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Fucking over the previous generation: instead of taking care of your parents once they're old just put them in a "old people ready to die" home. Fucking over t

by arkh 9y ago

Fucking over the previous generation: instead of taking care of your parents once they're old just put them in a "old people ready to die" home. Fucking over the next generation: up the requirements for jobs (education and experience) so it is harder for them to find one. Concentrate jobs in some huge cities and refuse new constructions so the rent can go up way more than salaries. In most countries setup a Ponzi scheme for pensions where you paid peanuts because there were not a lot of pensions to pay while you were active but now that you are there the active:passive ratio is a lot worse. And my favorite: sell the college experience (especially humanities) to people who can't afford those.

notyourwork 9y ago
> instead of taking care of your parents once they're old just put them in a "old people ready to die" home. I don't want to sound ignorant but do we have any stats to back this up. Also, do we have an answer to how many of the boomer's parents didn't save enough to support themselves? I don't disagree but I also don't agree with this. In my family, my Dad's parents saved and diligently prepared for their later years. My Mom's parents did not. So now I ask myself, am I expected to care for my parents in their later years? I don't think our generation expects to do so but personally I would do what I can for my family. However, I am not so sure that the boomers fucked us over by not caring for their parents. By not caring for their parents, how does this fuck us over exactly? > up the requirements for jobs (education and experience) so it is harder for them to find one. Is this the boomers fault? Each generation the requirements and expectations for jobs increase. Middle school teachers and police officers required to have masters degrees in some states and cities. Some cities do have the housing problems you speak of, San Francisco comes to mind. However, this isn't a generalization that you can apply to an entire country or world. I am from a large midwest city that isn't plagued with this problem, is quite affordable and has lots of jobs. I think you are taking a specific situation and applying it to an entire generation of people which I feel is unfair. I do agree however that you raise some discussion points.
- lovich 9y ago
  >So now I ask myself, am I expected to care for my parents in their later years? It's anecdata but a common topic/worry among several of my unconnected social circles is at what point do you have to cut your parents off and let them live in abject poverty. It's not everyone but there's a common theme of Boomer parents expecting to live the exact same lifestyle even when they can no longer work and have saved nothing. Everyone wants to take care of their parents but there is a worry that they will be sacrificing their own and their children's lives/happiness for people who refuse to accept that they are no longer making the same amount of money

by arkh 9y ago

notyourwork 9y ago

> instead of taking care of your parents once they're old just put them in a "old people ready to die" home. I don't want to sound ignorant but do we have any stats to back this up. Also, do we have an answer to how many of the boomer's parents didn't save enough to support themselves? I don't disagree but I also don't agree with this. In my family, my Dad's parents saved and diligently prepared for their later years. My Mom's parents did not. So now I ask myself, am I expected to care for my parents in their later years? I don't think our generation expects to do so but personally I would do what I can for my family. However, I am not so sure that the boomers fucked us over by not caring for their parents. By not caring for their parents, how does this fuck us over exactly? > up the requirements for jobs (education and experience) so it is harder for them to find one. Is this the boomers fault? Each generation the requirements and expectations for jobs increase. Middle school teachers and police officers required to have masters degrees in some states and cities. Some cities do have the housing problems you speak of, San Francisco comes to mind. However, this isn't a generalization that you can apply to an entire country or world. I am from a large midwest city that isn't plagued with this problem, is quite affordable and has lots of jobs. I think you are taking a specific situation and applying it to an entire generation of people which I feel is unfair. I do agree however that you raise some discussion points.

lovich 9y ago
>So now I ask myself, am I expected to care for my parents in their later years? It's anecdata but a common topic/worry among several of my unconnected social circles is at what point do you have to cut your parents off and let them live in abject poverty. It's not everyone but there's a common theme of Boomer parents expecting to live the exact same lifestyle even when they can no longer work and have saved nothing. Everyone wants to take care of their parents but there is a worry that they will be sacrificing their own and their children's lives/happiness for people who refuse to accept that they are no longer making the same amount of money