• alvvayson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    One thing about the greatest generation (my grandparents).

    They saw some serious shit and were just legitimately happy we don’t have to see that same shit.

    Funny how the coddled Boomer generation is often much more critical of the young, when they had the easiest ride ever.

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      They had it so easy but didn’t realize that that’s not the norm at all. They still expect the same to happen now. As if one can work through college and pay off all debts, or if just going to college meant landing a job, or even if you landed a job it would do little more than just make you live paycheck to paycheck.

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        Not even just that. My dad didn’t go to college, he joined the military at 18. He walked away from that and landed an engineering job with no degree. Now, he’s in a position that would ask for a masters minimum making nearly 300k a year.

        I joined the military and walked away with bad knees and a list of phone numbers to get a job in the trades. Don’t get me wrong, I took it, but damn I’m sure as hell not making anything near what he was at my age.

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      A point boomers, the children of WW2 fighters, intended to be driven into the backs of their own children.

      Blunting that point, that’s the point. Blunting it with “It’s okay that you don’t have to kill, it’s good that you don’t have to kill, your choice not to kill is good. I love you.”