get a second, third, fourth job. just kidding no jobs will hire. save money. just kidding everything is so expensive you’ll have nothing to spare. don’t go out. don’t have experiences. don’t live. you can’t afford it. life is awesome! don’t complain!
when this video first dropped I was like "hey uh why are Americans funding catapults to start wildfires in Lebanon?" and hundreds of Israelis came into my replies and were like "it's actually a trebuchet idiot"
My boomer dad asked me last week why I'm still renting at 43.
I told him a starter home in our area is $410,000.
He said "so save up."
I said the down payment alone is $82,000.
He said "that's not so bad, break it into pieces."
I said after rent, insurance, and daycare I put away maybe $400 a month.
He did the math out loud. Got to seventeen years. Went quiet.
Then he said something I didn't expect.
"I put down $3,200 on our first place. I had it saved in eight months working at the plant."
Then he just sat there for a second.
"I always thought you kids were exaggerating."
That's it. That's the whole conversation.
He wasn't being cruel. He genuinely had no idea. Nobody ever showed him the number.
Most of them aren't defending the system. They just never looked at it.
there's a lot to critique about weir's writing and style but i fear cringe millennialisms are in fact completely in place when writing cringe millennial characters tbh
Donald Trump has earned more money in his first and second year, in his second term as president, than in the previous 60 years of his life, per Bloomberg.
@Creativewafflee I like to imagine this also why bubble acted Like That. Caine didn’t code him to be a voice of anxiety in episode 8, bubble just had a free will that leaned towards caines worst tendencies
BOOMER: “We bought our first house at 25.”
ME: “How much was it?”
BOOMER: “$45,000.”
ME: “What were you making?”
BOOMER: “$15,000 a year.”
ME: “So 3 years of salary.”
BOOMER: “Exactly. We worked hard.”
ME: “Houses are $420,000 now.”
ME: “Average salary is $60,000.”
ME: “That’s 7 years of salary.”
BOOMER: “You kids just don’t save.”
ME: “We save. We just can’t afford to buy.”
BOOMER: “That’s because you’re lazy.”
ME: “Or the system changed and you benefited from it.”
BOOMER: “That’s not my fault.”
ME: “No. But stop blaming us for noticing.”
I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
@TheFreshKnight1 someone else said it first but i agree that every mistake made were cookie cutter examples of mistakes story writers suffer during their first big production. like I cant fault it for not answering every single question posed, that's just how stories are written
We can talk about the failures of “Woke 1” and how ridiculous and performative everyone was but I will always keep in mind how eager every public institution, business, and politician was to try to kneel to social upheaval when they thought our boot was on their throat