- cross-posted to:
- comicstrips@lemmy.world
- nonpolitical_comics@piefed.social
- cross-posted to:
- comicstrips@lemmy.world
- nonpolitical_comics@piefed.social
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/learn-2
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The alternative was artisanal soap biiiiiitch.
Bonus panel
I mean we’re not there yet, and things are gonna get worse before they get better, but we’re also closer than you might think. I’d say within around 50 years society will be significantly reshaped away from requiring people to devote their lives to a job they don’t want to do
Yeah, as usual the “old generation” just has to die out first 😓
As someone who hopes to be old someday, this will definitely mean I get talked about as “the old generation,” and even if I try to be the most virtuous elder, I fear for common sentiment being
with people wanting me to die out first because my quiet, inoffensive elderly existence reminds folks of elderly generational cohorts in power, or elderly people fighting to make things worse. It hurts to see the generalization, especially when you know elderly folk out there protesting and trying to make things right. Elderly folk being hurt by the system, who did not vote for it, but because some of their generational cohorts did they are tarred with the same brush of the ones who did vote it in.
Autistic person who thought we aren’t supposed to generalize based on demographics, but keeps seeing people online do it anyways on the grounds that the demographic they are generalizing is being screwed less than other people, or some people in the demographic actively working to hurt others. I actively end up avoiding a lot of spaces meant for my multiple non-majority non-in-power demographics because of all the “punching up” and feeling really uncomfortable with it, but also not wanting to tell people to stop venting in areas meant for that. But now it happens basically everywhere and it always feels wildly uncomfortable to see.
Sorry to brush you the wrong way but you’re not the main character in this story.
Or are you one of the old people thinking that it should stay like it is because it was betterr before? That the importance of someones life is having a “decent job” and not doing what they want? That change is bad because you have to adapt to what other people might like? Because changing the world to a better place needs even some effort from everyone?
If so then yes you’re a burden to positive change.
If not, well then I’ll take your post as a rant because life isnt fair, which I understand completely, because it isn’t. Maybe you can come to terms with that one day. I hope you can because it’s worth it, good luck!
You’re taking OP’s comment in the wrong way entirely, and being rude too. OP is right, this isn’t about old people as group, and you’re wrong to be blaming them for it as a group. This is the way society has been for millennia at least, so it’s not just about the generation or two that preceded you. OP is right, your generalizations are no better than the generalizations of racism or sexism.
Be the change you want to see.
Dude, this is how it works in science, “change comes when the old generation dies” is a saying old as universities. Everything isn’t about you.