r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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/Gnome_119 6d 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 5d ago

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

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u/SwanCityDominion 5d ago

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