If Boomer Were Honest
48-Cowboy
Forcing Baby Boomers To Stop Being Babies
If Boomer Were Honest with their gen z great grandkids it would sound like this,
https://youtu.be/UlLG4NKrE1A
https://youtu.be/UlLG4NKrE1A
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"That sounds gay grandpa"
"It was, we were all gay!"
What's gay about a wet willy? There was a girl at my school who'd say she was going to whisper a secret in your ear, and then spit in it. She definitely had at least a wet willy coming.
Socialist security will go one of two ways.
1. It will be inflated away.
2. It will be redistributed and taken from the haves like you to the have not, and inflated away anyway.
Either way, the future is not as bright for you as you think.
We can't rely on the rich throwing us a few crumbs
If that's true, you'll be on the ass end of the class war.
The other fuck-over was the young got a lot of bullshit advice that they should get up to their necks in debt to pay for an overpriced college education. They were told they were setting themselves up for a good paying job, which was a lie. But they have to take some part of the blame, they weren't children, and should have been more cautious about going so deep in debt.
Income inequality has skyrocketed because in this globalized economy, the returns to extraordinary talent are greater than ever before. Facebook and Google made a smaller workforce fabulously wealthy, while not providing as many jobs as say, Ford and US Steel (which required a huge pool of rote labor).
A complex tax code favors the rich. Who else has all the people to help them evade taxes, or open corporations in the Cayman Islands? Rate doesn't matter. What's 35% of zero?
Boomers benefited from a scenario that was never going to last. After WW2 we were the only manufacturing power out there. We bombed the shiznit out of Germany and Japan. Europe was wrecked. China hadn't come online. How else could an unskilled laborer, with a high school education, support a wife and 4 kids and retire with a full pension after 30 years? In the process, they passed policies that have jacked up the price of real estate, locking the young out of the market. And now, all the debt we're is is going to hurt our ability to spend. We can't afford what we have, let alone progressive pipe dreams that always come in over their already-gargantuan estimates.
So yeah, the young are fucked on several fronts. I'm in my early-40s and a lot of people my age are struggling. I'm balling, because I had the fortune to be born wicked smahhht (as they say up here), and an intact, loving family that instilled the importance of education and work ethic. And executed on it.
Anyone who promises an easy solution is lying, or a politician. But I repeat myself.
I can only go on the folks I meet, but across all of these 'branded' generations, there seems to be a pretty standard bell curve of behaviors ranging from smart to stupid, productive to unproductive, and decent humans to absolute assholes. I'm not worried about or annoyed by young people. They're doing fine.