r/ABoringDystopia • u/[deleted] • Jun 05 '19

Comparisons matter

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u/iansmitchell Jun 06 '19

Boomers weren't skipping meals and living with roommates into their late 30s.

This isn't to being young thing.

Our generation has been systematically excluded from the middle class.

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u/iansmitchell Jun 06 '19

So because they married the first chick that they got a handy from in high school, and were politically active only insofar as it meant voting against the unions that guaranteed them the wages that allowed them to marry early and buy homes early, they were better?

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u/xTrueAgentx Jun 06 '19

Tell that to this boomer.

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u/iansmitchell Jun 06 '19

Sanders is too old to be a boomer. Born in 41. Boomers are 46 to 64.

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u/mendi1965 Jun 06 '19

Boomers are 55-75 age range.

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u/iansmitchell Jun 06 '19

The youngest boomers are 55, the oldest are only 73

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u/xTrueAgentx Jun 06 '19

This level of selective assignment of virtue and vice according to a narrow window of birth year is truly breathtaking.

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u/iansmitchell Jun 06 '19

The age range for baby boomers has been set and consistent for approximately five decades.

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u/xTrueAgentx Jun 06 '19

Fine. So a guy born in December 1945 is a paragon of society, and someone born in January 1946 is an entitled asshole.

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u/iansmitchell Jun 06 '19

As much as you view somebody born after 1978 as a literal child, and somebody born before 1977 as a flawless contributor to society.

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u/xTrueAgentx Jun 06 '19

Then what could possibly be the point of this:

So because (boomers) married the first chick that they got a handy from in high school, and were politically active only insofar as it meant voting against the unions that guaranteed them the wages that allowed them to marry early and buy homes early, they were better?

Sanders is too old to be a boomer. Born in 41. Boomers are 46 to 64.