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It wasn’t boomers who made it impossible to survive on a librarian or gardener’s salary - it was rich people. 

Plenty of boomers work as librarians, teachers, gardeners, and so forth, and are finding that as the cost of living skyrockets and corporations take over more and more of the world, that their salary is no longer able to support them.

And thus you have boomers - who understand how much you want to be a librarian because they also work as librarians - going bankrupt, losing their homes, drowning in debt, and dying because of unaffordable healthcare. And they get why you’re becoming an IT specialist instead of a librarian - because they! Know! That you can’t survive! On a librarian’s salary anymore!

On the flip side, the rich people sucking money out of every service and person they can! Aren’t! Always! Boomers! Tons of them are Gen X! And an increasing number are millennials! I haven’t seen a Gen Z billionaire yet but I’m willing to bet there’s a couple by now!

Oh, and it’s not like they “don’t know” how much people want to do these sorts of jobs - they do! That’s how they justify underpaying people, because it’s your passion, you don’t ~need~ to be paid a living wage for your passion.

Wildlife Rehabbers: Predation by free-roaming cats is hazardous to the environment.

Conservationists: Predation by free-roaming cats is hazardous to the environment.

I have posted sources on here about the environmental damage free-roaming cats cause globally, in South Africa, in Japan, in New Zealand, in the UK, in Poland, and in Italy to start. Others have posted even more resources.

I’m not going to humor you by reposting them because, well, firstly you’re too dense to take anything from them to begin with but secondly you made a claim so the ball is in your court. Where are your sources that free-roaming cats are integral in keeping prey populations in check?

I’ll wait.

If it was a rescue they'd have an appropriate habitat for it and leave it there to do alligator things. There's no reason it needs to be an ~ambassador~ for people to interact with. What do you think happens when a kid learns you can pet alligators and makes a beeline straight for a wild one? Or they pester their parents to get one as a pet and eventually release it into the wild because it grows huge? Or it takes their hand off while feeding?