Jon Matthews

@skumWgmi They call them boomers in South Asia too?

Boomers are the first generation to enter adulthood richer than their parents and leave their children poorer than themselves. In human history that has never happened before. They didn't build the American dream. They borrowed against it. Gen Z is paying the mortgage.

@Cantrushit A lot of opinions in Nigeria.

Boomers bought houses for 3x their salary. We skip coffee and still get called entitled. The house didn’t get more expensive — the system did. Change my mind. 💸

@omgsidewalks The system in Africa?

This system doesn’t reward labor; it exploits it. The myth that poor people just need to “work harder” is nonşense. Most poor people actually work longer hours doing harder jobs for lower pay.

@middle_class_us I think the true failure is in plain site. “Go to college… get a degree… work hard” should have been, “work hard… earn a degree that pays or learn a trade… work hard… learn what makes people in your space successful… be smart… work hard”. Trust funds are few… compete.

The cruelest part of what happened to Gen Z is not the debt. It is not the job market or the rent. It's that they were handed all of it while being told the tools that built previous generations still work. Go to college. Get a degree. Work hard. Buy a house. Save for retirement. Every single piece of that advice was written for an economy that no longer exists. And the people still giving that advice built their entire lives in the economy that does not exist anymore.

@Cantrushit When comfort, convenience, and socialism are embraced, while work, sacrifice, and capitalism are rejected… you get what you get.

Did boomers really fuck us over, or was the economic situation they grew up in one-in-a-lifetime and unsustainable?

@ThoughtsSending I think you are confusing mathematics and propaganda by calling both “science”.

The science that predicts eclipses thousands of years into the future is never questioned. Yet when the same science is applied to climate change, vaccines etc some untrained idiots think they know more than scientists do?

@Rakeshhkumaar It produces opportunity. The rest is up to us.

If capitalism is so efficient at economic calculation, why does it produce homelessness alongside empty homes, hunger alongside food surpluses, and poverty alongside immense wealth?

@hashjenni 😂 Give it two years and see what Utopia looks like.

You know what Mamdani taxed the rich and then suddenly libraries started to work, potholes got fixed, childcare exists, and workers get paid more. That's why billionaires are losing it and want him gone!!!

@OrevaZSN When “global warming” was first used, it immediately followed “global cooling”. But sane people just call them seasons.

When “global warming” was first used, scientists warned people might think it means “everywhere gets hotter.” One expert said people aren’t that dense and would understand it’s global, and that local weather patterns would just become more erratic. Evidently, he was wrong.

@COgirlWIworld “Tourism”. I think I will take that trade.

Good. Stay out of the US. It’s the bad place right now. Can’t wait until it’s not anymore. 🥹

@AlZeidenfeld If robotics ever become advanced and economic enough to make and serve me a good cheeseburger, they will get a lot of business from me. I might even be inclined to tip that robot.

Pretending that fast food jobs are for “Teens that need weekend work” is about the dumbest narrative ever created. Who do you think is working while school is in session 9 months out of the year? It’s a job, just like any other job. Pay the workers a living wage.

@AlZeidenfeld Basic economics may as well be rocket science to socialists.

@OrevaZSN In a historical sense, that is a pretty good deal. Envy is a killer of joy you and many others love.

It's wild to me that people can work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 60 years and still argue this is the best system humanity can come up with, while defending people who make their entire net worth in 30 seconds and insisting they shouldn't be taxed more.

@KhanSaba1278 I’m just wondering how many suburban lawns are mowed on the daily in South Asia.

Warm weather is back, which apparently means my neighbor has officially entered “shirtless yard work season” again 😭 Look, I get it—it’s hot outside. If you’re out mowing the lawn or doing projects for hours, you’re gonna want to be comfortable. But when it turns into multiple hours of shirtless yard work right in full view of the street… I’m not gonna lie, it starts getting a little awkward after a while 😬 I’m not trying to turn it into some big neighborhood drama or anything. I just feel like basic neighbor courtesy still matters. Maybe I’m overthinking it, but there’s a difference between quickly doing yard work in the heat and basically turning the front yard into a full-on outdoor gym performance for the whole block 💀 Would you actually say something to a neighbor about this, or just ignore it and move on?

@OrevaZSN The irony is that raising the “minimum wage” makes everything less affordable. But no one ever accused socialists of being economic geniuses.

The whole point of a minimum wage is to set the lowest pay someone can earn and still afford a basic standard of living. If a full-time worker can’t cover essentials like rent and food, then the minimum wage has failed at the very job it was created to do.

@YIMBYLAND I don’t think that looks as appealing to most as you think it does.

This, tacos, and abundant housing.

@ThrillaRilla369 If billionaires redistributed everything they have away to the poor, within 10 years… the former billionaires would at minimum be multimillionaires again and the poor would be poor again. Those who work and create will always work and create. Those who don’t, won’t.

I'm not jealous of rich people. I don't need a gold leaf wagyu steak to feel complete. I'm angry that a handful of people hoard all the money while the middle class shrinks and poverty reaches crisis levels.

@ThrillaRilla369 False thinking assumes there is finite wealth in the world that gets divided up. Money is a seed. People can eat all of their seeds or choose to plant and cultivate. If billionaires gave all their seeds away, what do you think would happen in 10 years? I know with certainty.

@JoshuaBarzon @official_flo @FLAGALine @Floridaman @nbc6 @RonDeSantis @SunSentinel @FloridaTourism @FlaPanthers @FloridaGators A… no question

You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation to Florida. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What are you picking?

@ESPN_Schick 😂 Amazing

USC and Oregon are regional champions. It’s just the second time in this current format that multiple B1G teams have made the Super Regional round. ⚾️