Serious Question

Cowboy, most of the population is financially struggling. High housing costs, low wages. They are not doing anything wrong, this is just how it is.

SJG

A lot of boomers' earning years are behind them, and they are reliant on fixed income or pensions.

When younger generations say anything about inflation, boomers have to turn it around on themselves and complain about how rough they had it. It is all about me me me me me me me me me me me

@48-Cowboy

I will play along and answer your questions:

Q: Why is it that boomer are the ones complaining about inflation?

A: Because white privileged boomers who benefitted from the economic and social conditions after World War Two are now not benefiting from the current economic and social situation.

The American economic system, is descendant of the Feudal Monarchies and Imperial and Colonial systems, were the wealth flows from poorer to richer hands and they are all of course unjust and inadequate.

The now called Capitalist system holds out great rewards to those with no more proper claim than the accident of being born wealthy, or of being skilled at chicanery, or having a flair for pandering to the public’s lowest tastes.

The system is unable to provide a proper income to all who honestly contribute to its functioning, because allows for unfair trade for all, and is being sustained by uncontrolled public spending and war.

“Each one for himself and God for us all, as the elephant said when it danced among the chickens.”

The undeniable fact is that American Capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and the poor people of any color and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor people, of any color, here and abroad."

“It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.”

~ Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg ~ Born: 3rd January 2003 Stockholm, Sweden ~ Occupation: Student, environmental activist

~ Awards: ~ Fritt Ord Award (2019) ~ Rachel Carson Prize (2019) ~ Ambassador of Conscience Award (2019) ~ Right Livelihood Award (2019) ~ International Children's Peace Prize (2019) ~ Time Person of the Year (2019) ~ Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity (2020)

I’m trying to figure out how you youngsters are such a whiny bunch, I figure we must have indulged you too much, I don’t know why y’all feel so deprived, but really get over it, things aren’t going to get better unless you do something to make them better.

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1- Boomers have lived thru a time of really bad inflation. So they have first hand knowledge of what it does to the economy.

2- Boomers are either about to retire or have retired. So they dont' have much income years to make up the difference.

At 7% inflation, prices will essentially double in 10 years. That means a newly retired individual has half the retirement savings that they thought they had.

I know plenty of Boomers who had to carry the asses of their entitled Gen X and Millennial children and that's why they aren't as financially secure as they had hoped to be at their age. My point is life doesn't always go the way you plan it for some even if you do put effort into planning.

"they should have at least $2 to 5 million in retirements. If they did more than a few things right, they should be worth at least $10 million. " - I believe this is a pipe dream. Most people wouldn't even be able to set enough money aside each month early in their life to have a chance of making this happen. A lot of lucky swings in the market have to happen for this to work.

I have to laugh, my dad has four really close friends, all of them are Boomers, all have been retired for years. Three owned their own businesses (two were handed down-taking over the family business), one was a doctor and my dad worked for a large corporation. Of the five of them, three are millionaires, all three that are millionaires inherited it from their parents. Even though they were successful in their own right, they would not be where they are today if it weren't for their inheritance. Two of the guys are very modest, the other is arrogant about his wealth.

BOOMERS are complaining about inflation? Last I checked, EVERYBODY is complaining about inflation.

Booker vs genx is the coke vs Pepsi of demography. I want to hear some Silent Generation vs GenZ throw down.

Oh ffs. BOOMER VS GENX. You know what I meant…. Hahaha

^ I am a gen x and I like gen z or zoomers. They are a repeat of the silent generation that everyone liked. My all time favorite clients are silents. Only irritation was today, a I gave a zoomer $10.03 for something that cost $9.03 today and they got confused and handed me $1 worth of change back instead of a paper dollar... Lol. I had millennials do the same thing. He seemed new and confused so I didn't confuse him more by trying to teach him something.

Fuck off with the inter-generational division bullshit.

Millennials have no souls and their music SUCKS. Thats why they are lashing out at older generations.

As for "Zoomers" I don't consider them an actual generation different from Millennials. There is no clear difference. When a new generation comes along that is fundamentally different from Millennials then we can consider them a new generation. Different generations always hate the generation immediately ahead of them. Yet we don't see any actual animosity between Millennials and supposed Zoomers,just shared hatred for older generations. So they are not separate generations.

I'm Gen X BTW so don't start with your Boomer slur.

Also Gen X here. I work with people ranging from Boomer to Zoomer. I don't have a problem with any of them. I wouldn't say that any of them work harder than the other, but they definitely work differently, and it's not like any generation is devoid of laziness. That also manifests differently depending on the generation (and sometimes it doesn't...).

Generational antagonism is dumb.

Digital ageism is last socially accepted form of discrimination

Still waiting for some reason Zoomers are actually a generation and not just more Millennials. Just becausexa certain number of years go by doesn't mean that there is a new generation in a practical sense. Normally henerations hate the generation immefuatelt ahead if them

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...immediately ahead of them. Yet we see very little distain between so-called Zoomers and Millennials. Culturally is there a clear difference? All I see is Zoomers being Millennials on steroids, it even more like Millennials than Millennials were. Same awful music, especially the (c)rap. Same awful political and social attitudes only more aggressive about it. To be fair, millennials never burned down half the country like Zoomers did in 2020. At least the older Millennials tended to be fairly mellow and less violent than other generations, although there were obvious exceptions. Younger Millennials and Zoomers seem to be the same group in all but name.

Zoomers do appear to have slightly less tattoos than Millennials but that's probably because they are too lazy to put down the video game console long enough to go to the tattoo shop and get one.

^ I'm sorry that you're going through life simultaneously angry and afraid of everything.

This entire discussion is just plain silly.

All these labels, Boomer, Millenials, and so forth, were created by some magazine/website to stir people up and give so-called journalists something to write about. Not everyone of a specific age is identical. There are not virtuous generations or despicable generations. There are simply individuals of infinite diversity and characteristics.

The very definition of a bigoted statement is one which states “ All ( insert group description ) are ( insert value judgement) “

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^ This is the point I am trying to make. By ages 25 to 40 in 1989 boomers had over 21% of the countries wealth. Right now millennial are at that age range and we only have 4.6 percent of the countries wealth. All we want is a fair shake.

@ uprightcitizen, lmfao! That sounds about right 🤣🤣🤣

Why is it that young males of today are as masculine as women were in 1965. The weakest whiniest most jealous fucking losers on earth. Cowboy is just a little gay bottom taking cocks up his ass, like the little bitch the ignorant redneck always is. We have the wealth cowboy bitch because unlike you we work little girl.

"This is the point I am trying to make. By ages 25 to 40 in 1989 boomers had over 21% of the countries wealth. Right now millennial are at that age range and we only have 4.6 percent of the countries wealth. All we want is a fair shake."

So what do you consider fair cowpoke? Here's a new concept for you, get your poked ass off of brokeback mountain and go earn your share instead of whining about nobody giving it to you! Your post history reads like some uneducated hillbilly teenager who gets abused by your elders so you post here taking out your frustrations by insulting anyone older than you which is most everyone. Cowboy? BS! The closest you've ever been to a real horse is the pony at a petting zoo.

“The perfect dictatorship (the USA) would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping.

It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes."

~ Quote attributed to Aldous Leonard Huxley

~ Born 26 July 1894 Godalming, Surrey, England ~ Died 22 November 1963 Los Angeles County, California, United States

Skibum, sounds like you are looking for some strapping young lads to poke in the ass. Maybe you and OSU should get together since you both have fetishes about Brokeback mountain

Lol! Well I didn't expect someone that advertises his IQ *48, in his screen name to understand what I said, but hey you're the cowpoke so once again go get poked and after you receive your fill stop whining and go earn your 'fair shake'. That's what this country was founded on and how it's been for almost 250 years before you babies started crying 'I want some, where's mine'?

Lol

You're flailing Cowboy. Desires was great today.

^ lol! You are more gay than my wife's boyfriend

Cowgirl, stop whining.

^ Lol, your wife getting more from a gay Bf than she does from you doesn't speak real well about you!
But then again I knew my assessment regarding you being a dumb whiney little boy was correct. Giddy up cowpoke LMAO!

^ sounds like you are trying to get poked in the ass just like skibum

I'm kidding like anyone would really marry me. I still have never had sex with a human before. Just cattle.

^^^ OOPS RONG ACCOUNT