New favorite meme: Old Economy Steven
my dad’s name is steven and he’s 56 and this is honestly the most perfect fucking thing ive ever fucking seen
My parents ignore me when I tell them they ruined the future for me. They think you can live on minimum wage still. They’re not dumb people, so how do they not see that the average income has not risen with the cost of living since they and their friends FUCKED EVERYTHING UP?
not to mention the baby boomers were the ones who raised us “lazy, disrespecting, promiscuous and ungrateful” kids.
I feel like every generation likes to blame another generation for their problems.
While I do agree with a lot of this stuff (trust me I hear this daily from my parents) we can’t just sit back and complain about our situation because our parents and the generation before us “ruined it”, just the same as they can’t blame us for what’s wrong with the world today and that we have it easy. To me that’s such an easy way out of not facing our problems, on our part and on theirs.
I always say, every generation thinks that they had it the hardest but also that they are the best.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ hear hear!
look, the world is fucked. the world has always been fucked. the world will, most likely, always be fucked. every generation has its own focus on what’s wrong for their generation because of XYZ. sometimes it’s money, sometimes it’s politics, sometimes it’s, y’know, the devastation of the motherland (how do you think Syrian kids feel right now, with countries a world away deciding their fate?).
we have to get creative. we have to adapt, because that’s how evolution works. getting a job the way your parents did? probably not going to happen. mine taught me that you don’t just let the system tell you how you can become gainfully employed. my dad knew from age 5 he wanted to be an architect and he spent his whole life working to make that possible. he utilized the opportunities that his generation offered by putting his head down and getting shit done. yes, he was able to earn a degree, but being an architect requires so much more personal dedication than your average degree that quite frankly he could have done it on his own if it hadn’t been for the fact that architecture (thank god) is a field where you’re required to understand how to make buildings that don’t fall down.
my mom wanted to be a mom and she needed to make money. she put herself through medical transcription school and kicked ass. then we computer generationers came along and destroyed her livelihood by creating speech recognition. know what she did? found a way to adapt her goddamn skills into something that computers can’t do yet.
and that is a lesson for everyone.