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You're longing for a life one generation enjoyed in their prime. It was a flash in time. It didn't even last their entire lives, many people in that age group are already in a precarious situation financially, unless they've managed to pass away before 2007. You're fantasizing about a specific economic climate that also largely relied on Jim Crow policies to inequitably grow resources for white people only.
A huge majority of humans ever to have lived, across all of our history as a species, suffered through subsistence farming, which you can go and experience right now today. It sucks. It ruins your body. It's a curse you can't help but pass along to your children unless they are smart enough to be sent away to school in a city.
I really think a lot of generational hate is rooted in simple envy that somebody else happened to win the being-born lottery. Can be about family money, historical timing, having the exact eye color Kayleigh thinks is hot... whatever.
My grandparents got married in the 70s my dude so maybe tone down the Jim Crow stuff before getting all the facts.
I'll never feel guilty for wanting what previous generations had when we are currently expirencing growing wealth inequality and seeing billionaires flaunting their wealth. It's a guided age and if we take that excess back we can all live better. Stop defending the rich
We have the resources, we have the technology, and we allow it to be used for the 1%
My child, maybe let's both take a beat to understand that we're a generation apart. I'm likely as old as your parents; my grandfather fought in WWII. My parents we're married in the 70s.
I also have a masters degree in economic policy, so maybe understand, sweet child, that you have very impractical, rose-tinted glasses for some Boomer era that still relied on a boatload of racism, and was entirely unsustainable, filled with poison, and centered on profits above people. It's a universe away from what you actually want.
I beg you to learn about economic history before you yearn for anything of the past. The future needs to be made new for a modern era, not stocked together from nostalgia.
I'm going to hope this is a cultural difference, and you are roughly my parents age. However, imagining a stranger my parent's age calling me, a grown ass man with a mortgage and everything, "child" or "sweet child" is just weird. Respectfully you'd need to be at least 20 years older for that to be comfortable to me, or working at a waffle house.
Anyway we are funneling more and more wealth to the top. Reclaim that and we can all live just like my grandparents and your parents. Maybe even a bit better.
And don't worry I'm quite familiar with history. Built a career out of it myself. I just see significantly larger causes for income inequality than racial discrimination and race based exploitation alone explains.
Yes western nations even today extract wealth from poorer nations. Consumers do benefit by getting "goods". This exhange benefits the wealthy more than the consumer. I'd gladly give up cheap goods like phones or cars for affordable commodities like food, shelter, and healthcare.
I don't yearn for suburbia, I yearn to be able to live. To have a family. To not worry day to day what horrible shit my country will do only to benefit the rich.
The cultural difference seems to be you seem to take everything literally. It's a touch of absurdist sarcasm that is a play on the GOT phrase "my sweet summer child." Did you really not get that?
Y'all gotta lighten up just a bit or this shit'll kill you before you ever affect it.
Honestly it's lemmy, I expected age based condescension more than a Shakespeare based one. Unfortunately tone is hard to convey over text
Edit: IDK why I said Shakespeare instead of GOT
Fair. Sorry for the miss on that, then. That's on me. But certainly not Shakespeare-based; George R R Martin-based. Which is far worse.
Anyway, the Olds poisoned our skies and soil bodies and minds. My generation as well. No reason to let anyone else's nostalgia brainwash you to their point of view of how strong and noble and thoughtful they thought everyone else was when they were kids.