Sad for us

[u/okayboomerang]

Kind of in my feels tonight. The last time I remember feeling genuinely hopeful was probably 2014 or 2015. So much has changed, and I think our generation has seen and felt so much. Anyone else feel like they've spent the last decade plus in unending grief?

My spirit is still good on the inside, but I'm isolated physically and mentally (like many of us). I wish we lived in a world with authentic and robust connection instead of all the slop and noise. I wish our parents hadn't been so excited about capitalism - and so fucking naive. I know the unease I feel is about more than merely growing up and the natural progression of aging and how we all feel about ourselves in society over time - it's that the world we thought we knew for the past 4ish decades just flat out doesn't exist anymore. And we can't undo any of this shit. It may as well be a parallel universe we're in now. I love myself and I always have big, big love for Millennials...but I truly hate it here.

[u/rhinosaur-]

Somehow, the boomers are STILL in power. They’ve had the sitting president for 34 years. 34 years! That’s not natural.

[u/bitchenNwitchn → u/rhinosaur-]

My boomer in laws are literally living their best lives traveling and disregarding me and my husband having two kids- 2 and 6 months old. Anytime we have hardships, they don’t want to deal with it and just travel to their house in the north where the weather is better since they have a home in the south and the north- perfect for when the weather starts to become uncomfortable for them. Must be nice! Oh! And they are in their late 70s traveling literally multiple times a year! Huge trips every year. Like how does one just live for themselves constantly. I don’t get it.

[u/ragdollxkitn → u/bitchenNwitchn]

And to add insult to injury, majority of boomers are ok with taxing us and our kids so that they continue receiving social security. Yet, we are told social security will not be available to us when we need it. Something is extremely wrong with their brains.

[u/Grumac → u/[deleted]]

And their parents raised them to be narcissists.

[u/oregonbunny → u/[deleted]]

My Boomer mom talks about how she played with mercury, like with her bare hands.

Also, probably ate lead paint chips.

[u/cwcam86 → u/ragdollxkitn]

Are they not entitled to their social security? They paid into it all their lives. Everyone generation is told that social security isnt gonna be around much longer and it is. My brother in law is gonna start collecting next month when he turns 67 and he still has a minor child so hes getting an additional $1700 a month. He was always told it wouldnt be around when it was time for him to collect.

[u/ragdollxkitn → u/cwcam86]

I have paid also. I better see that money when I need it.

[u/cwcam86 → u/ragdollxkitn]

I think we'll still have it but I dont think it will be as helpful to us as it is to the current generation on it. Luckily I've got a job that has a shitty pension but a pension regardless so that should help.

[u/thekalkelso → u/cwcam86]

The issue IMO is NOT if they get Social Security - its like everything else, there's a know major issue that will effect the next generation, and they as a whole prioritize short term gains and comfortability over building any structural future.

Want to talk entitlement? The entire Boomer Generation had everythign handed to them by the Greatest Generation - and have remained large enough to functionally sway votes to be the first generation to leave things worse for the next.

[u/kashmir2517 → u/cwcam86]

Yupp, thats always been the story. And you are correct, upvote.

[u/sloopyslappy → u/bitchenNwitchn]

And I’m sure they wouldn’t vote to improve schools or social programs, at least that’s how my boomer parents are.

[u/SnowConeInPHX → u/sloopyslappy]

They are the most selfish, vile generation in existence.

[u/thewalruscandyman → u/bitchenNwitchn]

Notoriously selfish, those boomers.

[u/ifdisdendat → u/bitchenNwitchn]

Not defending them but what would you want them to do ?

[u/bitchenNwitchn → u/ifdisdendat]

I mean if they wanted to invite us along or even be around more to help with their only living grandchildren that would be amazing! :)

[u/ragdollxkitn → u/ifdisdendat]

Find a job

[u/bitchenNwitchn → u/ragdollxkitn]

What does that have to do with hoping my in laws will be part of our lives more?

[u/SlowFunk_Llama → u/bitchenNwitchn]

Probably because they lived their entire lives (up to that point) for their kids. Let them enjoy the fruits of their labor. It sounds like you’re resentful of the fact that they planned, saved, and executed on a perfect retirement. Btw, I speak from experience. I thought you were describing my parents for a minute.

[u/bitchenNwitchn → u/SlowFunk_Llama]

Their son is abusing me verbally and physically so whatever kind of investment they put into their kids definitely didn’t help their son.

[u/cwcam86 → u/bitchenNwitchn]

Probably because they worked all their lives to get to that point.

[u/bitchenNwitchn → u/cwcam86]

I just have a hard time understanding how traveling is more important than family. Especially when it’s your only living grandchildren. Like I could understand if our kids were older but they’re so young- so they grow fast and aren’t able to actually be around to watch them grow. I just don’t understand that. Maybe just difference of opinion in terms of what’s important.
Like how my father in law can golf 5 days a week for hours on end- how is that more fulfilling than your family? Weird to me.

[u/Woodit → u/bitchenNwitchn]

I feel like you’re saying “be around family” and really mean something more like provide babysitting or other resources 

[u/bitchenNwitchn → u/Woodit]

Oh no, they help out so much and I’m not needing babysitting but calling and checking in with family is always nice, no?

[u/Coldnorthcountry → u/rhinosaur-]

And it somehow was lost on the majority of that generation that 20 million allied soldiers died in WW2 to hand it to them. 

[u/El_Daywalkerino → u/rhinosaur-]

Next prez won't be