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And now Gen X are included in the anti-boomer rhetoric. Great. As a tail-end UK Gen Xer, while I have some wealth I have built from working for over 20 years,

by Nursie 4y ago

And now Gen X are included in the anti-boomer rhetoric. Great. As a tail-end UK Gen Xer, while I have some wealth I have built from working for over 20 years, I missed out on houses costing 2-3x your income just as much as the younger generations did. I'm not sitting on a million dollar property that I paid 10c for in 1972, largely because I wasn't born then...

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kagakuninja 4y ago
Welcome the the club, mate. I'm a tail-end boomer (born 1963), and missed out on most of that gravy train boomers had. Apparently we are all selfish right-wing assholes. Boomer hate is stupid. The enemy are the elites, corporations and billionaires.
- danans 4y ago
  > Boomer hate is stupid. The enemy are the elites, corporations and billionaires. Hate of any generation - especially an individual member of a generation based on their membership in it - is stupid. However, the critique against Boomers by younger generations is not about you as an individual, but is about largely Boomer-backed policies that pull up the the ladder of affordability behind them for housing and education. That doesn't mean every Boomer is to blame, or that the wealthy among younger generations don't often advocate the same positions as Boomers. But as a cohort, Boomers' voting patterns at both a national and local level have tended to exacerbate the specific problems of housing and education unaffordability.
- nathanlied 4y ago
  I do find the Boomer hate to be absolutely incoherent, but not new. Ultimately, the biggest factor is your economic class. If you're a boomer, but you're poor, you will live just as poorly as someone who's a poor Gen Z. If you're black and poor, you have far more in common on a day-to-day basis with a white poor person than with a black millionaire/billionaire.
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seydor 4y ago
It's different in different countries. A common thread is that they own the real estate
hindsightbias 4y ago
Just move in with boomer parents and wait for the inheritance.

by Nursie 4y ago

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kagakuninja 4y ago

Welcome the the club, mate. I'm a tail-end boomer (born 1963), and missed out on most of that gravy train boomers had. Apparently we are all selfish right-wing assholes. Boomer hate is stupid. The enemy are the elites, corporations and billionaires.

danans 4y ago
> Boomer hate is stupid. The enemy are the elites, corporations and billionaires. Hate of any generation - especially an individual member of a generation based on their membership in it - is stupid. However, the critique against Boomers by younger generations is not about you as an individual, but is about largely Boomer-backed policies that pull up the the ladder of affordability behind them for housing and education. That doesn't mean every Boomer is to blame, or that the wealthy among younger generations don't often advocate the same positions as Boomers. But as a cohort, Boomers' voting patterns at both a national and local level have tended to exacerbate the specific problems of housing and education unaffordability.
nathanlied 4y ago
I do find the Boomer hate to be absolutely incoherent, but not new. Ultimately, the biggest factor is your economic class. If you're a boomer, but you're poor, you will live just as poorly as someone who's a poor Gen Z. If you're black and poor, you have far more in common on a day-to-day basis with a white poor person than with a black millionaire/billionaire.
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seydor 4y ago

It's different in different countries. A common thread is that they own the real estate

hindsightbias 4y ago

Just move in with boomer parents and wait for the inheritance.