websites I made, now I show them the same shit and they act like they did that same shit last tuesday no biggie, now where is my proof that I know how to plug computers into a router "in an office setting"

There is no fucking way that this shit is real and its 100% either CYA for neposhit or exists to justify an HR position, because no one actually looking for employees is going to constantly move goalposts like this, especially when the goals are in a field completely alien to them.

Meme degrees arent real. Some millennials got degrees in retarded shit like "humanities" and ended up getting 100k salaries as do-nothing hr whores, but thats about it. Zoomers are trying to cash in on that as the hr market crashed but it will fuck them over in the end. The REAL "meme" degree is literally any degree that isnt for medicine, because it doesnt fucking matter if you graduated from MIT at this point, the qualifications for entry level jobs are literally impossible to meet.

I had a boomer family member try and get an own on me with "well the qualifications are just high to scare off weak applicants", to which I responded by showing him all the rejections I have gotten that specifically cite failure to meet such requirements.