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Thats crazy its almost like its a rational response to the only options in life as a worker which are to work and destroy your mind and body for the worst jobs humanly possible for the worst pay legally possible for the opportunity to have marginally more money to spend in a dying society on a dying planet or do that as little as possible
"But the youngin's have it easy!" :smuglord: - average boomer capitalist
Boomers got handed the american dream on a platter during the zenith of the american empire. Of course if they were white and male that is, women and minorities still got a boot to the face.
We talk a lot here about how pointless it is to vote but it’s way worse for capitalism if we are unemployed, simply because we refuse to generate labor for the capitalist class. I’ve been thinking about this because I’ve been working full-time for almost three months after being unemployed for years and it just sucks to be aware that even the wages I get eventually end up back in the Cayman Islands, where they are then reinvested in blowing up Palestinian children.
love to have my taxes used to arm nazis and burn children alive. the more money I make, the more guns nazis get
But if you don't fund the Nazis and dead kids with your labor, then YOU are the one who gets to starve to death 🙃
Great system
Every 6 months they need to come up with a new "quiet quitting" term to try to yet again defelct from the lack of material conditions.
Calling 15-18 year olds "NEET" is a wild one.
I think it's okay to take a gap year after high school, and take breaks from employment, education, and training now and then.
Just don't do it for too long or you'll turn into 
If you're 15 and you're not in education or an apprenticeship/training of some kind, the state has failed you.
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I would be okay with a generation of Felixs
15-18 yos? The oldest of Gen Z are about to turn 30. Not saying they're justified, just that Gen Z isn't just 15.
In their defense, the youngest members of Gen Z are around that age range.
To be fair, child labor is legal again so these 15 year olds could already have 5-9 years of experience under their belt. They are being lazy and entitled by loafing about in school and learning how to read.
If there was a future worth planning for they might behave differently. What's the point in saving up cash or buying a house or having kids when during education you've sat in classrooms discussing the upcoming literal end of the world through climate change?
All these kids have looked at the evidence for it and come to this conclusion.
its almost like we have surplus productivity and extra labor is unnecessary
don't let the capitalist class know this, or the purges will begin of the unneeded "excess labor"
Great way for them to pound the accelerator
Could it be that entry level positions require 12 years experience and don't even offer a living wage? No, it must be because the kids these days are lazy.
It's rich that they have been spouting that "young'uns are lazy and will never be as cool as us boomers!" for almost 12 years and won't see the irony. It's the same tired mental masturbation I've seen all my life.
Maybe they will get real answers if they actually let gen Z and millennials speak rather than have another baby boomer speak on our behalf.
I was a neet for a couple of years. honestly with how little I work these days it still feels like I am one sometimes. feels like there's no point in participating when the country doesn't want to give anything back to you.
Someone once told me every hour and American works they make $90 for the economy. So if, let's say, they had to give $30 of that to income tax and $30 for the business why does the worker at minimum get $7.25?
I was told by family that I no longer associate with that a minimun wage was meant to b a "starter wage." Like they were implying that working as a teen/young adult was meant for practice. I've also been told by another lib that "both sides", as in Dems and Reps, need to "come to a compromise on minimum wage." Which means, of course, still less than a minimum living(last I talked to that guy, he was selling his second Corvette since he didn't need it but obviously was an authority on minimum wage). The thing is that people that are only slightly smarter than these 2 I mention run this country. Everything is fucked Death to America.
The whole "starter wage" idea makes sense if it's paired with shit like on the job education, training, grace periods for fuck ups, schedules that encourage them to finish school etc. But it doesn't. If somebody can't live off the wages what the fuck are we starting? Debt peonage?
I suspect that's what it used to be, and that's how boomers came of age under or how Gen X recall their parents career trajectory.
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It's actually only like eight hundred and six people they're not smarter nor are they worth as much as they make but what they do have is unbreakable class solidarity to decide the rest of our standard of living.
I know it's meme but you had me until the doomerism. America is every man, woman and critter that has worked to make sure my family has electricity, clean running water, healthcare and shelter just as I work for their families to have the same. So I can't in good conscious wish to end that.
But hit me up when we're ready to dismantle the owning class that decides who has access to these standards of living.
Death to America means the termination of the imperialist, colonialist, capitalist socioeconomic structures that sit between Canada and Mexico, not the literal killing of its people. The State of America is that of an emotionless machine that turns human potential and bodies into numbers on a spreadsheet from which dollars may be extracted. The Nation of America is the people that live inside that machine and are in part its imperial beneficiaries but are mostly its marginally luckier victims. We want to destroy the machine.
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I guess I would qualify as a NEET. I don't work and never got a degree or certification in anything. I'm also gen Z. My fiance pays the rent currently, but if it ever came down to a "work or lose your home" situation I'd get a part time job at least.
I've spent most of the last 4 years or so making shit attempts at organizing (mostly adventurism if I'm being honest) spent some time in some orgs, but otherwise I've been pretty lost. I fucking hate reading, but I manage to read something theory related every month or so. I feel like I have to do something, but I realize all the time that I am woefully ill equipped to change my conditions and that leads to me getting a tad defeatist.
I've found many of my peers are in similar situations, wanting the world to change but not having the tools to fix it.
Oh no! I’m not doing child labor!
This is me
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