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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago

This tracks as generation’s are getting increasingly closer together now. I’m supposedly the same “generation” as people who graduated from school before I was born. Last few years there’s a new generation every few months - zoomers, generation alpha, beta cucks, etc.

[–] [email protected] 236 points 1 week ago (20 children)

And the wealthy manage to come out on top every single time.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 week ago

When you're the ones manufacturing the crisis, it's easier to prepare and profit from it

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It starts to make sense when you realize that each of those events is basically a fire sale for billionaire investors.

Just look at income inequality before/after each of those events.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (8 children)

This is the truth.

The economic crisis's have all been real, they all really have been huge events that have restructured life for everyone, it's just that they're not accidental, they're not unforseen consequences of policy decisions nobody could have imagined... they're engineered, or foreseen with great clarity.

And every time, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the so-called middle-class shrinks even more. Prices go up, we all have to work a few more hours in the week, we get less in return, our future dreams dwindle, and we plug into social media and AI slop and drugs and alcohol to placate us while we say "I just gotta save up enough so I can..."

And those savings NEVER increase. There is always some event, some family crisis, some medical problem or a car breaks down or your parent dies or the company you work at gets bought out and your 6 years of experience only makes you a liability for the new management team who wants to make a culture of "young, energetic pioneers." (who they can pay less.)

The wealthy are at their happiest and strongest when they exist as they have for centuries, land-owners up high, living off the hard work and struggles of thousands of people beneath them, shaving a bit off everyone's pay, offloading their problems to people who are already struggling. They want to run around in the manor and keep getting wasted and banging winches while we serfs toil in the fields we don't own.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

I was going to say I live in a "50 year flood plain" and I’ve seen 3 floods in the last 16 years.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't worry tho, because although everyone's broke as shit, the houses you bought in the 90s when you were a young child are worth like 10 times as much now!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I bought houses as a child?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What, you didn't use your 1994 influencer money to buy houses?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Pffft, I used money from delivering the morning papers to buy my first house. When I was 11, ELEVEN!!
However it was the delivering of milk that really helped me afford my first yacht! Every morning for months I got at 4am to deliver it. That was a hard 3 and a half months I can tell you!

You guys should just pull yourselves up by the avocados, and stop eating so many bootstraps!!

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago

Don't forget - you were also BORN into a once in a generation economic crisis: The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s was the failure of approximately a third of the savings and loan associations in the United States between 1986 and 1995. These thrifts were banks that historically specialized in fixed-rate mortgage lending.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You start noticing this pattern after some decades.
Always accompanied by "we need to temporarily tighten the belt now to keep our properity for the following generations".
The period before is sold as a great economic time, despite that they called it a crisis back then and also 'needed' austerity measures to get back to the prosperity of the previous period.
The western standard of living has been destroyed bit by bit since the post WW2 period with this tactic, not for the multinationals, banks, stock folks OC, that's where the stolen money goes to.
The ones in power telling us in their paid press how great 'the econonomy' is doing bcs stock line go up and BS GDP up.
In reality that means more billions in the pockets of a few oligarchs while income equality is growing.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

It’s the same crisis, in various stages of escalation. The rich are squeezing more and more of the lower and middle class all over the world, and there is almost nothing left to squeeze.

The next few years will bring a massive collapse in government services (the USA is starting) for ordinary people, because that is one of the last things that the rich can still squeeze out.

After that, there will be only the ultra rich and the destitute poor left; and the ultra rich will only be able to take from each other.

This will mean war, and they will send you all into it.

Unless we stop it now. Tax the rich.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I don’t think boomers are very good at running things.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

They grew up in a for the most part prosperous time, middle class had 2 cars in the driveway, jobs were easier to obtain, it's no wonder alot of them think the way they do.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Think about it this way: They were literally the most spoiled highest quality-of-life group of humans to ever exist on Earth in any timeline.

  • Ubiquitous access to healthcare and vaccinations for longer life.
  • Access to pensions and retirement options no longer available where the employer did all the legwork to ensure they had a future post-work so they didn't have to learn a thing about investing or retirement savings.
  • Infrastructure that was borne from the Great Depression, so they had roads, bridges, dams all built up to last their lifetime with no care about maintenance, as they figure, "oh it was always there, it will always be there," so no money was committed to maintenance we are now having to do, freeing that money up to live like kings and queens in the short-term.
  • Easy to access jobs, homes, boats, cars with little to no education or financial acumen. Just that "walk in and hand them a resume" trope they love to perpetuate.
  • The most modern travel technology and geopolitical climate to go on vacation pretty much anywhere on the planet, and access to time to have vacation.
  • Relatively calm planetary climate so they didn't have to worry about things like today's weather weirding with tornadoes where they shouldn't be, hurricanes going inland, hail everywhere, and on and on, all the while driving their 5 MPG giant SUVs all over the country while tossing their food wrappers on the side of the road.
  • Cheap (during the majority of their lives) to relocate anywhere in the US or abroad if they wanted to work or live somewhere else, or be "snowbirds" when they're too wimpy to tolerate the winter in their home states.
  • The same geopolitical climate prevented them having to grow up in war-torn anywhere.
  • Access to any kind of entertainment imaginable any time anywhere.
  • Artificially post-world-war inflated US economy that took some decades to spin down (that "Great Again" they fap to) - which only happened because the US joined so late and had few losses ourselves. The war never happened at home, so we got out for minimal effort/casualties/infrastructure loss.
  • And they got to adult in an age of computer technology that enables them as olds to not have to drive their car, pick up food, or do any errands they don't want to do themselves, all without having to learn any technical skills because the tech was designed for idiots.

No human generation before or after them got to, or likely will ever, experience such a prosperous story-arc. They should consider themselves damn lucky and act like it, while supporting future generations to have a sliver of what their spoiled asses were able to enjoy.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago

and every time the rich get richer, funny that.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

2002: We lost the house 2008: got evicted from apartment 2020: dad died from covid 2025: let's see how it goes this time

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

That's fucking rough dude, I hope the world throws you a bone this time and just leaves you alone for once.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This hits too hard. I was born in 83, so even the ages line up.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't mean to be that guy, but look which US political party was in charge for each of those dates...

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

2002 - Bush II, Republican

2008 - Bush II, Republican

2020 - Trump, Republican

2025 - Trump, Republican

Cheat sheet.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Trump approves, "The economy does better under Democrats than the Republicans"

Donald Trump, 2004, on the CNN Show 'The Apprentice'

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Crisis seems like the natural operating mode of c*pitalism

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[–] JohnDClay 26 points 1 week ago (7 children)

What happened in 2002? Was that from the war on terror?

[–] idegenszavak 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

End of the dot com bubble.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_downturn_of_2002

But it happened mostly in 2000:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

And coincidentally 9/11

The September 11 attacks also contributed heavily to the stock market downturn, as investors became unsure about the prospect of terrorism affecting the United States economy.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If it worked to funnel money to the wealthy the first time why not the second? Or third... and so on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

well new time iwth gen z, people dont want to work for the richest people for minium salary and opputinity, meanwhile boomer generation just work to work and earn some money, and get some children to fight for even more spare jobs......... AI days coming sooner or later yep yep. still respect them for building our country. but honestly idk why your life should be the job your working on, when the job treats you like bad fish that when you do something to get any attention, your fired.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Pretty much, all that stocks getting sold must be bought by someone.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Capitalism cannot continue to exist without it begging for socialist bailouts.

Just proves that socialism is superior. It can even float a shit system like capitalism as it continues to fail.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

what did you expect? You were born in 1984 ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

edit: added link to book

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't know who came up with this "once a generation" bullshit, but you can see that economic crises were more often than once a decade in 20th century https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_economic_crises#20th_century

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[–] Grandwolf319 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Wait, I miss this, did a new recession just drop?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (7 children)

If it hasn't yet it's about to. 1-5% daily drops across the stock market for the past month pretty much and now with a 10%+ minimum tariff on all imports means everything is going to get way more expensive. I'll chew a brick if we're not in a recession by the end of the year

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Not officially, no.

But yes, it's already here.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I'm tired, boss.

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