• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Gen X: Not pictured

    Haha, sounds about right. We’re the forgotten generation. But that’s okay.

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    Billionaires paying a proper amount of taxes cannot appease me anymore. I want their heads separated from their bodies.

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    It has been said that for the outlying regions of the Roman Empire, the collapse only meant that when the unused bridge fell down, no one came to fix it. (Undoubtedly I have garbled it.)

    It has also been said “We are a long way from Beijing”, which means the central government is a long way away and don’t know what we are doing and impact our lives little.

    Some things will really suck. They will suck far more than I can imagine. We will still have local police and hospitals. Medical care will get worse. There may be less food in the non-agriculture states, but that will be fixed with trade or war.

    Lots of people will die. Likely you and I will die.

    Some states will link up to make their own countries. Canada may invite some states to join. Same with Mexico (New Mexico maybe…)

    Very much a “things I do not control”.

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    Sorry, Gen-Z will in all likelihood be as passive and innert to revolt of political actions as previous generations have been.

    Plus there’s so much more tech they’re going to be subject to.

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    As a millennial I might live in my parents basement and eat avocado toast but I’m still ready to throw some molotovs

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    I’ve read somewhere that sugar burns like a bitch and stay stuck everywhere.

    …Just a random fact.

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      Are those the ones who made skbidi or whatever that thing was popular? then they can fuck right off. There’s no hope left for them.

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            Well there are plenty of exceptions that might mean certain Gen Xers aren’t in the workforce (pervasive mental illness in my case), but the cut-off was 1980 - 45 long years ago - so we’re all middle-aged now.

            Sure, the oldest end is still boomers, but I don’t think my statement was completely inaccurate.

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          “Gen Xers are the older end of the workforce. Some might be lucky enough to be able to retire, but they’re not as well off as the Boomers.”

          Born in 71 from older parents who had raised my boomer siblings, once I became an adult I found out the world was not what I was prepared for. Long story short, I was able to start putting away for retirement 3 years ago. So yeah, I’ll hopefully have some money for an emergency, but not counting on actually getting to retire till my 70’s, health permitting.