• Sapphiria 🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Older generations didn’t fail us, the bourgeoisie did. Don’t let capitalists get away with reframing class struggle as generational struggle when that’s not what it is. Poor folks of past generations weren’t the problem. It was the ones wealthy enough to have political influence and control that were the problem. And that will continue being true for future generations so long as capitalism exists.

    • Armok: God of Blood@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      If the bourgeoisie fucked my parents as hard as they’re fucking me, I would have been brought up homeless. My mom was making the equivalent of like $60 an hour today when I was a kid, as an illegal immigrant with a two-year degree. I was born in the US and have a master’s of science with a 4.0 GPA and can’t even get a job.

      Things have definitely changed with time, and the younger generation is having a worse time because of it.

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        2 months ago

        I think the point the comment above you was trying to make is that it isn’t the old generation that is fucking thr young generation harder, it is the rich that are fucking the young. The old may have had it better, but it was because the rich weren’t fucking them as hard.

        • Armok: God of Blood@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 months ago

          I feel fucked by the rich, but I feel more directly fucked by the people a decade or two older than me in management at the jobs I’m applying to. As much as I’d love for the US to be more socialist and have better workers rights, it didn’t for my parents and it doesn’t for me. The sole difference is that I feel excluded from society, despite toeing the educational line my whole life.