6mo ago

A baby boomer tried to show me a positive side to the cost of living crisis. It didn't help

www.sbs.com.au

Varsha, a 22-year-old arts and law student, says that the older generations think gen Z is weak, but the realities of the cost of living crisis, climate crisis, global unrest and social media make her 20s a game of survival.

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Her take on the cost of living crisis was that it was good that I wouldn’t have the issue of hoarding things like her, as I would never be able to afford them in the first place.
Lmao. You’ll be so poor you wont be able to buy things. Great flex, boomer.
- This is someone imitating wisdom instead of having it. This is the sort of thing someone says when they have nothing to say but feel like they should say something. Sort of like being 200 words short in a 500 word essay.
I wouldn’t have the issue of hoarding things like her, as I would never be able to afford them in the first place.
I know boomers tend to have terminal foot in mouth disease and the emotional maturity of housecats but that response is fucking psychopathic
That said:
I've had friends who have been evicted from their rentals and friends who have to take legal action against landlords just to get their bond back.
Babe, that ain't just you. GenX, had that happen to me a couple years ago. Millenials deal with this too. There's a cutoff around 1970 that's fucking the majority born after it
- No war but class war.
- The year was 1989. I had rented an apartment in college, starting the last week of August. Rent was due the 5th of each month. Move in was first and last months' rent, plus one month security deposit.
  Okay, we kind of trashed the place, we were never getting the deposit back, but this is not about that.
  Last week of August, we paid three months' rent on move-in, as described above. Our lease ended after the third week of May 1990. One week later, we paid September rent. Then the rest of the months.
  March 5th comes. We pay rent. I sit down and do some math. I realize that by paying a full month at the end of August on move in, then full September one week later, that the rest of the August move-in month covers the first three weeks of May, at the end of the lease. Since we'd also paid last month's rent, that was for April. Since we'd just paid March rent ... we were done paying rent.
  The building manager was none too pleased when I pointed this out. I'm sure lots of college kids got fucked over this way.
- eyup but the caveat is its getting more fucked as we go along so being born on the early side is better than not. even the first half of the boomers compared to second half is a big difference. also the older you are the more you got a glimpse of good times. The only thing better from when I was a kid is basically computers/internet which mostly is about having nicer media and playtime. Foods were plenty convenient with little to no plastic.
  
  yup, not sure who I'm sorrier for - my generation, who got a taste and remember the good times, millenials, who saw the good times and missed out, or Z who can't even conceive them
- Raised post-war, traumatised to fuck, shitloads of lead exposure and then told therapy meant you were crazy
Just remember that these are the out-of-touch people who we are voting into government.
Boomers are assholes. Not all of them, but most. Selfish fucks.
- I think, in general, people assume younger folks have the same material conditions as them at that age (or better). There's a pervasive belief that we're progressing.
  
  They don't grokk that essentials have risen while toys have dropped in price.
  Ooooo you have a fancy phooone must be nice you can get multiple fcking iphones for a single months rent of a mould riddled single room shitshack ya cunt
The correct response to "I have too much stuff" is "I/we can fix that for you"
tHe PoSiTiVe SiDe To ThE cOsT oF lIvInG aNd InFlAtIoN iS iT mAkEs My SuPeR aNd InVeStMeNt PoRtFoLiO iNcReAsE.
tHe PoSiTiVe SiDe To ThE hOuSiNg CrIsIs Is It MaKeS tHe VaLuE oF mY nEgAtIvElY gEaReD pRoPeRtY pOrTfOlIo InCrEaSe
WhAt? YoU dOnT hAvE iNvEsTmEnTs, YoUr OwN hOuSe AnD mUlTiPlE pRoPeRtIeS?
sToP bUyInG cOfFeE aNd EaTiNg AvOcAdO oN tOaSt!"
Same shit millennials dealt/deal with.
- I would argue Z is bearing the brunt of the housing crisis even if just slightly more than the millenials.
  
  Some who took the chance on the low mortgage rates got an affordable (ish) house during Covid. Others (me) were worried about losing their job and waited till now, and are currently fucked.
  
  It's the same for both. The housing crisis started when older millennials were entering adulthood.
  
  Am millenial and I agree. I mean, life generally sucks anyways, but it just adds another level of sucking if you have the cards stacked against you

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