BOOMER: "Nobody wants to work anymore."
YOU: "I work 50 hours a week."
BOOMER: "Doing what, on a computer?"
YOU: "Yes. It pays $58,000."
BOOMER: "I made $18,000 and owned a house."
YOU: "That's the whole point."
BOOMER: "We didn't complain, we just worked."
YOU: "You worked one job and got a pension. I work one job and get a 401k match if I'm lucky."
BOOMER: "Nobody handed me anything."
YOU: "College was $600 a year. Your first house was 2x your salary. Your employer covered your family's health insurance."
BOOMER: "That was normal back then."
YOU: "Exactly. It was normal. Now it's impossible."
BOOMER: "So what do you want, a handout?"
YOU: "I want what was normal."
BOOMER: *silent*
You didn't outwork us.
You just lived in the version of the country where working was enough.
teaching your adult family how to treat you as an adult truly is exhausting. i think everyone still sees the twelve year old, who is gonna do whatever she's told to do. i am a grown ass woman now and i am gonna do whatever tf i feel like doing. i value my time/space/energy.
TODAY: A drunk Israeli tourist assaulted an American family at a Philippine airport after they told him, โFree Palestine.โ
He completely freaked out and was arrested. Israel is trying to extradite him already.
I AM SO FUCKING TIRED OF LIVING IN A WORLD WHERE THE PEOPLE MAKING THE BIGGEST DECISIONS ABOUT OUR LIVES ARE THE ONES WHO WILL NEVER HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR FUCKED UP ASS DECISIONS