Millennials are exhausted by working more for less | Letters
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Letters: Readers respond to an article about quitting the rat race, with some saying their generation was handed an untenable position and others saying the struggle is nothing new

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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Millennial and I’m making over twice at much as I was in 2012. 🤷‍♀️

        And able to afford a third as much…

      • Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
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        7 months ago

        You say this as corporations are making record profits.

        The US recovered just fine, the elites just didn’t think it necessary to include us in that recovery.

        • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          My issue is that I have to believe my lying eyes. Rates of homelessness, buying power, financial solvency, they all dropped through the tank and never really came back after what amounted to a financial earthquake for many many families. Whole extended families dropped through the cracks and never came back. There was basically no relief for the working families most effected by the incident, and basically no consequences for those that cause/ profited from it. Covid and the financial repercussions seems about the same. We’ve “recovered” from it “economically” because those permanently impacted by it that will never recover stopped being counted.

    • BleatingZombie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      This points out why the idea that boomers (as a whole) caused many of our modern problems upsets me

      I sincerely doubt you voted for the situation you’re in now

      This in-fighting and blaming does nothing but detract from the real issue of who’s doing this to us (spoiler alert: it’s the politicians and it always has been)

      • buzz86us@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Yeah some dude has a failed acting career, and now I have to hope my for profit insurance will cover a doctor or I’ll be eating ramen for the rest of my life

        • John_McMurray@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          “failed acting career” is apparently ending up the chair of the Screen Actors Guild, parlaying that into Governor of California and then the presidency, after being a known talent in the 50s.