People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
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It's stunning how many people seem to forget that there are other countries on the planet that use dollars and weren't involved in Vietnam. No, I'm not making an assumption. The person who posted this is Canadian.
Y'all really need to take a step back and reflect a little bit.
The ideal life is to be born a multi-millionaire, then earn billions by exploiting workers
I always thought I would have made a good trust fund baby.
could you live with yourself though?
If I was born rich, I'd probably have no empathy either.
How are you supposed to develop it?
They left out the part about getting drafted and sent to Vietnam with that 3rd grade education and risk dying for people that didn't care about you and other that hated you. Then coming home and getting spit on, literally spit on, by the people around you. And no one caring about the damage war caused you.
There is a persistent myth or misconception that many Vietnam War veterans were spat on and vilified by antiwar protesters during the late 1960s and early 1970s. These stories, which overwhelmingly surfaced many years after the war, usually involve an antiwar female spitting on a veteran, often yelling "baby killer". Most occur in U.S. civilian airports, usually San Francisco International, as GIs returned from the war zone in their uniforms.
No unambiguous documented incident of this behavior has ever surfaced, despite repeated and concerted efforts to uncover them.
Never heard an old black man say "I wish things were like they were back in the 50s."
Honestly, when people say that I think they're referring to the financial system. in the age of surveillance capitalism. and the predatory environments that we live in, there is no protection against corporations from scamming you and nickling diming you from every direction to the point where you're left with nothing and you are wander on the streets. Decades of not allowing people to repair their own things and following the rule of the lowest common denominator, we are left with a very generic throwaway society. that doesn't value human skill set, which leaves us all in a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. It's not that people can't take care of themselves. It's just they're not allowed to, unless the billionaire can get between you and what you need. It seems we are revisiting the 20s and 30s, but only the technofascist version. This is just a continuation of the boom and bust cycle with different flavor.
Nope nor a dirt poor white person either. Never forget, it's all about the money and far less than the color of your skin.
Which all would be lovely and true if they were American.
They're not.
It's almost like countries other than the United States exist...
The ideal life is dying when you're only 54? That's pretty bleak!
Didn't work for me... in my 1972 bank job interview I was told, "I'd hire you if you were a man, but you're not. If I hired you, you'd just get pregnant and leave." It wasn't against the law for him to say all that.
And for what it's worth I didn't buy a home - a small one-bed flat - until I was in my 40s. Cost me so much I couldn't afford proper furniture. Yes, my current house is worth a lot more than what I paid for it (mainly because I bought a wreck), but so is any other house I could afford if I sold it.
Wow, so it's almost like no matter what time/year you were born that you will have hardships to face? Lemmy led me to believe that houses cost peanuts in the 60s and everyone working at a gas station could afford a multi room house.
I had the same interview at a dental office in something like 2017. I wasn't offered the job because, as the female dentist told me, they'd have to put a lot of time and effort into teaching me, and then I might just get pregnant and quit.
This is great, as reply and shitty, as content. made my day and ruined my evening.
That's... Dying at 54 years of age?
Yes please
Only to live during a time where hate and sexism was rampant. Nah, chief, I don't wanna live in that period. I'm good.
Look around, you already do. You always did. There's a lot more people willing to do the right thing and speak out against it now... but I wouldn't count on that lasting much longer.
You're right. But even if we lost this time, we can come back from this. Who knows how long that will take, but we can fix this.
being prime military age for the vietnam war? no, please got no
Also literally any day could be the one the Bomb dropped. It's easy to forget how close we came, or how fucking terrifying it was that you had no way of knowing.
Countries other than the United States exist and my country was the one people ran away to in order to avoid the draft. Also the same country of the person who posted this.
I am so tired of people presuming that ~~US's economic history is somehow universal.~~ all countries have first world economy of western hemisphere, more specifically, the anglosphere. Boy do I love cultural hegemony.
This comment section is kind of hysterical. Some people saying "STOP IT ALWAYS BEING ABOUT AMERICA" and other people going "Vietnam because America" and I'm here as a Canadian like
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And before you ask, yes. The person who tweeted that is Canadian.
My grandfather picked tomatoes to eventually buy his house in cash.
He was a hard worker, but damn, imagine buying a house in cash.
Dude went on to have like 10 kids and a good standard of living.
Change the last bit to
Retire in 2001 with a inflation linked final salary pension scheme.
Not specific enough. Going by typical evil genie rules you'd be born in 47', but be a poc in like Alabama or Oklahoma. Just in time to get drafted to fight in Vietnam and then have to fight for civil rights at home.
For some my uncle and my dad did these things but also died prematurely from health complications related to Vietnam
My dad bought his house for $650 in 1976, had it moved from the mill village where it was for $2000 and has lived in it on land he was given for 50 years. Its current value is over $225k.
He offered to sell me a quarter acre for $50k.
