Won't call it a review or BOOK on BOOKs (#1613448) because I just heard about it two minutes ago.
"Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It," BEAUTIFUL title, BEAUTIFUL topic.
Dude is a professor of law and history at Yale. Got it from a The Economist article, which I can't access (because poor and non-Boomer).
FASCINATING, though:
As Americans debate President Biden’s infirmities and President Trump’s erratic behavior, we’ve neglected the bigger problem before us: a massive transfer of power and wealth to the oldest among us, and the curtailment of the prospects of the young. In Gerontocracy in America, the historian and social critic Samuel Moyn offers a piercing diagnosis of our age divide and its consequences
The elderly predominantly fund campaigns and dominate their agendas, often with the intent to block any challenge to their status. The tax code is rigged on their behalf, as is an economy geared to sheltering financial and housing assets. The United States was founded on the promise of generational renovation but has become an increasingly febrile country of old men.
"it doesn’t need to be this way. With understanding and wit, Moyn shows how elder power can be dismantled."
Would LUV that shit. Fuck the boomers.
The goal isn't a new generation of masters, it's no masters at all. The boomers aren't to blame for the system hoarding wealth for them, most of them what they do now is help their families so they don't struggle as much as the next generatiion
Demographic correction: it's more accurate to say we've become a febrile country of old white women.
childless women, amirite (and unemployed, disgruntled men)
They printed the most money
Tax the rich is the solution but being a Libertarian moron you won't.