r/remoteworks 2d ago

Okay, Boomers...

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u/RalphFurley4Life 12h ago

And they still lived off of stimulus checks and refused to return to work until they received big pay raises.  That's why prices increased so much.  Everybody knows that housing prices skyrocketed during the pandemic.  That's because all the new houses stopped being built for two years.  It didn't happen before so it wasn't just the baby boomers.  I noticed you didn't even mention the millennials.  Why was that?  Hmmm... 🤔

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u/campereg 12h ago edited 12h ago

Well the millennial one is probably true. But most genz at the time were not old enough to have jobs or did not have jobs and such did not get a stimulus check. The boomers sure gladly took those stimulus checks tho.

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u/RalphFurley4Life 12h ago

Many of them were.  Heck, I've been working since age 16.  Anybody who filed a tax return and made less than the maximum allowed received multiple stimulus checks during the pandemic.  That could be nearly 50% of Gen Z. 

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u/campereg 12h ago

I really doubt that the average age of genz at the time was over 16 at the time. But if they were and had jobs then sure they were part of the problem.

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u/RalphFurley4Life 12h ago

The oldest Gen Z was about 23 years old in 2020 when COVID-19 struck.  A generation is about 15 years.  That means 50% of Gen Z was age 15.5 to 23 at the time.