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Yeah, sure, "young people know it". Because they invented unions, labor laws etcetera. This self-congratulating bs is an insult to the people who have quite li
by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Yeah, sure, "young people know it". Because they invented unions, labor laws etcetera.
This self-congratulating bs is an insult to the people who have quite literally laid down their lives for workers rights.
If anything, most of the young people around me are totally naive when it comes to their relationship with their employers and the economic consequences of lack of job security. It will hit them hard when they want to buy a home and start a family, but by then it will be too late.
Sure, some will have cool careers and write awesome blog posts about it. But the vast majority of millennials are getting screwed hard exactly because of this clueless attitude.
If you are this naive and self-involved, you lose the right to bitch about selfish babyboomers taking all the things.
- arca_vorago 11y ago"quite literally laid down their lives for workers rights." Too many people don't know about this or don't care, and I largely blame the educational system. When is that last time you heard about J D Rockefeller and the Ludlow massacre in school? Oh yeah, that's right, never.
- justizin 11y agoThis post makes me sad because I caught myself using the term "young people" the other day. I get to catch the blame for all things Millenial and Generation X, so I tread carefully. All young people are naive and self-involved. Naivete shouldn't be used as an insult, because it is the natural state of things, wiped away by life experience. Oh Wise One, grow up. ;)
- itsybitsycoder 11y agoI feel like the people who laid down their lives for workers rights might be more upset about their work being slowly undone and rampant anti-union bias than they would be by some fluff article on a blog.