Circuses.
Desperation to find a focus on anything entertaining as opposed to what is really going on.
And the American game of football is played during our fall and early winter. Baseball starts in the spring and runs through the summer.
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Desperation to find a focus on anything entertaining as opposed to what is really going on.
And the American game of football is played during our fall and early winter. Baseball starts in the spring and runs through the summer.
It could be.
Society could reject Yah and still use reason to figure out correct massive parts of natural law. Just see trans stuff. Such error is more than disregard for obvious reality.
Theoretically, yes.
I’m not much of a historian, has that ever happened?
Rest of non-Christian world who has figured out that polygyny is OK.
Whatever.
I was just talking about this subject with @Joleneakamama the other day. While the economy is not optimal, I don't buy it that millennials and gen zers have it so much harder than previous generations.Social disaster:
ZeroHedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zerowww.zerohedge.com
The article begins "The younger generation (millennials), having long abandoned the dream of homeownership...finding jobs that barely cover essential living costs, such as food, rent, and insurance,".
According the the US Chamber of Commerce "65 percent of durable goods manufacturing jobs unfilled.55 percent of leisure and hospitality jobs unfilled. 40 percent of wholesale and retail trade jobs unfilled- Even if every unemployed person with experience in the durable goods manufacturing industry were employed, the industry would fill roughly a third of the vacant jobs,". https://www.prtstaffing.com/news/blue-collar-worker-shortage-remains-despite-white-collar-layoffs
Zero hedge continues "One Gen-Zer, living out of his car and working random gig jobs from town to town said this option allows him to 'live rent-free' and travel the country". This statement reveals the young mans true motivation is to work as little as possible and travel the country.
That is his decision, and many young people throughout previous generations decided to hitchhike, train hop, live in their cars ect. This is not new, it is a choice, it isn't a systematic tearing down of a gen zer or millennial of ever owning a home. Older generations of homeowners worked their asses off.
Back to the PRT Staffing article, “What’s interesting is that this does seem to be the start of a “white-collar recession...It’s been really painful because the Baby Boomers have started retiring out of the blue-collar workforce. We as a society have been preaching college for the last three generations, and these trades have been suffering.”
There are jobs, but the younger generations do not want them. They do not want to budget, or be accountable and responsible. They do not want to work the blue collar jobs that turn the physical gears of a functioning society. Raised with participation trophies, no physical chores, then allowed into big business colleges with lowered standards, and the pandemic online work standard, culminated into every millennial and gen zer's expections of work to be...easy.
So for the time being do I worry that gen zers want to live in their cars and run away, until they land a zoom meeting "job", no. I worry about how the lag in passing the baton on the real jobs is going to hit us. I worry about the gen zer's Grandpa who's still working in construction, or agriculture, the power sector etc. with his aging aching body. Maybe when grandpa dies gen zer will get "their" house. Will their house have running water, electricity and a fridge with food, or will our unmaintained infrastructure, undermanned food systems and overregulated energy sectors reach a breaking point?
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I am noticing the people my age (34) and younger gravitate to what I consider squishy jobs that don't have any realistic measurements for success or failure.
Jobs that have a pass/fail nature to them get avoided by the slackers. Which is pretty much every skilled profession or trade.
I am hoping that the inevitable economic downturn will force a bunch of these people to seek meaningful work when the money for their squishy jobs disappears.
Is this example of Boomer mentality? I'm sure you feel proud of supporting social corrosion.
Let's deal with reality. How much has housing, education, medical care gone up? Housing 100x starting from 50s, rest about 10x. Did salaries even gone up than much? No way. In fact, only reason some things are getting better is massive cost-cutting in semiconductor related industries.
So, newer generations are getting behind (objective facts) with less financial cushion and security. And in the rest of domains like moral, innovation, cultural American society is getting worse.
If current trends continue next generation will sleep on open, carry all belongings in backpack and eat grass. Meanwhile, you will all feel morally superior and claim it's all being lazy.
To paraphrase Lenin, way to destroy middle class is between grindstones of heavy taxes and inflation. Nobody can outrun money printer and tax increases.
This is great example of spiritual sickness (Ukraine thread is even better example). Total lack of concern with real people and their real situation. Instead we get platitudes like laziness and democracy.
Did somebody here even ask themselves what they will leave behind? Older generations do have duty to enable coming generations easier life so that every new generation can stand taller than before. Or you are all just thinking about themselves and your arse?
Sadly, it will be task of incoming generations to repair crap left by boomers, instead if building upon higher.
I don't believe everyone in younger generations are lazy, but I do think many have unrealistic expectations. A great number had been conditioned to believe that as long as they went to college they deserve a white collar job, but that is not the case.
Yes there are a lot of malicious out of our control factors happening with the economy. The man in the article you posted is not a good example of someone persevering and doing all they can and still having to live in their car. Which I know there's people out there in that circumstance to.
It's easy to get into a rant with an article that features someone playing the victim because they want to work gigs and travel the country, but blame the federal reserve because they live in their car.
This is so true. It's an argument I have with my father and uncles often. They began working as teenagers, making $5.25 per hour, their rent was $200 per month, they purchased property 40-something years ago, $2,000 for 2 acres.
When I began working as a teenager, 14 years later... I also made $5.25 per hour just as they did, while rent was over $600 per month and an acre of property in the same area my father and uncles purchased theirs's for $2,000 was now selling for around $20,000.
My father thinks it's because my generation and the generations after me are lazy workers. I try to explain to him that it's easy for him to come to this conclusion when he's the one who bought land for $2,000... land that now sells for over $100,000 and who is his generation selling it to? My generation, which barely makes more income than he did over 40 years ago.
This is no excuse to not work or to be lazy, but let's not deny the obvious: people are far more motivated to work when they can see it paying off, when they actually have a chance at owning something, rather than living paycheck to paycheck and incurring debt just to survive.
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How old do you think I am? I’m not a boomer, I’m a millennial. In my profession we can’t find young people who are willing to get into the trade. The few who try it out, quit because “it’s too hard”. Which is funny, because advancements in technology have made it far easier today than it was when I started. We are always looking for help, but finding young people who want to work is like hunting unicorns. There are help wanted signs all over around here and no takers apparently. Yes inflation makes things more difficult, but it’s not harder to survive today than it has been at various times in this country’s history... so suck it up, buttercup.
Same in tree service. That's why we basically had to raise our crew, and why our young men stand out!
If you pay taxes on your property....you can never own it.
The financial bondage is what the Bible calls "Going even to Babylon."
Our deliverance is prophesied too.
Watch the full length version of The Money Masters for a better understanding of how fractional reserve banking has been destroying us. YHWH said no usury was acceptable between believers. This is why.
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And read G. Edward Griffin's classic masterpiece, "The Creature From Jekyll Island."