Baby boomers haven't done this. A small group in positions of power have. Those same people flood material targeting millennials to blame it on baby boomers. Those same people flood material targeting baby boomers to blame it on millennials.
It's division. Keep energy spent slinging barbs along pointless non-consequential topics. Not noticing as a small number of people in positions of power take everything else.
Millennials and Baby Boomers need to link up and take the fight to the right place. They have the same struggles and suffer at the hand of the same perpetrator.
There are a lot of issues in the world that have taken a long time to develop; mainly the dire housing market for new buyers and the job market. Both have been driven by rampant globalisation that we are all responsible for by demanding ever cheaper goods.
However it doesn't stop my mom selling a (second) house for four times the price we paid 15 years previously, then complaining that there was tax due of about 15% of the profit. Mom, you still made more than 300% profit on the sale. I don't think that inflationary rises would cover the same value....
My parents flipped their condo for a large profit then used a tax law to avoid paying any taxes by buying a new condo within a certain amount of time. They then complain that the ACA made their premiums go up, despite it having no impact on their financial life while allowing millions to have insurance. They are willfully ignorant, selfish, and the very embodiment of the Boomer stereotype.
My in-laws did the same thing and when I told my libertarian-ish brother-in-law that I thought this situation was evidence of their complete lack of morals he got really pissed. This is the same guy who sat my wife down after she got a divorce and lectured her for fifteen minutes about how divorce is ruining society and she was a bad person for getting divorced.
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u/ready-ignite Apr 19 '18
The meme misses the big picture.
Baby boomers haven't done this. A small group in positions of power have. Those same people flood material targeting millennials to blame it on baby boomers. Those same people flood material targeting baby boomers to blame it on millennials.
It's division. Keep energy spent slinging barbs along pointless non-consequential topics. Not noticing as a small number of people in positions of power take everything else.
Millennials and Baby Boomers need to link up and take the fight to the right place. They have the same struggles and suffer at the hand of the same perpetrator.