America’s Millennials Are Waking Up to a Grim Financial Future

ttystikk · Jun 22, 2018

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ials-are-waking-up-to-a-grim-financial-future

The notion that this is all one party's fault- whichever your favorite scapegoat might be- is simply ridiculous.

Both parties have fucked over our country and the chickens are coming home to roost.

The next few years are going to be ugly.

Rob Roy · Jun 22, 2018

ttystikk · Jun 22, 2018

Rob Roy said:

She understands more than you do.

UncleBuck · Jun 22, 2018

Rob Roy said:

the guy who thinks a barter system would be just dandy thinks other people don;t understand economics

Coloradoclear · Jun 22, 2018

Isn't a grim financial future created by the individual?

UncleBuck · Jun 22, 2018

Coloradoclear said:
Isn't a grim financial future created by the individual?

no

Andrewk420 · Jun 22, 2018

Coloradoclear said:
Isn't a grim financial future created by the individual?

No, everyone has grim financial outlooks. Unless you have big money, like multiple millions, already, you're fucked.

The difference lies in outlooks of millenials. Some are stuck in their parent's "well if you just save your money and live like a pauper, you might maybe have enough money when you die (assuming you have top tier health insurance somehow also) that your kids can have a little head start and maybe make it up a tax backet" budget mind. I would say most realize they are fucked and will never actually own a home or have a savings account worth having, even if they get a mortgage, so why bother with any of it?

Coloradoclear · Jun 22, 2018

Andrewk420 said:
No, everyone has grim financial outlooks. Unless you have big money, like multiple millions, already, you're fucked.

The difference lies in outlooks of millenials. Some are stuck in their parent's "well if you just save your money and live like a pauper, you might maybe have enough money when you die (assuming you have top tier health insurance somehow also) that your kids can have a little head start and maybe make it up a tax backet" budget mind. I would say most realize they are fucked and will never actually own a home or have a savings account worth having, even if they get a mortgage, so why bother with any of it?

That sounds so negative. So we should all get together and jump off a tall building . . . Or maybe we should choose our future and work toward a greater good.

Andrewk420 · Jun 22, 2018

Coloradoclear said:
That sounds so negative. So we should all get together and jump off a tall building . . . Or maybe we should choose our future and work toward a greater good.

I'm with you. But until people realize that the doctor making 200k a year has infinitely more in common financially with a single mom working two waitress jobs and getting WIC benefits, than the donor class in DC and maralago, we are fucked.

Nothing is going to ever get done to truly help the vast majority of the population. They have us too manipulated into hating each other over what amounts to nothing in the grand scheme of humanity or the future of the United States.

ttystikk · Jun 22, 2018

Andrewk420 said:
No, everyone has grim financial outlooks. Unless you have big money, like multiple millions, already, you're fucked.

The difference lies in outlooks of millenials. Some are stuck in their parent's "well if you just save your money and live like a pauper, you might maybe have enough money when you die (assuming you have top tier health insurance somehow also) that your kids can have a little head start and maybe make it up a tax backet" budget mind. I would say most realize they are fucked and will never actually own a home or have a savings account worth having, even if they get a mortgage, so why bother with any of it?

When enough people feel this way, the next step is nothing left to lose. And that's when the fun starts!

ttystikk · Jun 22, 2018

Coloradoclear said:
That sounds so negative. So we should all get together and jump off a tall building . . . Or maybe we should choose our future and work toward a greater good.

First thing to do is to take our country back from the oligarchs.

Reversing Citizens United must come first, or nothing else will stick.

UncleBuck · Jun 22, 2018

Coloradoclear said:
That sounds so negative. So we should all get together and jump off a tall building . . . Or maybe we should choose our future and work toward a greater good.

in just about an hour from now
if you're not feeling any less sour
you should promise yourself to treat yourself by visiting a nearby tower

Fogdog · Jun 22, 2018

ttystikk said:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ials-are-waking-up-to-a-grim-financial-future

The notion that this is all one party's fault- whichever your favorite scapegoat might be- is simply ridiculous.

Both parties have fucked over our country and the chickens are coming home to roost.

The next few years are going to be ugly.

Nope

Republicans are to blame. You are naive.

doublejj · Jun 22, 2018

Republicans own this shitshow, vote them out.....by any means necessary......even voting democrat....and keep digging

Sir Napsalot · Jun 23, 2018

Things were so much different when I was young

I just can't imagine being a young person in today's world

ttystikk · Jun 23, 2018

doublejj said:
Republicans own this shitshow, vote them out.....by any means necessary......even voting democrat....and keep digging

If that was the solution, it would have worked by now.

ttystikk · Jun 23, 2018

Sir Napsalot said:
Things were so much different when I was young

I just can't imagine being a young person in today's world

It's not hard for me; all I have to do is look through the eyes of my daughter, nieces and nephews.

It's not a pretty sight.

ttystikk · Jun 23, 2018

Fogdog said:
Nope

Republicans are to blame. You are naive.

Lol

The notion that we got into the situation we're in because only one party is bad and the other is good is naive, not to mention childishly simplistic.

But keep plugging for your team, even though they've demonstrated time and again they give no fucks about you.

travisw · Jun 23, 2018

ttystikk said:
First thing to do is to take our country back from the oligarchs.

Reversing Citizens United must come first, or nothing else will stick.

Short of a constitutional amendment, which won't happen, how do you do pull this off?

ttystikk · Jun 23, 2018

travisw said:
Short of a constitutional amendment, which won't happen, how do you do pull this off?

By any means necessary. I'm honestly not sure exactly how it can be best accomplished, I'm only sure that it must be done to preserve our democracy.

The choice is as stark as it is simple; either we get money out of politics and restore the rule of law and accountability at all levels of government or we follow the example of Nazism right to the end of the world.

I don't think the implications of this choice can be overstated.

America’s Millennials Are Waking Up to a Grim Financial Future

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Similar threads