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MHSJenkins ,
@MHSJenkins@infosec.pub avatar

Genx here, and many of us are one or two serious mishaps away from homelessness.

Scotty_Trees ,
@Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world avatar

I moved back in with my parents. Fuck living alone if it means killing myself with work just to survive. Fuck that.

Phegan ,

The whole system is broken, we can’t fix it, we must tear it down.

Yawweee877h444 ,

Awww, capitalist oligarchy not to your liking? Eat cake, pleb.

StaySquared ,

Sadly the aftermath would be devastating.

StaySquared ,

It’s too bad we can’t ban BlackRock, Vanguard etc…

cerement ,
@cerement@slrpnk.net avatar

“some” …

EDIT: and yet another article that ignores the generation between millenials and boomers …

xmunk ,

Hey, my partner may technically be Gen X but I’m pretty sure the entire generation is an urban legend.

Aurenkin ,

Sun don’t even shine through our window pane

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Boomer is a state of mind, and Gen X gobbled down hard on that Reaganomics.

stringere ,

Ah yes the generation that wasn’t even worth naming so they gave us a placeholder.

Growing up Gen X in the US was watching a slow motion train wreck where you’re able to see the causes, current wreck, and even look down the road to the future repercussions but everything you do or try to make things better for everyone is ignored, co-opted, or sidelined by the monolithic boomer voting bloc. And all the while you’re being gaslit by the beneficiaries of the current shitshow selling you an American Dream that never was true and hasn’t been remotely attainable since you joined the workforce.

SolNine ,

I have news for you, as an old millennial, it’s not just G Zers.

kingshrubb ,

At least I’d have my own time back. My life is not my own when I’m working 40+ hours a week.

AceFuzzLord ,

The way I see it, don’t let your superiors know you’re worried about that kind of stuff because if you’re working for a shitty enough company, they will probably hold that over your head.

Oh, you’re not performing well enough. You don’t want to be fired and homeless, do you?

Don’t know if that’s something they can legally do to you, but I wouldn’t put it past a lot of companies to do that to ensure you don’t leave or do anything they don’t want, like ask for a raise or looking for another job on company time.

rapechildren ,

www.vidlii.com/watch?v=-HkErc-xfRK

hashferret ,

I do not fear becoming homeless. The state should fear my homelessness as it will only signify the next phase of my radicalization.

dumblederp ,

People forced out into the cold will set society on fire to keep warm.

sentient_loom ,
@sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works avatar

They’re more likely to freeze to death.

dumblederp ,

Not in my country, because it’s hot here, not because we have good social protections.

asteriskeverything ,

This is the most gen z vibe

whereisk ,

Yeah the state doesn’t worry about the homeless as a threat to authority. Where have you ever seen the homeless in organised political action?

catloaf ,

The Bonus Army? Not necessarily homeless, but pretty close to it.

sentient_loom ,
@sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works avatar

Your radicalization poses absolute zero threat to the state.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Sleeping rough is eye opening. But the folks closest to the atrocities are inevitably the ones who have the least power to stop them.

Only remedy for that situation is the kind of mass organizing of the lumpen proles that hasn’t seriously happened since the 70s/80s. Thanks to mass surveillance, brutal policing, and a corporate state increasingly run by algorithms, its harder and harder to see a world in which a mass movement can emerge again.

Doesn’t mean folks shouldn’t try. After 40 years of digging our own graves, we’re in one hell of a hole. But the only way out is to start climbing.

Cowbee ,
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml avatar

Enough radicals and the state is threatened.

Eventually, minor iterative quantitative changes will result in a drastic qualitative change.

Tikiporch ,

Can we avoid this by giving Gen X offhanded advice about their personal finances?

Get a roommate, stop buying lattes, learn to cook, etc.

Emma_Gold_Man ,

The cost-of living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming are homeless

FTFY

return2ozma OP ,
@return2ozma@lemmy.world avatar

The amount of people living in their cars at the park near me in Long Angeles is astounding. It’s really sad.

Dkarma ,

I never understood of you have a car why not leave and try somewhere else?

There is no digging yourself out of a hole in Cali…you just can’t.

return2ozma OP ,
@return2ozma@lemmy.world avatar

The weather, the jobs, friends and family in the area, many reasons.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Whole tent cities under the freeway routinely get raided by the police and “cleaned up”. And our political climate is increasingly moving toward the view that the non-homeless would be better off moving homeless folks into a prison camp or grave.

raynethackery ,

As a single GenX, this is my biggest fear. I have never been homeless but I have been very close a couple of times. My rent is about half my take home pay and I’m sure it is going up again this year.

Dkarma ,

Vasectomy and shack up with a sexy roommate is my advice.

isles ,

The answer was so simple, why didn’t we all see it?!

stoly ,

I’m Gen X with a masters and work as a computing director. I’ve been homeless 4 times, though I didn’t yet have a masters or this job. None of this has been fun.

lefaucet ,

Fear becoming? You mean ARE becoming

squid_slime ,

Spent 6 years sofa surfing, its less a fear and more a reality for some. Sadly in most western countries homelessness is seen as a punishment and housing programmes stipulate no alcohol, no drugs, curfew. all of which put people back on the streets.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

housing programmes stipulate no alcohol, no drugs, curfew. all of which put people back on the streets.

More often, its the risk of physical or sexual violence that pushes people out. Shelter work is grueling and the pay is shit. The only people in the business tend to be the the boundlessly charitable or the ruthlessly exploitative.

The Texas Youth Corrections System has a scandal every five years or so, in which this or that low level staffer gets strung up for trading drugs to inmates in exchange for pornography or sexual favors. Its a regular low-rent Epstein Island that the state administrators know and actively cultivate, but periodically have to run Limited Hangout on when the heat builds up too high.

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