Antiwork

I like reading this sub, but I've never participated before this post. I feel compelled to address the “boomers suck” attitude I see here too often. Boomers don't suck. Assholes suck. I'm retired, in my late sixties. Friends in my age group, the people I know, the people I've hung with since elementary and high school, the people I've met on the road and lived with on communes, the people I've worked with (education) are for the most part pretty cool. We volunteer. We still support workers and unions and we tip very well. We remember our fights years ago in support of farmworkers and other oppressed groups. We're online now and we counter and argue with the MAGA-types and their weird conspiracy theories (although that is proving fruitless). And do you know who we're arguing with? They aren't grouped by age. Along with people in our age group, there…

People are angry at billionaires when they are ignoring the real enemy. Fellow workers. Fellow workers are everything wrong with the system. Left should hate right and right should hate left. But Don't Look Up!

All I see on this forum is people complaining about not making a living wage for work that for all intents and purposes is meant to be starting positions entering the work force. The resources you can extract from the market is directly related to the value you provide to it. If you polish yourself and become a master of your craft whatever it may be people will find value in it and compensate you accordingly. If you’re not getting what you want out of life because you think you should make 6 figures for working a drive thru maybe it’s your sense of entitlement and not the horrible system working against you, I’m an older millennial and when I was growing up these jobs you bitch about getting screwed over in were jobs for teenagers that you grow out of. Learn a skill and master a craft anybody can…