Are the rich and old eating us alive?
Are we facing a caste system like in India?
What can we learn from the 1920s Russian famine?
Is real estate the next target after Wall Street?
Are corporations and boomers working against the younger generation?
Are fraudulent student loans putting us in debt?
Let’s unite in groups for a better future.
Real estate – a tool for the wealthy or the people?
Is history repeating itself with the rich getting richer?
Are we heading towards a crisis?
#EatTheRich #RealEstateRisks #GenerationalWealthGap #StudentLoanDebt #CorporateGreed #FinancialCrisis #Activism #WealthInequality #FutureOutlook
“The old” .. you mean your own family and eventually you?
No, just the rich
I think a lot of us agree…but what do you want us to do about it? Very few of us are willing to do things that could likely result in prison time.
I think the previous generation failed because they didn’t care about the legacy they’d leave.
The hardest thing for us now, is to think of future generations and being willing to work for change even if it means great pains and sacrifice.
We can’t make the same mistake as the previous generations.
Watching X-men’97 right now, and there’s a saying in there: “Tolerance is Extinction”
1 month+ of 10-20M people refusing to work oughta do the trick
Lets try that
By us all going out and spending while living paycheck to paycheck we’ve created a monster. They won’t back off until we do. And it doesn’t look like the majority of the country is willing to do that. I fear this is only going to get worse until the entire thing comes buckling down. Great Depression 2.0 coming almost in time with its 100 year anniversary
Boomers collectively decided that they just don’t want to put out the effort to build a future they won’t live to see. They do, however, want to have their cake and eat it too.
They’ve been snackin on us since the dawn of time
“.. It’s more like a caste system developing..”
^ THIS
If we were to vote in overwhelming power they’d have to adapt, both by further rigging or dismantling the democratic process and by slow walking enough policy to gain them votes. Which one gives first depends on how much of our power we take
Back in the 90s the company I worked for was touting these 401K plans. We even had to go to a mandatory meeting for a sales pitch for the one our company was joining.
They made it all sound so wonderful (immediate red flag for me). But here were other red flags others failed to recognize:
– You had to invest a pretty good sum in “high risk” products, I think it was 30%. So there was no freedom in managing your money.
– The “companies” you were investing in were not recognizable. Turns out a lot of them were those bundles of high risk mortgages that turned out to be the cause of the real estate collapse of 2008.
– There was very vague information about fees being charged. It seemed like they could charge you anything and nothing you could do about it.
– The CEO of our company approached me and asked why I was not going with the plan. His sales pitch was “the company gives you FREE MONEY (matching 3% invested) and why would I want to leave all that money on the table? I asked him WTF do you care about MY retirement? You must be getting a commission on sales of this crap. He was stunned and walked away.
I am very sorry those people in the 60 Minutes segment lost all that money. But they should have recognized it for the scam it was.
There’s almost 3 million of us in here. Let’s fucking organize god damnit
Demographics are on our side, we just need to win this election. 2028 will be our time, but this Gaza obsession is ruining everything. If Trump wins again, he plans to double down on neoliberal economic policies per project 2025, worker protections will disappear overnight.
Wait till you learn about that one time The Economist released a podcast episode about old rich people receiving blood from younger people and feeling rejuvenated.
Rome fell, this will too. It is inevitable.
Funny you mentioned India and the caste system. I work with lots of Indians and many of them vote exclusively Republican because they actually believe it will be beneficial for their income. They will 100% sell out the greater good on the off chance it will have the most minuscule impact on their personal finances. Thankfully their American born children don’t seem to share the same values.
Already done. We’re just being digested, in November we will begin the shitting
start learning self sufficiency.
The only way is if we change the narrative from me to we. Sadly there is so much division and exploitation, not to mention most are too stupid to see who the true enemy of freedom is…
I dislike having such a nihilistic viewpoint but we got into this mess because those who make the moves are good at what they do, organized and efficient, the opposite of what the common folk are.
And as someone else mentioned we are so far down the rabbit hole it would damn near be impossible to climb out at this point. Burn it down, burn it ALL down.
Especially the old. Vote young please
A view from the other side: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014
He seems a very interesting guy
A few drops of Visine in the cook’s offering to their overlords might be in order
They already are.
You all who are obsessed with generational analysis got duped. Why does every generation go through this very same cycle of anger and then fail and make the same mistakes?
It isn’t about generations, it’s about capitalism. Do you think boomers are the only people in power? Look around at the main billionaires you know by name. And some of the worst politicians are Xers and Millenials. Look at your bosses.
You all are even more doomed to failure if you can’t make a systemic analysis. People and generations are interchangeable, the lethal logic of the system continues despite them.
Been eating us for awhile now…
How cute
Pensions were several things ago. After pensions there was healthcare, then education. After real estate will be food and water. Then they will just get rid of us all together and replace us with robots.
We need to compost the rich!
They already are!!
> They took away pensions for everyone,
Sorta but demographics wont support it (ageing population cant sustain pensions, thats why more progressive countries have superannuation etc, and countries like France are fucked as they are relying on governmental income to fund pensions)
The rich aren’t going to eat us, they are chewing.
The American school system has paved the way for this to happen. The cumulative IQ in the USA has been dropping significantly since 1997 and people don’t even realize that they’re getting screwed over.
This is the fall of an empire.
Too late, they already did and have been
They already kinda have been..:
The solution to this is to stop trusting in a two party system. Neither has your interests at heart. Begin a labor party. That is pro union, pro universal health care, pro raising the minimum wage, anti corporation, anti monopoly, pro affordable housing, pro paid time off.
No more big business lobbying politicians, no more insider trading by congress, no more raising congressional wages
Level playing field.
When we say “eat the rich” I’ve always understood that to be a figure of speech. I hope so anywy, I wouldn’t put any of them in my mouth if I was paid to. So what does the phrase mean in practice?
I like how you tossed that “and the old” in there.
How many rich old people do you know? Don’t be a tool. Think for yourself.
This! 100% this. They are coming for us, they’ve been systematicly cutting away at our liberties and the value of our labour for decades. We’ve finally noticed, but now we need to act. It’s going to hurt, but the future doesn’t manifest itself. Do we want their future, or ours?
A lot of boomers are screwed too. I’d say they are a false enemy. Look at the 1%. That’s the fight you want to engage in.
The rich will also eat the old, even if the old help them eat us.
> We need to unite in groups more than ever in the upcoming future
*recommends share house living and politically active communes
> No not like that I don’t want to share….
You think the rich are actually having lifestyle benefits with their actual money. It’s all spreadsheet gains. All of our suffering is just so they look at the numbers provided by their accountants and feel good about the number.
Fuck you – boomers paid in. Republicans took the money for their projects to feed the rich.
So please fuck yourself
We need to get rid of social security today. Seniors are eating multiples of what they put in. While we will only get a small fraction back. That’s clearly worse than thief. They are outright selling us into slavery.
I’ve been waiting for something like this. Let’s go
Not before seeing your nude pictures mam, lol
I spend my days doing just enough at my job, focusing on my hobbies, cooking nice meals while I can still afford groceries, and loving my beautiful wife. I’m happy I got to live through the end of prosperity, for what it is worth. Things were nice. We had it all. Today isn’t so bad, though, and every tomorrow will be a little worse, so I might as well indulge in all the things that make me happy while they are still here. I already know what it is like to live without – why sabotage the time we still have with?
**”if you do not share you wealth with us, we will be forced to share our poverty with you.”**