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  • Millennials own less than half the real estate wealth of boomers—can they catch up?

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  • Isn't that supposed to help to some degree? I thought part of the housing trouble was boomers staying in large homes too long meant less homes for younger families with kids to use.

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  • People are being killed at a large scale, the aggressor is pink washing using a what aboutism about those people's track record on gay rights, and this article doing a what aboutism about israel and the west's gay rights track record. The headline is about genocide. But the content of the article is just trying to make an argument about which side has the better gay rights track record. I don't think any body is actually arguing, or believing an israel argument, that this war is justified because israel is supposedly kinder to gay people than palestine.

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  • But this is kind of a criticism of responding to what aboutism with what aboutism. Both sides were historically anti queer in both similar and different ways.

  • 'The economy is different now': Parents pay grown-up kids' bills with retirement savings

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  • Generalizing a subset of folks that is Lemmy users is nowhere in scale like generalizing an entire generation. Lemmy users skew in certain demographics and political leanings due to the nature of the Reddit backlash, FOSS advocates, etc.

  • 'The economy is different now': Parents pay grown-up kids' bills with retirement savings

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  • The ageism is so weird on lemmy. In other threads folks talk about it as if boomers are all moochers stealing from their children by reverse mortgaging homes or asking for handouts out. But when an article points out the generosity they have it more blame that they screwed the young generation as well. Also ,there's a lot of older folks that didn't vote Republican, yet lemmy communities seem to think they are 100 percent R.

    I think there is also some blame on the millennial generation. Who invented the social media cess pool that has helped reinforce and polarize the right to weird new extremes and have that to a less tech savvy generation?

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  • Yeah. I'll give this kid credit as a high school student writing this. But the premise of pink washing is that it is used to divert attention or sway public opinion. That doesn't have any bearing on facticity of claims. It is possible to call out pinkwashing by Israel and the West and also call out homophobia in middle east society at the same time.

  • Employees are spending the equivalent of a month's grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds

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  • This. And those 5 minute walk and chats, although annoying at times (also they could be fun and productive at times), were less painful than the endless meeting invites I get now. Because a 5 minute walk and chat folks know you are busy. If they see you at your desk plugging away they no you're busy. But for some reason people now think they are entitled to unscheduled time on your calendar.

  • Employees are spending the equivalent of a month's grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds

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  • This article is saying the average is ~$500 a month. Imagine pre pandemic work norms. If your employer offered you $500 less a month, but the trade off was you got to work fully remote, would you take it?

  • Employees are spending the equivalent of a month's grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds

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  • It's more having your cake and eating it too. When pandemic hit and you got to keep your salary and work remote, maybe move to a cheaper area, no one complained that they kept all the benefit of the in office pay. But now that you got to keep the same pay, and are asked to come back into the office, you aren't suddenly making less money. You're just paying for the cost that was always expected as an employee that was hopefully accounted for in giving you a reasonable salary.

    And some of these costs that add up to "a month of groceries" can be mitigated by having flexible in office policy. It's not that transport takes a month of groceries. The cost is transport + childcare + pet care. For some childless and petless workers the cost of in office transport isnt that bad, and might be tax free if you have programs for it. And child care and pet care can be reduced with flexible in office requirements. Some companies used to let people bring their dogs to the office, for example.

  • Employees are spending the equivalent of a month's grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds

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  • Yep. The way I've heard of it actually happening to folks where I work is when they moved during the pandemic their pay didn't immediately change. But when they got their promotion, they got a 0% percent increase because that was when they recalculated the cost of living adjustment. So maybe they got a 12% raise, but moved to a place with a 15% lower cost of living. So they weren't going to piss off the employee by rewarding with a pay cut, but use that as the time to reset compensation leveling.

  • Employees are spending the equivalent of a month's grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds

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  • Cost of living adjustments are real. The value of your work is based in part of market rate. And part of that market rate is based on location due to various costs of livings, taxes, laws etc. I think the thing is the pre pandemic salaries should have accounted for those factors, but when those factors change due to people moving etc. it is reasonable to expect the question to be asked about adjustment. You're not being punished for being frugal.

  • Employees are spending the equivalent of a month's grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds

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  • New yorker here. Sometimes the MTA sucked, but my 40m door to door gave me time to listen to a podcast in the subway and decompress from work before stepping in my front door. I also read the news a lot more. I don't do those things nearly as much now. Also beers in the office and happy hours where team workers forced me to stop working at a reasonable hour were helpful to make me turn off the workaholic side of me.

    Curious. Are you fully remote or do you still have an office to go into? Is there any culture left in your office if you do go in?

  • Employees are spending the equivalent of a month's grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds

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  • Me too. I miss my chill office culture where everyone showed up, but the norm was roll in anytime before 1030 or 11am and leave early if you need to. And expected to work from home a day or maybe 2 a week if needed. As long as you showed up for the important meetings in person and attended had a known presence in the office while you were there, it was all good. And being in the office felt good because it was a good collaborative environment. Now I can opt in to go to the office, and have all the sedative isolation of home without the comforts.

  • Employees are spending the equivalent of a month's grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds

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  • Are people forgetting that the salaries were high in high cost of living areas to account for this cost. In the new normal, should employees expect pay cuts, or should employees that opt in to in office expect higher pay or stipends?

    Also, curious about tax advantaged commuter benefits. Sure sticker cost is a months groceries, but if you are commuting and able to pay that pre tax for Metro or rail passes, it's only 66 percent of the sticker cost.

    Also I think the pet and childcare costs are interesting. For child care, is that assuming like 1 or 2 extra hours of childcare per day?

  • Working longer won’t solve the retirement crisis — seniors need a ‘Gray New Deal’ to retire with dignity, this economist says

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  • By that logic if you are an adult over 22 years old , you are defacto a MAGA member.

  • Working longer won’t solve the retirement crisis — seniors need a ‘Gray New Deal’ to retire with dignity, this economist says

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  • It's not really young or old that are fucked. It's still the poor and rich, and guess which one is fucked. Over time the wealth gap is widening which sucks for younger people. But it's still a rich and poor problem, and I think we should have sympathy for those with financial insecurity regardless of age.

  • Working longer won’t solve the retirement crisis — seniors need a ‘Gray New Deal’ to retire with dignity, this economist says

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  • As a millennial I figure this POV being criticized is more like gen z not having real life experience after college. There's a lot to be critical about from previous generations, but when it becomes vindictive, retributive, etc. it is not call. This is the type of POV and shit that arms the Republicans of accusing libs of wanting death panels for grandma and grandpa. The lemmyverse unfortunately reads like university Marx reading group populated by edgelords.

  • Working longer won’t solve the retirement crisis — seniors need a ‘Gray New Deal’ to retire with dignity, this economist says

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  • It doesn't mean that this is not a social problem we need to face a solve today. Like if we could establish a UBI, would we just not give it to people over 65? I don't understand how folks here are so retributive to a whole generation, when probably 40 to 45 percent of that generation didn't vote for Reagan.

  • Working longer won’t solve the retirement crisis — seniors need a ‘Gray New Deal’ to retire with dignity, this economist says

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  • Lol. Not a boomer. Just wait until you have parents late in retirement and have declining health. If you care enough to care for them you'll realize the amount of stress and work it takes.