• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
    1294·
    1 year ago

    Where I’m from, the median house price has risen 600% relative to median income since the 70’s.

    That means that we’re dropping more than the entire value of their home as our deposit, while we compete against capital-heavy boomers that benefited from that growth looking to downsize.

    There’s a reason they could have a house and 12 kids on a single summer job income - they were handed a strong economy that they ransacked for their own benefit before blaming the poor schmucks that are inhereting the stripped wreckage they’ve left behind. Couple that with the cost of the massive environmental pivot we’ll need to make to survive as a species, and I’m sure you’ll forgive me for wanting to drive the nose of the next boomer that preaches about smashed avocado toast and bootstraps through the back of their skull.

    • InputZero@lemmy.ml
      34·
      1 year ago

      I’m fascinated by how idioms have gone a complete 180. Now we tell people that they just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but that idiom is used to describe an impossible task. You can’t pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, it’s literally impossible. Same with it’s just a few bad apples to excuse bad behaviour. The idiom is a few bad apples ruins the barel, that one bad person or thing jeopardizes the whole thing. I don’t get it.

      • systemglitch@lemmy.world
        12·
        1 year ago

        People are rather ignorant as a whole. Many of us here probably use our brains for genuine thought, but I find that to be the exception.

        Look at the shit people focus on as important and how they mimic what they see and parrot what they hear and it becomes clear how they can’t even get simple sayings right.

        Also I put my hand into a bag of apples last night and my finger dug into a rotten spot in one apple with mold in it. Thankfully it didn’t get a chance to spread… close one.