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[-] Carvex@lemmy.world 87 points 1 month ago

Not not only their second home, but with a stay at home wife, three kids named Junior, a family dog, two cars, two weeks of vacation a year, and a retirement plan, all for 40 hours a week uneducated labor repairing vacuum cleaners.

[-] hungryphrog 38 points 1 month ago

two weeks of vacation time a YEAR?? What hellworld are you yanks living in?!

[-] Carvex@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I get one business week, 40 hours of vacation accumulated a year at my current job.

[-] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 23 points 1 month ago

You know you are in deep shit when your vacation time is measured in hours.
I'm just so, so sorry.

[-] hungryphrog 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Dhs92@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

I get 3 but it's accrued

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

two weeks of vacation a year

2+ weeks of time off is still normal isn't it? That's not that much

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My state is one of the few that guarantees paid time off. At minimum we get 1 hour of PTO for every 40 hours worked, so that works out to about a week and a half of combined sick leave and vacation.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Yes, but most places have gone to accrued time because that way most people will use a good chunk of it before summer on various other things.

[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Funny, most Boomers in the UK are dirt poor and live in a tiny rented terrace.

[-] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 5 points 1 month ago

And a girlfriend and a mistress, don't forget those.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

Ha! You think some kid can afford a luxurious staircase studio on minimum wage? That's prime real estate!

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 26 points 1 month ago

No kidding. That's gotta be at least $2200/mo rent

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Boomers in their 20s were also hoping that WW3 wouldn't start tomorrow.

[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Welllll... Neither the US nor the Soviet Union had complete lunatics running the country at the time.

[-] tisktisk@piefed.social 16 points 1 month ago

Genuinely curious why progress toward a society of similar potential/qualities of the boomer gen is so beyond impossible please help

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 1 month ago
[-] tisktisk@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

You mean people (?) let them (boomers) permanently impede progress somehow? I'm not doubting you, just questioning the means and any specifics that can be spelled out

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 11 points 1 month ago

No boomers were much more likely to be plunged into a third world war. They also had something to lose, unlike me with fuck all.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

They more likely to be plunged into an accidental nuclear war. We're more likely to be plunged into ww2 part 2: electric boogaloo.

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 9 points 1 month ago

Boomers had the cold war to worry about though

[-] zedgeist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Well then, it's a good thing nuclear weapons aren't a thing anymore. Phew.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

Something something by my bootstraps...

[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Sure, older people aren't worried about WW3 at allllll.

You know one of the reasons we're on the brink of WW3? Because of devisive shit like this.

[-] plyth@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Zoomers all have internet. Enough of them study economics or politics. There is not another Occupy Wall Street. Do all the clever people already have well-paying jobs?

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