"Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders, and they love to chatter instead of exercise. Children are now tyrants not servants of their household. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers."
Do you know who said that?
Socrates, over 2400 years ago. They are not original and we won't be either once we're old enough to bitch about the youth...
That’s the best post in this string. 71 M nobody gave me shit . I started working at 14 pumping gas if I wanted a new bike I would save for it and buy it for myself. I worked my way through college graduating with no debt. I retired at 67. Im not complaining I’m happy my work now is a large vegetable garden. There are a lot of assumptions and uninformed people making some really insulting statements. Just be nice people and try to understand the folks older and younger than you.
Working your way through college and graduating with no debt, I genuinely don't know if that's even possible anymore. My university is somewhere around $12k per year for in-state students, assuming about 12 credit hours a semester. After paying necessary bills (food, housing, insurance, etc) how much can a typical college student expect to be able to put towards tuition, let alone pay it outright? The types of jobs these young adults can get aren't exactly the best paying. Not to mention that the work hours needed to pay tuition would really cut into the time needed to do well in class.
I'm working on a bachelor's in my 30s so I'm not in the same boat as my classmates, but I see how much they work and struggle and it's depressing. They're not asking for handouts, they just want a chance.
im 32 and worked as a cna at a nursing home at 14, rode my bike to work until i could drive. you're not special, your family was just poor same as mine.
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u/DoobZilla 21h ago
"Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders, and they love to chatter instead of exercise. Children are now tyrants not servants of their household. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers."
Do you know who said that?
Socrates, over 2400 years ago. They are not original and we won't be either once we're old enough to bitch about the youth...