Generation Screwed: Or why my generation will never get anywhere

[Mr Khan]

Kasz216 said:

wfz said:

I believe that is an entirely different situation. If you keep "sacraficing" the youth for the old, then when the old are gone, what will you have left? It seems to me like the middle part of society would collapse due to this. The other way around, however, would keep society moving and young as the old people would be "sacrafice" for the young. If old people don't have money, they will be unhealthy, starve, die, etc. If young people don't have money, they'll do the same. How then will these young people have families, and how will they support them? I'd much rather we all die early than cut out our bottom support (which is the youth).

 

But like I said, I'm speaking in general terms on a really focused example. I didn't actually mean to start any debate about this. But hey, while I'm here, I'm going to make one last comment on your post. I just hope for their children's sakes that one of their parents is there at home to raise them!

I'm guessing you've never been poor.  Unhealthy is an issue... but starving... people don't starve... not in western countries.  Additionally, it's not like old people will be around FOREVER.

Worst case scenario is you get a "Lost Generation".. and in reality, it will never be a real lost generation.  Just a larger percentage of people unemployed or underemployed then normal.

Khan for example isn't upset he can't get a job, it's that he can't get a job he likes, preferably in his career.  He just had a job that he quit (or is going to quit.)

That one i'm classifying as a scam job. It's bogus to have to drive multiple hours away to a work-site with no compensation when you're only getting paid $8 an hour to begin with. I would easily accept a minimum-wage job if they had any that would hire me (because of overqualification), and aren't scams, since Inventory was the second job i quit/got fired from this summer because it was completely bogus and borderline illegal (i actually had to report the first employer to the PA Labor Dept in order to get them to pay me)

Minimum-wage jobs won't hire me. This has been my curse for some reason since i was 16.