CosmicCleric

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

news is profit driven

Watch the PBS News Hour show.

It’s also available on YouTube.

Speaking of YouTube, ‘Breaking Points’ is also a really good channel to watch for news.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

This is some straight up Manufacturing Consent shit

This message is being projected to the leaders of Capitalism, not the workers. It’s being said to the wrong audience.

If so, it seems like it’s a wasted effort.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

So help yourself.

Trying to get the “Who watches the Watchers” crowd to reform themselves is always a problematic thing to do.

The real test of a true democracy.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

Also, constructive eviction

Constructive? Elaborate?

this is a felony and you lose all rights to own housing property other than your own home ever again.

I think that’s a step too far, and wouldn’t(?) pass muster, legally.

A felony would come with high penalty fees to pay, and could be enough of a deterrent.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

Who am I skimping out on

The Unknown Ones.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

Regardless every person being different from the next, spending days on end watching brainrot television is not a good way to spend your life.

Of course, I wasn’t suggesting otherwise.

Even with reduced mobility, a person can enjoy other things. Reading, writing, listen to music, solve puzzles, etc. There are numerous activities to persue.

My point is when you see Grandma sitting in the rocker on the porch she may be doing that not be because she’s there to enjoy herself, but because she’s incapable of doing other things, and even movement is problematic.

In essence we don’t get old, we just break down, and when we do, the lack of mobility and pain are your constant companions.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

I agree the article seems very out of touch, and the reason I think is because it reports this in a very neutral way.

To me it didn’t seem neutral, it seemed to imply a sense of laziness and wanting luxury over hard work from the newer generation.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

Vegetating on a sofa in front of a TV is not a good way to spend your last stretch on this planet. But neither is working.

Just as an FYI, older people do such things not because want to, but because their bodies’ current condition won’t let them do otherwise.

You really do start going downhill quickly in your late 50s, healthwise.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

Wow what a boomer article.

No, that’s a capitalist “greed is good” article in disguise.

Some of us Boomers actually wonder WTF the ‘New Deal’ went, and lament it’s loss for our grand/children.

Seriously, stop buying into and dividing up one side that would stand together against that kind of thing.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

dodge

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

what the fuck is up with all these pansy-ass terms suits keep coming up with? “quiet quitting” and now “soft saving”?

It’s their attempt at managing the narrative in their favor.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

I’ve not worked for ten years, and I’ve never been happier. Not a moment of boredom and I get to throw myself into whatever hobby I want.

So much this.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

If my calculations are correct, my cheeseburger and pizza diet will kill me around the time I want to stop working. That’s my retirement.

A better retirement plan would be Costco hot dogs.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

“private retirement plans”

Were you speaking towards a SEP/IRA?

Don’t expect the government to do something for you (especially in the US).

When everything is said and done, I can’t see them ever ever letting Social Security fail, at all. That would truly be the spark of a revolution if so.

Older voters are the best voters, so at the end of the day they’ll make sure that stuff stays intact, one way or the other. Even if it means they have to build less battleships, etc.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago to Work Reform in What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

This honestly sounds like propaganda trying to convince people this is a thing.

IMO it’s exactly that. They hardly bring up any other external influences on people’s income in the article, just a paragraph or two very deep in the article.

It insinuates really hard that people have the money to spend but just don’t want to spend, a subtle “killing the messenger” of people being lazy and greedy.