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Mental breakdown for the win
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Stop making this a generational war, boomers aren't the problem. Unrestrained capitalism is.
Who do you think it is that voted for unrestrained capitalism and has been its most ardent crusaders for 50+ years?
Boomers are a big part of the problem
If they weren't yanking up the drawbridge and making sure the rest of us have to pay for their pensions and to sit around doing nothing but collect rent, I'd agree.
We just can't afford 'em
(this is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek look at some reporting/analysis)
Hard disagree.
The boomer generation's biggest crime was being a frog in a pot that's only just coming to boil. The leopards were still in the distance and life for the most part looked good if you lack the ability to see beneath the surface.
Most people lack this ability. They are incapable of making abstract contextual links and stumble through their lives relatively blind to how the world works. Ignorant.
For most Boomers their ignorance does not make them guilty. Just foolish and weak. Fallible. That's not enough to lay blame at their feet.
The criminals have and only ever will be the ridiculously wealthy; who've orchestrated this mess for wealth, power and hubris. Who've stood on the backs of all workers for all written history. Who've caused untold suffering and death. Our ire belongs with them.
Division along any other lines only serves those wealthy bastards reaping the rewards from our division.
You write as if the billionaires are the only crooks, there's a long line of millionaires eager to commit crimes for their billionaire overlords and an even longer line of middle class folks desperate to do anything illegal or not to please their millionaire bosses. It wasn't only millionaires that voted for brexit or voted for trump in the US.
"Unrestrained capitalism" is boomer pension funds acting within the bounds of policies that boomers voted to optimize for the greatest return on investment for those pension funds over the course of their life expectancy.
Yeah boomers kind of are the problem they were handed much of what they have on a silver platter and then punch out at anyone else that did not get a silver platter and chalk it up to personal failure
They were lucky to be born in a period of relative wealth, and most don't get why it's more difficult these days, but they are not responsible for the fact that you get generations have it harder then them.
Those who have all the power are very happy when the plebs fight among themselves you know.
Are you kidding? The people who are responsible are almost all boomers
A lot of boomers stand in the way of change and are ULTRA shitty about it
True but also who was voting in Regan? John Howard? Everyone was happy to vote in the social rapists for a cheap paycheque as long as their specific demographic wasn't getting raped and now we're all paying the price.
Also when we say that things were handed on a silver platter, we need to factor in the western oppression over the east.
The point I am trying to make here is just to ensure Western bommers have it on a silver plate, the Eastern boomers had to suffer for it. Now we live in a world where everyone except Western boomers are suffering! The hints capitalism being shit was evident and the west did not do anything to change it now is the time for a fresh new world
Like the feather of Mario World, the cycle of good/bad times and good/bad men/people, there is the oscillation, but a general upward status.
It's been generally downwards for about 25 years now actually, still waiting on that oscillation. Assuming that just because things kept getting better up until the 90s so they must start getting better again soon is the kind of attitude that's enabled capitalism to run rampant and ruin our society and our planet.
Fucking right
Trump's a cop. We're doing something. Wheat, weeds, remember like We said We would do?
The Earth doesn't exist. Everything reconciles with the Omega. Focus on you and the entanglements keeping you from being the one stopping "the downward," as you perceive it. Of course, that involves defending your position.
Por que no los dos
who do you think threw whom under the bus for that?