modestmeme@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I don’t know who actually started the Boomers vs Millennials gripefest, but both of these advertising demographics can just shut up.
Honestly, I’m with you on that.
Idk maybe it’s because I’m a millennial who has boomer parents who never “got ahead” in life. One of my parents is unlikely to ever be able to retire. I never got the “rich boomer” hate because my parents continue to work and struggle financially in their mid to late 60s.
Gets a bit tiring to hear large swaths of people shit on other large swaths of people all the time. Such is the internet, I suppose.
Because they’re generalizing. Is every boomer a millionaire? No, there were plenty of cooks, waitresses, mechanics, retail jobs, ect that aren’t. What they’re talking about are people that made middle-class my money in a lifetime career at the same job. They became millionaires by doing absolute shit other than living life, on a single income with however many kids.
Now a days, if you’re in a middle office job you’re living paycheck to me paycheck in a 1 bedroom apartment and may or may not be forced to take the bus. People with the jobs earlier ate living of revolving credit, snap, and maybe other forms of convenient assistance.
So no, EVERY BOOMER didn’t make out, but the bar for “a good life” was multiple times lower than it is now. Now people who would be considered “rich” by boomers are middle-class today.
We’re in the last gasps of the pre-AI era, which is going to lead to a permanent and rising double digit unemployment rate, and the arguments will be about what to do with these excess people.
It’s people trying to make it so we blame old people for hoarding wealth instead of the people actually hoarding wealth. And when they call to start forcing boomers into camps or cut their healthcare to kill them, They think the rest of us will get our blood lust for justice satiated. And forget it wasn’t billionaires who took everything from us.
While I agree that those hoarding wealth and power are the primary target, a lot of boomers keep voting for fucking fascists and refuse to acknowledge the leopards eating their faces.
So do people from all generations.
They have been fed capitalism propaganda their whole lives.
I’m not saying that makes them not responsible for their votes. What I’m saying is that people en masse can be and have been manipulated.
People in the future will blame us now for all the pollution and climate change.
For fresh water loss.
They will blame these things on us right now. Why didn’t we vote to fix it?
But we know it’s not that simple. Often times , all politicians in an election are bought already. And those who aren’t, get less campaign money and get smeared in the media.
Even experiencing it right now , knowing it’s rigged. Knowing that votes don’t always matter much , people today still think the full blame goes on the voters of the time that had the exact same interferences as we have today.
I should have been more clear. I know they are being manipulated. I don’t blame them for everything.
I’m trying to acknowledge a justified and legitimate frustration, not discourage everyone from focusing on the real source of the problem.
Also refuse to release their death-grip on power
Would you retire in this economy? Especially if you had prescription drugs that were keeping you alive amounting to 2k a month?
Genuine question. Would you ?
Also. Not all boomers have a retirement fund. And social security does not pay out enough to live on.
My grandpa gets like 1200 a month or something.
A good chunk goes to prescriptions.
Rothe@piefed.social 2 hours ago
It was started by the oligarch propaganda machine to distract people from class war into generational war instead.