And that, my friends is a product of such literature such as Twilight... Let me remind you that the now elderly have built this country to be what it is now. I won't even try to argue, the author is either a troll or a very uneducated and stupid person.
Uneducated and stupid? I may be one, or the other, but certainly not both. I'm not either, though, for the record.
Thanks for bringing up the excellent point that the sad state of affairs we find ourselves in these days is the elderly's fault. I agree wholeheartedly!! If they had raised their kids better, focused on education instead of bullshit World Wars, weren't a bunch of racist pigs and religious fanatics, maybe this world would be a better place right now. But noooooo, thanks to the elderly we are all poor, stupid, lacking manners and still at war with each other.
I always like to jump in when people talk about how "bad things are nowadays...so much worse than the generations before" and "how fucked up things are today."
60 years ago, 16 year olds served in most militaries; in many cultures, 14 year old girls were expected to be married and making babies; women lived in servitude to men as second class citizens. Would you like to be a black man or woman in the 1950s? You'd get to experience racizm on a whole new level. Life expentancy was 61. People died from simple infections. If you suffered from a back or knee injury, you were crippled till the day you died...
You think we're poor now? Many of us in 1st world countries have NO idea what poor really is. Most of our grandparents, if they were lucky enough to find work, labored 12 hour days, six or seven days a week just to feed our parents, who didn't throw a fit because they couldn't get the latest iphone or go to ivy league colleges...
...I could go on.
We owe a great deal of gratitude to the our parents and/or grandparents. Someday, you'll be there...and your children will whine about how fucked up the world you left them is.
Sadly you seem to be rushing to join this apparent human cesspool before you even reach old age. Incredibly judgemental, harsh and bigotted comments. Rather than complaining about your inheritance maybe you could focus on making it a better place?
What should we do with our unwanted senior citizens?
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And that, my friends is a product of such literature such as Twilight... Let me remind you that the now elderly have built this country to be what it is now. I won't even try to argue, the author is either a troll or a very uneducated and stupid person.
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I don't think Twilight the sparkling vampire franchise has anything to do with the view that the elderly become 'useless' once they cease to work :/
Anyway, I'm thinking the OP was sort of kidding.
Uneducated and stupid? I may be one, or the other, but certainly not both. I'm not either, though, for the record.
Thanks for bringing up the excellent point that the sad state of affairs we find ourselves in these days is the elderly's fault. I agree wholeheartedly!! If they had raised their kids better, focused on education instead of bullshit World Wars, weren't a bunch of racist pigs and religious fanatics, maybe this world would be a better place right now. But noooooo, thanks to the elderly we are all poor, stupid, lacking manners and still at war with each other.
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I always like to jump in when people talk about how "bad things are nowadays...so much worse than the generations before" and "how fucked up things are today."
60 years ago, 16 year olds served in most militaries; in many cultures, 14 year old girls were expected to be married and making babies; women lived in servitude to men as second class citizens. Would you like to be a black man or woman in the 1950s? You'd get to experience racizm on a whole new level. Life expentancy was 61. People died from simple infections. If you suffered from a back or knee injury, you were crippled till the day you died...
You think we're poor now? Many of us in 1st world countries have NO idea what poor really is. Most of our grandparents, if they were lucky enough to find work, labored 12 hour days, six or seven days a week just to feed our parents, who didn't throw a fit because they couldn't get the latest iphone or go to ivy league colleges...
...I could go on.
We owe a great deal of gratitude to the our parents and/or grandparents. Someday, you'll be there...and your children will whine about how fucked up the world you left them is.
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tl;dr...but skimmed over enough to know what I said agreed, but wrapped it up in a nutshell.
Sadly you seem to be rushing to join this apparent human cesspool before you even reach old age. Incredibly judgemental, harsh and bigotted comments. Rather than complaining about your inheritance maybe you could focus on making it a better place?
They left us a much better world than what they grew up in.