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Rather than just digging a deeper hole, we should maybe also figure out how to deal with the people who are where they are now, regardless of how they got there

by a3n 11y ago

Rather than just digging a deeper hole, we should maybe also figure out how to deal with the people who are where they are now, regardless of how they got there.

AnthonyMouse 11y ago
Part of how to deal with them is how they got there. You make your own bed and you're the one who has to sleep in it.
- ThomPete 11y ago
  no your bed is prepared for you by the previous generations.
  - AnthonyMouse 11y ago
    Bullocks. The generation comprising the largest voting bloc in the last half century is responsible for what they voted for. Student loans instead of student grants, and loans from banks instead of loans from the government. Subsidized mortgage interest instead of subsidized new housing construction. Encouraging banks to lend to so many uncreditworthy borrowers that it tanked the world economy and devalued their retirement savings. They voted to let the banks take their money. They now own the consequences of that.
    - ThomPete 11y ago
      Not sure what you mean. There are more or less 15 years where they don't get to vote or decide anything. It's like blaming someone for being evangelical when his or her parents is. It's true they can "just" decide to not be evangelical christians but it's not that simple. But sure if you believe that then everything I am saying is going to sound like bullocks.
      - AnthonyMouse 11y ago
        > There are more or less 15 years where they don't get to vote or decide anything. Those were the same years that they weren't generating income, paying taxes or borrowing money. And what about the other 40 years?
- ux-app 11y ago
  > You make your own bed and you're the one who has to sleep in it. This is a very American way of looking at the world. It's also deeply flawed. You have far less control over your own destiny than you think. For example, people who get cancer don't choose to. I find this kind of "fk 'em, throw 'em under a bus" mentality gross.

by a3n 11y ago

Rather than just digging a deeper hole, we should maybe also figure out how to deal with the people who are where they are now, regardless of how they got there.

AnthonyMouse 11y ago

Part of how to deal with them is how they got there. You make your own bed and you're the one who has to sleep in it.

ThomPete 11y ago
no your bed is prepared for you by the previous generations.
- AnthonyMouse 11y ago
  Bullocks. The generation comprising the largest voting bloc in the last half century is responsible for what they voted for. Student loans instead of student grants, and loans from banks instead of loans from the government. Subsidized mortgage interest instead of subsidized new housing construction. Encouraging banks to lend to so many uncreditworthy borrowers that it tanked the world economy and devalued their retirement savings. They voted to let the banks take their money. They now own the consequences of that.
  - ThomPete 11y ago
    Not sure what you mean. There are more or less 15 years where they don't get to vote or decide anything. It's like blaming someone for being evangelical when his or her parents is. It's true they can "just" decide to not be evangelical christians but it's not that simple. But sure if you believe that then everything I am saying is going to sound like bullocks.
    - AnthonyMouse 11y ago
      > There are more or less 15 years where they don't get to vote or decide anything. Those were the same years that they weren't generating income, paying taxes or borrowing money. And what about the other 40 years?
ux-app 11y ago
> You make your own bed and you're the one who has to sleep in it. This is a very American way of looking at the world. It's also deeply flawed. You have far less control over your own destiny than you think. For example, people who get cancer don't choose to. I find this kind of "fk 'em, throw 'em under a bus" mentality gross.