>>221813686
We aren't reading that. We don't car about the Slopranos, or how zoomers feel.

>>221813686
Yup. Boomers got to enjoy a 90% White country (with most neighborhoods, even in big cities, being 99% White), no abortions, no gays, no trannies.
Zoomers can't go an hour with out being exposed to that sort of thing.

>>221813768
Yeah you do, gen xim/xer. You constantly make threads about us.

>>221813686
Tony is feeling what all older guys feel sometimes. That's it? That was the best life has to offer? Zoomers aren't feeling that. They're feeling what its finally like to no longer be coddled, to finally have to act like an adult. It ain't easy, welcome to the real world. It was never easy for past generations either, you were simply raised thinking you were owed something

>le generational warfare
israelbros stay winning. Stay cucked, goyim yelling at clouds

you see, in this feeling, you're supposed to completely understand there's nothing you can do, no fucking miracle is coming

uncle junior or one of the old fellas said "enjoy what you can", i'm paraphrasing, there is a limit on life for us born early, do what you can while you can

Being born in the early 90s feels like getting on the last chopper out of Saigon.

Holy fuck, I dont envy zoomzooms at all

>>221814016
Boomers needed to have eight children because half would die. But hey, as long as they weren't medically aborted right? Fun fact: more fetuses are miscarried naturally than are aborted by doctors.

>>221814342
I don't envy them either. Imagine being raised by the generation that spearheaded gay rights and trans activism? Zoomers never stood a chance

>>221814273
>That's it? That was the best life has to offer?
yep it's this, people grow up with a very romanticized notion of what life has to offer and age makes them realize what the reality is.
A healthy attitude takes reality for what it is so you properly enjoy life on its own terms

>>221814273
>It was never easy for past generations either

Past generations at least were born into a world where a single income could support a family. Most Zoomers are living at home, competing for ghost jobs and seeing home prices skyrocket to keep Boomers 401ks afloat since Social Security is a few years away from going broke. Our entire model is robbing the future of the young to pay for the last years of the old

>>221814336
>do what you can while you can
free will is the worst thing that could have happened to me thoughbeit
I could have had a chance of being happy if I had no choice in the matter

>>221814402
maybe we can come together and make a gay video about how housing prices are insane, and boomers will watch it

>>221814342
>Spend formative years under government lockdown due o the coof
>Once you break into the world shit is so fucking expensive thanks to all the money printing
>Jobs are being automated and outsourced at a record pace
>Dating is damn near impossible even if you're good looking
>Realize the entire political system that represents them is owned by Israel and pedos
>Everyone now just gambles on what the weather will be like tomorrow or buys the newest crypto coin to 100x their money

Not even Millenials post Financial Crisis were given this much of a shit hand. No wonder they're going full 1488

>>221814442
i was talking for normal people, if you're an insane people you shouldn't be on /tv/ (/ck/ is ok)

>>221814442
unless you're some old fuck, it's not too late. that's the beautiful thing. bringing up your old glories gets boring pretty quickly. just get out and do shit and within a few years you can become normal. gotta put in effort though sadly. gotta improve, gotta listen to some self help slop and incorporate the shit that isnt retarded.

>>221813686
Why do you think The Sopranos is still popular? Only the best works of art last and speak to people in different ages. Very easy for zoomers to find the irony and humor in a bunch of gangsters who think they're tough shit even though they all just live among the same old strip malls, boring suburbs and failed sons as we do

>>221814388
>the generation that spearheaded that
You mean Zoomers, right.
Bc no one care that much about trans shit until the mid to late 2010s

>>221814368
Too bad you weren't one of the dead babies

>>221814508
because it's good, and because it has that y2k era feel that everyone is nostalgic for, even people who weren't there,

>>221814402
desu I wouldn't actively choose this fate, but there's a little bit of a healthy masculinity challenge in the fact I'm nevertheless trying to make the best of things. Like a house is beyond my reach for a while. But I'm living a very cozy life right now with my wife and son in a one bedroom. Having less space has forced certain things that actually feel to be for the better. We're not materialistic. We're together. We're less screen oriented in our lifestyles.
I may not be the one to get an "easy" life", but my children or their children could be. One day the metaphorical boomers will all be dead. There will be living space. Technology will keep advancing. I'm cynical short term but long-term I think great things are possible, and I want my descendants to be around for that.

>>221814515
Take some accountability, Gen X tranny. Zoomers don't just suddenly wake up thinking they're the opposite sex. Those ideas were instilled in them from faggots like you.

>>221813686
I don’t know, seems like he had a good deal. Law enforcement hyper focused on terrorists post 9/11 probably gave him a freer hand than his predecessors did. Yeah, he’s not as rich and powerful as Al Capone, but he doesn’t have Eliot Ness gunning for his ass either.

>>221814300
Most of those "Israelbros" are Boombers btw

>>221814479
All that was true for millennials, too, except they couldn't get healthcare or food stamps.

>>221814368
Yeah the infant mortality rate was sky high in the 60s through the 90s when boomers were having kids you fucking illiterate jeet queer

>>221814515
https://youtu.be/HO47aYGJ738?si=0bmbucJYh6IyOITV

>>221814541
Anon if housing prices didn’t fall when it was literally impossible to buy one and loan services were collapsing then a massive die-off isn’t going to do it either.

>>221814541
I like this hopium and I don't want to rain on it but...
There is a significant chance that "the great inheritance" will largely be stolen - elderly healthcare and housing are extortionately expensive by design (in that they know their clientele are largely self interested) and they will pay for it using reverse mortgages and debt. Even if you weren't going to inherit a house somewhere, the house that you might have been able to buy will now be owned by a bank who is far more interested in renting it to you. All of this was set into motion a decade ago.
The play is to do whatever you can to move out of america and keep an american salary/american clientele - it is the only way to play the system against itself. Many countries are more affordable and more white and are getting better rather than worse.

>>221814549
The mod of the 70s and 80s wielded power beyond today's comprehension. Tony knew this.

>>221814549
You get that he’s having panic attacks because he’s committing felonies daily to accomplish nothing more than a lower-upper middle class life, right? His income is equivalent to that of a mildly successful dentist or accountant.

>>221814780
Don't forget the boomers blew through the social security fund which is not commonly accepted will be gone by the the time millennials and zoomers start retiring--though they still have to pay into it.

>>221814780
You’re a bit off base with saying banks want to rent. Debts are significantly easier to sell than houses.

>>221814914
he was barely middle class, he lived in a mansion.

>>221814914
How much Tony has varied with the storylines. Sometimes he's supposed to be struggling while other times he can casually drop off a quarter million in cash to Slava for cleaning.

>>221814952
Social security funding is what is because of how often it was treated like a piggy bank to fund whatever war. Had it been allowed to accrue interest, like was planned, there’d be more than enough to pay everyone what they are owed.

>>221815047
*mcmansion
*in New Jersey.
It was like 2000 square foot and would’ve gone for about 150k in the 80s.

>>221813686
He’s white though, big plus

>>221815127
They say its worth 1,200,000 in 2004

>>221815049
It’s both at the same time anon. Having a mountain of cash you can’t use for anything other than criminal transactions is struggling. His legit money is tight because laundering takes a big cut and has to be done incrementally while his dirty money keeps piling up.

>>221815175
And his next door neighbor would be a dentist. With an accountant on the other side.

>>221814780
It is what it is. There are no guarantees of actual security. There never were. I can do everything "right" but still come up short. That's life. I'm gonna live life regardless and have more children. What really matters is if I actually love them and raise them properly, not if I can afford the latest Playstation for them plus college education and a car and a big house and whatever other constantly inflating standards there are. The only guaranteed way to lose is to never play. I thankfully have already avoided the fate of being some aging bachelor addicted to video games and materialistic crap that doesn't matter.
If you think your play is good though, you should be able to recommend an actual country. Such an act also means giving up on the family ties (spread thin though they may be) that we have here

>>221815248
Dentists, especially high tier dentists, make a crazy amount of money. The guy in the show was clearly one of the top guys in Newark. I don't remember the accountant.

>>221815091
And who did that? Wasn't zoomers or millennials or gen x.

>>221815212
I think it's more as Hesh said. He makes a lot but he spends it as fast as he gets it.

>>221814479
I can guarantee you that 30 years from now, burnt out GenA will insist that the 2020s were the peal of human civilization

>dude the pandemic was so comfy, online classes were easy
>just buy some memestocks and become a millionaire and retire in your 20s, everyone was doing it
>just do some bullshit techjob and let AI do all your work while you masturbate at home and make 150k a year
>dating was so fucking easy, literally just have an LLM come up with responses, you could pull any girl you wanted
>amogus and fortnite were the best videogames ever, this new VR tank stuff is soulless garbage
>there will never be a moobie as epic as avengers endgame, it was just peak

these are the stories that people will tell about le current year, people always yearn for the time when they were young and full of possibility. times are always good, and times are always bad, it doesnt matter what really happened, nostalgia always twists it anyways. same as millenials who dont even remember all the dumb and terrible shit that happened in the 90s. They only remember AOL, NSync and comfy sitcoms.

>>221815498
While what you're saying is true to some extent, pretty much every generation agrees that the 90s were the absolute peak of western civilization and that it has been a steady decline from there. Things are objectively much, much worse today than they were in the 90s. The most important metric is income relative to the cost of basic necessities

>>221814368
fun fact: you will never be a woman

>>221815498
i would rather rope than relive my childhood in the 90s, so that removes any bias on my part about things being good back then. but if you forced me to choose between being a kid in the 90s and being a kid today, i'd still go back to the 90s just to rope

>>221814016
Zoomers are the gay brown mutts. Its millennials that got fucked and are paying all the bills

>>221815091
Thats not true it did earn interest the whole time it was used to buy Treasuries which was always the plan. This would take 40 seconds to google i don’t know how you could be so wrong about this since thats less time than it took to listen to whatever podcast told it to you in the first place

>>221816348
>ur rong da ai said dat no happen u listen to podcast

The ai answer is based in the idea that since social security was never completely drained, the funds in it still technically accrued interest. The issue they never bothered to restore it whenever they drained it, so the money that should’ve been there accruing value wasn’t, so now most federal spending is going to social security.

Seriously man that’s an answer a politician would give to confuse you just long enough to get out of the room.

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>>221813686
Quit being such mopey faggots.

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>>221813686
everyone feels like that many times throughout all history, its one of the oldest tropes
this thread sucks

>>221817189
>there’s been lots of declines and falls so feeling the decline is normal

this isn’t grug going “kids these days not know how good have it.” this is people recognizing that shit is about to get so bad it will strain the sanity of even the toughest men.

>>221817983
not him but it's true everyone always thought things used to be better for the most part
digital technology IS raping our minds though and it takes time for most people to learn how to cope, if they do at all. that's why the 90s are seen as the best, because it's before the internet started inserting itself in everything

>>221817189
Things are much more measurable now. Our parents had it easier by far.

>>221818354
except the show spends tons of time establishing tony’s sentiments aren’t just blind nostalgia. Half the scams and rackets organized crime subsisted upon weren’t possible anymore and the other half are just hoping degenerate addicts fall in your lap so you can rape them to death financially. or drugs, which is basically just saying “arrest me.” The show is literally about the decline and fall of cosa nostra.

>>221817081
Thats incorrect the money was in treasuries that accrued interest the entire time it didn’t need to be “put back”.
You think you’re describing them raiding SS for cash but treasuries were issued when they acquired the cash from SS (as was planned) and interest accrued the entire time. It was a sale of bonds, the bonds got issued at the same time the surplus was transferred

>>221818542
>another answer designed to confuse people just long enough to get out the room

anon its fact that social security was raided to pay for wars

>>221818528
it's tony's fault for not adapting, it's not like the boomers before him didn't have to adapt and change with the times

>>221814402
The job hunting thing is genuinely awful for them. In 2010 you could still just go to places and hand them a resume, now it's required that you put your ticket in the AI algo and pray. You might also get instantly filtered by the overwhelmingly female HR departments who don't want to see a fucking white male in their company.

>>221818675
But if you want to bitch about the government fucking you on Social Security you can just blame them for devaluing the bonds by inflating away the currency to buy votes and missiles you don’t have to sound like you have no idea what you’re talking about when you do it

>>221818354
>not him but it's true everyone always thought things used to be better for the most part
They were all right

>>221818764
desu online job applications should be illegal, it makes people spam companies they shouldnt bother applying to, and it makes HR departments get so swamped they just come up with insane nonsensical filters. applications should be done in person or mailed. If you can't bother doing either, you shouldn't even be applying.

>>221816116
>Its millennials that got fucked and are paying all the bills
Oh heck how will I fit those bills on the shelf next to my fricking funkopops?

>>221814300
The cattle is willingly categorizing and dividing itself

>>221817189
>Historical documents show old men whining, therefore no one can say anything negative about current events
Fuck your midwit cliche, you're not smarter for throwing up your hands instead of being critical of your surroundings. And many historical people whining about the times becoming worse were totally correct.

>>221818730
… “adapting” would be basically going straight, but he didn’t have enough money to do that. He also tried boiler rooms and other modern scams but couldn’t find people to reliably run them.

>>221818764
>>221818851
I remember back in 2015-2016, about 40% of online job listings were for nonexistent jobs. And the corporations simply used the job listings as a form of cost-effective marketing. An unknown percentage of the job listings, but likely in double digits, were for positions that had already been filled with an internal hiring, but required an external listing to comply with either corporate policy or government regulations. Meaning at least half the job listings weren't real.

I don't know what the numbers look like today, but I imagine it's much, much worse. Grim

>>221818883
t. brown gay mutt

>>221818851
>applications should be done in person or mailed
are you 60 years old? they'll tell you to fuck off and apply online unless you're recommended by someone there to the manager who's department is hiring. people like you who think they're special and waste everyones time go straight to the bottom of the pile, unless we're talking warehouse jobs and that kind of shit

>>221819068
you have misunderstood, you're probably an indian scammer or something that sends out a million resumes filled with lies

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>>221819183
I work in HR for a state community college system. Once got an application for college chancellor. His previous experience was chicken deboner for Purdue for 25 years. I think about that guy every time I see a bullshit application or our current chancellor.