Meanwhile everyone else outlives their money every couple weeks.
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If only they had voted for the candidates who wanted a strong social safety net, rather than the ones that wanted to fuck everyone who isn’t part of the 0.1%, maybe they wouldn’t have to worry now…
And the idea of a safety net has been around for a long time, in various forms, yet somehow helping everyone has always been a bad thing to do.
That sounds like socialism, which is the same as communism, since they don’t understand that either. All they know is that they lived through the Red Scare, and grew up thinking evil Soviet Communists were going to nuke the world…
Thinking voting could save a country like America is so out of touch it’s cringe. America needs revolution.
That’s true now, but wasn’t always true, and the baby boomers voting differently would have prevented it
It’s not an age thing, it’s a class thing. This is just a psyop to direct anger away from the Epstein class.
No war, but class war.
Absolutely. Note that the only boomers who are able to hoard money are the ones who have it to hoard.
I’m not disagreeing, but it is worthwhile to point out that the groups can converge.
It may be a class war, but when all the boomers you know are a class above you, it can be both.
Boomers are not the class above anyone, virtually all of them are working class. Theyre just also brainwashed to hate socialized benefits.
My dad lost all his assets to cancer bills, as did my father in law, and my husband’s family lost the house built by their grandfather due to having to settle the nursing home debt after my mother in law died.
I do not expect any inheritance from my mom, since I want her to use it all to take care of herself.
We really really need a single payer healthcare system. Those last dozen years of a person’s life are where the medical industrial complex makes obscene bank.
I can not begin to explain the level of my contempt for networks like FoxNews…
It confounds me that my father can be such a bigot and against social reform after being left destitute after my step mom passed following seven years of cancer treatment before passing way. I think he wants everyone else to suffer like he does instead of wanting there to be less suffering. I used to be really close to him but I refuse to have a relationship with him anymore.
Look.
We all know boomers individually and like them.
Yes, we should be focusing more on class warfare than generational warfare.
But the bottom line is, as a generation, they were/are AWFUL. Quite possibly the most greedy generation of humans to ever exist. Because they had so much more than any other generation I can think of but are so unwilling to share, even on their way out. And their entire lifetime of voting habits proves how greedy they are.
Their generation has been in control for quite some time now and they are leaving us major environmental problems, an economic shitstorm, and completely off the rails politics.
They failed.
They failed.
You’re a failure
What an absurd thing to say in a world where individuals have the wealth of thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of millionaires. Good ol’ Fortune spinning the generational conflict to prevent class war. Ma and Pa down at the old folks home pinching what pennies they have are not the ones creating a wealth hoarding problem. They are responding reasonably to a system that would watch them die in the streets while simultaneously not allowing them to choose the time of their own death.
You’re right and I’m glad you’re pointing this out. That said…
Boomers are still selfish assholes who won’t get out of the way and release their positions in government office and owning multiple properties that they bought for a song while voting against housing initiatives that would “change the character” of their neighborhoods while young people face increasing costs of living. The rich, plus the selfish.
spinning the generational conflict to prevent class war
Sorry, I don’t judge entire groups based on the behavior of a few. I know, it’s weird, but I didn’t do it when it was hip to judge people by skin tone and I’m not doing it now that it’s all the rage to use the super-duper scientific method of what year someone was born.
You know what, you’re right. There are classes of people who can’t control their outcomes (skin color, sexual orientation, gender identity), and then there are those who can’t control what decade they were born. That’s exactly the same thing.
Boomers can’t help stealing from their offspring because they were born at a time where that was wired-in. There’s nothing they can do to improve their behavior. I’m so glad you corrected me for being a fucking bigot. All this time that I thought I was criticizing greed and power has actually been a misguided adventure into bigotry.
Do boomers who are white hold most of the wealth? Doesn’t matter! They were born in a time when you couldn’t control that. What the fuck. What a shit response. Defend people who lord over you or pretend to fight back as you lord over us. You’re exposed. Shut up. Go away.
Sorry, how is your post different from someone claiming [insert racial group] is prone to greed and you’re simply trying to criticize greed? It’s basically a Mad Libs of that old fashioned bigotry.
Also, I’m confused by your first paragraph there. It’s such a weird thing to acknowledge that birth year is a fixed/ascribed trait then immediately launch into a prejudicial rant based on said ascribed trait. Even weirder to pause mid rant to claim you aren’t a bigot for inexorably linking an ascribed trait to a achieved (greed) state, which is basically the literal definition of bigotry. Or, is “That’s exactly the same thing” sarcasm and you’re implying people do choose when they’re born? Very confusing.
Or, is … sarcasm
You’re quick. Fuck everyone in my mother’s generation who won’t step aside and let younger people hold office, buy houses (she lives alone in a three bedroom house), or start careers (a former CEO came out of retirement and accepted a low-level position part-time where my partner works just so he’d have “something to do” ten hours per week). They are suppressing everyone under them.
sarcasm and you’re implying people do choose when they’re born?
What a weird thing to say.
You know, this new wave of age based bigotry does come with a silver lining. You see, an old school race based bigot can go their whole lives hating on [insert constructed racial group]. They can, on their death bed, look out the window and find someone to hate on. It’s a life-long obsession. But you age based bigots are going to wake up one day in a world without booomers. Then what will you do with all your irrational hate?
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Honestly a valid concern but it’s a cultural problem.
We don’t live gracefully and we don’t die gracefully. Why are they living so long? For what?
Well, in my observation/opinion it is because all of their prime years were stolen(tricked/finagled) from them.
“Hey let me get most of that” is a wild proposition. Not just most but the significant majority. Let me get 5/7 of that? That’s the ask under our current system. 5 out of 7 days laboring for someone else. You get two for haircuts, laundry, connecting with your kids etc. etc. etc. so basically all of your time from 20 to 65 or whatever “retirement” age is now.
Im gonna tell you right now I am 46 and my best years are behind me. By the time I am 65…. Lmao.
Don’t get me wrong, I lift, have abs, beautiful SO, kids…. Nevertheless years were blown on someone else shit. I’m not doing that. Anyway I digress. My point is that I am very fortunate and have eschewed the grind mentality. I’d rather live it up and die at 68 living humble than go to 85 while my body falls into ruin.
It’s really changed my outlook on healthcare too. Why are we keeping an 80 year old alive with hospital stays every 4 months? That’s insane. Chained to an oxygen tank. Terrified of death living in regret and disappointment. Nothing you know even applies anymore. Can’t even work the tv. It’s crazy. Im good off all that.
Just live and go when it’s our time. That’s my plan.
“Why don’t old(er than me) people simply die and stop being leeches?” is a wild take.
Do you apply that logic to other people who take more from society than they (currently) contribute?
“Why are they living so long” lol As if boomers are choosing to live long lives strictly to spite younger generations. How long you live is not really a choice. One could suicide, but if you’re in good health and living a reasonably happy life, why would you, or anyone?. Is the poster suggesting we go Soylent Green and all die at age 30 or w/e?
The best part is we all know the “If you’re over X you should just die” line will “coincidentally” “logically” rise with their age as their definition of “too old to live” changes as they hit that number.
A 10 year old thinks a 30 year old is old. At 20, it’s 50. At 30, it’s 70. etc.
Actually, you’re thinking of Logan’s Run. Soylent Green turned any dead person into food, but you could live to old age. Logan’s Run would kill you off the year you turn 30. 🤓
Oof, thanks!
