That would elicit from me a reactive "kill yourself" and a lengthy period of awkwardness later

I hope you hung up on her.

Until they save $10,000*

The more you give advice from a place of genuine compassion, the more you work out your empathy circuitry and thus the better you will be at understanding others' problems and communicating with them, not to necessarily give them a solution, but to help them how they need.

Yes, but I also see the flip side. I often went without luxuries, or even good food in the early 90s (like cutting mold off my bread to make a sandwich for work) so that we could save to buy our first house. While I see young family members complain that life is expensive and its a boomer problem, but they forget their 20k debt is because they are using Skip to order a milkshake, burger, sub etc. every day. There has been a conveniece culture created, besides capitalism running wild on house prices.

I'd pay to see one of those little DOGE wankers forced to work on a construction site

Would be better if they had to apply online with an 18-25 year olds resume.

...which they then need to re-type into 17 different fields in a not quite broken corporate HR website.

In a lot of places, HR isn't even on site, or in some cases, they're not even part of the company. I know my current employer contracts their HR services.

our HR basally begs us for personal references once every few months, even offering referral bonuses for like $1000.

and almost none of our hires come from that. they are mostly blind hires for entry level. for mid and upper level they are head hunted.

we tried temp to hire through but those employees were almost always fired for being total disasters.

I mean, good, fuck HR. It exists to protect the company from you, not the other way around

Sounds like the company needs to create a lower level position at lower pay to get the less qualified people in. Then you can promote from that pool when you need the higher level positions.

Shit, I'm only 39 and don't think anyone should try to get into my career field now. Tech's entry level is all but gone. I don't know who the companies plan to promote to senior roles in the future when their senior people retire...

You don't get it. You're not supposed to apply in the field you worked before, or that you're good at.

The whole point is use boomer advice to apply to the jobs that are out there, with the salaries that are out there.

The whole point is that the job market sucks and you don't get to choose because there's more job applicants than positions.

Did you get good money for it at least?

What

Didn't have a vehicle?

Season 2, doing that entry level job.

Even in late 2000s companies were just doing resume collecting at internship or career fairs.

Hell think king of the hill was even doing episodes of how hard it was to get jobs it during its early seasons. When wallmart causes every business to go out of business

Yeah, they've had time to build networks which definitely help.

we are all under assault by a class war from the super rich

It isn't strictly from the super rich. There's layers to the class conflict. It's like an onion.

You have a large and entrenched class of pensioners who do actively resist any form of liberal economic reforms. You have an incredibly lucrative tech sector that rent-seeks off the political paranoia of the internet age. You have a bloated leviathan of police state, upon which tens of thousands of parasitic Kandy Krush Kops subsist. You have legions of ex-military mercenaries, security guards, consultants, D-list celebrity personalities, and bouncers. Then you've got sheriff's offices and prison companies and home security sellers and media propagandists and outright scammers, all drawing their incomes off a social fear of the underclass.

Plutocracy doesn't exist in a vacuum. A sizable chunk of the consumer economy is predicated on the process of violently suppressing the tier of labor below your own. We are not all under assault. Many of us are doing the assaulting.

not when those generations actively support the bullshit by being stubborn and ignorant

You don't even need to be a Boomer for this to be true. I'm 38. The only reason my partner and I own a house as nice as the one we currently do is because I got on the property market pretty early. I was in a place to buy a cheap town home in 2012. I put $3k down on an FHA mortgage on a $92k townhouse, and that got me out of renting. I've made plenty of extra payments over the years, even paid the mortgage on that townhouse twice. Since then I got married, and we moved across the country.

But yeah, we recently moved into our third home (we own only one home.) And we bought it for $600k with $400k down. Some of that is from ordinary principal payments. Some from early payments. But the vast majority of that $600k was from simple price appreciation. We bought at the bottom of the market and have rode it all the way up. And yeah, there is no way we could afford our current place if we had to buy without that equity we've built up.

Yeah, make sure they really understand the economic realities facing the younger generations.