HubertManne

Yeah work study was scarce but honestly folks I know who got it got paid wereas in the new millenium feels like a lot of that became unpaid. Late nineties was the time I wish I took more advantage of. Fast food is a good example though. In high school it was the job no one wanted but everyone could get. minimum wage to start but if you showed up regularly, ontime and sober you generally got at least a quarter an hour more and then regular nickle raises. min wage was 4 bucks though so its not as slight as it sounds. You go to a place and ask for an application then fill it out and it was 100% getting a job in the 80’s with fast food. Its actually from millenial friends that I learned that was not a thing for them. I was working in the late nineties based on my skills of knowing how to navigate windows and search the internet and they hired folks who could not really do that.

Im suuuuppppeeerrr skeptical about fortune as a source but I can’t read that as I don’t have a subscription. I have seen the economy and I would not have wanted to start later. If anything my do over thing would have been to not to go to school so much and start earning sooner.

definately not better for millenials or gen Z. At least I would not trade forward but I would totally trade backward on my birthdate. Inheritance is great if your rich enough but for the average person it might be a slight help like downpayment on a house but is not going to help you get through day to day. If anything its a sucking away of any middle class generational wealth they managed to obtain. For many there is no inheritance option or what little there is cannot cover costs. Completely agree on co-ops and B corps.

economies were more cyclical then though and there we were at the height of social safety nets. In addition there was progress in societal things (civil liberties) and efficiency gains were reflected in pay. I mean what we have today is just nuts. The 2008 drop pretty much went down to the 2000 one as far as low point and outside of the market it has not been good at all except ironically for a blip around covid. 25 years is justs a nuts timespan. The great depression and ww2 were just a few years. During that time even just after the housing crash the prices were not as affordable as they were back then and honestly housing is such a major part of everyones life that it just dwarfs any other economic thing in a persons life with maybe health insurance being a competitor. I mean times were tough and yeah in some cases the mom had to pick up a job but it is nothing like the everyday reality of the last quarter decade.

From my youth im used to some credits at the start. The big stars and such, but then the comprehensive list after. I have never known the comprehensive list to occur before the movie.

Thats just the two parts of enshitification. take away things you like and push things you don’t. I still can’t believe how bank sites can be so limited in what you can do but hey heres a useless feature we give so all good.

oh yeah. older you are the better prospects you have and the younger the worse. we can all see that. Heck even late boomers are down vs early ones. Silent generation you have things sucking when you were a kid but from there everything pretty much got better. Boomers never saw it bad till the very end of life. So they traded bad times between young kid and old age. Xers got to see and experience good times when young and experience the slow decline in early adulthood. millenials got a glimpse of the good times but never really got much of a taste and grew up when the decline was slow but the fast decline was their adulthood. Im concerned Z and beyond don’t even have a perspective of better times and fall for it can only be so good for the average person.

lets not forget browbeating the fed to drop interest rates before covid hit.

I was noticing this as well. The place that should have the highest tarrifs.

Is that an issue. I thought glass did not allow uv through.

well yeah. the fake news is from them. trump implying to try to have cake and eat it to again.

I agree whole hardheadedly. Felt like my last company was like that which was funny because they were also ultra paranoid with security which seemed like a conflicting thing.

Historical context is not merely opinion. It boggles my mind that you can use the phrase objective news given whats currently considered news compared to historic context that being further from spin and given verification time is has solid facts.

Then half of npr articles are not news. There is breaking news then there is looking at current issue from a lens of a bit of time. I like those the best actually as breaking news tends to be full of fud but with a few months of time the picture becomes more clear. Then there are things like this taking a current issue and comparing it in a historical context. I find those valuable as well. It would not appear if we were not in a new gilded age but since the same mistakes are being repeated its relevant. Half the article talks about what is going now.

I swear I heard terry savage talking about how down the road it could be a good thing on the morning news. I was one room away and I can’t be exactly sure but man if the fud is actually being taken up. wow.

on my linux it opens the zorin menu which is pretty much like the start menu

Many things in government do not do well with move fast and break things attitudes.

Understandable. Missing so much. The return of crimea. Payments for starting the war and rebuilding of Ukraine. hundred miles of russia past the boarder turned into a buffer zone controlled by the UN. Arrest and trial of putin and other collaborators.

Can you blame him. The man needs decent fellatio.

I do miss the way I used to be where I would get things exactly as I want and experiment with things. Now I just want to slap something on and be using it within the hour.