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No, it's fine easy "to rag on them" because they are immortal, cognitively deficient, and directly to blame for most of the problems you even outline in your comment. Yes, their inability to understand that makes it worse
And no, unlike the socialist restaurant — where the socialists frequenting it understand that they have to give something up for it to work, the boomers of today don't (largely speaking) understand.
And my point in there is precisely that "the boomers played the game (...as it lays)" isn't an acceptable excuse unless you also give up SS.
Hence the connection.
the average person was just born, got a job, probably did that job for life and then retired, without so much as a thought in the world. had a kid and house at 25 just like everyone else, i dont think that makes them bad, they did what they all did
the govs of the world though, they're the ones who made these sytems and who could make policies to change things, except they dont
i dont think that makes them bad, they did what they all did
the govs of the world though, they're the ones who made these sytems and who could make policies to change things, except they dont
agreed and agreed. The latter, yes, makes them culpabable and any kind of justice have those peeps pay the price (prison, stripped of assets, etc etc). But the former, most of whom weren't doing this on purpose and out of malice, they were still the undeserved beneficiaries of a thing someone else unjustly made for them.
Crudely: if a guy robs a bunch of stores and then shows up at my house for coffee, bringing me gifts, food, and a nice new lambo, I don't get to keep the lambo just because I wasn't to blame for the crime. Doesn't matter that I didn't know/too stupid to understand
Expecting the boomers to give up their SS , would be like expecting people to pay in the socialist restaurant; some would, most won't. Self-interest and preservation are the prime drivers for most humans.
Boomers played the game the system told them to, and largely won, people cranking out babies, jobs galore, powerful currency, still on a nominal gold standard, not in fiat clown world. Maybe they were born in the luckist time in history and thought that's just how the world is.
Younger people now are also trying to do the right things, but the whole fiat system and demographics have fucked them, and now AI is ass-pounding them as well. Bad timing basically, 4th turning bad.
If btc goes parabolic in the future , then us current stackers will be hated i expect
What boomers are usually guilty of is failing to understand that young people live in a different world and that the reason they can't get a mortgage is not that they are constantly eating avocado toast etc
The tone-deafness and self-righteousness is really what makes it easy to rag on them