"Millenials should be willing and able to work longer and harder than their grandparents did."
Let me translate this from Politico-ese.
"Fuck you, kids, slave away at your six temp jobs 18 hrs/day while I suck labor value up into my yacht and golf course, that I'm going to die on soon before the quadrillion shadowbank debt-splosion and climate refugee crisis takes a shit on you and your children's future."
https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2018/06/07/millennials-preparing-for-retirement-000670
@silverspookgames My both grandfathers died at 75, one was an alcoholic because he'd always been under a heavy depression because of the civil war and all the rest...
The other grandfather had 2 jobs (or even 3) at the same time for years. Worked in a mine and in a steel ironworks for a long time... I don't really want to work more than him, when he was "old" he almost couldn't breath and he was completely fucked up.
Just wanted to remember that. We can't let this happen again.
@ekaitz_zarraga Damn, that is terrible, but not uncommon for the time.
My grandfather was a broke-ass typesetter from the ghetto, and rather than merely working harder, he joined a union and the communist party, and through collective action forced the redistribution of wealth from the rich, established the social safety net, and gave their kids in the 50's possibility to have "retirements" at all.
That's a better model I think than this, "Just work harder," bullshit.
@silverspookgames Well, my grandparents couldn't join the union or the communists because there was a fascists dictatorship here and they were like... y'know... murdering the communists.
Probably a good time to reiterate: