Submitted 2 weeks 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.
You’ll be old soon and the younger generations will hate you too
modestmeme@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t know who actually started the Boomers vs Millennials gripefest, but both of these advertising demographics can just shut up.
dingus@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
chunk6235@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I grew up as the only child of a single boomer mother who was poor as fuck. All that to say, your parents are probably good people, because wealth has nothing to do with how shitty boomers are to people.
My mother was homeless for a solid 5 years in my adulthood, and the bitch still had the gall to complain about section 8 housing being heavily populated by black people cuz she didn’t want to be the “only white person”.
Rothe@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It was started by the oligarch propaganda machine to distract people from class war into generational war instead.
daannii@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
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beansbeansbeans@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Eat the ultra-rich and redistribute their wealth.