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I was talking to a boomer here in Canada. When I asked him why he stayed in the same company for 30 years he said, hey they kept giving me promotions and increasing my salary from the first year. As well as having a work pension plan. Just with a bachelor's and no beginning experience.
MFs be asking masters and years of experience from new grades.
Two people had unprotected sex forcing my existence. I owe nobody anything let alone spending the majority of my unconsenting existence as a wage slave.
Wow, that kind of self-agency is sooo entitled! Just be a good little wage slave until the boomers die off. They've had a comfy life. Can't let them lose any of that comfort now! /s
Re-title this article as "Lazy, Tired Workers Are Mad At Youthful Workers Like Lazy, Tired Workers 60 Years Ago Were Mad At Them 60 Years Ago".
Another "Don't mind the billionaires getting richer and fight each other for the scraps instead" article.
Let's talk about suburbs. These generations left the city because they couldn't afford it. Now suddenly living 5 mins from work is expected but then the an entry level job can't afford it and it's a generational difference? Can you afford to buy a house within 45 mins to your work? Hell ya where I live but you don't have immediate access to all city amenities.
Demand for human labor is declining, and as a result, wages are declining.
Which is precisely why wages shouldn't be decided through market mechanisms
Or maybe we get rid of the "wages = living" bit.
We could all negotiate for the full value of our labor a lot better if we didn't have a noose around our neck forcing us to work.
I have nothing in principle against people earning a living through dignified, honest, collective labor, with the basics being guaranteed such as housing, healthcare, education, nutrition, energy and a few others.
But that's socialism!
Yes, I'm what you would call a communist. Or a tankie, depending on your mood!
Filthy communist wanting healthcare, security, and better society. Think about the billionaires' children, how will they become neop babies?
Let's get over the idea that it's a generation war and not a class war. Thinking all boomers are rich and own houses is like thinking all gen z are lazy. Neither is true by a long shot, but this is what the oligarchs and corporations want us to think about each other so we get distracted and don't notice that they are the ones buying up all the housing so we can't and they can rent to us at whatever price they want. Let's stick together against them instead.
edit to add: And BTW don't forget the next gens are growing up in an even worse situation and will face the effects of living under an autocracy and the effects of unaddressed climate change, while you get old and boomers are gone. Who do you think they're going to blame? You, that's who, while those in power laugh at all of us.
Damn. Well said.
Let's also stop using terms like Gen Z or Boomers altogether. They are often used by the media to make articles seem more interesting to certain target groups. But from a scientific point of view, they are about as meaningful as zodiac signs.
"Here's why Cancers can't keep their money together and why Scorpios nevertheless are constantly jealous of their standard of living."
Adding to this that, between Boomer and Gen Z, there is a generation that equally hate both of them 😂
its not the 40 hour work week thats the issue.
Its how much productivity is demanded in that 40 hours. and the compensation for it.
and theres a LOT more productivity demanded from workers today, than there was in 1950.
Because all the technologies that were supposed to make life easier... didnt. They just increased the amount of things we can/have to do in a day.
People working today are doing more labor, producing more effort per hour than 70 years ago, but are being paid less in purchasing power for it... and if thats not a recipe for violent upheaval i dont know what is.