How bout you just give all your money to rich people, it will trickle down on your face and keep you warm. Just pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and work harder, put down the avocado toast.
Did they not know, they could just buy a house?
But landlords buying any and all available properties are not a problem!
I’m so jaded after months of stupid comments. All i can do now is just sarcasm.
But what about their tax cuts for the wealthy? Are they safe?
Time to start pulling on them bootstraps.
Oh no, the consequences of their actions.
Don’t worry there are safety nets in society since our corpo overlords love and care for us. Its not like the voted their entire life to get rid of them.
It’s almost like essential services are just entirely too expensive. You know the simple things like housing, food, and health care.
On the bright side… Um, well… I’ll have to get back to you on that one.
I’d like to be sympathetic, but this is the world they created. And on top of that, our generation was called lazy, entitled, etc. by the boomers. Guess you can lay down in that nice bed you made.
I mean, that’s a huge generalization in both directions.
There’s no evidence these people, throughout their younger life, did anything but try to survive.
“I’d like to be sympathetic” Based on your comment it seems like quite the opposite, actually. You’re no better than this boomer boogeyman figure you’ve created in your head.
If these baby boomers are still paying rent or are facing homelessness, then it’s probably safe to assume that they probably weren’t the ones who had a say in the world that was created.
Poverty and the proletariat exist in all generations.
Gotta love how every single comment here is talking about boomers like they’re a monolith that’s been voting for Republicans since the Nixon era.
Seriously. Everyone here talks about taking down corporations and everyone getting their needs met, but is pretty quick to generalize and discard a now at risk population who has a lowered ability to self serve.
The vitriol towards baby boomers is disturbing. Blaming a single, entire, generation for all of the current problems in the US is insane. It’s like if we blamed millennials for the Trump craziness.
Hang on, because I don’t think
anyone is(I should say) most people are actually doing that. When we speak of “Boomers” we mean the generation, and the individuals who espouse those prototypical generational thought processes. If I meet someone in that age group, I don’t go “Aw, fuck you for trickle down economics” because I don’t blame all Boomers on a personal level. But recognizing where they fucked up, and why their ideologies have created an existential crisis for future generations, that’s fair game.I don’t blame all Boomers on a personal level. But recognizing where they fucked up, and why their ideologies have created an existential crisis for future generations, that’s fair game.
Stop with your nuance. You have to either personally punch every homeless Vietnam veteran in the face or absolve Reagan voters of 100% of the damage they did (and continue to do). It’s one or the other.
It’s a good reminder to me that many voices on Lemmy are just edgy folks spitballing opinions as if they are gospel.
Boomers have fucked my generation so I couldn’t give a chicken fried fuck about this, hell maybe now that its affecting boomers the government might actually be forced to do something about it.
“boomers” are not individuals, it’s a title for a large group.
True
And the boomers are still talking about slashing social security… We will be a beggar nation before they’re done robbing us.
Something, something socialism.
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I believe you mean “if only wages hadn’t stagnated while inflation climbed.” But then I took economics as a class in school.
I’m glad someone was saying it. I just wish it wasn’t a guy who also looked and acted like he was a nut. Because he was right then and he would still be right today. The rent is too damn high.
I mean, they often do. But if the rents too damn high and you don’t get paid enough, there isn’t much that knowing how to budget is going to help with.
