>Late 90's film
>AAAAAA I'M LIVING IN A TIME OF PEACE AND ECONOMIC STABILITY I HAVE A CUSHY OFFICE JOB
>IM BORED IM GOING INSANE I NEED TO NEED TO BURN IT DOWN BURN IT ALL DOWN
What the frick was Gen X's problem?
>Late 90's film. >AAAAAA I'M LIVING IN A TIME OF PEACE AND ECONOMIC STABILITY I HAVE A CUSHY OFFICE JOB
You have never worked a shitty office job and it shows, neet
Nothing pays as good as being unemployed feels, wagie.
Wait, when did unemployed deadbeat pussies start to feel proud of themselves for having no job? That's like a troony feeling proud of himself for molesting kids.
>brings up troonys and kiddy diddlers unprompted
Obsessed.
>Obsessed.
not only office can be shitty, they can be positively evil
I'd take an office job in the 80s over the office job nowaday.
Open office, always online on Teams, Teams/Zoom calls, stand ups etc etc
>zero irony from someone who spends all day shitposting on Cinemaphile
The film that makes zoomers seethe uncontrollably.
Gen X were being brainwashed that they wanted to quit their jobs and be slackers
The entire generation ended up poor and it lead to OWS because they couldnt get jobs anywhere
They are trying to force this brainwashing again with Antiwork or the NEET meme
Don't fall for it.
T. Corporate stooge who's sweating bullets as his work-pool dries up. These movements were actually effective and it's what drove the elites to commit suicide by importing millions of immigrants.
>Hahaha, it actually works in their favor
Oh, does it now? Is that why they're closing dozens of stores in all the major cities like San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Philadelphia? The elites wanted cheap labor and exhorbitant growth and prosperity only for themselves, and it brought their businesses crashing down ontop of them. Why the frick is it so hard for them to just pay people fairly?
>Is that why they're closing dozens of stores in all the major cities
No, that's not why. Dem DAs announced they would no longer prosecute property crimes with a value <$1,000, which prompted vibrant communities of color (aka Black folk) to engage in massive campaigns of shoplifting, smash and grab, etc. This had little to nothing to do with immigrants.
> This had little to nothing to do with immigrants.
You mean illegals pouring in through the border and getting flown all over the country to damage republican districts?
Illiterate, or just really shitty reading comprehension?
Republicans do the damage to themselves. No need for outsiders.
>Why the frick is it so hard for them to just pay people fairly?
Human nature, you'll try to frick others over even if may bite you in the ass. Rinse and repeat, the only thing stopping them would be the results being catastrophic but protip: they will never be. It's always the regular Joe getting fricked up his ass
pathetic. you think antiwork or the neet meme is driven by people who need workers? are you fricking moronic or just glowing? maybe a bit of both?
>mfw I have a cushy office job and zoomers have no future
It's a good feel
What the frick was his problem?
They were literally the generation that realizes it was all going to come to a violent end and they were probably going to suffer from the decline first. The generation after them was already totally complicit. For all their faults, X was the last generation that realizes they were stuck in a slaughterhouse.
TBF, Millenials were born into and raised at the height of America's cultural and economic power. We were raised entirely to think the good times were gonna keep rolling. Then 9/11 happened. Then the markets collapsed. Then more and more shit and we never even got our foot in the door despite being the largest sector of the workforce. We're now in or approaching our 40s and unless our parents helped us don't have a pot to piss in.
Also, frick Gen X. At least Boomers let them into the gated club. Now Millenials are all their servants.
Quit falling for the age war. It's money. You serve the wealthy, not just your elders.
Imagine thinking America (or whichever Western country you live in) is a slaughterhouse. You are an overly dramatic c**t. Appreciate what you have and enjoy the small things.
>Imagine thinking America (or whichever Western country you live in) is a slaughterhouse.
Of course it's a slaughterhouse. All people living under modern capitalism are a resource to be extracted. You are a number, your body and soul ready to be sold to the highest bidder.
>*tips fedora*
>remains impoverished
Yeah I know I can be reduced to a number on a spreadsheet from an economic perspective. But your life is more than just your economic value. You can still make a fine life for yourself in the western world where you can build and maintain healthy relationships which is what it's all about.
>You can still make a fine life for yourself in the western world where you can build and maintain healthy relationships which is what it's all about.
You can. As long as you play along with the system.
Ya pretty much. No one in this thread is changing the system though. So all we can do is make the best life available for ourselves within it.
I'm bringing the system down one welfare cheque at a time.
>muh ebil capitalist system
We don't live under "capitalism" in 2023 America. The government steals, redirects and prints trillions of dollars every year, perverting incentives and devaluing the currency.
Being against "capitalism" is just an admission that you have no value to provide that's worth anything to anyone else in society. You're not oppressed because you're a lazy midwit slug with no valuable skills.
capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production you dipshit, it has nothing to do with the government printing money
No shit moron, that's why I made a distinction between capitalism and government.
>>The government steals, redirects and prints trillions of dollars every year, perverting incentives and devaluing the currency.
>That is the only possible result of unchecked capitalism.
Leftist brains are truly broken. Unchecked capitalism would literally mean no government, or an anarchist system of total private ownership. We live under the biggest government in the history of the planet, a cancer that is on the verge of totally consuming the host, and you're complaining about the few cells that are still functioning correctly.
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>Unchecked capitalism would literally mean no government,
Of course it wouldn't, you imbecile. It would result in a government that totally serves the interest of the mega wealthy. Do you know how much money they would be leaving on the table if they had no government?
Anarcho capitalism is literally the midwit idea of unchecked capitalism.
>We live under the biggest government in the history of the planet,
All of which serves to protect and enforce the will of capital.
>The government steals, redirects and prints trillions of dollars every year, perverting incentives and devaluing the currency.
That is the only possible result of unchecked capitalism.
>Being against "capitalism" is just an admission that you have no value to provide that's worth anything to anyone else in society
Any real capitalist meritocratic system would, by default, require the total destruction of all traditional values. Anything short of the very concept of family being abolished would render any meritocratic process totally pointless as money would simply accumulate at the top generationally.
Capitalism is the socialism for the rich
Tell me, Mr. Waddams, what good is a job if you are unable to be paid?
Hindsight is 2020, and most people in the 90's didn't realize how good they had it.
Same thing in the 60's and 70's, really. Then again, no one could have predicted that we would be living in a time of actual wage-slavery where mega-corporations are running the government and turning kids into mindless low-level worker drones.
I mean, cyberpunk fiction did, but that was looked at as fantasy, like Lord of the Rings, or The Little Mermaid. God, to go back to those times when things now were so far outside the realm of possibility we actually laughed at them. We should start decapitating bankers.
>Hindsight is 2020, and most people in the 90's didn't realize how good they had it.
I honestly think the issue is they did have hindsight.
They promptly forgot whatever it is they knew once the dotcom bubble hit.
To be sure. I do think they never had a chance though, even if that's hardly a excuse.
The dotcom bubble was a meme that ended up barely effecting anything. What really blew up in our faces was people sucking Clinton's dick, not realizing his affordable housing program resulted in millions of people getting houses they couldn't afford that resulted in the 2008 housing market crash.
The government then decided to bail them all out, creating the occupy movement, which targeted the banks. The banks then introduced identity politics into the mainstream in order to subvert the occupy movement and fracture culture.
>Clinton
>Not Bush
Both of them, as well as Reagan, are all responsible for the frick up. Obama was the once chance we had for a genuine change and he quickly showed himself to be utterly spineless.
I became disillusioned with politics the moment Obama renewed the Patriot Act
>Obama was the once chance we had for a genuine change
Laughing my ass off if you genuinely think that. He's been an establishment shill since forever.
obama was the beginning of the end of the middle
>Laughing my ass off if you genuinely think that.
At the time? Arguably.
In hindsight it was kind of a foregone conclusion. If nothing else he was probably the last president that could have done anything. After this it's going to be nothing but half senile celebrities.
bush was pushing the affordable housing thing way harder than clinton.
>What really blew up in our faces was people sucking Clinton's dick
monica lewinski did nothing wrong
>What really blew up in our faces was people sucking Clinton's dick
kek, nice double entendre.
All you do is post on this shithole everyday. How is your life hard?
We didn't know how much worse it could get at the time. Please be understanding.
Works sucks and is thankless. 80 percent of people hate work
im a millennial and i want to die
the current inflation worldwide is insane,you know how soul crushing is to be a 90s kid and see the world we live now?
The inflation will go down to pre covid levels next year.
Apologize
I mean, that is the fundamental issue with conservatism as a ideology. While batshit insane "All of human civilization ahs to go" reactionaries are a problem as well. At least they are more realistic insofar that they understand that preserving traditional values must mean the total destruction of human civilization.
>the problem with conservatives is they are too progressive
just when you thought he couldn't get more based.
Supereme court is undoing israeli. progress so whatever
They aren't. They are putting on a band aid without actually dealing with any of the underlying economical and technological causes that are destroying traditional values. Literally all they will do long term will be discredit the supreme court.
moronic doomer post
>Doomer
It's a fact, you dolt.
The fact that they are unwilling to actually use their supreme court power to try and enforce a ban on a national level shows that. They realize they are on thin ice and any sudden moves will cause the entire thing to collapse.
>dude, le heckin conservatives are hypocrites because they whine about progress but don't hate technology XD
Conservatism has nothing to do with technology or economic progress, moron, and neither of those things advance particularly because of culture.
>Such rapid change inevitably breaks down traditional values
False assumption fallacy. Just because you say technology cuases "rapid changes in all other aspects" does not make it true. Russia is a key example of this. They have been a culture of thieves and cut throats since time immemorial. The US has been actively being subverted and bad actors are trying to pull a mask over your eyes pretending that you aren't seeing what you are seeing, which is cultural decay from marxism and liberalism run rampant.
Don't call me a conservative, because I'm not. I don't believe in the US being a Christian nation and porn falls under freedom of speech.
Ted is smarter than you, it's over
Gasoline is cheap. And it's easy to use.
Stop promoting illegal activity on your incel safe space
Stop promoting economic terrorism.
you killed the thread, nice going
No. We just need post scarcity and sex robots amd arftical wombs.
I work in a call center, I want to kill myself everyday but how else can I pay for my future trip to japan to snag a qt japanese bride.
I worked in a call center once. Shit was hell.
Family structure was already fricking gone.
I go to my job.
I return home.
I do it over and over again.
This is not life.
wasnt veruca a tax cpa?
Turns out when you're not desperate and a beta male, that sitting around in an office for your life isn't actually that appealing or fulfilling or worth it.
Office space is scarily accurate. I worked at an internship in 2016 in suburban chicago which is where I think this movie was set. Had a guy I worked with who was my age named Michael Bolton. Exactly like the movie. Also the fat b***h on the phone happened at one of my cube farm jobs.