OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says there are now more millennials than baby boomers in the country, ending the 65-year reign of the post-Second World War generation as the largest cohort in the pop...
Some of us are just hanging around with old age looming and no money to afford a house or for retirement. We have to keep working until we die, but no one’s going to give us a job until then. The only question seems to be whether death gets us before or after homelessness and starvation.
Normally when I say this someone comes out of the woodwork to say it’s my own fault I haven’t saved up a bunch of money or bought a house. I assume these people are either young or lucky, because life can take unpredictable and expensive turns.
Politically, being financially screwed after growing up with Reagan and Thatcher and seeing the globally destructive consequences of neoliberalism playing out over decades exactly as expected is actually a good way to lose all doubt that greed is bad and see that more than ever we need a radical left turn.
Gen X is a mixed bag. While some went cheerfully into corporate management and others are established capitalists, a good number are living lives of insecurity while watching the capitalists destroy the world our children already live in.
…gen X here: finally managed a modest house in my mid-fourties but i’ll be working until the day i drop…still fighting the powers that be to little avail, but at last they’re starting to die off…
Some of us are just hanging around with old age looming and no money to afford a house or for retirement. We have to keep working until we die, but no one’s going to give us a job until then. The only question seems to be whether death gets us before or after homelessness and starvation.
Normally when I say this someone comes out of the woodwork to say it’s my own fault I haven’t saved up a bunch of money or bought a house. I assume these people are either young or lucky, because life can take unpredictable and expensive turns.
Politically, being financially screwed after growing up with Reagan and Thatcher and seeing the globally destructive consequences of neoliberalism playing out over decades exactly as expected is actually a good way to lose all doubt that greed is bad and see that more than ever we need a radical left turn.
Gen X is a mixed bag. While some went cheerfully into corporate management and others are established capitalists, a good number are living lives of insecurity while watching the capitalists destroy the world our children already live in.
…gen X here: finally managed a modest house in my mid-fourties but i’ll be working until the day i drop…still fighting the powers that be to little avail, but at last they’re starting to die off…
This is me as well. My sibling is older X, but is much more successful than me, but it wasn’t a hand out by any means.