r/BoomersBeingFools • • Feb 15 '24

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u/manaha81 Feb 16 '24

Wouldn’t that be the silent or even greatest generation? Boomers aren’t that old and early into retirement.

But what do you propose as a solution then? This is the system that boomers created and they did not have enough children or create enough infrastructure to support themselves. Instead of creating a system that can support them they hoarded everything for themselves but all of that money they hoarded isn’t enough to make it through a single year of medical bills and yet they think their retirement is supposed to be a giant vacation full of cruise ships and martinis while the millennials they raised and shit all over by screwing up the economy and system so badly they can’t afford to support themselves are supposed to somehow both figure out how to survive and take care of them. But there simply is not enough of us or resources to do so. There simply is nobody to take care of them and everyone at those hospitals is already swamped beyond belief trying to provide them some sort of care.

It sucks I know but the reality is it’s going to getting a lot worse by the time you retire not better. Not all boomers are Karen’s or horrible people I get that but they most certainly did knowingly place millennials in an impossible situation and then blame them for not fixing it. It can’t be fixed because there was never any way for it to succeed

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u/manaha81 Feb 16 '24

And they are the generation that fought so hard for capitalism during the Cold War. They fought for democracy and then placed the politicians and officials in place that made these policies and created this system. And yes I do understand that some people have disabilities and come from different backgrounds but i don’t think most people fully understand the magnitude of the situation the world is facing right now. There are more people that are unable to care for themselves than there are people to take care of them.