• modestmeme@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    lol old people hate. Because blaming any other group for the world’s problems is very bad…. It’s as if the boomer generation was obligated to create utopia; not any generation previous or since. Just them. And when the last of them have died off, the youngins will scapegoat whoever is old in that time. So Millennials, you might want to get your excuses ready; you didn’t leave the world a better place for them…

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      The baby boomer generation holds 51.1% of the total populations wealth. They watched Regan rise to power, strip new deal legislation, neuter unions, kill millions with the AIDS crisis, and funnel cocaine into minority neighborhoods. In response to all that, the baby boomers… elected him to a second term. You all have had a literal lifetime to take that wealth and fight for the future generations to have a better life. Instead of doing that, the vocal majority told ALL OF US (Gen X, Gen Y, Millenials, Gen Z and now Gen Alpha) that we are entitled little shits who are lazy, and need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.

      If you want the old people hate to stop, maybe look at your peers and get them to realize the mess that has been made fell largely on your shoulders to clean up, and you did nothing.

      Maybe you’ve spent your whole life protesting and promoting progressive candidates. I dont know you. I only know the statistics and history about the generations. If you have been fighting for progress your whole life, thats great and I’m happy you did that. but understand when people say things like the OP, it isnt directed at those who tried to make a positive change, it’s directed at the majority who sat around and let fascism happen.

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        I’ve heard stats presented that way all my life, usually in terms of “immigrants”, “Jews”, “Catholics” , etc. You want to look up some stats? Look at voter turnout amongst young people. Or the population of the United States vs available land, 1960’s to present. Or look up post war economic booms and how they affect things.

        Here we are, with decades of low voter turnout, a waning economy that is completely gamed not by an age group but by the wealthy, and too many people to allow the old ways of “growth” to work anymore.

        And somehow amidst that we’ve decided that part of our very identity is the range of years in which we were born. Who decided what a boomer or millennial or gen X/Z/Alpha is? Was it a consensus amongst social scientists? Or was it something more useful for marketing strategy?

        I reject your comment outright. Everything you said was perpetuated (or not) by the entirety of people living in that/this time. We are all part of this world and othering a group of people, i.e. scapegoating others does jackshit for solving our problems.