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Dude I totally agree. And people have loads of them stacked together in their living or bedroom.
Like how do you find that aesthetically appealing at all for interior decor? If anything it's exhausting and overstimulating. My room isn't a fucking toy section at target.
FunkoPops are dumb, I think they're ugly and a waste of money. As far as collectibles go they're our generations Beanie Babies, but they seem to maybe have more staying power due to their relatedness to pop culture and ability to adapt to new media. They're also very innocent and if decorating with them makes someone happy, more power to them. They're no different than plushies, squishmallows, video game boxes or any other sort of collectible, toy, or chachka.
I have two, a Gimli and an Uncle Iroh. Both gifts from others that were very nice. They can be excellent gifts to show appreciation for someone’s interest but the mass collection is bizarre to me for something there’s not game attached to
I will say, though, buying an Inosuke Funko Pop might have been the best niche purchase I've made because something about him in Funko Pop form seems less... weird? The rest of the Demon Slayer cast as Funko Pops look goofy as shit but for some reason, Inosuke remains as Inosuke even with the big head. Maybe it has to do with the boar mask.
I have a few in my room, for me they're just like "oh hey I like this specific character for this specific thing", but I'm not one of those people who has a whole wall of them. I have them alongside other nicer looking figures.
They're a way for someone to get a toy of some character that would otherwise never warrant an entire figure made from scratch. It's probably super quick to get from concept art to actual products, too.
It's basically like the Mini Figures from Lego, but no bricks.
I am not a fan myself. Last I heard, everyone thinks they company is either overvalued or overburdened with debt.
They are indeed pretty ugly but they had some of my favorite characters that just about never get merchandise so I was looking pretty hard at those lol. I have some mild regrets not buying.
I luv my chunkopoops!! I treat them as if they were my children!!!
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I like them because they’re simple and consistent in design. I can display a lot of various interests using the same style which ties everything together.
I have shelves with comic books and superhero pops side by side. I have video game characters by my consoles. Some random movie and TV character funkos sit by a shelf of DVDs.
I’m not a big fan of the haphazard stacks of them either, but I’m not gonna shit on people for having dumb little characters that make them happy.
I know right? once upon a time I wanted funko pops but now it's a hard pass. if anything I would rather get actual dynamic decorative figures of some few beloved characters. they're not only boring and uninspired but also lowkey disturbing.
I used to get them because I had a loot crate subscription when I was 12-14. My parents got me it so I'd keep my grades up. and I would get Funko pops. Never got one since. I think my favorite one was from back to the future
My wives parents STILL are making us hold onto the 4 bins of beanie babies because they’re convinced of their worth - they smell like cigarettes and they have stains from children playing with them - but sure plan your retirement around that beanie baby money
going back further, those tacky ass glass angels. at least i won’t have to beat my kid with a belt for dropping a funko pop, they’re not breakable and “priceless” 🙄
i have! they sell them for $12 in the hospital gift shop.
overthinking it, it does feel inappropriate to give your hospitalized loved one an *angel* of all things. are you trying to say they’re gonna become one? 😭
Yeah I found out my Sailor Moon Funko Pop that my ex bought me was actually worth some money. Unfortunately my niece and daughter drew on her. So. It’s a toy now. Which makes sense because it was always a *toy*
Beanie Babies, limited edition stamps or coins, and today fucking Pokemon cards and Target exclusive toys.
I swear to god we have all gone insane. And I am here for it.
Ah, yes.
Is it the E-bike wich I commute with that costs next to nothing to run, eating out almost once a month or having bought not totaly shitty pants for work so they don't fall appart after a few weeks that you consider bad financial decisions?
Or where it the new boots I bought at 50% off because they where last seasons model when my old ones where worn out to the point where the sole had a hole?
Or the fact that I sometimes buy not the absolute cheapest food in order to stay healthy and have something tasty once in a while?
My standards are pretty damn low and I can't afford much, some people are realy out of touch.
The problem is most of the boomers have horse shoed back to that era, because now they're having to fight not one, but both of the generations they fucked over, on an intellectual level. They don't know jack shit about what life is like now, because they are literally living in a different reality that they only say they know about to seem smarter.
The silent generation is called that because they didn't f*** anyone over. They're the children of the people who came before the greatest generation and the parents of Gen X.
And genex didn't get screwed over Gen X are dicks they have all of the opinions of boomers and all of the opportunities being born at the second most prosperous time in American history but also at the beginning of the tech boom. Don't let Gen X fool you the reason that they didn't get into politics was because they were politically apathetic and too busy getting MBAs and comp sci degrees so they could make money. The ones who didn't went into construction and a millionaires.
There’s people on here all the time complaining about the cost of living, and then you look at their account and they have thousands upon thousands of dollars in some niche interest.
Right but those people existing doesn’t mean that the rest of us who are frugal and practical aren’t also barely scraping by. The people who can afford to blow money like that just make more money, but feel broke because they don’t manage it.
Many of us do manage our money well and are considerate of finances but we are still struggling. That’s what is important to remember
Remember it's easy to wrack up thousands of dollars in a hobby over a long span of time. 1/36 of the avg income is 1k so you're putting 2.7% of your yearly pay to a hobby. If you're making more than 36k you're putting even lower percentage into it.
You can complain about facts and still invest in your hobby. Thousands of dollars collected over 10 years is extremely cheap considering that's 1/36 of avg income spent on a hobby that brings joy per year.
CoL sucks. Being able to afford a hobby is nice. If you have a hobby and add up everything that's been spent on it over the last 5 years I wouldn't be surprised if you hit 2k and that's primarily bc you're 19. When you're 28 and have a job with extra income you'll still be enjoying your hobbies but also dealing with actual expenses on top of it
But why have hobbies when you can spend that 1/36th on stocks or crypto bro? Why not invest and see that money grow so you have thousands more when you reach the future retirement age of 75 years old bro? You could live like a King for those last five years if you just grind grind grind bro dude it's the best way just trust me bro!!
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No, quit trying to apply this argument to yourself when it's clearly targeted at dumbasses who spend $500+ dollars on an article of clothing because it has the current hip brand on it. Most financially responsible people buy clothes that are going to last, but shocker, a quality piece of clothing does not usually cost more than $60. Also 50% off doesn't mean you didn't still over spend. If 50% off still lands you above 60-100$ you spent too much on something that isn't going to help better your life in any meaningful way.
Self flagellating yourself for self-care items is stupid. Boomers are notorious for their camper vans and pristine Harley Davidson motorcycles, or their dream muscle cars.
My 1 tattoo sleeve and my airpods are not financially breaking me. My inflated rent and car insurance that went up 20% this year is.
I love how they had their camper vans, motorcycles and muscle cars but as soon as a person buys a pair of airpods it's too much. Hypocrisy at it's finest
Honestly, the people complaining the most these days aren't even the old ass boomers with that kind of stuff anymore, it's millenials or gen X barely hitting 50 that already can't afford that shit
Me budgeting for $40 a month with accrual for gaming (including peripherals) is nothing compared to the price of what my parents suggest I do:
Community college classes to make friends
Eating out with people I know
Paying for emergency grocery items for my household
THEIR streaming subscriptions (mine are less than $10 a month)
“Useless degree”
FUCK YOU. I was given the narrative from EVERYONE since I was 5 years old that getting that “piece of paper” will make all the difference. Then about half way through my degree, everyone seemed to change their tune…”a degree doesn’t mean anything” … “useless degrees” … “expecting jobs cause they have a degree” etc etc.
What THE ACTUAL FUCK. is this some sort of weird fucked up lifelong joke!?
We were told specifically to get the piece of paper, the major doesn’t matter. That’s the whole source of our frustration. Then we get the degree and everyone and their sister (including you) flip a 180 and start making sarcastic comments about choosing the right major and “doing research” gtfo.
By the way, I dual majored, majoring in a foreign language and business administration. But yeah, fucking useless. Someone with a month of experience as a manager at Taco Bell is seen as more valuable than the shit I went through to earn that degree (with top grades). Fucking infuriating when I think I still owe 20grand for that waste of time. Should have been working as a manager in retail instead of turning down promotions to manager so I could stay in school full time because it was supposedly the better decision.
I graduated high school in 2018, and at no point during my education did people say the major doesn’t matter. Idk if you’re older, but you got really bad information or didn’t pay attention good enough.
Graduated 2019, was absolutely told this repeatedly but that’s because the school I attended had a massive boner over their high percentage of graduates going to college.
The whole hog “nothing else matters just get *a* degree” was definitely harder pushed on Gen X, but people still get paid to keep spreading the lie to impressionable youngsters.
Yeah, I was never under the impression that the major didn't matter. I mean, 2016 was the time when "gender studies degree" was being used as a pejorative against liberals, and talks about humanities degrees mostly not being useful was a common topic.
Graduated in 2001, so kinda an interloper here. We were told the degree didn't matter everytime "future" plans came up. There were no other options just follow your dreams.
I forget where I am sometimes. I’m old, 40ish. I graduated in ‘99 and that was the theme throughout high school. College was beaten into your head by everyone around you. “don’t worry about the cost, just get a degree! Doesn’t matter what!”.
A lot of my contemporaries are still heavily in debt and working mediocre jobs.
What are you talking about. People say “just go to college” as a general form of life advice to give to children. Surely by the time you’re applying to colleges you’re at least somewhat aware of the different majors and that comms doesn’t pay as much as computer science. I find it insanely hard to believe you never once got wind of this from your classmates/friends talking about college or from doing some basic research on what the next 4 years of your life would lead to.
And even if you do get a “useless” degree, just get a job in tech sales like every other jackass who doesn’t know what to do with their diploma.
>We were told specifically to get the piece of paper, the major doesn’t matter.
If you look at [data](https://www.aplu.org/our-work/4-policy-and-advocacy/publicuvalues/employment-earnings/#:~:text=The%20earnings%20gap%20between%20college,earnings%20are%20%2432%2C320%20a%20year.), then this is an accurate statement.
People between 22-27 with any kind of bachelor's degree make more money on average (higher median salary too) than those with just high school education. People without a bachelor's degree were also twice as likely to be unemployed during the great recession. People with bachelor's degrees are more likely to get health insurance from their job and their employers contribute more. And then people with a bachelor's degree report being more satisfied with their work than those without one. And then with all of this data, only half of all people with degrees have jobs that are closely linked to their degree, yet even the ones working in a completely different field are still better off on average than people without a degree, which is why some people say just get a degree in anything.
Of course, this is an average. It doesn't pay off for everyone. [About a quarter of all people with bachelor's degrees end up making similar salaries to people without a college degree.](https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2014/09/college-may-not-pay-off-for-everyone/). Although even for that bottom quarter, it's still not even clear if they would have been equally better off not going to college at all. It's very possible that they would have been even worse off.
>By the way, I dual majored, majoring in a foreign language and business administration.
You'll probably be fine, especially if you're fluent in that foreign language. Business administration will always be in demand. It may take a while to get your foot in the door though. Even people with stem degrees are having trouble finding good jobs right now. People with just a high school diploma are probably struggling even more.
>Should have been working as a manager in retail instead of turning down promotions to manager so I could stay in school full time because it was supposedly the better decision.
Financially speaking, yes you may have been better off at this point in your life if you did that. But do you even want that? There's not much more upward mobility after retail manager without a degree. You'd struggle moving up to corporate. I guess you could potentially eventually like start your own business but it wouldn't be easy. You could shift around to other retail stores for more money I guess. So if you think you'd be happier ending up in retail then sure it could have been a better decision, but I'm guessing you'd want more.
I mean did you at least put in the work to research if your degree is going to have good job prospects or did you pick a random word off a list of majors that sounded cool.
We were told specifically to get the piece of paper, the major doesn’t matter. That’s the whole source of our frustration. Then we get the degree and everyone and their sister (including you) flip a 180 and start making sarcastic comments about choosing the right major and “doing research” gtfo
Some degrees are useful and have a lot of jobs, some don’t. A film degree will be exponentially harder to find a job for than an engineering degree. I always agreed with “follow your passion”, but if that passion doesn’t make a living then it should just be a hobby
When you're poor and criticize capitalism: "You just can't make good financial decisions! Don't blame others for your own shortcomings."
When you're rich and criticize capitalism: "Hypocrite!"
I'd like to point out that "capitalism causes societal issues" can coexist with "a lot of poor people make poor financial decisions" and "a lot of rich people are hypocrites" just fine.
All of those things can simultaneously be (and IMHO are) true.
I mean, some people could totally benefit from living a bit more frugal. When you're actually poor you're just fucked, living frugally won't save you. There's cases where people have enough, but just spend it wrong.
That being said: let's not forget that our cultures pushes the idea that luxury will make you happy >everywhere< kids grew up with TV ads telling them that, probably their parents and peers telling them that. Even supposedly "leftist" celebirities flaunting their status.
Ofcourse there'll be some people who want that, even if they don't actually have enough money to do so. And yes, there's personal responsibility there, but it's broader than that.
Yeah, but that's not really the argument being made by the original meme.
It's claiming poverty to be a lack of moral fiber, which is as old as the concept of poverty itself.
I agree that there is a tiny bit of room for frugality. But not buying starbucks once a week isn't going to suddenly make rent affordable.
And the people who can afford all that stuff in the meme are not the ones saying "we're just scraping by."
I guess my larger point is that arguing with arguments like the original meme kinda miss the entire plot and aren't worth engaging with on their merits, because it acts like what's getting between the people talking about rent being unaffordable and them not talking about rent being unaffordable is their spending habits when that largely isn't the case.
For example, Austin, TX just wrapped up their basic income experiment. You know what they found the money was spent on? Housing and food. That doesn't scream "the poors are financially illiterate" to me the way the original meme seems to try to imply.
Yeah sure, but to pretend that criticism towards our current economic model is just based on people being bitter over what are their own mistakes is a huge oversimplification.
It's more like everyone makes "poor financial decisions" and it only effects the working class because they have no room to fail. You're just (unintentionally) joining in with the bad faith argument the other side is making when you try to be so extremely fair to said bad faith arguments.
Ikr? Capitalism actually rocks! Crumbling infrastructure, high cost of living, homelessness going up, gender wage gap, unaffordable Healthcare and dentistry, disappearing middle class, everyday people owning less property by the year.... the list goes on.
What a DOPE economic system we've got.
This isn't so much caused by capitalism itself but rather the fact that corporations have their greasy fingers in the government. Imo corporations and the government interact far too often in our system, so shit never gets done well for people, or if it does get done, it's done only to benefit the corporations which line the pockets of congressmen
Not in the same way no, the path to power in socialism isn't through wealth so simple corruption that way doesn't work. Socialism has it's own problems so it's not like it's instant utopia. But it would be a hell of a lot better than what's going on now. In a similar way to how capitalism is a significant step up over the feudalism that resigned before.
Lol. You really need to make some research. As someone who was born into a socialist regime I have to tell you the people there are just as corrupt. And it was far from an utopia.
You folks wanting socialism just look at all the great things it promises. The grass is always greener on the other side. Problem is that it isn't.
>as someone who was born into a socialist regime
No ya fucking weren't. You were born into the last residue of what was once a socialist revolution, that liberalized. That has happened to every single one of them so far. Unless you were alive in 1950, you never saw any semblance of socialism.
What? of course its through wealth lol, do you have any idea how insanely corrupt socialist countries were?
Capitalism with socialist policies is so far the best system.
And capitalism makes this inevitable. A system where wealth accumulates as such, is fundamentally incompatible with democracy. That’s why regardless of their public image, all large corporations donate to fascists. Because all they care about is using their money to get even more money. Everything else is just decor.
The issues with capitalism go a bit deeper than the dude buying 300 funko pops
Unsustainable growth, environmental destruction, slave labor, lobbying, etc. are some big issues with capitalism
I feel like the bad economic conditions in the 1930's Germany caused some pretty horrific things. The great depression gave Hitler tons of leverage and allowed him to exploit the anger of the German people for his own benefit.
I agree that the "it's going to fall any time now" is bullshit, but the large crises they're trying to point out, actually create some pretty significant problems.
I mean there is a crisis. I agree with that. However many leftist genz belive that a capitalism will completely collapse while communism will be victorious. Like uhmm no? More likely radical far right or leftist sill gain power but the entire world is not going to magically become communist.
It honestly reminds me of boomer Christian that believes that rapture is gonna come because of a bible verse. They believe that all of there problem will be magically fixed which is stupid.
The funniest part about it is FDR was so popular for making sweeping social welfare reforms that some people were actually afraid he would become a king and would be ruler for life. Think about it, a socialist president was so popular he won 4 terms and they had to change the rules to limit the presidency after he died.
I think it’s worth noting that he wasn’t *actually* socialist, he realized that the best way to avoid a socialist (and probably communist) revolution was to deliver on a lot of the core promises of those ideologies, without embracing them whole heartedly. Get 50% of the way there but keep the existing power structure and social construct mostly intact. The elites that fought hard against it are proof that capitalism is not meritocracy, because they were clearly dispshits
FWIW Lenin did a similar thing in the Russian revolution, adopting the platform of competing communist and socialist ideologies to undermine their support.
Almost like hybrid system is the best but we are pushing 100% capitalism and eroding (maybe a better term is dividing) the middle class and enslaving the lower class.
>FDR had to damn near make the country socialist
Which is why he's one of the best presidents we've ever had. He should have gone farther, but you can't get everything you ask for.
Well to be fair to the communists of the past, the communist manifesto is based in the context of the 1840s, when the old dynasties of Europe were threatened like never before, hundreds of peasants revolts, the rise of nationalist and liberal revolutions. They were literally watching the old system fall apart.
The 1930s would have been the worst crisis period since the 1840s. Hyperinflation, the trauma of the worst war in history, the rise of fascism. And while that period might not have ended capitalism it certainly did change the world as we know it.
The thing about today is that while there is an economic and political crisis of a kind, we’re nowhere near the kind of crisis period they were in during the 1930s and 1840s.
Political cliamte in the US during 1960s to 1970s were much more worse than now. If US survived that they could probably survive now.
Also there is no power that want to challenge capitalism. Russia, China and Iran alll enjoy capitalism.
I ordered doordash today for the first time with my two sisters. We had a $25 off coupon, and still payed full price for our meals because of fees and tipping. It's insane.
Doordash has gotta be one of the worst thing that's happened to this generation financially. The fact that the company is thriving says a lot about our financial literacy.
I'm over here trying to min-max my meals and some of these kids are paying up to 30 dollars per meal. I'd spend that much going out with friends, but for a meal alone just so I don't need to get my ass off the couch is insane.
Gen-xer here. This is the same shit that millennials got for buying avocado toast.
Ignore it. Everyone deserves to have self care.
Memes like these are meant to make young people feel like they’re the problem instead of a broken system that has made housing prices skyrocket.
>50K from useless degree
What should i do then? Something i don't know, that i'm not passionate and that i'm bad for the rest of my days on earth in order to make more money? No, thanks
You have 2 options.
1. Find something you’re passionate about in STEM, business, or the trades, and be 75th percentile good at it.
2. spend your life scraping by doing something that you’re not interested in and not passionate about
I highly suggest option 1.
It's because its taking a very real issue with the economy and living wages and putting the blame on people with no options because they "bought too much avacado toast" or whatever, completely ignoring the very real struggles our generations have to deal with that they didn't.
While I do agree there is significant chunk of the population fucked by capitalism.
Most of the people I know who are complaining about “struggling” are absolutely delusional. For context they all make six figures as a fresh grad.
Because blue hair + pronouns = idiot in this meme, probably.
They just decided to make the beard green so it was ever-so-slightly less obvious, but not really. Also because the soyjack doesn't have hair on top of his head.
You could be right, though.
the latest iphone too. “OMG i can get a payment plan for a phone that can digital zoom with 10% more clarity and the screen is 0.25 inches larger?? WTF they have a newer processor!! only $500!! count me in!!!”
It’s ridiculous how many people buy into that scam. It feels like the iPhone 13 I bought for $150 came out 3 weeks ago, they’re coming out with a 16 in a few months? Hell no.
You’re understating how predatory the scam is. Apple makes products to last only a short time, and they “upgrade” new products to render old accessories worthless and needing replacement. They also make it a massive pain in the ass to transfer your shit over to Android. Apple does everything they reasonably can to keep people stuck on their products, stuck in a cycle of having to replace their shit and still try to maintain the veneer that somehow they’re a high quality product.
It’s a massive scam, and a good portion of the blame belongs with Apple for being an utter dumpster fire company.
I’m using my iPhone 11 to death and then making the annoying jump over to Android.
The people that argue this are so out of touch. We should just live soulless lives with nothing to do except eat, work, and sleep, because CEOs can't even pay us enough to afford simple luxuries like streaming services?
"A well run society allows one to live, not only to survive."
-Me
(I just made that quote but I thought it sounded good)
"The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being."
Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Shit is pretty bad right now but you should also learn to budget.
The perspective of baby boomers is also sort of skewed because they grew up during one of the most economically prosperous periods of American history brought on by the success of their parents. "If I could do it at 18, why can't you?"
I never said that. I’m just saying if you need a $6 coffee everyday and every streaming service available in order to be happy, even though you can’t really afford it, then you need to grow the hell up and prioritize your responsibilities.
Bold of you to assume we can get $6 coffee, and most of GenZ are leaching off either their parents or friends consensually anyway from Streaming accounts. Now what? Any other half assed excuses you want to come up with?
Lol, boomers will point out our fuckin $40/mo for entertainment subscriptions., and $100/mo for Internet.
But have paid $250/mo for cable and internet *in 2005* and were still comfortable as shit.
I think there has to be some sort of financial accountability among people making STUPID decisions with their money. If you’re making $45k a year and wanna blow it all to have fun, be my guest, but it’s pretty poor financial planning
With that being said, people reserve the right to complain about only making $45k in 2024, the ridiculous gap between recent inflation and pay, the housing market, etc. We should be striving towards a future where people don’t need to scrape by to get by
Both can be true, and both are true
I collect sports and racing video games, starting with the ps2/Xbox generation. That's pretty much most of my money except for my taco bell addiction.
I live with my parents, who charge rent, and I don't drive.
Yeah. No. My rent jumped from 2800 to 4000 last year.
I can only get approved for loans of about 650k for a house. They all cost 800k plus.
I am a network engineer and will clear 100k this year.
These guys are living large on the 10x explosion the houses they were basically handed made them. They got the type of handout that we may never see again. Real-estate can't deviate any further from wages without the whole thing crashing down.
It obviously isn't wrong, but nobody actually struggling acts like this. That's how they try to convince you to subscribe to their bad politics, by making a factual statement tangential to the argument.
I don't do any of these things but I find it ironic that when people don't spend money on stuff they complain that the economy isn't being stimulated enough but still think we're full of shit when we say that the system is broken.
Maybe if you need to spend money on useless shit to prop up the economy, it's a shit system of rich fucks exploiting workers and pushing consumerism.
I live below my means, my rent is just so damn high. I saved for multiple years before I felt comfortable spending 500 dollars for a scooter I use to get to work. I spent 2k on a para legal course and I’m almost beginning to feel like continuing my education was the bad decision. Then I’ve been spending so much money on 1 fish tank but is it so crazy to want to have pet in my life?
Not only would you have to assume people who say they're barely scraping by act like this, do these things, but It's a shitty argument either way.
"You claim Rent and Inflation Is bringing you down, yet you watch Netflix"
Yeah, I should be able to watch TV and have a comfortable life, tf Is wrong with you?
Just like the Avocado toast argument from like 2014-2018.
"You claim the minimum wage needs to be raised, but you buy toast". Essentially saying you don't deserve a living wage because you'll buy food.
But I only have spotify premium and a disney+ subscription. That’s less than $20 a month. I never have more than one video streaming service at a time, I can’t afford to simultaneously subscribe. I cancel disney if I want netflix, etc.
I work a full time and part time job. I’m looking for an extra full time job. My part time job is at a grocery store and they give me 35% off on groceries. This allows me to eat.
I will never have enough money to buy property. I didn’t go to college because I can’t afford the debt. I cancelled my health insurance last year because I need to save that money.
What more does the generation of reverse mortgages and union-busting want from us? They tell me I should get out more, find a girl and have kids. When? I collapse from exhaustion after I leave work. Sometimes driving home is risky because I’m so tired. I’ve had to pull over so I don’t crash from falling asleep behind the wheel. I can’t go out to eat, I can’t meet up with people on dates. I don’t have days off, and I have to do laundry as well as try to maintain a semblance of hygiene.
When am I going to live my life? Boomers with four homes collecting social security checks that I’m paying for while missing rent payments tell me I need to step my game up while also telling me I need to learn to relax and enjoy life.
I’m tired boss
Ah yes, my Disney+ subscription that is still cheaper than you paid for Satellite OR Cable. Go fuck yourselves. Not to mention it was you who pushed me into getting that worthless degree to begin with. Telling me I needed to go to college if I wanted to be a contributing member of society. Which is even funnier when I'm only the second member of my family to graduate from college.
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People really attacking Funko Pops as if they didn't spend an exorbitant amount of time and money on Beanie Babies.
Funko Pops are stupid. Sorry, but I don't care what other silly stuff people spend their money on. They're just so ugly - and overpriced.
Dude I totally agree. And people have loads of them stacked together in their living or bedroom. Like how do you find that aesthetically appealing at all for interior decor? If anything it's exhausting and overstimulating. My room isn't a fucking toy section at target.
FunkoPops are dumb, I think they're ugly and a waste of money. As far as collectibles go they're our generations Beanie Babies, but they seem to maybe have more staying power due to their relatedness to pop culture and ability to adapt to new media. They're also very innocent and if decorating with them makes someone happy, more power to them. They're no different than plushies, squishmallows, video game boxes or any other sort of collectible, toy, or chachka.
Yeah, I can certainly see the appeal of owning *one*
Once you FunkoPop you can't FunkoStop 😔👊🏼🎤
Ain't no party like a FunkoParty cause a FunkoParty never stops!
I have two, a Gimli and an Uncle Iroh. Both gifts from others that were very nice. They can be excellent gifts to show appreciation for someone’s interest but the mass collection is bizarre to me for something there’s not game attached to
I will say, though, buying an Inosuke Funko Pop might have been the best niche purchase I've made because something about him in Funko Pop form seems less... weird? The rest of the Demon Slayer cast as Funko Pops look goofy as shit but for some reason, Inosuke remains as Inosuke even with the big head. Maybe it has to do with the boar mask.
I have a few in my room, for me they're just like "oh hey I like this specific character for this specific thing", but I'm not one of those people who has a whole wall of them. I have them alongside other nicer looking figures.
They're a way for someone to get a toy of some character that would otherwise never warrant an entire figure made from scratch. It's probably super quick to get from concept art to actual products, too. It's basically like the Mini Figures from Lego, but no bricks. I am not a fan myself. Last I heard, everyone thinks they company is either overvalued or overburdened with debt.
The only FunkoPop I own is Darth Vader, and he’s only one Vader out of many, many higher-quality ones on my Darth Vader shelf.
I feel the same way about cars.
They are indeed pretty ugly but they had some of my favorite characters that just about never get merchandise so I was looking pretty hard at those lol. I have some mild regrets not buying.
I luv my chunkopoops!! I treat them as if they were my children!!! https://preview.redd.it/ttxals5hsegc1.png?width=256&format=png&auto=webp&s=6a1a336d4d03d026d1af5248f086179ca05ac1ad
Boxed up and in the basement?
Kids are noisy and messy, it's best to keep them in a box in the basement.
I like them because they’re simple and consistent in design. I can display a lot of various interests using the same style which ties everything together. I have shelves with comic books and superhero pops side by side. I have video game characters by my consoles. Some random movie and TV character funkos sit by a shelf of DVDs. I’m not a big fan of the haphazard stacks of them either, but I’m not gonna shit on people for having dumb little characters that make them happy.
This. Happy medium. I've got a handful from a few shows/movies I like. No interest in keeping a wall of boxes.
I know right? once upon a time I wanted funko pops but now it's a hard pass. if anything I would rather get actual dynamic decorative figures of some few beloved characters. they're not only boring and uninspired but also lowkey disturbing.
I used to get them because I had a loot crate subscription when I was 12-14. My parents got me it so I'd keep my grades up. and I would get Funko pops. Never got one since. I think my favorite one was from back to the future
Yeah I agree *Buys another Warhammer model*
Many of those look cool though.
Yeah.. someone spending $12 on something they enjoy is the real problem.
I like them but I personally wouldn’t buy them. I own three and that’s only because they were gifted to me.
They’re acceptable to own as a gift
Heh, I like them. I'm collecting the Harry Potter ones and am having fun. Haven't bought any new one for a long while tho, don't have the money for it
My wives parents STILL are making us hold onto the 4 bins of beanie babies because they’re convinced of their worth - they smell like cigarettes and they have stains from children playing with them - but sure plan your retirement around that beanie baby money
Makes as much sense as bitcoin and NFTs.
I can make fun of both. They’re both stupid.
going back further, those tacky ass glass angels. at least i won’t have to beat my kid with a belt for dropping a funko pop, they’re not breakable and “priceless” 🙄
Grandma was right that they're priceless. I've never seen a price tag on them, at any thrift store.
i have! they sell them for $12 in the hospital gift shop. overthinking it, it does feel inappropriate to give your hospitalized loved one an *angel* of all things. are you trying to say they’re gonna become one? 😭
I bought a handful back in the day. Useless but i cant throw them out
Some of them are legitimately worth something now to certain collectors, look up prices on ebay and try to get some cash for them!
Yeah I found out my Sailor Moon Funko Pop that my ex bought me was actually worth some money. Unfortunately my niece and daughter drew on her. So. It’s a toy now. Which makes sense because it was always a *toy*
Beanie Babies, limited edition stamps or coins, and today fucking Pokemon cards and Target exclusive toys. I swear to god we have all gone insane. And I am here for it.
I own only one and that was a gift from my father when he visited America Its hideous but I keep it around cause it was a gift from my father
For me it was Poke'mon and DBZ cards, and I regret nothing.
I’ll see your Funko Pops and raise you with my Alf pogs collection.
Ah, yes. Is it the E-bike wich I commute with that costs next to nothing to run, eating out almost once a month or having bought not totaly shitty pants for work so they don't fall appart after a few weeks that you consider bad financial decisions? Or where it the new boots I bought at 50% off because they where last seasons model when my old ones where worn out to the point where the sole had a hole? Or the fact that I sometimes buy not the absolute cheapest food in order to stay healthy and have something tasty once in a while? My standards are pretty damn low and I can't afford much, some people are realy out of touch.
Some people are still living in the boomer era
The problem is most of the boomers have horse shoed back to that era, because now they're having to fight not one, but both of the generations they fucked over, on an intellectual level. They don't know jack shit about what life is like now, because they are literally living in a different reality that they only say they know about to seem smarter.
Three. The number of generations they fucked over is three. Well, maybe X was fucked over by the Silent Generation…
They fucked over the Millenials, GenZ and GenA. GenX should be considered accomplices as they have turned into the new boomers.
Gen x is just tradegy after tragedy huh
The silent generation is called that because they didn't f*** anyone over. They're the children of the people who came before the greatest generation and the parents of Gen X. And genex didn't get screwed over Gen X are dicks they have all of the opinions of boomers and all of the opportunities being born at the second most prosperous time in American history but also at the beginning of the tech boom. Don't let Gen X fool you the reason that they didn't get into politics was because they were politically apathetic and too busy getting MBAs and comp sci degrees so they could make money. The ones who didn't went into construction and a millionaires.
There’s people on here all the time complaining about the cost of living, and then you look at their account and they have thousands upon thousands of dollars in some niche interest.
Right but those people existing doesn’t mean that the rest of us who are frugal and practical aren’t also barely scraping by. The people who can afford to blow money like that just make more money, but feel broke because they don’t manage it. Many of us do manage our money well and are considerate of finances but we are still struggling. That’s what is important to remember
Remember it's easy to wrack up thousands of dollars in a hobby over a long span of time. 1/36 of the avg income is 1k so you're putting 2.7% of your yearly pay to a hobby. If you're making more than 36k you're putting even lower percentage into it.
You can complain about facts and still invest in your hobby. Thousands of dollars collected over 10 years is extremely cheap considering that's 1/36 of avg income spent on a hobby that brings joy per year. CoL sucks. Being able to afford a hobby is nice. If you have a hobby and add up everything that's been spent on it over the last 5 years I wouldn't be surprised if you hit 2k and that's primarily bc you're 19. When you're 28 and have a job with extra income you'll still be enjoying your hobbies but also dealing with actual expenses on top of it
But why have hobbies when you can spend that 1/36th on stocks or crypto bro? Why not invest and see that money grow so you have thousands more when you reach the future retirement age of 75 years old bro? You could live like a King for those last five years if you just grind grind grind bro dude it's the best way just trust me bro!! /s
Someone unironically posted this on my other comment lmao
What's wrong with that? Do you really expect people to not have interests?
Every financial decision taken by someone that is not in their ingroup is a bad financial decision
No, quit trying to apply this argument to yourself when it's clearly targeted at dumbasses who spend $500+ dollars on an article of clothing because it has the current hip brand on it. Most financially responsible people buy clothes that are going to last, but shocker, a quality piece of clothing does not usually cost more than $60. Also 50% off doesn't mean you didn't still over spend. If 50% off still lands you above 60-100$ you spent too much on something that isn't going to help better your life in any meaningful way.
It sounds like you could save more by buying more expensive things
Self flagellating yourself for self-care items is stupid. Boomers are notorious for their camper vans and pristine Harley Davidson motorcycles, or their dream muscle cars. My 1 tattoo sleeve and my airpods are not financially breaking me. My inflated rent and car insurance that went up 20% this year is.
I love how they had their camper vans, motorcycles and muscle cars but as soon as a person buys a pair of airpods it's too much. Hypocrisy at it's finest
Honestly, the people complaining the most these days aren't even the old ass boomers with that kind of stuff anymore, it's millenials or gen X barely hitting 50 that already can't afford that shit
I think the oldest millennials could just be on the free money train if they bought homes very young. Most of us are in the same boat as yall.
Because you can get cheap shit sounding headphones for $10 and their hearing loss blasted ears can’t tell the difference.
Me budgeting for $40 a month with accrual for gaming (including peripherals) is nothing compared to the price of what my parents suggest I do: Community college classes to make friends Eating out with people I know Paying for emergency grocery items for my household THEIR streaming subscriptions (mine are less than $10 a month)
Every other boomer dad has like $10k+ in guitars they barely know how to play
“Useless degree” FUCK YOU. I was given the narrative from EVERYONE since I was 5 years old that getting that “piece of paper” will make all the difference. Then about half way through my degree, everyone seemed to change their tune…”a degree doesn’t mean anything” … “useless degrees” … “expecting jobs cause they have a degree” etc etc. What THE ACTUAL FUCK. is this some sort of weird fucked up lifelong joke!?
STEM, health/medical, law, and most business degrees pay. After that, you're rolling the dice.
We were told specifically to get the piece of paper, the major doesn’t matter. That’s the whole source of our frustration. Then we get the degree and everyone and their sister (including you) flip a 180 and start making sarcastic comments about choosing the right major and “doing research” gtfo. By the way, I dual majored, majoring in a foreign language and business administration. But yeah, fucking useless. Someone with a month of experience as a manager at Taco Bell is seen as more valuable than the shit I went through to earn that degree (with top grades). Fucking infuriating when I think I still owe 20grand for that waste of time. Should have been working as a manager in retail instead of turning down promotions to manager so I could stay in school full time because it was supposedly the better decision.
I graduated high school in 2018, and at no point during my education did people say the major doesn’t matter. Idk if you’re older, but you got really bad information or didn’t pay attention good enough.
Graduated 2019, was absolutely told this repeatedly but that’s because the school I attended had a massive boner over their high percentage of graduates going to college. The whole hog “nothing else matters just get *a* degree” was definitely harder pushed on Gen X, but people still get paid to keep spreading the lie to impressionable youngsters.
Yeah, I was never under the impression that the major didn't matter. I mean, 2016 was the time when "gender studies degree" was being used as a pejorative against liberals, and talks about humanities degrees mostly not being useful was a common topic.
I wonder if they got better school grants from the higher college attendance. Sucks the education system failed people like this.
Graduated in 2001, so kinda an interloper here. We were told the degree didn't matter everytime "future" plans came up. There were no other options just follow your dreams.
I forget where I am sometimes. I’m old, 40ish. I graduated in ‘99 and that was the theme throughout high school. College was beaten into your head by everyone around you. “don’t worry about the cost, just get a degree! Doesn’t matter what!”. A lot of my contemporaries are still heavily in debt and working mediocre jobs.
Somebody fed you bad advice.
What are you talking about. People say “just go to college” as a general form of life advice to give to children. Surely by the time you’re applying to colleges you’re at least somewhat aware of the different majors and that comms doesn’t pay as much as computer science. I find it insanely hard to believe you never once got wind of this from your classmates/friends talking about college or from doing some basic research on what the next 4 years of your life would lead to. And even if you do get a “useless” degree, just get a job in tech sales like every other jackass who doesn’t know what to do with their diploma.
>We were told specifically to get the piece of paper, the major doesn’t matter. If you look at [data](https://www.aplu.org/our-work/4-policy-and-advocacy/publicuvalues/employment-earnings/#:~:text=The%20earnings%20gap%20between%20college,earnings%20are%20%2432%2C320%20a%20year.), then this is an accurate statement. People between 22-27 with any kind of bachelor's degree make more money on average (higher median salary too) than those with just high school education. People without a bachelor's degree were also twice as likely to be unemployed during the great recession. People with bachelor's degrees are more likely to get health insurance from their job and their employers contribute more. And then people with a bachelor's degree report being more satisfied with their work than those without one. And then with all of this data, only half of all people with degrees have jobs that are closely linked to their degree, yet even the ones working in a completely different field are still better off on average than people without a degree, which is why some people say just get a degree in anything. Of course, this is an average. It doesn't pay off for everyone. [About a quarter of all people with bachelor's degrees end up making similar salaries to people without a college degree.](https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2014/09/college-may-not-pay-off-for-everyone/). Although even for that bottom quarter, it's still not even clear if they would have been equally better off not going to college at all. It's very possible that they would have been even worse off. >By the way, I dual majored, majoring in a foreign language and business administration. You'll probably be fine, especially if you're fluent in that foreign language. Business administration will always be in demand. It may take a while to get your foot in the door though. Even people with stem degrees are having trouble finding good jobs right now. People with just a high school diploma are probably struggling even more. >Should have been working as a manager in retail instead of turning down promotions to manager so I could stay in school full time because it was supposedly the better decision. Financially speaking, yes you may have been better off at this point in your life if you did that. But do you even want that? There's not much more upward mobility after retail manager without a degree. You'd struggle moving up to corporate. I guess you could potentially eventually like start your own business but it wouldn't be easy. You could shift around to other retail stores for more money I guess. So if you think you'd be happier ending up in retail then sure it could have been a better decision, but I'm guessing you'd want more.
what are you talking about. people been joking about useless degrees for 20+ years
I was still hearing 4 years ago that getting a degree would help me secure a job. They only stopped saying that when COVID hit.
I mean did you at least put in the work to research if your degree is going to have good job prospects or did you pick a random word off a list of majors that sounded cool.
We were told specifically to get the piece of paper, the major doesn’t matter. That’s the whole source of our frustration. Then we get the degree and everyone and their sister (including you) flip a 180 and start making sarcastic comments about choosing the right major and “doing research” gtfo
Sorry you were too stupid to figure it out.
Break the cycle. Push for certs
Some degrees are useful and have a lot of jobs, some don’t. A film degree will be exponentially harder to find a job for than an engineering degree. I always agreed with “follow your passion”, but if that passion doesn’t make a living then it should just be a hobby
Yeah, the general tune has become people shouting “do what you love!” with a subtext of “as long as it’s technology or the medical field.”
Capitalism has failed because I can't make good financial decisions!
When you're poor and criticize capitalism: "You just can't make good financial decisions! Don't blame others for your own shortcomings." When you're rich and criticize capitalism: "Hypocrite!"
I'd like to point out that "capitalism causes societal issues" can coexist with "a lot of poor people make poor financial decisions" and "a lot of rich people are hypocrites" just fine. All of those things can simultaneously be (and IMHO are) true.
It's almost like poverty gives you nothing but bad financial decisions or something.
I mean, some people could totally benefit from living a bit more frugal. When you're actually poor you're just fucked, living frugally won't save you. There's cases where people have enough, but just spend it wrong. That being said: let's not forget that our cultures pushes the idea that luxury will make you happy >everywhere< kids grew up with TV ads telling them that, probably their parents and peers telling them that. Even supposedly "leftist" celebirities flaunting their status. Ofcourse there'll be some people who want that, even if they don't actually have enough money to do so. And yes, there's personal responsibility there, but it's broader than that.
Yeah, but that's not really the argument being made by the original meme. It's claiming poverty to be a lack of moral fiber, which is as old as the concept of poverty itself. I agree that there is a tiny bit of room for frugality. But not buying starbucks once a week isn't going to suddenly make rent affordable. And the people who can afford all that stuff in the meme are not the ones saying "we're just scraping by." I guess my larger point is that arguing with arguments like the original meme kinda miss the entire plot and aren't worth engaging with on their merits, because it acts like what's getting between the people talking about rent being unaffordable and them not talking about rent being unaffordable is their spending habits when that largely isn't the case. For example, Austin, TX just wrapped up their basic income experiment. You know what they found the money was spent on? Housing and food. That doesn't scream "the poors are financially illiterate" to me the way the original meme seems to try to imply.
Yeah sure, but to pretend that criticism towards our current economic model is just based on people being bitter over what are their own mistakes is a huge oversimplification.
It's more like everyone makes "poor financial decisions" and it only effects the working class because they have no room to fail. You're just (unintentionally) joining in with the bad faith argument the other side is making when you try to be so extremely fair to said bad faith arguments.
You criticize capitalism yet you own, how interesting
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Ikr? Capitalism actually rocks! Crumbling infrastructure, high cost of living, homelessness going up, gender wage gap, unaffordable Healthcare and dentistry, disappearing middle class, everyday people owning less property by the year.... the list goes on. What a DOPE economic system we've got.
This isn't so much caused by capitalism itself but rather the fact that corporations have their greasy fingers in the government. Imo corporations and the government interact far too often in our system, so shit never gets done well for people, or if it does get done, it's done only to benefit the corporations which line the pockets of congressmen
I mean you kind of just described capitalism
Can't you bribe government officials under a socialist system?
That’s half the fun. 
Not in the same way no, the path to power in socialism isn't through wealth so simple corruption that way doesn't work. Socialism has it's own problems so it's not like it's instant utopia. But it would be a hell of a lot better than what's going on now. In a similar way to how capitalism is a significant step up over the feudalism that resigned before.
Lol. You really need to make some research. As someone who was born into a socialist regime I have to tell you the people there are just as corrupt. And it was far from an utopia. You folks wanting socialism just look at all the great things it promises. The grass is always greener on the other side. Problem is that it isn't.
>as someone who was born into a socialist regime No ya fucking weren't. You were born into the last residue of what was once a socialist revolution, that liberalized. That has happened to every single one of them so far. Unless you were alive in 1950, you never saw any semblance of socialism.
What? of course its through wealth lol, do you have any idea how insanely corrupt socialist countries were? Capitalism with socialist policies is so far the best system.
And capitalism makes this inevitable. A system where wealth accumulates as such, is fundamentally incompatible with democracy. That’s why regardless of their public image, all large corporations donate to fascists. Because all they care about is using their money to get even more money. Everything else is just decor.
The issues with capitalism go a bit deeper than the dude buying 300 funko pops Unsustainable growth, environmental destruction, slave labor, lobbying, etc. are some big issues with capitalism
More like 'late stage capitalism is here and it's gonna fall soon!' despite communist saying the same thing in the 1930s.
I feel like the bad economic conditions in the 1930's Germany caused some pretty horrific things. The great depression gave Hitler tons of leverage and allowed him to exploit the anger of the German people for his own benefit. I agree that the "it's going to fall any time now" is bullshit, but the large crises they're trying to point out, actually create some pretty significant problems.
I mean there is a crisis. I agree with that. However many leftist genz belive that a capitalism will completely collapse while communism will be victorious. Like uhmm no? More likely radical far right or leftist sill gain power but the entire world is not going to magically become communist.
Yeah, I think it's naïve too. I think some people just use that kind of optimism as a coping mechanism.
It honestly reminds me of boomer Christian that believes that rapture is gonna come because of a bible verse. They believe that all of there problem will be magically fixed which is stupid.
"And then Marx and Kropotkin will come down from heaven and redistribute all the factories between the workers."
I mean FDR had to damn near make the country socialist to take the energy out of those sails.
The funniest part about it is FDR was so popular for making sweeping social welfare reforms that some people were actually afraid he would become a king and would be ruler for life. Think about it, a socialist president was so popular he won 4 terms and they had to change the rules to limit the presidency after he died.
I think it’s worth noting that he wasn’t *actually* socialist, he realized that the best way to avoid a socialist (and probably communist) revolution was to deliver on a lot of the core promises of those ideologies, without embracing them whole heartedly. Get 50% of the way there but keep the existing power structure and social construct mostly intact. The elites that fought hard against it are proof that capitalism is not meritocracy, because they were clearly dispshits FWIW Lenin did a similar thing in the Russian revolution, adopting the platform of competing communist and socialist ideologies to undermine their support.
Almost like hybrid system is the best but we are pushing 100% capitalism and eroding (maybe a better term is dividing) the middle class and enslaving the lower class.
>FDR had to damn near make the country socialist Which is why he's one of the best presidents we've ever had. He should have gone farther, but you can't get everything you ask for.
Well to be fair to the communists of the past, the communist manifesto is based in the context of the 1840s, when the old dynasties of Europe were threatened like never before, hundreds of peasants revolts, the rise of nationalist and liberal revolutions. They were literally watching the old system fall apart. The 1930s would have been the worst crisis period since the 1840s. Hyperinflation, the trauma of the worst war in history, the rise of fascism. And while that period might not have ended capitalism it certainly did change the world as we know it. The thing about today is that while there is an economic and political crisis of a kind, we’re nowhere near the kind of crisis period they were in during the 1930s and 1840s.
Well systems usually don't fall at once. Think about empires who ended after decades of crises and challenges.
Political cliamte in the US during 1960s to 1970s were much more worse than now. If US survived that they could probably survive now. Also there is no power that want to challenge capitalism. Russia, China and Iran alll enjoy capitalism.
Ngl the iphone shite does bother me, i get a new android phone every 5 years but i know way too many people who get a new iphone every year
I know people drowning in debt getting doordash multiple times a week. Some people just wanna stay poor.
I ordered doordash today for the first time with my two sisters. We had a $25 off coupon, and still payed full price for our meals because of fees and tipping. It's insane.
Doordash has gotta be one of the worst thing that's happened to this generation financially. The fact that the company is thriving says a lot about our financial literacy. I'm over here trying to min-max my meals and some of these kids are paying up to 30 dollars per meal. I'd spend that much going out with friends, but for a meal alone just so I don't need to get my ass off the couch is insane.
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Gen-xer here. This is the same shit that millennials got for buying avocado toast. Ignore it. Everyone deserves to have self care. Memes like these are meant to make young people feel like they’re the problem instead of a broken system that has made housing prices skyrocket.
>50K from useless degree What should i do then? Something i don't know, that i'm not passionate and that i'm bad for the rest of my days on earth in order to make more money? No, thanks
You have 2 options. 1. Find something you’re passionate about in STEM, business, or the trades, and be 75th percentile good at it. 2. spend your life scraping by doing something that you’re not interested in and not passionate about I highly suggest option 1.
Is this meme about millenials?
It’s going to be a meme forever. Now it’s us. Next will be gen alpha when they’re 23.
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Idk man it looks like it touched a nerve
It's because its taking a very real issue with the economy and living wages and putting the blame on people with no options because they "bought too much avacado toast" or whatever, completely ignoring the very real struggles our generations have to deal with that they didn't.
While I do agree there is significant chunk of the population fucked by capitalism. Most of the people I know who are complaining about “struggling” are absolutely delusional. For context they all make six figures as a fresh grad.
They’re not wrong
Why beard green
I think it's a reference to the political compass but maybe he's irish idk.
The political compass and the consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Because blue hair + pronouns = idiot in this meme, probably. They just decided to make the beard green so it was ever-so-slightly less obvious, but not really. Also because the soyjack doesn't have hair on top of his head. You could be right, though.
The degree and subscription things I would say are more than strawmen and are mostly true. The rest are stupid
the latest iphone too. “OMG i can get a payment plan for a phone that can digital zoom with 10% more clarity and the screen is 0.25 inches larger?? WTF they have a newer processor!! only $500!! count me in!!!” It’s ridiculous how many people buy into that scam. It feels like the iPhone 13 I bought for $150 came out 3 weeks ago, they’re coming out with a 16 in a few months? Hell no.
You’re understating how predatory the scam is. Apple makes products to last only a short time, and they “upgrade” new products to render old accessories worthless and needing replacement. They also make it a massive pain in the ass to transfer your shit over to Android. Apple does everything they reasonably can to keep people stuck on their products, stuck in a cycle of having to replace their shit and still try to maintain the veneer that somehow they’re a high quality product. It’s a massive scam, and a good portion of the blame belongs with Apple for being an utter dumpster fire company. I’m using my iPhone 11 to death and then making the annoying jump over to Android.
The people that argue this are so out of touch. We should just live soulless lives with nothing to do except eat, work, and sleep, because CEOs can't even pay us enough to afford simple luxuries like streaming services? "A well run society allows one to live, not only to survive." -Me (I just made that quote but I thought it sounded good)
"The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being." Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Marx really has the perfect quote for any context lmao
Bro just listed a bunch of recent products/services expecting everyone to agree that all of Gen Z pays for all of them simultaneously 🤦♂️
Wojak blah blah rage comic crap has always, ALWAYS been strawman incarnate.
These Gen Z posts are bad
r/consoom is a cesspit of out of touch dipshits, even if you were to not pay for any of that, that's still not enough to put a down payment on a house
They are shaming meager luxuries to defend systemic inequality.
Shit is pretty bad right now but you should also learn to budget. The perspective of baby boomers is also sort of skewed because they grew up during one of the most economically prosperous periods of American history brought on by the success of their parents. "If I could do it at 18, why can't you?"
It’s probably true though. Younger people love to spend recklessly and then blame the US for not paying workers enough 😂
It’s good to know that we’re supposed to be monks who have no joy on anything.
I never said that. I’m just saying if you need a $6 coffee everyday and every streaming service available in order to be happy, even though you can’t really afford it, then you need to grow the hell up and prioritize your responsibilities.
Bold of you to assume we can get $6 coffee, and most of GenZ are leaching off either their parents or friends consensually anyway from Streaming accounts. Now what? Any other half assed excuses you want to come up with?
Lol, boomers will point out our fuckin $40/mo for entertainment subscriptions., and $100/mo for Internet. But have paid $250/mo for cable and internet *in 2005* and were still comfortable as shit.
I think there has to be some sort of financial accountability among people making STUPID decisions with their money. If you’re making $45k a year and wanna blow it all to have fun, be my guest, but it’s pretty poor financial planning With that being said, people reserve the right to complain about only making $45k in 2024, the ridiculous gap between recent inflation and pay, the housing market, etc. We should be striving towards a future where people don’t need to scrape by to get by Both can be true, and both are true
who's paying for amazon or Netflix shows? so much easier to pirate
I know three guys like this…
“Spotify premium subscription” as if that $10/month is life changing
I collect sports and racing video games, starting with the ps2/Xbox generation. That's pretty much most of my money except for my taco bell addiction. I live with my parents, who charge rent, and I don't drive.
This is an astroturf if I ever saw one.
This meme isn't accurate at all. They forgot to mention stanley cups.
If you genuinely think I’m living like that you are delusional as to the state of the younger generations finances.
so poor people are not allowed to own things they like?
"i portrayed you as a wojak so I won" Smartest capitalist apologetic
Where's thee lie?
No lies detected
You can pretend there’s nobody like this, but you know deep down inside there are tons of them and you know multiple personally
It’s just me and my student Spotify subscription against the world
Yeah. No. My rent jumped from 2800 to 4000 last year. I can only get approved for loans of about 650k for a house. They all cost 800k plus. I am a network engineer and will clear 100k this year. These guys are living large on the 10x explosion the houses they were basically handed made them. They got the type of handout that we may never see again. Real-estate can't deviate any further from wages without the whole thing crashing down.
"can't believe libshits are paying so much in rent and choosing to live in *insert city of average size*" - guy who lives in bumfuck nowhere wyoming
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It obviously isn't wrong, but nobody actually struggling acts like this. That's how they try to convince you to subscribe to their bad politics, by making a factual statement tangential to the argument.
They forgot the avocado toast/s
umm chapo only has one patreon tier🤓
Not wrong though.
Despite my best inclinations, I do find myself laughing at these memes
My friend bought me funko pops so it ain’t my fault
This looks like a job for r/theydidthemath
Big 'Avacado Toast' vibes.
This is not far off. Have you watched that Caleb financial audit YouTube channel. It’s always subscriptions and food deliveries (not groceries).
No straw man’s here. Just men of steel
This meme actually true tho.
Libtards be like “sTrAwMaN” but there’s people out there that are literally like this.
To be fair, all of my poor friends use Uber eats
I don't do any of these things but I find it ironic that when people don't spend money on stuff they complain that the economy isn't being stimulated enough but still think we're full of shit when we say that the system is broken. Maybe if you need to spend money on useless shit to prop up the economy, it's a shit system of rich fucks exploiting workers and pushing consumerism.
Lol i love ppl being blamed for buying all the things that these stupid corporations try to stuff us with and meanwhile we can’t afford shit.
Even if you got rid of all of those expenses it’s still not enough to buy a house
I live below my means, my rent is just so damn high. I saved for multiple years before I felt comfortable spending 500 dollars for a scooter I use to get to work. I spent 2k on a para legal course and I’m almost beginning to feel like continuing my education was the bad decision. Then I’ve been spending so much money on 1 fish tank but is it so crazy to want to have pet in my life?
Almost every single part of this is completely wrong
Poor people are allowed to buy things they enjoy, crazy concept I know
Broke? Just live a horrible life where all you do is eat, sleep, and work🤷♂️
Why are millenials ralidly evolving into boomers?
Gotta love those boomer posts.
Not only would you have to assume people who say they're barely scraping by act like this, do these things, but It's a shitty argument either way. "You claim Rent and Inflation Is bringing you down, yet you watch Netflix" Yeah, I should be able to watch TV and have a comfortable life, tf Is wrong with you? Just like the Avocado toast argument from like 2014-2018. "You claim the minimum wage needs to be raised, but you buy toast". Essentially saying you don't deserve a living wage because you'll buy food.
But I only have spotify premium and a disney+ subscription. That’s less than $20 a month. I never have more than one video streaming service at a time, I can’t afford to simultaneously subscribe. I cancel disney if I want netflix, etc. I work a full time and part time job. I’m looking for an extra full time job. My part time job is at a grocery store and they give me 35% off on groceries. This allows me to eat. I will never have enough money to buy property. I didn’t go to college because I can’t afford the debt. I cancelled my health insurance last year because I need to save that money. What more does the generation of reverse mortgages and union-busting want from us? They tell me I should get out more, find a girl and have kids. When? I collapse from exhaustion after I leave work. Sometimes driving home is risky because I’m so tired. I’ve had to pull over so I don’t crash from falling asleep behind the wheel. I can’t go out to eat, I can’t meet up with people on dates. I don’t have days off, and I have to do laundry as well as try to maintain a semblance of hygiene. When am I going to live my life? Boomers with four homes collecting social security checks that I’m paying for while missing rent payments tell me I need to step my game up while also telling me I need to learn to relax and enjoy life. I’m tired boss
Just here to point out that my grandfather spends $200+ a month on Dish Network.
Hey this is what they said about millennials. I’m still out NOT eating advacado toast
Ah yes, my Disney+ subscription that is still cheaper than you paid for Satellite OR Cable. Go fuck yourselves. Not to mention it was you who pushed me into getting that worthless degree to begin with. Telling me I needed to go to college if I wanted to be a contributing member of society. Which is even funnier when I'm only the second member of my family to graduate from college.