Millennial Monopoly 

"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone) 05/08/2018 at 16:07 • Filed to: None

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You start with no money, you can’t afford anything, the board is on fire, an orange orangutan is pushing the world towards WW3 and everything seems to be your fault

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/08/2018 at 16:24

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Typical Millennial, can’t spell for shit.

(full disclosure, I’m 26 and in the same boat as you and can’t spell)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/08/2018 at 16:24

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fun for the whole family :)

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/08/2018 at 16:28

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Most of us start with negative money to the tune of tens to hundreds of thousands. On a monopoly gameboard, we’d start at like -100M.

Tekamul > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/08/2018 at 16:28

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Voter turnout by age

benjrblant > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/08/2018 at 16:31

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Yeah, can’t even spell Sergio. Sheesh.

Ash78, voting early and often > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/08/2018 at 16:35

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Or the alternate version of the story, where you grew up making 3x the hourly wages of people just a decade older than you (despite almost no inflation), had parents willing to let you move home after college, got to enjoy the best toys, tools, and cars in the history of mankind, and made yourselves susceptible to marketing and stereotypes by putting all of your personal information on multiple websites, giving marketers and bullies everythin they could ever need to own you. And the resultant stress and time consumption eats up so much of your time and well-being, you don’t have time for anything else.

That’s the cynical version, but it’s not wrong. But I have to be cynical, I’m a Gen Xer.

But I think we can all agree on this idea: Boomers, am I right?!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/08/2018 at 16:40

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I’m less nervous about global destruction now that the Korea situation seems to be simmering down. As for Iran:

Hoping to maintain a truncated agreement, the European leaders asked Iran to “show restraint.” They also asked Trump and the United States “to avoid taking action which obstructs its full implementation by all other parties to the deal.”

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Ash78, voting early and often 05/08/2018 at 16:42

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You forgot the part where they buy a home for cheap in the 80's or 90's and the value of the home climbs 300% in last 10 years.

Klaus Schmoll > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/08/2018 at 16:42

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“I thought that it is already common consensus that all of this is because you didn’t walk 20 miles to school, up hill, in the snow....... You know where this goes. Now stop waxing your beard and get a real job! Like your dad did, when everybody was hiring, and offering pension plans, and medical insurance, and if you did reasonably well you could stay there forever and make rank within the company. Homes were cheaper too? Booohoooo, cry me a river.

Now get on serving my fast food meal at your second job, which you have to do because your 10th internship pays zilch, but it’s your platform to get hired fo’ shizzle this time.”

Spanfeller is a twat > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/08/2018 at 16:50

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I wonder what will happen when baby boomers stop voting in such large droves.

Spanfeller is a twat > Tekamul 05/08/2018 at 16:53

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Yep, we pretty much stepped on ourselves.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/08/2018 at 16:58

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T’s are cheaper than D’s.

Under_Score > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/08/2018 at 17:04

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One of these posts again...

nermal > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/08/2018 at 17:05

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The obvious answer to our current social and economical problems is to start euthanizing old people when they go to the doctors.

“What’s that Ethel, you’re not feeling too well? Why don’t you have a seat next to my KEVORKIAN DEATH MACHINE. You’ll be feeling better shortly.”

Captain of the Enterprise > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/08/2018 at 17:20

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I’m in that game

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/08/2018 at 18:32

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Seriously. My house cost 6x as much as the house my parents bought around the same age. Their first house was even more depressing, but they were able to buy it a decade earlier in their life because they made so much relative to housing prices.

The difference is insane.

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 05/08/2018 at 19:21

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When my parents were in their early 20's, they had a ~30k mortgage. When I was in my early 20's, I had ~30k in student loans. :/

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 05/08/2018 at 19:32

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#PNWlife

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/08/2018 at 19:47

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My parents did that in 1982...borrowed 75% of the value of the house just to buy it at 13% per annum...which then went up to 18% per annum...took them 20 years and many thousands of extra work hours to break even. So it hasn’t all been roses...

None of us are immune from tinted spectacles and delusions of generational superiority. We are all just stupid humans with slightly different perspectives.

BigBlock440 > Klaus Schmoll 05/08/2018 at 21:55

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I’ve been hearing this same scree for literally 20 years. During those 2 decades, we’ve had both the dot com boom and the great recession, along with the rebound where unemployment’s at under 4%. If your situation doesn’t change in 20 years, maybe you should do something about it.

BigBlock440 > Spanfeller is a twat 05/08/2018 at 21:59

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Then Gen-Xers get shit on, while the iGen rants online about them and how they’re the fault of their shitty jobs.