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[–] skaarl@feddit.nl 4 points 35 minutes ago

‘Most WHITE boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’ FTFY

People have been working 40+ hours a week for CENTURIES with no hope of affording a house. The housing that non-whites have been able to secure is always tenuous, subject to the racist whims of the ruling class. They could be rezoned, subject to a new law that strips them of their property, or even what happens in Palestine the racist ruling class just bulldozes your house with no compensation.

This is definitely not about Gen Z vs Boomers, but the ruling class wants you to think it is so we don't unite and make heads roll.

[–] Slam_Eye@lemmy.ca 4 points 28 minutes ago

I've gotta say i admire Zoomers a lot. Im a 1990 millenial and most of my generation simply put their heads down and pushed through and tried to emulate their boomers parents while not living their boomer parents reality, destroying themselves in the process. It seems that almost collectively your generation has said FUCK THIS SHIT and made moves to end it.

Its really impressive.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 3 points 28 minutes ago

Ever wonder how "work ethic" became a trait that defines the quality of an individual? You can probably guess. Religion. Which of course needed people to work hard so they could donate more money to them.

My dad worked two full time jobs for a while to help the family get ahead while we were little. I think spending time with his young children would have been time better spent for everyone. He did stop when we got to school age. And he did spend a lot of time with us. Was a scout master, tball coach, all that. So I know he probably would have rather been with us than working that extra job. But from a young age it was drilled into him that work came first.

Now with younger people less into religion. We see more and more who realize that working hard for someone else doesn't need to be a defining characterist of a person's quality.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 63 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Please stop falling for efforts to divide the working class.

Amy such efforts should immediately be viewed as suspicious. The divide is not old vs young, or white vs black, or even rich vs poor. It is the capital class versus the labor class.

Boomers grew up in a very tiny slice of global history where the working class actually got improvements in their material conditions, so it is hard for them to understand the struggles of people before or after... but they are being ground down by capitalism the same as the rest of us.

Your comrades at work may not understand the importance of unions or collective action, but they are still your comrades. Your grandmother may not realize that all of her extra productivity went to make billionaires richer, but she is still your comrade.

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 4 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

All my coworkers voted R. It’s really, really hard to consider them allies in any sense.

[–] scuczu@lemmy.world 3 points 30 minutes ago

isn't it fucking weird? I've been so disassociated for weeks now, getting some things done but it's very hard.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 17 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

or even rich vs poor. It is the capital class versus the labor class

Just another fancy way of saying rich vs poor. The difference is the poors don’t realize they are in a war.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There are plenty of people that don't consider themselves poor or who most people would not consider poor who are still in the labor class. If you produce value more than extract value from ownership then you are labor class.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

There are plenty of people that don't consider themselves poor

That doesn’t make them right. That just makes them less poor than those that are dirt poor.

If you’re not floating around on a yacht then you’re comparatively poor. They can afford things these so called rich people you talk about could never afford.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world -2 points 2 hours ago

My grandparents aren't comrades. They're dead.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 hours ago

Watch out the propaganda of government and ruling class trying to divide the public and turn people against each others. Boomers are idiots but owning a house is peanuts compared to billionares expenses or the money being spent on military weapons.

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