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>The sooner the Baby Boomer stop being consumers, the better, in regards to the rest of society. To make your comment explicit, you are cheering on the death a
by wycs 8y ago
>The sooner the Baby Boomer stop being consumers, the better, in regards to the rest of society.
To make your comment explicit, you are cheering on the death and decrepitude of millions of people. I hope your children are kinder to you.
- Mtinie 8y agoNot at all—morally and with a humanistic-bent—I don’t cheer for the deaths of my loved ones or their peers. But like taxes, death is inevitable. Economically, I’ll consider it from a Machiavellian perspective: The sooner limited, choice, resources are freed up for the younger generations the better. The Old were useful because they spawned, and raised, the young. As replacements, knowingly.
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- wycs 8y ago>But like taxes, death is inevitable. Taxes yes, but I am not so sure about death.
- Mtinie 8y agoSidebar: Are we about to venture into a trans-humanist discussion, or a spiritual one? I’m open to either, but I’d like to set the preliminary scope to narrow the available attack surface.
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- dragonwriter 8y ago> Are we about to venture into a trans-humanist discussion, or a spiritual one? They aren't mutually exclusive.
- quickthrower2 8y agoWell your comment has been immortalised in hall of infame: https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitHNSays/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitHNSays/
- toasterlovin 8y agoYou’re being downvoted, but I agree with you. Having a system where the old benefit at the expense of the young is a shit way to organize things.
- snuxoll 8y agoI hope I’m not telling my child they are lazy, entitled, or other generally ignorant statements about their generation and the society I hand down her.
- nradov 8y agoOlder generations have always made those same complaints about younger generations since humans first evolved. We like to think that we'll act better than our parents, but in the end it's just human nature.
- village-idiot 8y agoIt’s unusual for one generational cohort to control so much for so long though, so a lot of what we’re seeing with Boomers is new. Boomers are an unusually large cohort that arrived basically at once. They are a much larger group compared to their parents and children. That alone guarantees economic and political distortions, as it means that an unusually high percentage of the population would be in a very narrow range of ages. They also lived unusually longer than their parents too, by about 20 years so far. Their parents had to share power with the Boomers because they started to die out, with the Boomers this hasn’t happened at all. This means they took the mantle of power in unusually large numbers, didn’t need to share with their children, and lived so long that they’ve stunted the political and economic growth of younger generations. That Boomers are still clogging up the lower rungs of power is literally stunting the growth of Gen X and Millenials, which will be a problem when that cohort is forced to take over due to mortality. Under normal circumstances no generation is ever in the majority, and the mortality of their parents and themselves ensures that they cycle into and out of power smoothly. This gives every generation the ability to transfer social and economic power smoothly, as well as maintaining a good worker to retiree ratio. The Boomers however have basically upset that balance by existing in a tight cohort and living unusually long. So yes, parents shitting on “kids these days” is as old as humanity, but what we’re seeing with Boomers is actually quite new.
- enraged_camel 8y agoDon't forget their most important advantage: they grew up and came of age during the post-WWII boom period, and therefore enjoyed unprecedented rates of wealth and standard of living increases. You know, in direct contrast to Millennials, whom they enjoy criticizing so much.