Submitted 9 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to [deleted]
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Boomers about to tell you how they grew up in a "poor" family of 5, living in a 3 bedroom suburban home on a single-earner's income:
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1369808/boomers-about-to-tell-you-how-they-grew-up-in-a-poor-family-of-5-living-in-a-3-bedroom-s
Poverty didn’t exist until the 2008 Recession. Prior to that, everyone was rich and all resources were shared equitably. Nobody was ever in debt, we had full employment, and neither medical debt nor homelessness was real.
We all wish you weren’t born, too.
modestmeme@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I don’t know who actually started the Boomers vs Millennials gripefest, but both of these advertising demographics can just shut up.
Rothe@piefed.social 1 hour ago
It was started by the oligarch propaganda machine to distract people from class war into generational war instead.
dingus@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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.
Tiral@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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.
daannii@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
theparadox@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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