I can’t believe the number of people who lament the decline in childbirths because it may impact the ability for elderly people to extract money from young people.
Like, do you understand how dystopian that sounds?
‘Have kids so they can get a job and be heavily taxed so elderly people can take cruises and not have to pay with their savings?’ What?!
This is not a persuasive argument for increasing population. It is a more persuasive argument for mitigating the welfare state! 🤦♀️
Women think men become "misogynistic" online because of Andrew Tate or anonymity or some abstract cause.
The actual reason is men can see the things women say and do, and that's way worse.
@0nlyk1tt3n From doing taxes for people, those “struggling seniors”? Are bringing home on avg about 50% more than people working for a living rn.
If you think seniors are struggling, try being Simeon with a job who finds their SS and Medicare! 😅🙃
I have been seeing a certain archetypal commenter in the spotlight recently; all women my age, progressive, and employed at mainstream institutions. I don't know them. Yet in every case, I can intuit their origin story.
It goes something like this:
> be an older millennial female, no strong passion, but strive hard in school
> reach High School
> steer clear of the kids who like talking about “far out” philosophical issues
> also steer clear of student government and debate club, which seems too contentious and vaguely threatening
> focus on getting perfect marks, complying with college reqs. Get into top uni based on those marks
> get introduced to politics in freshmen social justice class, instantly floored
> the appeal of college politics is just how cut-and-dried it is. Unlike other fields, it has a clear “good” and “bad” side, no ambiguity. The “good” side always wins in classroom discussions, you feel like a hero for validating consensus with "The Conversation"
> politics becomes your religion, “this is my passion!”
> graduate with top marks and recs. Your degree is essentially in “Current Thing-ism”. Have no broad understanding of history or philosophy.
> Your concept of human events is just people being oppressed for 4000 years until feminism and progress happened in the 20th c.
> despite the Global Financial Crisis, immediately get hired by a government/media org because they want someone who “understands the role of female politics in our new digital era!”
> most of your colleagues share your perspective, the ones who don't are older guys on their way to retirement, not looking for the confrontation that disagreeing with you would certainly involve.
> great awokening happens, double down on Current-Thingism politics
> organe-man-bad and COVID happens, triple down on politics.
> you are 15 years deep in your career, you have never once genuinely engaged with a peer who didn't validate your worldview or who you didn't consider a "token" opposition to placade your political enemies
> vibe shift happens, establishment uncertain, time to have a "conversation" with the people you've considered deplorable
> have conversation, hear non-progressive opinion that is common in the modern world, historically ubiquitous
> react with schock, umbrage horror. "Can you even believe this is happening?"
> confident that non-progressive opinion is trivially easy to refute, somehow have no idea how to actually refute it
> unaware just how deeply you have been betrayed by your education, such that the average educated man on the street has more practical understanding of what politics is than you do with decades of "experience."
@MadelaineLucyH Comes to going to clubs and getting drunk……”what types of people do you think are also going to those venues? And for what purpose?”
Self awareness and personal ownership would prevent 90% of ‘rape’ that goes on in feminists eyes
@MadelaineLucyH When I worked late nights at a gas station, I had someone come in and pass off fake $
Was I surprised? No, I knowingly put myself in that situation, and it’s known that’s a risk in that situation.
Now if we could get young women to have that level of self awareness when it
My boomer dad told me to save 10% of my income for retirement.
Classic advice so, I did the math.
His 10% in 1985 on a $32,000 salary was $3,200 a year.
In today’s money that’s roughly $9,000.
My 10% on a $65,000 salary is $6,500 a year.
He saved more in real terms working a factory job than I save working a corporate one.
But that’s not even the worst part.
He had a pension on top of it.
I have a 401k that dropped 24% in 2022 and gave me anxiety attacks.
He saved 10% and retired comfortably at 61.
I save 10% and financial advisors tell me it’s not enough.
Same advice but completely different outcome and he still thinks the problem is that I don’t follow his advice closely enough.