It could have added GenX, but boomers had it good and then ripped the ladders up behind them. They have a significant chunk of responsibility of the mess we’re in now
Some. Some had it good. It’s true that back in the day a single income could sustain a family. That stopped being true for many 50-some years ago. My parents were tail end boomers. In the 80s, they were able to buy a small house right next to a top-5 city for crime and raise 3 kids on a blue collar job supplemented with part time cashier work. In the 90s, expenses started needing two full time positions. In the early 2000s (after a move of necessity), I had to chip in for a third of the mortgage. Now that (refinanced) house is falling apart, my mom can no longer work, and my dad is dead. There are millions with similar stories.
Is my mom a racist piece of shit that nods along to Fox while blaming everyone else for her bad situation? Yup. But that’s not a boomer thing. It’s not a generational thing. That’s a culture war thing. The same culture war being propagated by the people who actually pulled up the ladders behind them. The same ones who have been waging a class war and winning handily in part because of the culture war distractions.
Some loony was going off the other day about how X was just as bad as the boomers because of Musk, Fuckerberg, etc. Same shit, different decade.
Society has bred sociopaths for countless generations. The most ruthless get the most rewards. The less successful sociopaths strive to be more sociopathic, so that one day they too can win harder. And this behavior gets modeled and tweaked over time until people grow up thinking it’s perfectly natural to crush others in pursuit of success. “Sucks to suck, I got mine.” All of this is very visible and only becoming more acute due to social Darwinism and the swamp of bullhorns that is the internet.
But for every greedy fuck that’s actively making things worse, they have countless peers that are just trying to live their lives. Some live them fighting the culture war. Some live them fighting back. They may hate each other. But they have more in common with each other than they ever will with those that have been waging class war since before any of us were born.
Forget the generational shit. Recognize the culture wars for what they are. And may every miserable psychopathic shit on the winning side of the class war find themselves staring at the inside of a wicker basket. Briefly.
cm0002@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It could have added GenX, but boomers had it good and then ripped the ladders up behind them. They have a significant chunk of responsibility of the mess we’re in now
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Some. Some had it good. It’s true that back in the day a single income could sustain a family. That stopped being true for many 50-some years ago. My parents were tail end boomers. In the 80s, they were able to buy a small house right next to a top-5 city for crime and raise 3 kids on a blue collar job supplemented with part time cashier work. In the 90s, expenses started needing two full time positions. In the early 2000s (after a move of necessity), I had to chip in for a third of the mortgage. Now that (refinanced) house is falling apart, my mom can no longer work, and my dad is dead. There are millions with similar stories.
Is my mom a racist piece of shit that nods along to Fox while blaming everyone else for her bad situation? Yup. But that’s not a boomer thing. It’s not a generational thing. That’s a culture war thing. The same culture war being propagated by the people who actually pulled up the ladders behind them. The same ones who have been waging a class war and winning handily in part because of the culture war distractions.
Some loony was going off the other day about how X was just as bad as the boomers because of Musk, Fuckerberg, etc. Same shit, different decade.
Society has bred sociopaths for countless generations. The most ruthless get the most rewards. The less successful sociopaths strive to be more sociopathic, so that one day they too can win harder. And this behavior gets modeled and tweaked over time until people grow up thinking it’s perfectly natural to crush others in pursuit of success. “Sucks to suck, I got mine.” All of this is very visible and only becoming more acute due to social Darwinism and the swamp of bullhorns that is the internet.
But for every greedy fuck that’s actively making things worse, they have countless peers that are just trying to live their lives. Some live them fighting the culture war. Some live them fighting back. They may hate each other. But they have more in common with each other than they ever will with those that have been waging class war since before any of us were born.
Forget the generational shit. Recognize the culture wars for what they are. And may every miserable psychopathic shit on the winning side of the class war find themselves staring at the inside of a wicker basket. Briefly.
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