<p>Then I could afford a house in the economy they ruined.</p>
<hr/>**评论：**<br/><br/>Utkar22: <pre><p>it used to be nickel for every time... damned inflation</p></pre>SkyLynx941: <pre><p>damn millennials.</p>
<p>edit: fuck spelling</p></pre>killbawqs: <pre><p>damn commies</p></pre>johncharityspring: <pre><p>He just said "millenials."</p></pre>sweetcuppingcakes: <pre><p>One of you two hosers fucked up your Ns but I'm too lazy to figure out which one</p></pre>defmacro-jam: <pre><p>Probably depends on whether the Atlantic Ocean is East or West of you.</p></pre>PmMeSteamKeys4Advice: <pre><p>Fucking Atlantic ocean. I blame it for so much wrong in this world.</p></pre>--_-__--: <pre><p>Stupid ocean, why doesn't it pull itself up by its bootstraps, like we did in the old days. </p></pre>PmMeSteamKeys4Advice: <pre><p>That Pacific, now that's an ocean to be proud of!</p></pre>el-toro-loco: <pre><p>The goddamn Indian Ocean is taking all of our good water</p></pre>TheGlenrothes: <pre><p>I have an extension that changes the word "millennials" to "snake people" and sometimes I'm not sure they didn't originally write snake people anyway. This is one of those times.</p></pre>Mr_Star_Cloud: <pre><p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/millennials-to-snake-peop/jhkibealmjkbkafogihpeidfcgnigmlf" rel="nofollow">Link to the extension for anyone curious.</a></p></pre>OrnateLime5097: <pre><p>And the difference is?</p></pre>Altephor1: <pre><p><a href="/r/thatsthejoke">r/thatsthejoke</a></p></pre>ketchy_shuby: <pre><p>I miss the Nickelennials.</p></pre>kinggzy: <pre><p>Nick n'Nick-Nick n'Nick-Nick-Nick... Nickellenialls.</p></pre>AlonzoMoseley: <pre><p>One 'n'</p></pre>Broodje_met_beleg: <pre><p>No "millennials"</p></pre>johncharityspring: <pre><p>...need apply.</p></pre>wilusa: <pre><p>Signs, signs...everywhere a sign</p></pre>The_Grubby_One: <pre><p>Blockin' up the scenery; breakin' my mind.</p></pre>ddtorres: <pre><p>Damn Daniel</p></pre>Shoelesshobos: <pre><p>damn french.</p></pre>DepecheModFlanders: <pre><p>I wish they'd get off our lawns!</p></pre>neatureotter: <pre><p>You have a lawn?</p></pre>Redrumsiruf: <pre><p>They don't go outside, so this isn't a problem.</p></pre>neatureotter: <pre><p>Damn millennials not slaving hard enough</p></pre>ApteryxAustralis: <pre><p>Eating too much avocado</p></pre>dtape467: <pre><p>forget a house, I'd love to simply pay off student loans</p></pre>thischangeseverythin: <pre><p>I feel you man, I was chatting with my loan person, it was in default for years, but, I'm trying to adult better. I set up a payment plan for 20 payments of $5 to get my loan out of default. Here lies the problem and why it was in default in the first place...</p>
<p>Guy: Well, lets see if we can set up a payment plan on your new out of default loan, how much do you make? </p>
<p>Me: Well I will gross about $22,000 This year, </p>
<p>Guy: Great it sounds like you can afford around $300 a month then? </p>
<p>Me: Well, I barely put food on the table and pay all my bills as it is. </p>
<p>Guy: Your lowest payment option is about 10% of your monthly income </p>
<p>Me: If you take 10% of my income I will literally not be able to eat. </p>
<p>Guy: There's really nothing else you can do besides 10%, except go back into default </p>
<p>Fuck my life. </p></pre>billbucket: <pre><p>I was initially shocked that anyone would work for $22k gross a year, but it's actually a bit higher than for full time federal minimum wage. Isn't the point of a college degree for you to not have to work for near minimum wage? Do you use your degree for your work?</p></pre>thischangeseverythin: <pre><p>Yep, well I have a culinary degree that also had a lot of business management and hospitality management. Its a bachelors in Culinary Arts and Service Management. Its hard to find work in the industry for more than minimum wage. I make $13.00/hr, my company takes 1.90/hr for my healthcare/dental plan. So at 11.10 it doesn't go far. I've yet to find a job in-industry that will actually pay more than $11-$15. I was working on Long Island and most places say things like "I can hire 2 Spanish people for $5/hr each. No you can't have the raise" The really good high teir restaurants and really good places to work aren't the places desperately looking for staff and I've had a pretty bad run of employers in the last 6ish years. Hopefully now that I took a more corporate job I'll be able to have some more opportunities to move into upper management jobs that pay better. </p></pre>billbucket: <pre><p>Ah, the culinary degree. I have always felt it to be sold as a "learn to be a rockstar" degree. Sure, they'll teach you some useful stuff, but you have to be really damn talented and lucky to be very successful. The restaurant/service industry is brutal. I guess that's true of any industry that is a majority "entry level". </p>
<p>It's hard to say any education is bad, but some degree programs seem to be predatory and deceptive. I'm not sure if you feel that way about your degree, so I'm not trying to slam it, but it doesn't seem like it worked out as you planned/were led to believe. </p>
<p>If you're switching fields anyway, there are several computer science degree programs that are only a year long if you already have a bachelor's. I know, more debt (yay!) but starting salary there is ~$50k. Combine the two, you'd be a in a good spot to design a better POS for restaurants. </p></pre>thischangeseverythin: <pre><p>I think my degree was a 100% waste of money. I could have got the same business management education at a state school. SUNY system has lots of good business schools for 1/4 of what I paid. I would have gotten the same "Away from home on your own" experience at a state school too.. AS for the the food experience, it was great, lots of hands on time with really great chefs, but, I could have found a chef that would have trained me from the ground up to be his sous chef, in the industry, while getting paid for the 80 hours a week that I was learning too. The degree just gets people looking at my resume to interview me more frequently. Everyone still hands me a knife and says "Cut this" to see if I know my shit or not. If anything chefs are more skeptical about my skills coming from school because a lot of kids that graduate do think they are rock-stars and DO need to get knocked down a peg. In-industry, real word, I've seen a dishwasher prep faster than 3 intern cooks from the local school. You learn way more in industry than school for sure. Granted my degree trained me how to interpret financials and run/own a culinary business or hotel. </p></pre>BecauseItWasThere: <pre><p>I have a suggestion if you want to make real money. Teach yourself programming and get into the food production automation business. </p></pre>action_lawyer_comics: <pre><p>Also, they will train you for a job you don't even need a high school diploma for. Most of the chefs I worked for would rather take someone who worked at McDonald's full time for 2 years than a freshly minted culinary arts graduate.</p>
<p>Don't spend money to learn how to cook as a career.</p></pre>hymntastic: <pre><p>Fellow culinary grad here, try country clubs. Last one I worked at i started at 16/hr with 50 hrs a week minimum as a line cook. Sometimes they are seasonal positions though. they are brutal though, and will work you like crazy. Plus you need to be flexible and be able to do both line work and banquet service, as well as beffet stations and talking to guests.</p></pre>thischangeseverythin: <pre><p>Right now I do banquets for as many as 200, alone and I'm my own dishwasher too. I also work the line. I'm used to having 10+ tickets during peak season,</p></pre>hymntastic: <pre><p>Like I said try a country club. You'll find the pay waaaaay better than anywhere else. There is a serious shortage of skilled and experienced cooks right now. You should ask for more money. </p>
<p>Plus there are perks like being able to come golf on your days off and access to their rec center.</p></pre>thischangeseverythin: <pre><p>Word. Well unfortunately I signed up to work a corporate job where I only get 40 hrs. But I did this so I could get health insurance and dental. Fortunately with this job I can move around the country and into management to make more money. Or up to tornant, sous chef or executive chef roles. </p></pre>Funkymermaidhunter: <pre><p>Shoot, my little sisters restaurant manager at Wendy's makes like 16-18 bucks an hour and he doesn't hardly do anything. And that's nothing compared to McDonald's store managers, who in addition to a higher salary get company cars, gas allowances, and paid sabbatical leaves. I would say a getting a corporate job was a good move and hopefully it works out in favor. </p></pre>The_Cute_Dragon: <pre><p>Ha, as if a degree gets you a job these days. /s </p></pre>Left-handed: <pre><p>Experience is the biggest factor, but the degree at least opens some doors early on so you can build your experience. Eventually, nobody really cares what you studied in undergrad unless you're in a specialized technical field that doesn't require a professional degree per se like engineering, nursing, or accounting. Eventually, experience and continuing education (self study, Master's, certs) help the most. But at the end of the day, YMMV.</p></pre>billbucket: <pre><p>No "a degree" doesn't. Degrees are like tools, you need the right one for the job. If you just got the tool easiest to use, it's not likely going to help you do the job you want. </p>
<p>My degree is required (and useful) for the job I wanted to do, so I got that one. Pretty simple logic. </p></pre>two_times_: <pre><p>Look into the income based repayment plan. <a href="https://myfedloan.org/borrowers/repayment-plans/">https://myfedloan.org/borrowers/repayment-plans/</a></p>
<p>I make about $40k/year and only pay about $150/month. They will reevaluate your income and calculate a new payment plan every year. I had to find out about this on my own. It sucks that the people we speak to never give us any options or tell you about different repayment plans. </p></pre>margravechristophe: <pre><p>Good thing 10% of $22,000 annually is $183.33 monthly then.</p>
<p>EDIT: Wait a minute. A payment plan for 20 payments of <em>five</em> dollars? What is this supposed to say</p></pre>dtape467: <pre><p>that sounds about right, if they really want to stimulate the economy, they should just forgive all student loans, there will be so many people with disposable incomes then</p></pre>realrafaelcruz: <pre><p>We should do this, but not before we have some comprehensive action on driving down the cost of education or stopping new people from getting loans they can't pay for. We can't just keep writing off debt forever.</p></pre>BoomerKeith: <pre><p>Agreed. Many states are already moving toward free community college and while some people may scoff at the idea of going that route I would remind them that in most cases you can complete most (if not all) of your core requirements before transferring to a 4 year institution. Hell, if I had the ability to get the first two years of college free and only have to pay for the last two I would have been ecstatic. </p></pre>taicrunch: <pre><p>Community college is perfectly valid on its own, too, if you choose the right program. It's great for trades and technical degrees that require certificates or certifications. </p></pre>BigBlueJAH: <pre><p>I did that exact thing. Spent two years at a cheap community college then transferred to a university. Still had debt, but no where near the amount I would have had.</p></pre>thischangeseverythin: <pre><p>Honestly, it will only give people that can pay them and are paying them disposable income. I only pay $5 a month as part of a recovery plan, but, I can't afford a real payment, not anything more than $20/month lol. My disposable income after bills as it is, is about "$0" $350 a week doesn't go far, its just about the poverty line while maintaining roof, car and insurance/gas/utilities, 1-1.5meals per day, cheap meals. </p></pre>tomj13: <pre><p>What did you study? 22,000 a year seems like McDonald's money and not an educated job. Not trying to condescend I just want to understand how this situation exists.</p></pre>TwoMuchIsJustEnough: <pre><p>When I started my entry level job as a geologist working for an engineer I started at 27k in 2014. That is well below what bureau of labor statistics said average starting salary range was in my area and it wasn't just the company I work for paying those wages, it was everyone. Wages are down in a lot of fields. I have since had a number of raises and make a respectable salary but that's not always the case. </p></pre>too_too2: <pre><p>Can you get a forbearance? </p></pre>funktimus_prime: <pre><p>You know I read somewhere that the reason for the huge rise in house costs is due to the increased availability of loans. So since people could get bigger and bigger loans why not make houses so much more expensive, I mean, people can just get a loan for it now.
I'd imagine it's the same for the outrageous costs of going to college.
It's rather infuriating.</p></pre>SynchronizedCalumny: <pre><p>Bingo. That means that the government is one of the major causes for the sky high prices in college and housing. My dad went to Notre Dame in the 70s and paid a little under 20k, inflation adjusted. Now Notre Dame is a 65k/year school. That is thanks to the widespread availability of Federally backed loans. </p></pre>blubat26: <pre><p>Inflation is a death spiral. More people taking loans = higher tuition prices = even more people taking loans because they can't afford the higher tuition = even higher prices = EVEN MORE LOANS = <em>EVEN HIGHER PRICES</em>. Ad infinitum(at least until someone comes along that can manage to fix the mess).</p></pre>zanyquack: <pre><p>As a Canadian, I've always wondered how different scholarships are in the US. I've heard of one here that can be awarded if a person is over 6' tall, or even being the child of a postal worker. Are Scholarships down south really few are far between or is it just <del>common to circle jerk over student loans</del> really common to have them?</p></pre>projhex: <pre><p>There are specific scholarships for pretty much everything, because many are given by organizations or people who are allowed to set the requirements.</p>
<p>I received a scholarship back in the early 2000s because I grew up in a certain county, went to a certain junior college and attended a certain university. It was very specific because the foundation giving it away was started by a woman who did those things. They gave me $18,500 a year for my last two years of university. Enough for tuition (about $8,000 at the time), books and living costs. The school was cutting me a check every quarter for what they didn't take out. Funny thing is though, I don't remember every actually applying for that scholarship.</p></pre>Obei3060: <pre><p>It was probably one of your teachers that knew about the scholarship. </p>
<p>Edit: new to knew</p></pre>slowebro: <pre><p>I'll use myself as an example. I'm a young white male from a lower middle class family that couldn't afford to put me in college. The college I went to had a scholarship they awarded to me for my grades in high school for 6000 dollars. All the other non school affiliated ones were generally for girls or minorities or stuff like that and the ones that were open to everyone had a lot of competition and not a lot of winners.</p>
<p>I applied to probably around 10 which involved writing an essay to them and all that jazz but either my essay wasn't good enough or my grades weren't compared to others (I was 11th in my class in high school) and I didn't get any others. </p>
<p>So when I went to college I filled out the financial aid forms, got my 6000 dollar a year scholarship, my 1500 a year grant from the financial aid, and was forced to pay the remainder of the 22,000 dollar tuition on my own, which I obviously could not do. Hence loans. On top of that, college took me 5 years instead of 4 because I didn't immediately know what I wanted to do, and this was a violation or whatever which meant that for that last 5th year, I had no scholarship or grants and I had to foot the whole thing with loans.</p>
<p>Now you could make the argument that it was all my choice, I didn't have to do college at a university, and what was I doing there anyway when I'm from a poor family that couldn't help and maybe that's valid. All I know is I was always told growing up that college is what you need to do and now I am paying a $350 dollar loan payment for the next 16 years of my life.</p>
<p>And I am far from the worst example. I feel sorry for anyone doing med school or law school or getting a master's or doctorate. </p>
<p>Edit: idk if this answers your question or what it's like at all in Canada but I am a probably fairly average example for America if you don't have family paying for your college.</p></pre>Blitzkrick: <pre><p>Yeah, most scholarships are hard to obtain if you're a white male, but they are out there. And, once you get a bachelors, any post secondary school you do can be financed through TA work or something similar. However, they pay you so little that if you enjoy eating or living without 4 other roommates, you'll likely have to take out loans. </p>
<p>Canada has much better tuition rates as well, about 6k/yr as opposed to 6k/semester, or more if you're part of the California perpetual superiority club. </p></pre>weedlayer: <pre><p>There's a fair number of partial scholarships for academics or need, but full rides are few and far inbetween (0.3% according to a random google search I took no effort to verify). Unless your parents are paying your way through you'll probably end up with some level of student loans.</p></pre>-Bastiaan-: <pre><p>"Your generation sucks".
"Your generation raised my generation".</p></pre>itsthevoiceman: <pre><p>This should be the only dialogue. </p></pre>sofa_king_gnarly: <pre><p>Exactly!! However, bring this up to someone who raised a millennial and is complaining about millennials, and they'll surely let you know that their kid is special and is an exception...</p></pre>DoggieDMB: <pre><p>Particpation trophy parent</p></pre>KyphoticKitten: <pre><p>Don't you mean you could afford some nice avocado for brunch?</p></pre>flyinggeorge: <pre><p>Where do old people live that avocados are expensive? I don't usually stock up on them, but they are about the same price as the cheaper tomatoes.</p></pre>tayman12: <pre><p>i live in california and they are definitely more expensive than tomatos.....its like $1.50 per avacado at most places, you can find them on sale for like $0.80 sometimes but not always, you cant judge by sale price because then you have to compare to like $0.25 tomatos</p></pre>accountforrunning: <pre><p>Where are you at in California? I am in San Diego area and you can usually find the small ones for 33-50 cents at mexican grocery stores.</p>
<p>I prefer to wait until they are in season and can grab 20 for $5 from a local farm stand, they are grown about 5 minutes from my house too which is nice.</p></pre>nmrnmrnmr: <pre><p>Australia.</p></pre>ChemicalRascal: <pre><p>Can confirm. Smashed avo on a bit of toast will set you back a deposit on your home loan down here.</p></pre>SJU_W4r_H4wk: <pre><p>To give you an idea each avocado in NJ/PA is roughly $3 at a normal grocery store. $1.50 is what I normally buy them at on sale.</p></pre>yes_oui_si_ja: <pre><p>In Europe they <em>are</em> quite expensive, but on the other hand that's not where the whining about Millenials seems to come from.</p></pre>thischangeseverythin: <pre><p><del>I'm pretty sure you can support yourself on 40hrs a week in Europe.</del> Something that's not easily done in USA for people between 18-35 atm. </p>
<p>edit
Apparently the lost generation is fucked everywhere on the planet </p></pre>playitonnotdoppler: <pre><p>Nope, we have the same problems here too. </p></pre>accountforrunning: <pre><p>That is just not accurate at all. </p>
<p><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/13/news/economy/europe-youth-unemployment-france/">http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/13/news/economy/europe-youth-unemployment-france/</a></p></pre>acciofestinalente: <pre><p>Canada.</p></pre>shavedaffer: <pre><p>Great now I want avocado toast. Time to call Peter Francis Geraci. </p></pre>teeksquad: <pre><p>Call J.G wentworth</p></pre>Utkar22: <pre><p>"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers." - Aristophanes, Circa 400 BC.</p></pre>Classified0: <pre><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/32vfr6/if_i_had_a_dollar_for_every_time_someone_over_40/cqf5swi/?st=j33by5qt&sh=a6bbf811">This post gave me my first gold about two years ago...</a></p></pre>wilusa: <pre><p>pitchforks?</p></pre>Classified0: <pre><p>So, this exact post was made <a href="https://www.reddit.com/search?q=%22If+I+had+a+dollar+for+every+time+someone+over+40+told+me+my+generation+sucks...%22&restrict_sr=&sort=relevance&t=all">7</a> times since the original post 2 years ago. On the ones that managed to get reasonably popular, almost all of them copied the top thread... I don't know whether to be upset that people copied my comment, or proud...</p>
<p>Anyways, it has been two years, enough time has passed that most of the people seeing this thread now probably didn't see the original.</p></pre>wilusa: <pre><p><em>sighs...puts pitchforks away</em></p></pre>Classified0: <pre><p>I don't know about that... I think we should keep the pitchforks, but just not use them... Like, just stand around ominously with pitchforks.</p></pre>InkBlotSam: <pre><blockquote>
<p>enough time has passed that people seeing this thread now probably didn't see the original. </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Probably because the original was 2,400 years ago. I don't know that you get full OP credit for quoting someone else and demanding royalties from all future people that quote the same famous quote by the same famous person.</p></pre>lmozena: <pre><p>Did anybody bring any extra Pitchforks? No, nobody brought any extra pitchforks...Well do we have to hold them when we ride? </p></pre>The_Grubby_One: <pre><p>This exact post has been made a few thousand times since the original, circa 2,417 years ago.</p></pre>DankMemeSlayer: <pre><p>Yeah... Idk if I'm out of the loop or something but if this is an actual quote then I don't get why he's acting like he came up with it and copyrighted it. </p></pre>InkBlotSam: <pre><blockquote>
<p>"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers." - Aristophanes, Circa 400 BC. - <a href="/r/Classified0">/r/Classified0</a> - Michael Scott</p>
</blockquote></pre>The_Grubby_One: <pre><p>Verily. How dare <a href="/u/Utkar22">/u/Utkar22</a> attempt to steal <a href="/u/Classified0">/u/Classified0</a>'s thunder by quoting their original quote without properly attributing it to the sou-</p>
<p>Owate.</p></pre>Hkatsupreme: <pre><p>Holy shit we've gone full circle </p></pre>TheLoonyDuck: <pre><p>"Man who go to bed with itchy balls wake up with smelly hand." - 14th Dalai Lama </p></pre>inagadda: <pre><p>Preach!</p></pre>swimminginclouds36: <pre><p>People don't change I guess.</p></pre>brickmaster32000: <pre><p>I'm just going to leave you with this lovely grafitti from Pompeiii. <a href="http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm">source</a></p>
<p>Here are some choice excerpts.</p>
<ul>
<li>Restitutus says: “Restituta, take off your tunic, please, and show us your hairy privates”.</li>
<li>: The finances officer of the emperor Nero says this food is poison</li>
<li>I screwed a lot of girls here.</li>
</ul></pre>The_Grubby_One: <pre><p>...Wow. It really is true. People absolutely do not change.</p>
<p>We're leaving the same idiotic shit in bathrooms now as we did over two thousand years ago.</p></pre>The_Grubby_One: <pre><p>Old people always think young people are the cause of all the world's woes. So has it been since time immemorial (or at least for the last 2,417 years).</p>
<p>It's easier than taking ownership of your own generation's fuckups.</p></pre>_AlreadyTaken_: <pre><blockquote>
<p>"Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt." </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Book III of Odes, circa 20 BC, Horace</p></pre>Kiylyou: <pre><p>That guy gets it.</p></pre>thebestisyetocome: <pre><p>Wasn't this quote proven to not actually be real?</p></pre>Mattw242: <pre><p>I didn't know Aristophanes was a baby boomer</p></pre>freathereddress: <pre><p>We messed up the economy by going to too many Lollapalooza shows and AOLing. </p></pre>ZoidbergBOT: <pre><p>Asl? Imme 4 69</p></pre>SHavens: <pre><p>You clearly aren't cooking enough meth then.</p></pre>HowRiskyIsDatClick: <pre><p>That was almost an option at one point. Glad I didn't.</p></pre>mreastvillage: <pre><p>Well, I'm 45, I was 10 in 1982; 20 in 1992 when the big recessions hit and all this Regan-economics shit was being done by the Baby Boomers. Gen X rules! We gave you the web and Nirvana. So ya know, point that finger at our Dads. </p></pre>positive_electron42: <pre><blockquote>
<p>So ya know, point that finger at our Dads. </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Or even better, vote your dads out of office! </p></pre>mreastvillage: <pre><p>Exactly! Millennials, get off your Whole Foods asses and vote! :-) </p></pre>Haven: <pre><blockquote>
<p>rules! We gave you the web and Nirvana. So ya know, point that finger at our Dads.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>As someone who is 37, I am thinking the same damn thing. </p></pre>indil47: <pre><p>Yup. GenX is not to blame. It's the Baby Boomers.</p></pre>Coulow: <pre><p>Gen X, the smaller generation stuck between 2 bickering Generations right now. We're too young to retire, too embedded in the work force (generalization). I'm 39. Looking left, looking right, sighing. </p></pre>AFreebornManoftheUSA: <pre><p>Everyone forgets the economy had been nosediving for over a decade when Reaganomics hit. Also, we Gen Xers are the only generation <em>no one</em> hates.</p></pre>lewliloo: <pre><p>Gen X got plenty of hate when they were the age of current millennials. Lazy slackers, etc. It's about age, not generation.</p></pre>AFreebornManoftheUSA: <pre><p>Did we? I guess so. In fairness, our generation's Filmmaker Laureate made a movie called <em>Slackers</em>.</p></pre>EagleOfMay: <pre><blockquote>
<p>Did we? I guess so. In fairness, our generation's Filmmaker Laureate made a movie called Slackers.</p>
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<p>My first thought for a Gen X movie is Clerks.</p></pre>kinggzy: <pre><p>This may be true. I'm only 28 and I already complain about the Z-tards with their lazy shitpost memes, spinner toys, and obnoxious "dabbing".</p></pre>mreastvillage: <pre><p>YES we didn't do anything bad! We were the front-lines of the bullshit that was dealing with the damn Boomers! </p></pre>solstacesnorlax: <pre><p>You seriously underestimate how hateful a scorned millennial can be my friend.</p></pre>AFreebornManoftheUSA: <pre><p>Hell hath no fury and all that. Well, I say, bring it on!! Once I've taken a few Aleve and stretched and gone on a diet to lose some of these middle age pounds and worked with a trainer and taken a few boxing classes, I'll go beast on anyone!!</p></pre>circuitsinparallel: <pre><p>Seems like the carousel of older generations calling the younger generations spoiled and the younger generations blaming the older generation for their hardships has been revolving since the beginning of time. Can't we all just get along?</p></pre>seraph_prime_mv: <pre><p>No.</p></pre>aviddivad: <pre><p>if my income was dependent on people telling me stuff, I'd be a lonely homeless person</p></pre>Siex: <pre><p>*over 60.... I don't think the guys born in the 70s and grew up in the 80s ruined anything other then music</p></pre>Siex: <pre><p>For reference, Leonardo DiCaprio, Paul Walker, Jimmy Fallon, Eminem</p>
<p>These guys are all in there 40's... They didn't ruin the economy, their generation inherited it with the rest of us</p></pre>Igota31chevy: <pre><p>One of them is a big tree hugger now</p></pre>PM_me_the_magic: <pre><p>Yeah I can't believe Eminem turned out like that</p></pre>Clockwork_Octopus: <pre><p>Ah, the old Reddit <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/6d39e5/lpt_when_taking_a_road_trip_its_a_good_idea_to/dhzjw5v?context=3">treehugger-aroo</a></p></pre>katatonos: <pre><p>Paul Walker is not in his forties.</p></pre>Goodwin512: <pre><p>Not anymore he isnt</p></pre>kefir_sutherland: <pre><p>his temperature is in the forties</p></pre>Goodwin512: <pre><p>I mean if im being completely down to earth with ya here...</p></pre>weedlayer: <pre><p>He would be if he wasn't dead.</p>
<p>Born: September 12, 1973</p></pre>katatonos: <pre><p>So you're telling me that Alexander the Great is 2,373 years old?</p></pre>weedlayer: <pre><p>I mean, doesn't google say "Happy 150th birthday [famous person]" and stuff? Doesn't seem like an unreasonable thing to say.</p></pre>AzureDude: <pre><p>I came here for this. I'm 45 and still figuring life out. </p></pre>jbird32275: <pre><p>I remember thinking adults knew what was going on. I'm 42 and any day now, any day!</p></pre>cracker_salad: <pre><p>Correct. OP must be young. Picked an age that sounds old. :/</p></pre>ykzdropdead: <pre><p>If I had a dollar for every time someone reposted this joke, I could pay 20 renouned writers to re-write it.</p></pre>EzekielCabal: <pre><p>How would one renoun themselves? Would a writer who referred to himself as an author have renouned himself?</p>
<p>(The word you're looking for is renowned)</p></pre>CaffeineSippingMan: <pre><p>Hey?!? Time to update the joke I am 40 something and had to work 16 hour night shift. Before that job I was working 3 jobs (weekend job, part time day job and night job). </p></pre>Nomahhhh: <pre><p>Wait... it wasn't my generation - it was my father's generation.</p></pre>The_Ds_Knees: <pre><p>Literally nobody has ever told me that my generation sucks. Not once.</p></pre>dalek-king: <pre><p>if I had a dollar for every time I read this joke, I'd have like a lot of dollars</p></pre>ZoidbergBOT: <pre><p>Id have 3.</p>
<p>2 more and i can buy a coffee</p></pre>dalek-king: <pre><p>or 5 burgers at the mcdonalds, that's always a good thing</p></pre>KaizokuShojo: <pre><p>People keep saying this, but most people over forty I know are nice and industrious. Are we talking because they voted for bad politicians? Politicians are usually old men, and that means it goes back a lot farther than just the current 40+ generation.
In fact, most of the people to blame are probably dead.</p>
<p>And it isn't like politicians are getting any better... Or the voters... Or the people that shove the politicians at us...</p>
<p>I get it's a joke, but it's just something that keeps getting repeated.</p>
<p>(And even with older people, I don't know many that started out with a house. My parents, grandparents, and great grandparents had to live at home after marrying or rent pretty cruddy houses 'til they had saved up.)</p></pre>djsoulman: <pre><p>Maybe if you came in before 11am.....</p></pre>BillCosbyQuaaludes: <pre><p>If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone on Reddit complain about older people complaining about millennials... </p></pre>MavicFlyer: <pre><p>Whoa.. there Millennial.. Those over 40 are still waiting for the Baby Boomers to leave so they can run the country.. they had nothing to do with the current economy. </p></pre>NomSang: <pre><p>I'd be able to have avocado toast AND a house.</p></pre>fisherman15: <pre><p>If i had a dollar for every time i heard this joke</p>
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<p>i would have bout 15 dollers.</p></pre>ghalt77: <pre><p>I think it would be more accurate to say "Then I could afford a house in the high-demand area where I'd like to live" <a href="http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/903-S-36th-St_Omaha_NE_68105_M84870-66472" rel="nofollow">Here's a cozy little place in Omaha for less than $100k.</a> Anybody want a mortgage payment of $362/mo? </p></pre>mnreco: <pre><p>Hi! Gen X here. We couldn't afford houses either until we were in our 30s. </p></pre>OldBrownSock: <pre><p>If i had a dollar for every time a millenial complained about people over 40 i could buy them all houses.</p></pre>johnny_ryalls_ghost: <pre><p>This was funny the first time I saw it on Twitter. And the second through the 246th time I saw it reposted on Facebook. </p></pre>hmahaffey: <pre><p>it's funny cause the young bitch about the old bitching about the young then they turn around and blame their problems on the old.</p></pre>ptenant00: <pre><p>Like most people have any control over the economy.</p></pre>grasshopperson: <pre><p>Why aren't we directing this anger at the wealth hoarders instead?</p></pre>AFreebornManoftheUSA: <pre><p>Too difficult.</p></pre>freeticket: <pre><p>It people over 60 who ruined the economy, us 40 and 50 year old are trying to deal with it while remembering to give you trigger warnings </p></pre>lycobus: <pre><p>Triggered</p></pre>TrialsAndTrybulation: <pre><p>Speaking as a guy over 40, I had no idea I had so much power and influence over the economy. I helped ruin it? News to me. I thought I was just making a living and raising my children. I had no idea I was engaged in a plan to destroy my children's future.</p></pre>random_number_string: <pre><p>OP is confusing 40-year-olds with Boomers.</p></pre>KeetoNet: <pre><p>Seriously. Gen X seems to be forgotten these days. I guess that means we've largely done OK?</p></pre>lycobus: <pre><p>I guess being 40 seems like "born in 1940s" to these young 'uns</p></pre>linux1970: <pre><p>As a 30 year old who automates as much work as possible as to avoid hiring employees, I probably am more to blame than you.</p></pre>SkyezOpen: <pre><p>It's kinda like how all white people are responsible for slavery and all cops kill black people. Sorry bud, just the way it is. </p></pre>JimJonesIII: <pre><p>I'm a white cop in my 50s, I'm practically hitler.</p></pre>SkyezOpen: <pre><p>AM I BEING DETAINED? </p></pre>zdominator86: <pre><p>Now you are</p></pre>TemporaryDonut: <pre><p>IM GONNA RECORD THIS INTERACTION IF YOU DONT MIND. AM I BEING DETAINED?</p></pre>trogdor_513: <pre><p>This made me laugh so hard.</p></pre>jihiggs: <pre><p>hitler never gave me a ticket, but a white cop in his 50s did. you are literally worse than hitler!</p></pre>freathereddress: <pre><p>Remember when we used to hate on the boomers for the same things? Just wait till these kids get to be over 40 and everything is their fault. But for now I'll just sit back and take the blame from the comfort of my rented home.</p></pre>BBQ_sauce_on_pizza: <pre><p>I don't ever remember hating baby boomers for my lack of income.</p></pre>mcgrimus: <pre><p>Younguns never see the positive things we older guys have brought to the world, like recycling, and <em>Breaking Bad</em>.</p></pre>Backstop: <pre><p>It's Generation X's turn in the barrel. </p></pre>lol_camis: <pre><p>ELI5 the idea that our parents ruined the economy?</p></pre>suitelogic: <pre><p>Or you could buy more avocado toast!</p></pre>obsidianhoax: <pre><p>I would have 3 dollars. I can't buy a house with that</p></pre>garguk: <pre><p>Every generation sucks because people suck in general. I don't discriminate, I'm an equal opportunity disliker.</p></pre>alritewallofchina: <pre><p>I don't want to hear anything else about "our generation" sucking. I'm 26, a licensed optician at a nationwide chain, and for every person 45-70 (especially women) who's an entitled asshole or bitch, there are ten people from 18-40 who are friendly, patient, and non-confrontational. I'm not saying everyone is one way or the other, but I can tell you that most of my worst patients are my mom's age or older. They hate waiting, they think you have no idea what you're doing (I'm licensed BECAUSE I know what I'm doing), and most are cheap cheap cheap. Never did I believe someone would have the gall to complain about a pair of glasses being finished too soon. Never did I think someone would argue with me over two pairs of glasses for under $40. They wail and moan if they have to wait more than two minutes (our location is super busy and almost always short-staffed). I even had to tell a nice classy woman off yesterday for telling me it was "retarded" that I couldn't fix her glasses she didn't even buy from us. Spent 15 minutes trying to fix them and it's "retarded" that I cant. I could write a novel. It does my head in, and is definitely why I drink.</p></pre>Sose3505: <pre><p>How did we ruin the economy? (real question)</p></pre>ilovecanadiancrack: <pre><p>I am a millennial, and I am in the same boat as OP, affording a house is damn near impossible. I have heard the argument that the previous generation "ruined" the economy, however nobody seems to be able to explain to me exactly HOW they ruined it. If someone knowledgeable on the subject is reading this, I think a low of us would love an explanation :)</p></pre>peckerbrown: <pre><p>I'm 57. You may blame me if you wish.</p></pre>Jimmm_Ross: <pre><p>If I had a dollar every time this joke (and this exact comment) were posted......you know the rest </p></pre>Joeyblackrose: <pre><p>If I can get a dollar from everyone who thought op joke sucked......</p></pre>AzraelBaine: <pre><p>If I had a dollar for every time someone reposted a joke on reddit...</p></pre>wrxlvr11: <pre><p>Gotta get a job to be able to afford a house. </p></pre>Cfaz99: <pre><p>If I had a dollar for every time I've seen this joke, then I could buy Reddit and shut it down to prevent reposts </p></pre>Idontwannaloseheart: <pre><p>I'm turning 23 and I just bought a house. It can be done, but it does take a lot of money, a grest deal, and a good family.</p></pre>You_Are_All_Absurd: <pre><p>"You all just want participation trophies."</p>
<p>"You mother fuckers invented the fucking participation trophy."</p>
<p>"Only because you guys get upset at losing."</p>
<p>"YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE UPSET ABOUT LOSING!"</p></pre>22jam22: <pre><p>I know this is joke, but you should be blaiming the 55 and over crowd we 40 year olds getting fucked fucked too.. I know its a joke but damn it i was offended!</p></pre>slickricflair: <pre><p>Can confirm. Over 40, they gave me a free house, free cars, free money. 20 some years ago, everyone had a meeting before the first Gen Y was born. We voted for a plan to destroy the next generation and erased every trace of that meeting from all records.</p>
<p>So don't bother with school, working or anything like that. You will never achieve any form of success because your generation sucks.</p></pre>TheCookieBurglar: <pre><p>If I had a dollar for every time someone over 40 told me my generation sucks, I would be broke because no one over 40 has actually ever said that to me before.</p></pre>spikeyfreak: <pre><p>People in their 40s are Gen X. Believe me, we're feeling some of what you're talking about here.</p>
<p>My mom though, holy shit. I get tired of her criticizing "kids these days." You're talking about your grandkids, Mom. They aren't any worse than I was, or worse than you were.</p></pre>
