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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe if Peter was paid a living wage, had rent that wasn’t price fixed, wasn’t at the mercy of artificial inflation, could afford to buy a home without an outrageous interest rate, a retirement age and pension that could support his retirement, and had all the economical advantages the boomers had… he wouldn’t be in a bar drinking himself into an early grave.

But, let’s blame Spider-Man.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

had all the economical advantages the boomers had

Spiderman was born in the 50s. He absolutely got all the economic advantages the boomers had.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ehhh, that's kinda like Batman though. Peter Parker is eternally a teenager/young twenties, just like Bruce Wayne is always in his late twenties/ early thirties, except that one comic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Bring back Old Bruce.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sure let's just give up because other people had it "easier"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

there is "easier" and then there is just mathematically impossible.

a house used to be less than 5 times your yearly salary in any region, now we are looking at halt a million+

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I just don't want to participate in a society that literally doesn't care about it's future or it's children enough to actually help them.

It's not giving up it's just a refusal to add to the problem and fight against a community of individuals trying to take as much from everyone else as possible.

And unfortunately that means dying young, poor, and unable to help myself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Is it giving up when it’s already hopeless?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe “engineered” inflation would explain it better