11-05-2022, 01:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-05-2022, 02:03 PM by Eric the Green.)
(11-04-2022, 08:26 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:(11-03-2022, 12:28 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Take this job and shove it! After a while, given the opportunity, people will quit their shitty neoliberalReaganomics-era job and look for better options after being subjected to horrific oppression by bosses and slave wages. Labor is asserting its rights! Under renewed neoliberalism after this shitty election, there will be more rebellion! God Damn America!
(11-03-2022, 12:28 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: better options after being subjected to horrific oppression by bosses and slave wages. Labor is asserting its rights! Under renewed neoliberalism after this shitty election, there will be more rebellion! God Damn America!
You just moved the goalposts considerably: asking me for evidence of a given phenomenon, only to later admit that you yourself believe the same phenomenon to be taking place. "you don't have any prove that Group A is doing X" --> "okay, so I don't blame Group A for doing X!". Frankly, this is disingenuous.
Alas, one thing I've typically seen eye-to-eye with liberal boomers is that we both share a fundamental assumption of "people who work hard and perform well should be rewarded for their effort and expertise". Where we differ is to the degree that we believe people get what they deserve (once again, I'm a moderate here because I think things like that are super case by case). However, a lot of late wave millennial and Gen Z liberals have essentially taken an attitude of "I give up, I'm just gonna opt out". Tbf, something superficially similar can be seen with Gen X, but where Gen X embraced the gig economy, the former are literally just dropping out and expecting other people to pay for them.
You lost me in how "I moved the goalposts".
Again, you provide no evidence for your conclusions about "a lot of late wave millennial and Gen Z liberals". Such a contention cannot be validly based on personal observations of people you have run across or know.
The reason a lot of young people don't have jobs today is that the jobs do not pay enough to meet sky-high-priced expenses, so they stay home. The economic crisis of our time remains the drastic erosion of economic equality in the USA due to Reaganomics neoliberal policy, and younger people are the most affected by this.
Again, the videos embedded and linked at my site as well as my writing explain this problem very well. That includes plenty of evidence for my points.
http://philosopherswheel.com/freemarket.html