Gen Z and Millenial hatred and vitriol toward boomers
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Curious on your time frame of continuous recessions and bad markets?
Uh, I'm a boomer. How'd I do that exactly?
I said before not individually but collectively that is what they did.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
The same generation of whiny, entitled bitches who didn’t want to deal with Vietnam suddenly became patriotic with younger people’s lives when it came to nation building in the ME. Oh, and **** you if you can’t get adequate healthcare from the VA. Why should I have to pay for your healthcare?
Yeah, **** the Boomers. Most of them can’t die soon enough:
Well, talk about painting with a very broad brush. You're taking about some things that happened and decided to blame it on a certain segment of the population.
You're also choosing to ignore incredible advances in science, health care, technology, etc. that have occurred in the last few decades. Do the boomers get any credit for those things?
It is a discussion of how a generation started vs. how it is leaving. Are you saying household computers and internet didn’t happen during that timeframe? I would disagree and argue that advances, economics, regulation and taxation of technology have largely been a net positive during the Boomer reign.
I don't think boomers are the problem. I think old people are the problem - of any generation. When nature was killing most of us off in our 60's we were all collectively better off. We're not supposed to see the ages we're seeing. I subscribe to @JRHawk2003 's theory on how to deal with it.
Yep, they loudly protested THE MAN and then turned around and became a far worse version of THE MAN.
Ask a boomer about BLM or Colin Kapernick and get ready to hear a mountain of Klanspeak.
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I tend to believe those advances would have happened anyway, there is just too much profit incentive for them not to happen.
Name one advance that the boomers made that no one got rich off of? Which for the record I'm not opposed to that entirely but I'm simply pointing out that those advances were also very self serving.
Don't remember any boomer inventing a major breakthrough and just saying that the patent is open and anyone can use it.
Up until extremely recently boomers have had the largest share of the vote by far. And they have had that power since the 1980's.
Politics for ages has been about catering to the whims of the boomers.
I'll throw this in for fodder... seems a little disingenuous to say the boomers had everything handed to them and left the world in ruins when current generations are downstream from the largest wealth transfer in history, no?
www.thedailyupside.com
The Largest Wealth Transfer in History Has Begun
What will it mean when Gen Z and millennials rule the world?
www.thedailyupside.com
Another 20 years and the millennials will be the bad guys. Wanted everything free and refused to pay for it, pushed the bills off on the later generations, blah, blah, blah.
This generational shit was just invented by the left to further divide the population and so they can seize and maintain control.
People gets fixated on this crap and don’t see how the politicians are ****ing all of us .
This generational shit was just invented by the left to further divide the population and so they can seize and maintain control.
People gets fixated on this crap and don’t see how the politicians are ****ing all of us .
I think that’s still the case now. I’m in my 30s and know a number of people who got degrees from low-level colleges and got their foot in the door with an entry-level position. The pay was okay not insane but within a few years they have really well paying jobs. These aren’t people working 60 hours a week either. They just show up and are able to mostly focus on work for 40 hours a week.
One other thing to remember in your comparison is the expectations of someone now vs. 40 years ago. The “avocado toast” thing is silly but I’m guessing someone in their 20s/30s considers that they should be able go to on a number of vacations a year, live in nicer housing, potentially live in a popular metro, bigger/nicer house, etc. People complain about how much someone in the past could afford when they lived in a <1,000 sq ft house, the family had one vehicle, they rarely went to a restaurant, few clothes, they live in a town of 30,000 people. Growing up in the 80s/90s, I never flew anywhere on a family vacation.
A few examples of Boomers being Boomers:
- Reducing Social Security benefits for their parents’ generation, after their parents were already retired
- Reducing Social Security benefits for their children and grandchildren by raising the minimum age for Social Security—but timing the change so it doesn’t affect them, only the generations after them
- Enjoying dirt-cheap, state subsidized college educations for themselves but then dramatically slashing state funding for education for later generations (all while using cherry-picked anecdotes of “rock climbing” and “lazy rivers” to justify it).
- Structuring property tax laws to benefit themselves at the expense of new homebuyers.
Advances in science, health care and technology "would have happened anyway"? But, the following is the boomers fault?
"They have allowed the prices of homes, healthcare, and education to inflate far far beyond the normal rate of inflation while failing to ensure that real wages are increased."
So, you've managed to paint with a broad brush and cherry pick at the same time?
Weak.
Jesus ****ing christ
This is a joke right? Those that complain about the man will often be the first to complain when he's not there to protect them.
Young people today struggle because because they have a lack of awareness of both history and society. Oh yeah, they think think they know what's going on in the world because they see it through the lens of social media not lived experiences.
We have idiots thinking they are some unique special flower they would have solved slavery or been a champion of the little man 400 years ago. They can't contextualize people and history.
Klanspeak... you just jump up there on your little social justice soap box and let everyone know how truly woke and smart you are.
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No, but being uniquely greedy isn't what we are talking about. F****g over future generations because of their greed is.
There are very few things on GIAOT that are more entertaining than a ****ing thread on Boomers. Whenever I see one on here, it's an immediate click. And this one did not let me down.
I didn't even mention how they undermined the other programs they are benefiting from but couldn't get rid of so they have made sure to completely screw up the funding for them with ridiculously irresponsible tax cuts over and over and over again and then point their fingers at the programs that were supposed to be funded by those taxes as the problem. Sure, they get social security but they've done their best to try and make sure nobody behind them gets theirs. They get cheap college tuition and reasonably priced housing, but not you!
I am not sure what happened that so many young people have no resilience, no ability deal with setbacks or things not going their way. So many are on meds for one reason or another. And so often they say they aren't working 40 hours a week for 40 years and have no idea how we did it with 50-60 hours per week all those years. And now they don't want to come into work. Somehow they want to live the high life, but not work much. Very strange concept and doesn't usually work. The younger generations are nowhere near ready to be serious. Sad to watch really. I think the phones and social media really did a number on them.
I'll throw this in for fodder... seems a little disingenuous to say the boomers had everything handed to them and left the world in ruins when current generations are downstream from the largest wealth transfer in history, no?
The Largest Wealth Transfer in History Has Begun
What will it mean when Gen Z and millennials rule the world?
There are major penalties to having to wait for your parents to die in order to get caught up to where you should have been.
By the time most people's parents die they are beyond their childbearing years. They have had a lot of years that they could not invest or could invest very little.
Do you guys realize that on each of these issues there were a relatively equal number of people on both sides of the issue, but that thanks to gerrymandering, two Senators per state, and the electoral college the ones trying to make things better for the middle class tend to lose? This is not a generational issue - it is a political philosophy issue, exacerbated by the system our Founding Fathers put in place.
I wish I could say that Boomers were the last racist generation but there are plenty in my generation, Gen X, that are racist AF.
That's the normal cycle of things. Look back at our economic history going back to the 1960s. Recessions in 1960, 1969, 1973-1975, 1980, 1981-82, 1990-91, 2001, 2008, 2020 (self-induced COVID recession). Recessions happen like clockwork every 7-10 years. News flash, there will be another recession in the second half of the 2020's, and another in the 2030s as well.
Millennials act like they are the first to experience these things. My parents, Boomers, started out in a crappy 1970s economic environment with double digit mortgage rates, gas lines, and an America reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam War, a war in which my dad fought in.
Gen Xers have lived through everything Millennials have and more going back to the first Desert Storm. You really don't see Xers crying about these things much though.
Yes. Thank you Gen X for your silent contributions and making this world a better place. You want to talk tech advances and credit the Boomers? Think again.
I was going to post the same thing. I entered adulthood in the mid-70's when the economy was in shambles. My first two houses I had a 12% mortgage and was happy to have it, because lots of people had higher. I started to get established when 9/11 happened, along with post-Y2K my supposedly lucrative IT income was cut almost in half. Got established again only to get knocked back down with the housing bubble.
Recessions happen, and for the most part they aren't anyone's fault.
As for wars; the wars fought in my lifetime have not been started by Boomers.
Recessions occur on average every 6.5 years. It’s been a nice stretch since the last one which ended in 2009. Plan accordingly, you will see more of them.
I feel like this post is just a bunch of stuff you saw online over years and now you're speaking as if you know people that have said all of this. Just because you see a video of some "young person" saying something about work, doesn't mean they're speaking for everyone else. I'm a millennial and I don't know a single person that doesn't work at least 40 hours a week. Most of my friends work well over 40, because we have to in order to afford stuff.
I'm not saying nobody complains about that sort of stuff, but your post is an odd one. Very odd. Every generation has lazy people that want stuff given to them. That's not a millenial/young person thing.
IMO, we were taught to listen and respect elders because they experienced things and learned from their mistakes. They'd been around awhile and seen and heard more things. Now, I don't know when it happened, but they are so smart that they don't need advice from anyone (tongue in cheek). I get told all the time about things that happened and I'm wrong because it didn't happen that way. Somewhere we've rewritten history and how things happened. That's how a racist like Biden gets into office.
