PS: We'll have to lose the billionaire class, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Billionaires should be made illegal and taxed out of existence. It’s our last best chance to avoid a very ugly economic collapse.
TotallynotJessica 12 points 2 years ago
it was...
TotallynotJessica 19 points 2 years ago
If billionaires voluntarily returned all their stolen power, there'd be no need to for violence ;3
in4apenny 4 points 2 years ago
Unfortunately there's also a legion of liberals that will sacrifice their lives for The Markets and defend their billionaire lords because "We need the church billionaires for society to function, what is society without God billionaires holding it together?"
AnUnusualRelic 8 points 2 years ago
Maybe we could keep a couple billionaires, in jars.
VinesNFluff 5 points 2 years ago
Jars, eh?
nasty
Are we going to slowly, collectively, fill up those jars with semen, like a gooner with an anime figurine?
SouthEndSunset 2 points 2 years ago
Oh, so that’s why Strickland called McFly a slacker?
Mad thing is those days would be pure gravy now.
TheMNWolf 1 point 2 years ago
@JoMiran @originalucifer We made the technology so we could do their work and have more free time, and instead they took our free time and gave us more work.
Entertainmeonly 45 points 2 years ago
Skiing in the snow... ouch.
explodicle 3 points 2 years ago
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Hideakikarate 30 points 2 years ago
I expected to be on fire more often, too.
bran_buckler 12 points 2 years ago
I’ll spontaneously combust any day now, I’m sure of it!
brbposting 12 points 2 years ago
Living long enough to see the safe word that you demanded from someone who says your parents told them to pick you up become the safe word you use to confirm your video call isn't a deepfake.
SidewaysHighways 29 points 2 years ago
goddamn!
long live vaporwave
SouthEndSunset 8 points 2 years ago
Realistically probably set getting on for 10 years ago, that’s probably when the process started.
cheeseandrice 7 points 2 years ago
I actually think it began in earnest the day those towers were hit. The response signaled the beginning of Americas decline, and the beginning of the long term plutocrat plan to loot the remains.
SouthEndSunset 5 points 2 years ago
Yup, I don’t think the rest of the western world was too far behind either, if at all. With that said, 2001-2007 wasn’t bad.
Atelopus-zeteki 19 points 2 years ago
The world we evolved to survive in has been driven into extinction.
sharkfucker420 17 points 2 years ago
Truly it never did
WagyuSneakers 9 points 2 years ago
I don't speak with my family. We're looking to move friends into our house. Learning to garden. Getting everything ready.
We lost the class war because they divided us. Women hate men. Red hates blue. Young hates old. Urban hates suburban. Everyone hates each other.
UnhingedFridge 14 points 2 years ago
I sometimes wonder how different life would be if I was actually raised instead of raising myself.
WagyuSneakers 5 points 2 years ago
If I wasn't too busy raising my siblings I bet it would have been cool.
Flocklesscrow 2 points 2 years ago
Gen X, or elder Millennial? The latchkey cohort, as it were.
UnhingedFridge 1 point 2 years ago
Mid-Millennial with a dead Mom and drunkard Dad. Only a decade off though.
Flocklesscrow 2 points 2 years ago
Sorry to hear that. Hope you've found some peace.
UnhingedFridge 1 point 2 years ago
Thanks. Setting my life towards filling the gaps he left behind for the sake of others.
Best wishes.
dutchkimble 8 points 2 years ago
Isn't this true for every generation?
SkyeStarfall 18 points 2 years ago
Not really, it's quite a modern phenomenon
For most of human's history, the world was largely the same between generations. There were big shifts, but they were much more gradual (the industrial revolution took place over the course of generations, for example). I'm not quite sure when that changed, but it was probably at some point after WW2 (WW2 was a drastic change itself, of course, but probably more accurate to call it a one-off event during that time period)
The world is changing so much more today, so it's even more applicable now than before
infinitesunrise 8 points 2 years ago
And thank god! They raised me all wrong, I always had existential dread and anxiety from the start so I'm adapted better to this fresh hell than to the end of liberal history I was born into.
Blahaj_Blast 6 points 2 years ago
Yeah. I know.
Meowie_Gamer 5 points 2 years ago
jokes on you I never lived in that world.
haha.... haha.... ha...
Meowie_Gamer 4 points 2 years ago
also, take off those rose-tinted glasses. The world's always been chaotic.
I don't like how things are right now, and yes I'd prefer to just go a few years back, but it's not like the past is perfectly safe or anything.
originalucifer 9 points 2 years ago
its not about safety. its about rate of change.
humans in their present form have existing for over 100,000 years. to state that the rate of change between generations has always been the same is just incredibly wrong.
prinzmegahertz 2 points 2 years ago
Boomers will take the earth into the grave with them. If they can’t have it, noone shall.
KingThrillgore 3 points 2 years ago
Check it out check it in But the sun will never shine
samus12345 1 point 2 years ago
Whatever.
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Gen-X here. We used to be called "slackers" because the world we were raised to survive in had crumbled under Reagan and Bush and we saw no point in joining the clearly pointless rat race. So, through tech, we started a world wide paradigm shift. We made our own new industry and we thrived...for a while. Now Tech is as corrupt and pointless as the shit form the early nineties was.
The point is that the only way out of this hole is to burn the old ways down (again) and do something completely different (again).
PS: We'll have to lose the billionaire class, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
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