A Boring Dystopia

It's not minimum wage's fault, it's the government guaranteeing student loans. Tuition skyrocketed since then and has been out of control since.

Then with so many people being told "You have to go to college so you don't become a garbageman!" the requirements for most jobs increased as well. Manufacturing in pharma, for instance, I could take a kid out of middle school and teach him the job in an hour. Get fresh grads from college for a bachelor's degree and they still need an hour of teaching. But now the Bachelors is required for some reason.

Ironically, garbage man pays pretty decent for some minimal manual labor.

Try researching your masters degree in a Library using Microfiche. First reply here on Lemmy, just wanted to say "hello"

Yes something needs to change and I feel you are seeing the real panic of the right as more and more younger people can now vote and are just pissed as everything they are doing.

Workers have been getting nickel & dimed for ages now, but it just feels like since the pandemic that everyone everywhere across every industry has just gone into overdrive with trying to get as much as they can from workers/consumers ("greedflation"). I don't know if this is the last big hurrah before capitalism collapses or what, it's just insane. And there doesn't seem to be any official government response to do anything about it, to help average people out, or to try to even bring prices down, nor does it seem like it's going to end anytime soon. I just wonder month after month, how much longer can this go on for? Are we getting the pitchforks out yet?

I found my people. On Reddit this would have been on r/BernieSandersforpresident and I would have been the lostRedditor for suggesting otherwise

That is what we are going to change

Then do it! I feel like I've heard this for so long, from all the parties, and just nothing gets done.

This is very smart of him to use generational terminology to engage with young voters. He's looking at trends on social media. Maybe it will work for him. His main obstacle is that most democrats are moderate and don't have a problem voting republican if they think the democrat is too far to the left. Maybe engaging with young voters in this way can help him get over that obstacle.

Not easier, simpler.