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This already counts as socialist? (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

In my experience Gen Xers have allowed Boomers to stay longer. Obviously this isn’t Gen Xers’ fault entirely and I’m not trying to paint with a wide brush here, but from what I have seen growing up Gen Xers have been useful to Boomers in that there are token Xers who have been allowed power as long as they enact the policies that allow Boomers to stay longer.

I am taking about the Hakeem Jeffries of the world, or people like the HR administrator I know who worked to allow retirement to accrue longer so that people wouldn’t feel forced to retire as soon and now finds herself in her 50s without having made it passed HR administration.

I’m not even sure that things could’ve turned out differently if Gen X had tried something, I’m just saying that in my experience “oh well, whatever, never mind” isn’t exactly the whole story.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Little of both probably. Boomers heavily outnumbered GenXers too, and held all the money, so GenX were sort of left in a bind. Hakeem and that HR rep aren’t doing those things out of spite for their own generation or later generations. Boomers still run the show upstream.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago

    Not spite for the whole generation, but it definitely speaks to something that I’ve seen in every generation. It’s the same conversation that comes up when we talk about developers who work for Google or Microsoft. There’s always somebody who’s willing to fuck over other people for money. Even if they don’t exactly see themselves as fucking over other people. And there’s always somebody who is in a desperate situation enough to hold their nose. I even commented a couple of weeks ago that currently being unemployed I don’t know if I could turn down a job from Google or Microsoft. As with everything there’s always lots of nuance.

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