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Comic in 4 Panels

Panel 1: A young bright-eyed man stands in front of a house.

Grandpa: I’m going to buy a house!

Panel 2: The young man is now old and bespectacled. He’s telling this story to his grandson, who is listening politely.

Grandpa: …and that was how I bought my house when I was 23!

Panel 3: Grandpa’s story turns into a yelling rant

Grandpa: I WORKED AT THE DRIVE-IN ALL SUMMER FOR THAT HOUSE!! NOBODY WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE!

Panel 4: Grandpa watches as his grandson unplugs a cord from the wall with a * POP *

Grandpa: …why are you unplugging my lamp?

Grandson: I’m just practicing

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  • Funwayguy@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Not the house part directly but I got the work part repeatedly after graduation from my own family (who are renting). It was constant verbal harassment about laziness and ‘not wanting to work’ under threats of being kicked out onto the street. Stopped only after a job agency they picked had every partnered employer reject me and my degree for 6 months straight. The only reason given was a paradoxical “overqualified and under-experienced” which is to say the boomer retoric of “degrees = jobs” was fatally backwards in an era where employers only offered minimum wage for the job responsibilities of 3 people.

    Took 4 years after university to land my first job and only as a contract labor hire on an assembly line in late 2019… FML. Spent the past 5 years of underpaid work forcing my way back into software QA just in time for the era of slop… FML part 2. I now make decent money and live with my partner but to my parents it’s like those 4 years of victim blaming never happened and my success is magically attributable to their ‘support’.

    TLDR: It is absolutely a real mindset still driving boomer cognitive dissonance with reality.