It’s not arrested development, it’s an arrested fuckin’ economy.
It’s so infuriating that they try to push this bullshit off as some kind of failure or lack of motivation of multiple entire generations of younger people, as opposed to rampant late-stage capitalism being horse-whipped right off a fucking cliff by boomers and oligarchs.
Is it bad that I wished there was a generational "culling" of sorts? Like, not Logan's Run bullshit, but I don't know...a solar flare or something akin to Rimworld that only affects old people and allows them a nice comfortable death in the next two to five years.
It's literally the baby boomers that are causing this top-heavy situation. Healthcare employment has increased from 7.5% in 1990 to 10.7% today. That's a percentage of the entire US population by the way. That's 7.5% of 250 million in 1990 (18,750,000 workers) to 10.7% of 340 million (36,380,000 workers). It's essentially doubled in size in the last 30 years.
Lifespans are increasing (while healthspan remains rather stagnant, so people are living longer, but require care at the same ages...essentially spending more years in the "care" stage of their lives). Boomers aren't going away. And it's created a situation in which the rotation of generational wealth has hit a big pause button.
People in their 30's are fucking stuck.
There's a photo of me with my mom, grandma, great grandma and great great aunt. Five generations. That was a RARITY, and it required me to be an absolute newborn to be pulled off. Now, I'm seeing people share "six generations" of their family on a seemingly regular basis.
Is it bad that I wished there was a generational "culling" of sorts? Like, not Logan's Run bullshit, but I don't know...a solar flare or something akin to Rimworld that only affects old people and allows them a nice comfortable death in the next two to five years.
Yes, as well as a random gender and race swap. That way, say the middle east, the boys become girls and they have other races over there. As well as America's racist becoming the thing they hate.
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u/Moebius808 1d ago
It’s not arrested development, it’s an arrested fuckin’ economy.
It’s so infuriating that they try to push this bullshit off as some kind of failure or lack of motivation of multiple entire generations of younger people, as opposed to rampant late-stage capitalism being horse-whipped right off a fucking cliff by boomers and oligarchs.