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What is with this young crowd with wanting to eat the rich? What is rich? My daughter and her friends are always saying eat the rich, but I just dont understand why they do not understand that they will likely never work for a poor person, and if they do it wont be for long. So if they "eat" all the rich people where will they get there jobs?
 
the young crowd doesnt value hard work, they value quick easy fast fame

you tell em you have a good job, work hard, have a mortgage, one car paid off and another one still making payments and theyll scoff and tell you that you should stream or make a podcast or tiktok or youtube tutorial or some shit
 
The gap between what they grew up with vs what their parents grew up with is huge. If their parents are even moderately well off it's even worse. They probably live in a nice house, with a fridge full of food, a smart phone, internet and all the streaming channels on a huge TV. They probably have a car or at least access to one. They get taken on vacation once or twice a year. The typical teenagers lifestyle is pretty cushy these days.

Then they try to make it on their own and realize the apartment doesn't clean itself, the bills don't pay themselves, the food doesn't cook itself. Their standard of living takes a nosedive and instead of striving to earn all those things on their own, its easier to blame people that have more then they do for their problems.

They don't understand in the slightest how the economy works. They believe that "the 1%" is keeping them from living how they want. They think that if the rich people all went away, there would magically be more money for them somehow.
 
It's just a war cry. It really means nothing since their left aligned politicians are all rich too. The kids have no clue what is really going on here, as always. At one point each and every one of us here also didn't have any clue as to how the real world works.
I'm trying to help my younger children understand what all this means to them, and how politics can be both good and bad, but to be sure that they can find truth in what is being peddled. They seem to be taking it to heart.
 
I suspect it is a derivative mindset of what started as piracy. The most common excuse for that theft is Gates, the big music groups, cable companies, etc. is they have enough money, they don't need mine. That mentality eventually got perverted by the demands for a living wage for entry level jobs with the unrealistic expectation that companies will just absorb the higher costs and not pass it along to the end user. Add to that mix a generation of fairly well to do parents who want their kid's lives to be better than theirs with little teaching about how the world works and we get our current levels of bullshit. That and it is very easy to run amok when you don't have to work hard daily just to get by like most of us have had to do at one point or another.
 
tell you that you should stream or make a podcast or tiktok or youtube tutorial or some shit

can't wait for that scheme to completely fall apart. There I will be retiring and traveling the country on my motorcycle, while my tenants pay for my trip, meanwhile "YouTube stars" from the early 2020s sitting in their single wide telling the neighborhood kids how popular they used to be.
 
My daughter and her friends are always saying eat the rich,

:laughing: My daughter is 11, and I look forward to the day she says something that stupid, because I'll enjoy boring her senseless with the resultant lecture. So far, I think she's doing pretty well with "Dad, why don't those bums get jobs, so they don't have to sleep under a bush?"
 
:laughing: My daughter is 11, and I look forward to the day she says something that stupid, because I'll enjoy boring her senseless with the resultant lecture. So far, I think she's doing pretty well with "Dad, why don't those bums get jobs, so they don't have to sleep under a bush?"

When I was 16 and got my first taxpaying job at burger king I used to go outside to the homeless people panhandling and hand them job applications. It made me feel like I was making a difference.
 
The gap between what they grew up with vs what their parents grew up with is huge. If their parents are even moderately well off it's even worse. They probably live in a nice house, with a fridge full of food, a smart phone, internet and all the streaming channels on a huge TV. They probably have a car or at least access to one. They get taken on vacation once or twice a year. The typical teenagers lifestyle is pretty cushy these days.

Then they try to make it on their own and realize the apartment doesn't clean itself, the bills don't pay themselves, the food doesn't cook itself. Their standard of living takes a nosedive and instead of striving to earn all those things on their own, its easier to blame people that have more then they do for their problems.

They don't understand in the slightest how the economy works. They believe that "the 1%" is keeping them from living how they want. They think that if the rich people all went away, there would magically be more money for them somehow.

Wow, man...this is so true. My kids pretty much live the life you just quoted. But I try my damnedest, and hope they turn out like these idiots we're seeing today.

My dad always told me that hard work paid off, but I watched him work his ass off, and I remember it sticking with me. I'm hoping it does the same for my kids. I do all my own mechanic and carpentry work, and I'm pretty sure my oldest "gets it," but I guess only time will tell.
 
They truly believe someone else having more of whatever results in them having less. Growing up poor sucked at the time but I'm grateful for it now.
 
They truly believe someone else having more of whatever results in them having less. Growing up poor sucked at the time but I'm grateful for it now.

I had a kid who grew up poor who used to work for me. I could never understand how she thought the world owed her everything. Some people get it and make better lives for themselves, some people perpetuate the stereotype because its the easy way.
 
i like the opposite

https://youtu.be/L8zhNb8ANe8


Efficiency and progress is ours once more
Now that we have the Neutron bomb
It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done
Away with excess enemy
But no less value to property
No sense in war but perfect sense at home
The sun beams down on a brand new day
No more welfare tax to pay
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
Jobless millions whisked away
At last we have more room to play
All systems go to kill the poor tonight
Gonna kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor tonight
Behold the sparkle of champagne
The crime rate's gone, feel free again
Oh, life's a breeze with you, Miss Lily White
Jane Fonda on the screen today
Convinced the liberals it's okay
So let's get dressed and dance away the night
While they kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor tonight
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor tonight
Behold the sparkle of champagne
The crime rate's gone, feel free again
Oh, life's a breeze with you, Miss Lily White
Jane Fonda on the screen today
Convinced the liberals it's okay
So let's get dressed and dance away the night
While they kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor tonight
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor tonight
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor tonight
 
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:laughing: My daughter is 11, and I look forward to the day she says something that stupid, because I'll enjoy boring her senseless with the resultant lecture. So far, I think she's doing pretty well with "Dad, why don't those bums get jobs, so they don't have to sleep under a bush?"

I know my daughter and her friends are liberal and I am not, so I have to think that she just says stuff like that to pick a fight, but they have had that thought drilled into them by someone or something. Just really makes me wander where or who? She is a freshman in collage this year, but this thinking started in high school. If it did not start till this year I would have just said it is some liberal professor or something.
 
Ugh, that's scary! We haven't run into any brainwashing yet, but I'm not looking forward to it.
 
Idiots. The poorest person in the US is still in the top 1% of the world so we should all just eat ourselves apparently. They are just parroting communist rallying cries. My cousin and her husband are lawyers making probably 200k+ each and they talk about how the rich are ruining things.... uhhhhhhhhh what, you are considered the rich, dipshits.

When I was 16-27 I thought a 100k a year salary was some sort of an insurmountable salary and if I hit that all of lifes problems would be solved. I hit that a while ago and life still sucks and is a PITA. Point is teens and 20yr olds are dumbasses.
 
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Those kids aren't brainwashed. They're just standing on the precipice next to the drop off into adulthood wondering how they're going to be as successful or more successful than their parents/peers and terrified. Most just need someone to help them find their path.
 
Idiots. The poorest person in the US is still in the top 1% of the world so we should all just eat ourselves apparently. They are just parroting communist rallying cries. My cousin and he husband are lawyers making probably 200k+ each and they talk about how the rich are ruining things.... uhhhhhhhhh what, you are considered the rich, dipshits.

When I was 16-27 I thought a 100k a year salary was some sort of an insurmountable salary and if I hit that all of lifes problems would be solved. I hit that a while ago and life still sucks and is a PITA. Point is teens and 20yr olds are dumbasses.

Most of these kids don’t understand how 90% of the planet lives. We are spoiled biches compared to most of the world. I would love to drop these kids into SE Asia or Africa for a couple months.
 
Those kids aren't brainwashed. They're just standing on the precipice next to the drop off into adulthood wondering how they're going to be as successful or more successful than their parents/peers and terrified. Most just need someone to help them find their path.

i agree. most of them are using that as a cry for help, they are in need of conversation and conflict, so by taking an extreme stance it should be easy to begin that conversation.

it isn't meant to be quick or won, but the seeds need to be watered
 
Those kids aren't brainwashed. They're just standing on the precipice next to the drop off into adulthood wondering how they're going to be as successful or more successful than their parents/peers and terrified. Most just need someone to help them find their path.

Bull. Was there a point in your young life when you were so nervous about the world and your place in it that you felt like tearing someone else down to take their stuff?

The rest of your post I agree with. Enough pistol-whipping will wake them up.
 
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I have a rental house, I early 20's woman called me rich because I have two houses. I'm far from rich.

Socialist ideals being pounded into their heads.
 
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Those kids aren't brainwashed. They're just standing on the precipice next to the drop off into adulthood wondering how they're going to be as successful or more successful than their parents/peers and terrified. Most just need someone to help them find their path.

I will say I would be scared shitless as well being that age being kicked out into this real world. They have already been through 2 "once in a lifetime" recession events. I graduated in 2005, at least the economy, as much of a house of cards as it was at the time, was humping along and doing pretty well and you didnt have social media feeding you false success narratives 24/7.

Hell I'm 37 now and debt free (except the house) and we both have some skills under our belt and 2020 has been a stressful shit storm, can only imagine having fresh college debt and competing with laid off boomers and gen x'ers for entry level jobs.
 
Socialist wealth redistribution syndrome.
 
They truly believe someone else having more of whatever results in them having less. Growing up poor sucked at the time but I'm grateful for it now.

I have talked to numerous people with this mindset, especially when it comes to their employer having more money than them. They think anyone making any profit off their labor as an employee is somehow stealing that labor. They never have a good answer when I ask why they don't strike out on their own and start their own business. They really believe that taking the risk to start and grow a business is worth nothing. They're the same tards that will sit in a Youtube comment section and go "Man it must be nice to be rich and have cool shit like that" or "I could never afford one of those"... Well bud, with that fucking attitude you certainly never will.
 
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Bull. Was there a point in your young life when you were so nervous about the world and your place in it that you felt like tearing someone else down to take their stuff?

The rest of your post I agree with. Enough pistol-whipping will wake them up.

You're making a lot of assumptions about their point of view.

For example I can say there was a point in my life when I was terrified of how I was going to pay for things like medical/dental/vision and I was 100% behind single payer healthcare. I didn't think about the position of others, I was too busying worrying about how I was going to be able to afford it when I was kicked off my parent's medical insurance.

Now combine all those fears with an irrational adolescents brain with an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex (the part of your brain that handles decision making and moderating social behavior) and the reason for their actions starts to become a bit more clear.
 
I will say I would be scared shitless as well being that age being kicked out into this real world. They have already been through 2 "once in a lifetime" recession events. I graduated in 2005, at least the economy, as much of a house of cards as it was at the time, was humping along and doing pretty well and you didnt have social media feeding you false success narratives 24/7.

Hell I'm 37 now and debt free (except the house) and we both have some skills under our belt and 2020 has been a stressful shit storm, can only imagine having fresh college debt and competing with laid off boomers and gen x'ers for entry level jobs.

And likely looking at a 3rd here soon.

I'll be 33 next year and definitely see both sides. I think it's lost on most people over 50 just how much cost of living has skyrocketed over the last 10-15 years in most of the country and wages definitely aren't keeping pace with the economy or inflation. Around here housing has tripled or better since I graduated high school in 06. I make double what I did 5 years ago and my standard of living has pretty steadily declined over the last 5 years and is a large part of why I'm trying to get out of the area. But, that's happening all over the country and imo is going to get worse in the next few years as people start moving back out of cities.

It's hard to be a conservative who sees whats happening to the economy and middle class in this country and still sit here and blame young people for not being optimistic about it. Progressive economics and socialist policies are leading to what they always lead to, greater economic disparity. It was already a rough time to be entering the job market prior to this year. It's going to get worse before it gets better.

It's also easy to forget that the vocal extreme shit you hear on the news and internet isn't a majority. The silent majority exists within the younger population just as much as anywhere else.
 
You're making a lot of assumptions about their point of view.

For example I can say there was a point in my life when I was terrified of how I was going to pay for things like medical/dental/vision and I was 100% behind single payer healthcare. I didn't think about the position of others, I was too busying worrying about how I was going to be able to afford it when I was kicked off my parent's medical insurance.

Now combine all those fears with an irrational adolescents brain with an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex (the part of your brain that handles decision making and moderating social behavior) and the reason for their actions starts to become a bit more clear.

If that was supposed to convince me that they're not little twits who need their ears boxed...it didn't.

No offense intended to OP.

Despite the saying about "No heart when you're 25, no brain when you're 35", not everyone goes through a socialist phase just because they're young and stupid.
 
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