Submitted 4 hours ago by 2pNza@lemmy.world to [deleted]
What are they talking about? We don’t have money for anything. How are we supposed to think about saving for our retirement?
We’re already too busy paying taxes to fund the boomers’ retirement, while they remain delusional about the world and think that everyone else just has to work harder.
There’s us and them. We don’t have money for anything, but then America isn’t for us. It’s for them. We’re only here to fund their dreams of extorting us further.
Do not blame boomers, do not blame your parents for having lived through fairer times. The reason it is far more financially difficult to live now is because more and more money is being removed from the system by the owners of production. It is the plutocracy of the very few that has so impoverished society not your parents buying their own house when they were twenty five. You are being misdirected.
If they built their wealth through the exploitation of others or are refusing to allow society to progress, then yes, you can blame them.
There’s a large generational gap regarding views on basic things like response to climate change and social safety nets. I don’t think it’s more helpful to blame boomers than republicans, but it wouldn’t be incorrect to attribute a lack of progress to the will of a lot of people in the boomer generation.
I think when people blame boomers for the economy, it’s not about blaming them for buying a house, it’s about blaming them for creating or supporting the economic conditions in which no one else can.
Are you working for a corporation, are you paying taxes to the government, what have you personally done to bring about a more equitable redistribution of wealth and how effective have your actions been. You are an ordinary person, the same as the majority of the generation before you, they cannot be blamed for living their lives as easily as they could within the society they found themselves. The blame for the current financial predicament working people find themselves in lies in a very clear single cause and until large proportions of the population see this clearly nothing will be done. You blurring the dominant cause is actively hindering its betterment.
por que no los dos?
snoons@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
To say nothing of the cascading environmental collapse making “saving for the future” futile because there is no future.
If there is a future, the only way it can exist is without capitalism which makes retirement savings doubly futile.