Have you considered pulling yourself up by your bootstraps?
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The idiom "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" means to achieve success or improve your life entirely through your own efforts, without any outside help or financial assistance.
It means don't be a whiny little bitch. Get your fat ass off the couch, turn off the video games and get to work.
But the point is that the op's point is a grandiose bull shit excuse to do nothing.
Then the first comment blames boomers. Another bull shit excuse to do nothing.
Lace up some work books and get your hands dirty.
>[LITERALLY defends the direct idiom itself when it’s self-evidently a hoax and always has been since its creation]
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA YOU FUCKING BOOMER SACK OF SHIT.
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>https://scrd.app/1ATBqjlcxt/
I just read this, you should too. Every dollar I earn above the "poverty line" (~$35,000) *completely disappears* until I hit $150,000, because if I simply don't work, the government pays for everything. If I "take any job", I'm now being taxed to pay for poor people that actually have more to spend that I do.
Why should anyone do that?
Young people pay to subsidise Boomers in a myriad of ways, from healthcare premiums and taxes, to government policies inflating housing costs, to social security, to onerous government regulations, etc, etc. And your response is "toil harder so my pension doesn't run out".
I'm not sitting around playing video games griping about the older generation.
You could get a job in construction this afternoon. Just go to Home Depot or Lowe's and find someone who looks like they do it for a living - ask if they are hiring.
>Just go to Home Depot or Lowe's and find someone
Ah. You aren't White.
Up against the wall comrad.
But *literally no one does that*.
This is a total Boomer myth. Their parents gave them tons of help (that they never appreciated), they were handed an economy where a lifetime factory worker could own a house and raise kids on a single income (which they then sold to China for cheap consumer goods), and they paid 20% of the taxes we pay today.
>It means don't be a whiny little bitch.
"I have absolutely zero gratitude for all the help given to me by family and friends, so I feel absolutely zero guilt about keeping everything I have and doing nothing to help the next generation, or even maintain the systems that made me wealthy."
Zero. Gratitude.
Also, "worked three jobs"? You were actually able to put yourself throught college on minimum wage, low hour, joke jobs? I didn't make enough to pay off my schooling in a whole year of full time work that required the diploma I just got *and* I worked 30 hours a week during school just to pay rent and groceries.
No generation has ever had it easier than yours.
[Um.](https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps.html)
>The origin of this descriptive phrase isn’t known. It refers of course to boots and the straps that some boots have attatched to help the wearer pull them on and to the imagined feat of a lifting oneself off the ground by pulling on one’s bootstraps. ***This impossible task*** is supposed to exemplify the achievement in getting out of a difficult situation by one’s own efforts.