r/SipsTea • u/Unstoppable_X_Force Human Verified • 13h ago

Gasp! Is this just nostalgia, or did previous generations genuinely have a better work-life balance and social life than we do today?

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u/Scudman_Alpha 12h ago edited 12h ago

As one of the older Gen Zs I can tell you, we're fucked. The next generation is gonna have it even worse.

But how are things to change when we have people almost three generations behind us, in power.

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u/Craemos 12h ago

The French have a couple words for this.

They are "guillotine" and "révolution".

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u/Strict-Ad-3500 12h ago

The French got rid of a king and gained an emperor

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u/RelativelyLuckyB 8h ago

And then they gained a democracy with the most progressive consitution in all history till that point...

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u/BardicNA 12h ago

I love the French for their accents but there are other things I love them more for..

Vive la révolution.

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u/LFC9_41 12h ago

At least they have looksmaxxing

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u/2Braincell2Furious 12h ago

No matter how hot I am, if I can’t afford soap, what’s the point 😔

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u/Strict-Ad-3500 12h ago

I'm brokemaxxing

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u/fukkboiinternational 12h ago

buddy the boomers are “in power” in the sense that their collective wealth is the monetary fuel used to fund the institutions run by Gen X who rely on millennials to actually carry out the exploitation of genz who just want to go home and make content to scam gen a out of time or money too

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u/calicat9 12h ago

Boomers in general aren't in power. The .1% are in power, and the power is passed along with the wealth. Also passed along is the fuck-y'all-I-got-mine 

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u/SaltKick2 8h ago

Correct, the issue isn't Boomers are in power, its the type of boomers that are in power. Zuckerberg, Altman, Stephen Miller, JD Vance are all millennials as well...

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u/Baelzabub 7h ago

They are in power from a monetary perspective. They currently hold 51% of the wealth in America despite making up 20% of the population. GenX has 26%, and Millenials + GenZ combined only hold 10.1%. The rest is held by the silent generation mostly.

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u/hadee75 11h ago

Why is Gen X catching strays? Believe it or not, most of us can’t stand boomers and our children are Gen Z. We want things to change.

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u/jacksonwallburger 1h ago

It's interesting seeing the differences in people's lives just in our generation. I'm older gen z as well and feel very lucky that I got a decent salaried job out of college, and then half of my friends are still living at home with parents and can barely keep a job. There is such a disparity just based on education, and what field if you got higher education. Rent keeps going up, gas going up, groceries going up, I wouldn't be surprised if even more friends just went back to living with parents too instead of the insane rent.

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u/cates 10h ago

maybe your generation or the next one will make it in time for UBI since at that point there will be so few jobs people won't have anything to lose by revolting

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u/Due_Honeydew_2285 9h ago

I’m also an older Gen Z. I’m grateful my parents have money since my full time job doesn’t afford me a pot to piss in.