• Herr Woland@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Come on son, we worked hard and ruined the economy and the climate and the nature, now be a good boy and pay for our retirement.

  • MorningstarCorndog@lemmy.today
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    Unsustainable system finally collapses under the weight of greedy spoiled generation when their children cannot compete with their parents enough to continue supporting said unsustainable system.

    There fixed that shit.

    Those fools need to get the fuck out of here with that nonsense!

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      Most boomers and whatever came right after boomers don’t even have decent retirements… That’s what’s sorta funny about all this. I know quite a few 60s and 70s yr olds that legit don’t have enough to sustain their lifestyles and still have to work. The system failed LONG before Millennials showed up.

      Many of them went their whole lives “not trusting the stock market” just to literally have no retirement. Much of it was lack of education and access to the stock market when they could have been investing, but then at the same time it is a pretty stupid fucking system of retirement when without notice you can lose 40% of value because some bankers fucked around.

      The system sucked for them that’s why they still have to work, but instead of trying to fix it, they just complain that it’s their kids fault.

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        And even the ones that have a lot of assets to be considered well off have a problem. They’re living in the only thing they own that’s worth a significant amount of cash.

        Property prices have completely fucked everyone. Just because somebody can barely afford to pay 50% of their wages every month for the next 40 years in order own their own house, it doesn’t mean they should. It means they’ve got no choice because there isn’t enough.

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    Imagine having this much hostility towards the future.

    It’s like the last of the boomers is sitting in some silo somewhere waiting to nuke the Earth on their way out the door and the rest of them know it.

    They not only don’t want to plant trees they’ll never get sit under, they want to burn the forest down out of spite because they don’t get to personally live forever to enjoy it.

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      I actually know a Lot of boomers who feel just that way. My dad is one he thinks its their right to destroy the environment because they can’t live forever.

      Then you have the christian nuts who want to destroy it so that jesus will return.

      But most boomers want take the money with them and leave nothing to future generations. Hell they do want to burn it all down and they destroy the American dream out of greed.

      The me generation that only want them to have it all.

  • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Corrected headline: boomers voted in austerity assholes and now their kids have to pay for it with their money

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      I find it hard to wrap my head around the idea that spending more debt than every government before them every single time for decades is austerity. They spent more than all the money constantly. Some austerity would have actually helped but they didn’t do that.

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        They have been needing to raise taxes on the wealthy for decades, but they’ve been reducing them instead.