Ah, yes, the British boomers are parasitic fucktards as well!

When my mother texted recently to say she was finding booking her trip to Lake Como difficult because the baby elephants wandering outside her Zambian safari camp were too distracting, I found it hard to sympathise.

Uh-hu, I bet.

Toddler's bedtime routine was disrupted, car's AC had broken down, local school results were in shambles.

When, writes Ms. Twigg, previous generations heard about their parents' hardships, it was usually real hardships: broken heating, neighbors died, arthritis was back.

"But for millennials like me, chatting to your mother and father is frequently painful because they're having far too good a time""But for millennials like me, chatting to your mother and father is frequently painful because they're having far too good a time"

Fuck. The. Boomers.

"I feel like my parents go on holiday professionally, says Emma, 39. "In the last year, they have been all over south-east Asia, on a cruise down the Nile, to the theatre in New York and on multiple trips to Europe. It means I can't ever rely on them to do regular childcare because half the time, they're out of the country."

Lady has a point. (Grand)parents have a societal duty or responsibility in caring for/supporting/assisting their younger family members.

If there's a social contract (which there isn't), and I'm obliged/forced to hand over results of value generation to defunked bullshit Ponzi schemes like Social Security, there's certainly a reciprocal obligation for the elderly to provide for society generally or their offspring specifically. Not jetset around the world or be useless pricks sitting around smoking, drinking, and betting on the Premier League.

Life expectancy in the UK is now a little over 80, and for many, that means a second act that spans decades. For those with the savings, the lounge at Heathrow looms far larger than bake sales with Janet from down the road.
Today's retirees have become the glamorous, carefree adventurers, while we, their children, are stuck at home complaining about the weather and the neighbours -- and no doubt depressing our parents in the process.

The boomers might be the worst generation in history: they inherited everything, built nothing, and siphoned off everything... while riding the fiat bubble and society's decline to the maximum.

Absurd graph:

Are you not entertained?!Are you not entertained?!

where older generations were happy to see out their retirement pottering at home and helping with the grandchildren, those born in the two decades after the Second World War see this time as the reward for 40 years of hard work -- and the moment to enjoy the freedom they postponed while raising children of their own.
the second factor -- wealth -- is as important. Many of these retirees have far more disposable income than any others in history, having benefited from rising house prices, golden economic conditions, generous pensions and free higher education.

"Millennials, meanwhile, are contending with salaries that haven't kept face with housing costs or school fees, while working through one of the most highly taxed eras in modern British history.""Millennials, meanwhile, are contending with salaries that haven't kept face with housing costs or school fees, while working through one of the most highly taxed eras in modern British history."

That's a very nice dig at the "tax the billionaires"/"I hate capitalism" nonsense. We haven't had much capitalism in Britain in recent decades, an ever-growing state leviathan fueled by perverse boomer incentives and messed-up boomer values.

The consequence is that the children of boomers -- many of whom are now in their 30s and early 40s -- are looking at their parents with uninhibited jealousy. While they drown in the drudgery of everyday life, their elders are accumulating stamps in their passports with the fervour of a gap-year student who has just been given access to their trust fund.

...which, technically, is precisely what they have done: this is what the extreme generational wealth transfer that luxury boomer communism entails #1468968

"For many millennials, part of the problem is a lack of self-awareness from parents who will happily send through hundreds of photographs of azure seas and prides of lions without a second thought. Or, indeed, berate their children for not having enough fun.""For many millennials, part of the problem is a lack of self-awareness from parents who will happily send through hundreds of photographs of azure seas and prides of lions without a second thought. Or, indeed, berate their children for not having enough fun."

Yeah, fuck 'em, honestly.

• Abolish social security right away -- no trial, no nothing. I'm not exaggerating: tomorrow. No mercy.
• 100% capital gains tax on housing wealth (subject to age limitation or whatever special circumstance), and an additional ~2% levy on unrealized housing wealth.
• Remove every carved-out benefit established across society (retiree discounts, Medicare-sponsored golf courses, reduced costs etc)

Ms Twigg expertly outlines the problem and chronicles countless Brits' experiences dealing with their privileged and fucked-up boomer parents. There's something genuinely wrong and messed up with a society that upward-redistributes from workers to the old, from poor to the rich.

I'm not kidding when I say I want the boomers fucked. They deserve it.I'm not kidding when I say I want the boomers fucked. They deserve it.

aaah, it feels good to be back on this crusade.

Fiat delenda est. Saylor, also -- and the fucking boomers.