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I work with a lot of Gen Z in the corporate world and I think highly of them. They're hard-working, quick, innovative & much more emotionally balanced & mature than boomers & Gen X. Gen Z is the one group that is completely blameless for the sorry state of White homelands

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@JRT228 @AlexReimer1 boomers rigged the political system and economy to serve their age cohort and then washed their hands of the consequences

@AlexReimer1 Baby boomers are 62-80 right now. They're retired. They aren't doing anything to you, little scapegoater. Boomers for you are now the new "White men bad."

I love this trick from baby boomers. Make things insanely unaffordable and do not raise workers’ wages. Then, complain that young people spend too much money on frivolous activities like eating lunch.

This jewish flat earth con artist says people who debunk his shtick have spiritual demons taken over their minds.

@LaurenInTheWild @shagbark_hick I imagine rich trust-fund kids can larp as a poor ascetic philosopher-type and think they derive some meaning from the experience, but when you grow up in a dysfunctional household that is financially poor, the person quickly learns that there is no nobility in poverty.

I grew up with a father exactly like this. The man lived in a tar-paper shack with no water or electricity for several years, then upgraded to an $800/month ranch job, which he worked for 25 years, all the while extolling the virtues of poverty and quoting Henry David Thoreau. Now? He’s in his 60s. Still doesn’t make much money. Still doesn’t own much. But his wife is dying of a very treatable cancer, and they don’t have the money to get her the care she needs. As a Stage IV cancer patient, she is working two jobs to pay for treatment. And me, the child of this situation, now almost 40 years old? I’ve spent my life pedaling as hard and fast as I possibly could to build wealth and make damn sure I never, ever, ever find myself in the position of having to “eat stale baguettes and cold beans”, unless I choose to. Because, see, that’s the thing: If you have money, you have the freedom to choose simplicity. You can choose austerity. You can choose a stripped-down life. You can quote Thoreau, eat beans, live in a cabin, be an ascetic, and congratulate yourself on wanting less. But your wife will never have to lie awake at night wondering whether she can afford her own life-saving cancer treatment, or the surgery one of the kids needs. If you have no money, you don’t have that same freedom. You have a very narrow set of options, and sometimes every single one of them is terrible. Philosophical admiration of poverty is a fish trap. You don’t discover that money is actually freedom until you find yourself in a position where you have no good options, because you don’t have the funds to bail yourself out of something like your wife getting a cancer diagnosis. You don’t need to be a rich tycoon. You just need to be wealthy enough to not live at the mercy of the changing tides of unexpected expenses and emergencies, and have something to pass down to your children so they don’t have to start from scratch. My father, bless his heart, just admitted to me during a porch-sittin’ session that his lifelong philosophical commitment to poverty and a Daniel Boone lifestyle has finally bitten him in the ass in the most spectacular way. He said he wishes he had done things differently and found a more balanced approach. “Living a wild and woolly life on a mountainside in my 20’s and 30’s was fun as hell. In my 60’s? I’m stuck with the consequences of those decisions, and now I can’t do A DAMN THING to help the love of my life, because I don’t have a pot to piss in. Wish somebody had smacked me upside the head.” Here’s your smack upside the head, from my daddy.

Many people ask me why I don't try to earn more money. I guess it's because I hate money. I hate it because it's the perfect antithesis of ROMANCE. Money isn't beautiful. Fretting over big bank accounts isn't beautiful. Jesus warned us about the hazards of wealth. I love Saint Francis, I love the elegant simplicity of having "just enough," I love eating stale baguettes and cold beans by candlelight when the power goes out... So I want to keep my operating costs low. I don't want a high-expense lifestyle. If I could get my monthly costs down to zero I would do it. Could I get rich? It does seem that I could if I wished. Years ago while hitchhiking in WY a Wall Street stock broker who picked me up said it this way: "You'd be good on Wall Street because you've lived at the bottom and aren't afraid of it. The other guys get nervous because they're scared to lose everything. You could laugh it off, and for that reason, you'd be a master-class trader if you put your mind to it." Others say that if I'm clever enough to go from flat-broke and homeless to owning multiple homes debt-free, I'm clever enough to earn big bucks. They're kind to say this, and they're probably right. But the "why" has never been apparent to me. We have enough. We actually have more than enough. I'm more interested in the delightful feeling of keeping things lean, elegantly simple, romantic. The idea of "grinding" to get the big house in the fancy location (and then presumably grinding indefinitely to pay those bigger taxes, bigger bills, etc etc) doesn't appeal. Give us a tiny old nonelectric shack on the side of a nice trail in the Berkshires, where the hikers stop by in the afternoons, and we walk to the village to go to Mass and buy fruit. Give us a houseboat on the bayou, a cozy tenement in Pittsburgh, a tired ramshackle farmhouse by the riverside. Something simple and beautiful, with monthly costs so low that "stress about bills" is never in our vocabulary -- and where the stress of managing oodles of cash and investments isn't a factor either. Many say: "ah, as you get older, you'll see the appeal of all that money," but I'm turning 32 next week. I'm a father and a husband now. I'm still not seeing the appeal and neither is my wife. If anything, I suspect the pursuit of wealth would actually cost me something, because as a writer, my medium is really romance -- which is a thing that money always seems to have a way of killing. And anyway, if I'm not chasing the money, that leaves more of it out there for others to get. Perhaps I am doing the "grindset" types a real courtesy by exiting that arena!

Crazy to give jews credit for everything great Europeans have ever accomplished.

@realninawysocka women's hobbies include going to the wine bar, waiting in line for fancy coffees and eating desserts

Men don’t belong at the wine bar

11 children in 14 years. Impressive.

@CryptoMikli I barely even had access to a kitchen until I was 30 years old. Pre-covid, you had to live near a workplace in a major metro and rent is so expensive that I would just rent a room in a house shared with other people. People living like that basically have to eat out.

Kevin O’Leary says Gen Z is financially cooked when people making $70K a year are spending $28 on lunch

@RobertMSterling A high performing, high IQ, highly conscientious White guy 🫡

I just had the craziest experience at the airport. We are about to board a flight to Atlanta when the pilot from the incoming plane walks out of the jetway. Guy is probably late 50s, salt and pepper hair, military look. The kind of pilot you instantly feel good about seeing on your flight. Pilot walks over to the counter, gets on the PA system, and starts addressing everyone. “Folks, I’ve been doing this a long time. Flying one of these jets is easy. The hard part is looking at 130 people and telling them their flight is going to be delayed.” Audible groans throughout the boarding gate. Most people here are flying to Atlanta as a layover before another flight. 130 people just had their day become a complete mess. The pilot goes on. “I get it, trust me. But here’s the deal: During our landing, we had a small mechanical issue. I’m not your pilot for the next leg, but I don’t feel confident the jet’s safe to fly until we have a mechanical team look it over, and I don’t feel comfortable asking the next pilots to fly you guys until we get confirmation.” He points at the agents next to him behind the counter: “Now, none of this is the agents’ fault. Please be kind to them. I’m the one who made this decision, not them, so any inconvenience you experience is my fault. Just please know that I don’t do this lightly, and I’m only doing it because I believe it’s in the best interests of everyone’s safety.” Now this is where the story gets crazy. The pilot puts the microphone down, grabs his suitcase, and all the people in the gate… Start clapping. I’m not joking, everyone starts clapping for the guy. 130 people who just had their travel plans ruined give an ovation to the guy who made the decision and delivered the message. All because he addressed them with decency and transparency, took ownership of the decision, made it clear that it was necessary, and explained why it was in everyone’s best interest. It’s honestly one of the best examples of strong communication—of strong leadership, for that matter—that I’ve seen in a long time. @Delta, whoever your Atlanta to Wichita pilot was this morning, he’s one of the good ones. Please tell him the delayed passengers of flight 1637 appreciate what he did.

@KeithWoodsYT @PangurBn10 boomers are all about "the feelz" man

@PangurBn10 Boomer fatigue

Proper skinwalker this fella

@MManitoba37412 @ClownWorld boomers are the most spoiled generation to ever exist in known history. Gen X had it relatively easy too compared to Millennials and Gen Z

@ArchedTrellis @ClownWorld You wouldn't last a week in either the boomer or Gen X generations 🤡

Someone give this man the best grandfather award 

@ImMeme0 As a kid I was told to never drive through Chester, but when I did, I would only briefly stop at the red lights and just keep driving. You don’t want to stay stopped in Chester too long

PURE EVIL: Woman allegedly identified as Lauren Carter from Chester, PA was caught pouring bleach on food left out for stray cats. She needs to be arrested for animal cruelty.

The year is 1978 You graduated high school and landed a good union job at the local factory. You married your high school sweetheart and are starting a family- living in a neighborhood of friends. Are you better off today than you were then?

@Janet5171295249 @bale89177 @ClownWorld The research points to more severe effects of lead exposure in Gen X because Gen X were children during peak leaded gasoline usage in the 70s when their brains were developing, so as Gen X enters old age, I would predict more cognitive issues with an aging Gen X population.

@Janet5171295249 @bale89177 @ClownWorld There is a strong link between leaded gasoline fume exposure & all the boomer tantrums we’re seeing in society. Boomers are experiencing more severe cognitive decline than previous generations from lead exposure during their youth. They have higher lead levels in their blood

@psuhammer You're gonna have to develop a thicker skin if you expect to make it in this world, boomer.

@ArchedTrellis And you over-generalize based on age. Ageism isn't cool. If you work in the corporate world, you would realize that there are hardworking and great people of all ages as well as lazy assholes. Maybe instead of insulting large swaths of people....be better.

I work with a lot of Gen Z in the corporate world and I think highly of them. They're hard-working, quick, innovative & much more emotionally balanced & mature than boomers & Gen X. Gen Z is the one group that is completely blameless for the sorry state of White homelands

There can be no magic words

@psuhammer You really don't have anything interesting to say, just ridicule and snarky comments. I think you have some serious lead accumulation in your body.

@ArchedTrellis LOL ...