Kenny Blankenship on Nostr: Excellent poast. There’s a reason you never hear anyone talk about living standards ...

Excellent poast. There’s a reason you never hear anyone talk about living standards anymore. Hell, when was the last time any pol even mentioned the phrase “standard of living”?

You now have millions of 30something millennials who are locked out of the (good) job market, the housing market and even the dating market. They share apartments with strangers and need second jobs just to barely scrape by (kinda appropriate that the nigger phrase “side hustle” is used to describe these shitty living conditions).

Fuck this country. I can’t wait til it shatters into twenty pieces.

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People under about 45 were told there was this grand bargain that if they worked hard and studied that they would never be reduced to "flipping burgers". Said bargain was made when those jobs were supposed to be the last refuge of adults who couldn't do better, or for teenagers just entering the workforce. Decades of globalization and financial shenanigans have voided that bargain, and now those same people who said "work hard and study" want you to flip burgers. The middle class lifestyles that the people making those bargains got to enjoy are no longer a thing, and they lack the wherewithal to realize or understand this.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm done making these bargains.