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Two life changing recessions, crushing student debt, a mismanaged pandemic, Brexit( in the case of Europe), two major wars, a wasteful trade war(in the case of

by anderson1993 5y ago

Two life changing recessions, crushing student debt, a mismanaged pandemic, Brexit( in the case of Europe), two major wars, a wasteful trade war(in the case of the US), while baby boomer are in power would make anyone feel resentful of the whole generation.

lotsofpulp 5y ago
> two major wars These “wars” did not even have an organized enemy, so I cannot classify them as major in the context of other wars in history. I would classify them as major exercises in enriching military vendors.
- gameswithgo 5y ago
  major in terms of my tax dollars wasted.
- sbuk 5y ago
  *boomer owned military vendors.
tunnuz 5y ago
Climate change?
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
  ...which started 100 years ago or more. Boomers did nothing about it, sure, but don't blame climate change solely on them. And if you think your generation would have done better with the same lack of general knowledge about the problem (until the last 20-30 years), you're deluding yourself.
  - wing-_-nuts 5y ago
    It was a well known problem in the 80's when the boomers were adults and starting to get elected to power. Yes, I judge them, and yes, I think we would have done better than to go on a coke fueled binge of unregulated capitalism. Consider me deluded.
bbarnett 5y ago
By this metric, every generation has cause to belittle and fault the prior. From the dawn of time, no generation has managed affairs perfectly. Or even well, by many metrics. Millenials will do just as poorly as the hippies, if not worse. But the amusing side of things is, millenials rail against the 1%. Well and good, except, do you think John and Mary in Nebraska, or Tom and Jane in LA, had anything to do with these decisions? Whether division by race, culture, age, pointing fingers at each other, instead of policy makers, is quite literally ignoring the real problem.

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Two life changing recessions, crushing student debt, a mismanaged pandemic, Brexit( in the case of Europe), two major wars, a wasteful trade war(in the case of

by anderson1993 5y ago

lotsofpulp 5y ago
> two major wars These “wars” did not even have an organized enemy, so I cannot classify them as major in the context of other wars in history. I would classify them as major exercises in enriching military vendors.
- gameswithgo 5y ago
  major in terms of my tax dollars wasted.
- sbuk 5y ago
  *boomer owned military vendors.
tunnuz 5y ago
Climate change?
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
  ...which started 100 years ago or more. Boomers did nothing about it, sure, but don't blame climate change solely on them. And if you think your generation would have done better with the same lack of general knowledge about the problem (until the last 20-30 years), you're deluding yourself.
  - wing-_-nuts 5y ago
    It was a well known problem in the 80's when the boomers were adults and starting to get elected to power. Yes, I judge them, and yes, I think we would have done better than to go on a coke fueled binge of unregulated capitalism. Consider me deluded.
bbarnett 5y ago
By this metric, every generation has cause to belittle and fault the prior. From the dawn of time, no generation has managed affairs perfectly. Or even well, by many metrics. Millenials will do just as poorly as the hippies, if not worse. But the amusing side of things is, millenials rail against the 1%. Well and good, except, do you think John and Mary in Nebraska, or Tom and Jane in LA, had anything to do with these decisions? Whether division by race, culture, age, pointing fingers at each other, instead of policy makers, is quite literally ignoring the real problem.