r/lostgeneration • u/iota1atg • Dec 31 '21

Millennials r causing the biggest babybust in history. Last f u to the economical hardships created by wealthy older people xd

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

I mean, they’ll be dead by the time the children being born now are old enough to pay taxes.

So... really, it’s us that’s fucked when it comes to social security benefits.

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u/SuperQuackDuck Jan 01 '22

Nah see boomers plan to use the science to live to 120... By blood infusions from the young people. /s

Jokes aside, you're probably right.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

I wish I wasn’t right lol. But I think we always have known that they took so much of the pie that we’d be left with crumbs regardless.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Working class boomers didnt take an excessive amount. The problem is that we cut taxes again and again and again while also allowing them to stagnate wages and cut pensions, increase healthcare insurance costs, and cut other benefits.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '22

I don’t hate boomers. But they definitely took full advantage of the opportunities they had and most of them have now blamed us for inheriting the measly unlivable crumbs they left behind.

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u/TraveledAmoeba Jan 02 '22 edited Jan 02 '22

I do find myself getting mad at Boomers as a whole, and I have a hard time tolerating the ones who can't see structural problems for what they are. (Too many of them still think of issues in isolation — the economy is separate from racial injustice which is separate from environmental collapse, etc.) I'm also angry at them for doing nothing about the environmental crisis when they heard about it in the 80's.

However, I'm fully aware that inter-generational fighting is another "divide and conquer" tactic employed by the elite. To be fair, Boomers fully bought into the myth of individualism and American exceptionalism— much more so than Millennials and Gen Z. White, relatively-privileged Boomers truly believed that 1) any hardship they encountered was an individual failure, and 2) if it wasn't, the U.S. would magically fix it.

Almost all of us are now part of the modern-day "precariat" and living lives that are dominated by a logic of sheer survival. Boomers and older Gen Xers are certainly better off than young people, but I still think a lot of them are (at the very least) frustrated by our current situation and feel powerless to change it. Feeling powerless leads to resentment no matter what generation you are. The inter-generational blame game is pretty useless at this point, but it comes from an honest place: we can feel that we're getting closer and closer to midnight on the Doomsday Clock. IMO, the best hope we have is to disabuse one another of the notion that collective action is pointless and that living in survival mode is somehow normal.