This is some let them eat cake bullshit disguised as ignorance off her own industry. I’m not even sure who the fuck this messaging is for.
im sure her name was just added to a few peoples lists for that statement.
47 year old here.
Shut the fuck up you lying shit.
Can someone make sure she’s already on the menu? Move her up the list a bit.
How much Starbucks do these rich assholes drink to think stopping that purchase would get me my own home?
Isn’t everybody drinking 25,000 worth of Starbucks a year?
there are actually people who get it more than once every day on average, literally a hundreds of dollars a month expense
and the fucking dumbest part of it is that that’s still not enough to put a dent in a downpayment
Stop buying everything. Trade shit. Food? Ok, buy that and nothing else. Let it all burn.
Grow and trade food
I try to sell my excess produce below grocery store pricing, but people at the meet ups always tell me how they dont have enough money or got no money, if I can give it to them for free.
Now I just give it to a food bank
Acquire food from supermarkets and then leave. They just leave it sitting around all over the place, in there!
But dumpster diving being a legit source of food is fucked up.
ok, avoiding starbucks is easy because six fucking dollars for a coffee so they can pay their CEO 6,660 times what a barista makes, just so he can fly between seattle and sfo DAILY, yeah, that’s easy, but that’s not going to transform the entire fucking economy.
what boomers faced 30 years ago? lol, record low interest rates, cheaper education, much higher % of union participation, help me out here what was the rough stuff the boomers went through 30 years ago?
NO FUCKING TELL ME I WANT TO KNOW
Boomers bought their houses in the '70s and '80s when the interest rates were 15%. It’s a big part of why the houses were cheaper for them.
Not giving them a pass. They did have what is likely the easiest economy in American history, but they didn’t have record low interest rates.
In 1970 the median house was about 22k and median income for white families was 10k mostly via a single earner.
Minorities were of course fucked as usual.
You could save up and outright buy. Now a median household is 80k with 2 folks working looking at 800k anywhere near the jobs they work. With interest of course its more like 1.6M
I more or less agree. The home price to income ratio in the US bottomed out in '74 at 3.62-ish. A healthy economy is between 4 and 5. The peak of the housing bubble was 6.78. Today it’s around 7.05. We are beyond cooked and this lady is out of her mind.
That’s a legitimate frustration. We don’t need to pretend interest rates were at a record low for the boomers to validate that.
They had to watch women, black people, queer folk and transgender people exist and they were scared.
the horrors
If a boomer was buying a house 30 years ago, they were between 32 and 50 years old. They were not buying starter homes 30 years ago. They already had equity.
I was well alive and conscious back then. There was no crisis and home ownership was carefree. The 99’s were awesome. She’s just a lying removed. Boomers never faced any real challenge besides poor brown kids.
So was I and there was a long recession from 90 to 92. Unemployment hits 7.8% and I believe there were a record number of people on food stamps. It’s what made George HW Bush a single term president.
Their economy boomed under Clinton and with the dawn of the internet, but even then middle-aged boomers Warren tech savvy enough to repo the full benefits.
None of that is to say they didn’t have it far easier than millennials and zennials. They did. But disliking them doesn’t mean we have to overlook the facts. They were challenges along the way.
they were complaining about the prices for their rentals probably
The 0.01% has stolen $75,000,000,000,000 from US workers over the last 45 years, but sure.
Some of us aren’t buying Starbucks you dumb twat. But bills still keep escalating. We don’t need just Luigi. We need all of the Super Smash Bros.
Yeah probably shouldn’t be listening to this person
Who is drinking Starbuccks in 2025? Just last month Starbucks closed 400 stores and laid off 900 employees in North America.
This will inevitably become “Gen Alpha is killing coffee shops”. Fewer Barista jobs are available. The small, local coffee shop that is a nice quiet place to hang out or meet up with friends closes.
The problem is ghouls like her scraping value off the top of everything and hoarding that wealth like a dragon. Removing it from the system so their own personal number goes up.
Eh, read the first little bit of the article, and bailed as soon as she was noted as saying stuff along the lines of “back then it was harder, because there were fewer desirable areas people wanted to live!”.
In other words, back then you had cheaper options in the other nearby areas, which have since become unaffordable for starter homes. Nowadays you gotta move out to the middle of nowhere, where there’re no jobs.
So idiot/detached CEO confirmed from my pov, her appearance at least matches her apparent personality.
As always there is something in german to respond to this (especially to this thumbnail):
„Du hast ein Gesicht wie ein Paar Latschen: Reintreten und wohlfühlen!“
Roughly translated to:
‚You have a face like a pair of slippers: step in and feel comfortable!‘ but with „reintreten“, here: ‚step in‘, primeraly meaning ‚to kick in‘.
Have fun with this random knowledge, copyright by K.I.Z., „Der durch die Scheibeboxxxer“.
By boomer standards I’m lower middle class as an engineer. I could theoretically afford a kid or two and a small house, and with two incomes we could even do that while having occasional vacations and retirement savings. You know, the sort of life that so long as you didn’t really fuck up you could afford as a boomer, but several years younger than me as well.
