My dream reality show is politicians trying to survive for minimum wage for at least 3 months <3

Without a mobile you're practically doomed this days. Almost everything from buerocracy to job-research (and applying) is handled online and via phonecalls.

A number of years ago, I was homeless for a time. A man gave me his beat up cell phone, and bought me a phone card. Because of that, I was able to get a job, and get off the street. I'm a boomer, BTW.

Reminder that a cell phone with no plan on it can still call 911. Please donate your old phones to shelters.

My phone costs me £24 a month. That’s peanuts compared to the price of rent

More of a 'conservative' reaction than a boomer reaction

Do they really think that phones are more expensive than housing?? my phone cost me 7,49€ per month. Rent is much much higher

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The reason for the anger is that "free" phone and service is paid for by someone who's working hard for that "free" phone and service that they, themselves, cannot get. I'm not sure why millennials don't get this.

Anyone who uses the term 'snowflake' tends to, in fact, be one. I mean, you're being so sensitive about someone else's reaction to something done or said that bothered them that you took the time to give them a dismissive nickname.

Who made the decision not to teach cursive anymore? It's not like the kids were taught but refused to learn it... it was dismissed for whatever reasons, that's not the kids' fault.

This "X" logo look makes me want to turn off the post like you turn of small add. It looks so darn clickable

Why is this so true? 🙄

What is the point?

Are they really(?) Huh. Well, you learn something new every day(!)

I’d like to see a boomer try this and see if it gets them a job

Boomers: "go to college" Also Boomers: "college is LiBErAl indoctrination!"

🎶Back in my day we didn't need no feel good pills and no psychiatrists, we just drank ourselves to death... and god damnit we liked it!🎶

Boomers are going to experience a rude awakening when climate change forces us to choose between the 19 year old mom who needs water and meds for her kid in LA versus an 80 year old who can't help irrigate the crops. Things are going to get bad and $2 million in the bank won't help.

Average college tuition in 1970 was 360$ per year, translating roughly to 2300$ today. Current average college tuition in 2020 was close to 10k$. In 2023, it's 12k$, and 28k$ if we consider only private colleges. That's TUITION, the overall cost is about double that. Average hourly wage in 1970 was 4,70$, 37$ today. Average hourly wage in July 2023 is 33.74$. Tuition increase: 5 times as much. Average pay, basically the same, if not slightly lower.

My local newspaper did an article this week on WTF happened to our real estate market recently. Home prices have nearly doubled in the last 3 years and there are 0 available rentals. Turns out that several recent factors are the straw that broke the camels' back, but the real problem is we haven't built enough homes to keep up with population growth for almost 40 years. The boomers built their dream homes then tightened zoning laws to strictly limit how many new homes could be built around them and nearly eliminate multifamily homes and apartment buildings. The handful of home that can be built each year are mostly higher end "McMansions" because that is what the zoning laws favor and what developers can make the most profit on.

Because after 30 years of cold floors, you old tired feet want something warm and soft. It's not to p**s off future owners.

Believing that the work clothes you wear somehow correlates with your ability to do your job well is like believing that chainsaws are men's tools while blenders are women's tools.

It's really funny when you tell about people and don't mention they're black for example, and they start with, you didn't tell he was black why didn't you? Well it's not a character trait nor got it something to do with the story, so why does your racist a*s care about that?

"Money can't buy happiness" came from a study that said AFTER A CERTAIN AMOUNT money can't buy happiness ANYMORE. That saying was always correct, but it was taken out of context.

The American Dream was always just that. A dream. It never really existed, unless you were a white heterosexual man. If you were a woman, a person of color, or any form of LGBTQ+, that dream was never for you

As a millennial that drinks coffee from home I kinda agree...

Most Boomers won't be furious over how you spend your money, as long as you're willing to accept the consequences of your actions.

This intern c**p has to go, its exploitation pure and simple. As a mid fifties lady I can tell you I never heard of such a thing when I was starting out in the working world. Heck, I complained if I was paid jnr rates at 19, especially if co workers doing the same job in their 20s were paid more than me...and I won those arguments ffs. What is happening today with low paid and interns jobs turns my stomach frankly, it modern slavery and disrespectful to humans on an intrinsic basic level.

This post misses the point too. "We didn't light it. But we tried to fight it". Just because bad stuff already occured isn't an excuse to continue to let bad stuff keep occurring.

If I saved $5/week, I'd saved $260/year, and that'd be $2600 in 10 years. That doesn't get me very far.

Where's witness2thefact to argue that boomers are great and invented TV and telephones and never complain?

Meat and seafood has become a luxury that fewer and fewer can afford.

Ok honestly I know so many boomers with tattoos that this doesn't even make sense to me.

What was the hourly wage back then?