Why do left wing millennials shit on boomers when they are literally boomers 2.0.?

[Dr. Howard]

Take your average boomer and make them a kid in this era and they'd be used as fucked as a millennial. There isn't anything special about boomers, they were little born into wealth and affluence.

As a boomer, I agree this is completely true. Whenever a boomer tells you how hard their lives were...throw a drink in their face. It's such bullshit. Sure we didn't have cell phones, but by every other measure, we were handed the sweetest deal by our hardworking WW2 parents. We proceeded to blow that sweetness, being the lazyest drug-taking hippy fucks in the history of the human race. Then we boobytrapped the entire US economy to make you millenials/xers into our personal slaves.

We were given low cost, affordable housing. Intentionally kept low cost so we could buy. We proceeded to inflate those housing costs insanely, so that we could have massive capital gains profits to blow on our retirement, all paid for by you poor suckers who have to spend the next 30 years slaving to pay the huge payments. To us!

We were given low cost, affordable high quality colleges. Intentionally kept low cost and high quality so we as middle class people could get an education with ZERO DEBT if we worked a few part time jobs. We have loaded those universities with masses of rent-seeking liberal administrators, and jacked the salaries of management 3X faster than inflation. So you kids will spend you whole lives in debt to pay for our pension plans.

Every single measure the WW2 generation used to make the Amerian middle class affordable for the average citizen, we baby boomers have utterly corrupted to feed our desire to retire and go on fancy eco-cruises.

While our granddaughters -- literally -- are forced to turn tricks on SeekingArrangments to pay their college loans back.

The depth of depravity and immorality of the baby boomer generation will be written about in history books for a thousand years. Ok, well maybe 50 years. Let's not overdo it. but it's bad enough.

As the son of borderline retarded boomers, this post strikes a nerve.

Sometimes I think the generation is so narcissistic overall that they've never looked at any sort of statistics or charts which explain how dire the situation for us is.

You need to make 200k as a 30 year old to be in the top 1% of earners for your age. Factoring in saving for a six figure downpayment on a home and paying off student loans, this income gives you a fairly middle class life in NY/SF/LA metro areas where a lot of these jobs are.

If you want to crack an upper middle class existence in these cities you really need a husband and wife earning top dollar to make it.

I find it hilarious when my parents make remarks to me about not being at their level with home purchasing and savings.

Hopefully we get a massive correction in the stocks/real estate but the upper middle class millennials will most likely inherit their money, take huge risks in crypto/self employment, or have two ultrasuccessful corporate earners.

I always wonder what's going to happen to the McMansions that the Boomers will pass on to Millenials/Gen Xers that don't want them. I imagine the stock market might be a bit of a bubble as well, propped up by the retirement accounts of Boomers.

Its happening already. I just moved out of an area where homes under $180k get listed for 1 day before being sold, newer/new construction homes also go under contract quickly. Huge houses built in 1989 go on the market for high asking prices and just sit there. The prices don't drop because the residents don't have to move anywhere and no one is really interested in the house, for the price they are asking.

I think that these mcmansions are going to be inherited by grandchildren. It could be a a gift to millenials IF these houses are maintained and not neglected while the current residents run out of cash, and the physical ability to maintain the home.

Alternatively, there are also a number of these businesses appearing that will buy an interest in your home and let you live in until you die. They will then turn the house into a rental. Either way, I'm sure they aren't offering top dollar.

If I were a millennial today, I would be looking to take advantage of the opportunities being presented by an aging population, with few children. Senior citizens have become invisible as they don't use social media, but are holding onto physical wealth. If a gen-z'er finds a way to build a network and friendship with these people, who have no children, you could find yourself in a good position beyond just the wisdom they have to offer.

 

[perros]

I'm on team Millennial.

Baby Boomers are running the country as we speak and have been running the country since the late 80s and early 90s and have really nothing to show for it.

Baby Boomers started the illegal offensive war in Iraq based on lies, where hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians died and thousands of Americans died as well and are still there till this day.

Millennials didn't start the Afghanistan war, where the Taliban has more territory now than the beginning of the start of the war. The U.S. is bombing over 7 different countries as we speak.

So we have all these wars where you send the millennial generation to go die, and run up the bill for iit as much as 7 trillion dollars and turn it over to the taxpayers.

Baby Boomers repeatedly de-regulated the economy which led to massive boom/bust cycles and created the largest economic recession in 2007 since the Great Depression.

Baby Boomers signed away our future by supporting shitty outsourcing and trade deals like NAFTA/CAFTA and China.

The cost of college has skyrocketed to the point where there's 1.6 trillion dollars worth of student loan debt in this country. 45 million people feeling this burden where back in Biden's day you can have a factory job without a college education and provide for a family of 4 on that salary. Now you need a college degree to get a decent job, and even if you get the college degree its still no guarantee that you are going to get a high paying job or enough money to raise a family.

Lets face it, the Baby Boomers totally have destroyed the country with bad decision after bad decision and worst of all it was their generation that allowed money into politics and the corrupted influence of money is at such a high level its comical where elections are run by corporations and billionaires who get whatever they want implemented while average workers are left for scraps.

So these guys (the boomers) destroyed the country and the system and now as they are handing it off to us they berate us in the process.

There's this weird stereotype and caricature these people have of millennials that they are all spoiled, pampered little pricks, who are all about their "feelings" and are all eating avocado toast (Don't know where that came from but never met a millennial who has ever eaten that, but I digress).

The millennial generation graduated from high school and college into the economic recession of 2007 and 2008 and many can't afford to do the basic things their parents or grandparents did in buying their first home or buying a car or start a family and were told and promised by a boomer generation that if they just go to college and get saddled with debt, their lives will be better.

Thank you boomers for selling out our future.

 

[Deepdiver]

Best growth businesses in the USA - Pawn Shops and Consignment Stores so the Millenials and Z-Gens can sell their last possessions to get bus fare to go to the Food Banks while they move back into their Boomer parents Basements and Garages...

Then Millenials and Z-Gens will be so phocked they will really have something to WHINE about...

'We're spineless boomers, so we didn't deal with the last recession, but guess who will be most affected by the next one?' *points and laughs*

Thanks boomer. As if being worse than every generation before you wasn't enough, you had to make sure every generation hereafter is just as dysfunctional.

What a legacy.

LOL The biggest fault of the whiny whiner Millenials is that they think they deserve the world and everything in it just for being stray cum shots who breathe - I was subject to the UCMJ for 6 long harsh years and defended our Constitution - what have the Millenials done - Become Antifa/BLM/AOC Bernie Bro Marxist Socialists CCP lovers who will destroy everything the previous generations fought and died to give them - at least the Chinese social media scoring is right around the corner for the USSA and whinging whiners online will be given the most negative scores and will wipe themselves out as the Chinese demand slave-like obedience - the Millenials and Zgens have only yourselves to blame now.

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