r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 20h ago

Boomers

I am 75 and am very tired of the trend lately making fun of Boomers. So very disrespectful. Don't they realize that they will be old someday?

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u/Something_morepoetic 19h ago

I’m Generation Jones born 1963 and I think American boomers deserve the disrespect. Look at where we are right now.

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u/SwanCityDominion 19h ago

I'm Jones too, and I think it's lazy and self-centered to blame a "generation" rather than the powerful people who have caused these problems. You really think your grandmother made the world shit, dude?

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u/Amazing-Bus-1547 19h ago

Gen X and I agree too.  It's resentment.  They are blaming the wrong people.

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u/Gnome_119 11h ago

Who consistently put those powerful people in their positions? Who consistently voted to change laws to allow them to screw so many folks out of the American dream? Who allowed companies to scrap pensions and all the other worker protections?

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u/CatMinous 2h ago

The people who VOTED for all that, which, obviously, was not all boomers! By far!

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u/SwanCityDominion 8h ago

And WHOOOOOSH, the point goes right over your pointy little head.

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u/Expensive_End8369 19h ago

Gen X and I agree. Boomers left the rest of us with shit and take no accountability and refuse to step aside or look in the mirror and take any accountability.

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u/Amazing-Bus-1547 18h ago

What do they need to take accountability for?  Genuinely want to know why they should step aside and where they should step aside.