It isn’t the people who marched at Charlottesville who should be blamed. They’re out of power. Who should be blamed is the economic policy makers who misdirect non-whites against people who are screaming from the sidelines.
What the heavily Boomer 1% has done, is essentially camouflaged corporate racing to the bottom through global outsourcing to third world countries underneath anti-racism and tolerance. They talk about white supremacism while they fire white workers.
If it’s true that someone like Lance Armstrong can be considered a hero and then found to be a cheat, it’s also true that heroes have been cheated. I’m talking about business, not biking. And for the record, my stance is that it wasn’t just Lance, it was all of them.
My stance on Armstrong is that he was the best in a dirty era, but I needed an analogy here.
The problem I’ve always had is that the people who made their way up the ladder before globalization destroyed it don’t give their own jobs away. They make sure the “high experience” jobs stay here. It’s really a mess to see how inefficient the modern office is because of all the insulating things boomers have done. They go out of their way to mess things up for millenials.
From the time I got out of college I noticed that boomers were consolidating their power in business and intentionally putting experience requirements in such a way that only other boomers could get the jobs. Requiring such an amount of experience that would be unlikely if you didn’t come up at a certain time when certain things trended.
I’m realizing it wasn’t just me. In all areas of society, they rigged things in a way to hold money and power and basically screwed the next generation. It’s not that they’re more competent it’s that they gamed the system to artificially keep too large a share of power. Then they talk about globalization, pluralism and inclusivity – which they use to justify using extremely cheap labor for the other jobs where the costs of housing is next to zero in third world countries.
The reason older and older people keep taking more and more political seats is that the powers that be have realized that our generations are going opposite ways. It’s not about being on the same trajectory but earlier in that trajectory. We’re going another path. They know it and they’re doing everything they can to delay it. The problem is I don’t want to be 50 years old when finally some things start to get fixed.
The free market, unregulated, global economy with full trust in the rich and no safety net has been tried and failed. we’ve all seen it fail and experienced its failures.
The best decision I ever made was to not invest in housing. I decided that employers can’t be trusted and multiple times I’ve been proven right. There was a point in time where I could have bought an affordable house, but I didn’t, because I could get a feel that the economic forces weren’t based on merit. That essentially I was on a wave and that the wave could turn in the other direction. And i’ve been right every time.The problem is that you have dumbasses as corporate higher ups and I know that and I distrust buying a house when things are going well because of that.
Millennials aren’t making big investments because there are dumb asses higher up in corporate management. It’s a result of cynicism and of having lived a harder life than baby boomers, who were given everything and then bankrupted it. Technology might be improved, but idiots are still idiots. Even in upper management you have idiots.
If our generation had its act together, it would be so easy to just blame the previous one (skipping over gen x). They really set the course for destroying the ability for someone to work their way into the middle class by completely and totally allowing corporations to restructure globally and not be regulated. In such a way that drives down our wages but still sticks us with expensive housing and education.
If you worked in the tech fields, you’d gain an appreciation for how messed up it is. The problem is that technical issues are solved by knowledge, not corporate hierarchies. However, corporate white collar types try to impose their politics over issues that have technical requirement. On average, the Indians brought over aren’t very resourceful or skilled. They’re just brought over and then favored. Then the older boomers make sure the experience requirements are always really high to protect their own jobs, while placing Indians. It’s essentially people sitting in an office pretending to work and taking office politics to the point of not actually properly solving problems through the technical knowledge required.
Boomers have created a situation where management in many white collar corporations lives in a bubble. You’re often laid off with no warning, as if they had a meeting behind closed doors halfway across the country. Those who make decision are so removed from them.
I feel it in my 6th sense that big time calamities are coming for the united states and world in general. It’s just that our playground for the rich society has allowed the rich to isolate themselves from problems instead of really solving them. And at some point one of these problems – global warming, poverty, people who had their countries invaded – is going to come back and destroy the country.
What happened in our society is that when it came time to start planning for how the next generation was going to come up, the employers instead raised the experience requirements to 15 years in technologies that only existed for 5 years (boomer logic) and gave all the entry level jobs to the third world. They then slandered and complained about our generation. When we managed to actually get jobs, they screwed that up too with their management practices. That’s why Boomers are hated. They’re still living in the era of Ronald Reagan and trickle down economics long after they failed, and then the “liberal” ones just divert the issue to questions of race and social issues.
Baby Boomers think they can say two plus two is five and if someone shows that it’s actually four then that person has undermined them instead of simply followed a logical process and solved the equation based on rules that aren’t subject to your opinions.