Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts.

psvrh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Zip2@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Or make them pay for their own winter heating.

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• Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Or we can give them lots of money for being old.

  They didn’t fight in two world wars to not be given free money.

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  • psvrh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Boomers fought in world wars?

    In utero, maybe.

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    • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They didn’t fight I just said.

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      • psvrh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sorry, the double-negative threw me for a loop.

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, except it’s the rich assholes in power that would have to pass that kind of reform.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean, yeah. That kind of reform.

    Good thing there’s other options.

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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• Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sad thing with doing that, is they will be screwed over. Cool beans, but it won’t go away and you’ll be double screwed over. It won’t fix anything for the next generations. These billion dollar companies need not exist anymore. They do nothing but harm anything they infect

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s not an option… Look at the average age of our “representatives”.

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