Yeah not too far off. The post WW2 generation are the most successful ladder pullers of all time.
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At this point I'm genuinely considering the only way to convince them to put the ladder back down is to ask them if they want more than 1/10 of their retirement care nurses to be white.
Similar to how I think the only real solution to MAGA is to start a psyopp that all citrus fruits make you queer.
They won't be willingly lowering any ladders. We're gonna have to dilute their political power and pull the ladder back down. Of course, the later generations still have too many rich assholes that will try to prevent that, so it'll be a fight either way.
Really we're just running the clock until their vote doesn't hold enough swing.
A race to see which happens first: Boomers dying off or irreversible global climate catastrophe. Place your bets.
The problem is there are plenty of ass hole genX that took all the wrong lessons from the Boomers.
I fear that the lauded “Boomers dead golden age” just leaves a bunch of bitter latch-key genX that want to “get theirs” because daddy wasn’t around enough.
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I have a boomer on my wife’s side that just remortgaged his house at 84 to buy an $80,000 Toyota Tacoma with all the custom add-on bullshit. They are not only intent on spending every cent they have, but also signing loans they never intend to pay off.
I have a boomer on my wife’s side that just remortgaged his house at 84
Why attribute to dementia what can be attributed to malice of forethought?
Boomers are also falling for phone scams and online phishing attacks in record numbers. Almost as though they're old af, living alone, and incapable of taking care of themselves.
No no he has a boomer 2nd wife intent on leaving nothing behind to the kids from his first marriage. It’s 100% petty spending.
I’ll never give a boomer the benefit of the doubt when a situation can be explained by selfishness.
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Boomers were called “the me” generation by their parents, they rewrote the narrative to call themselves boomers.
What is a ladder puller?
Someone who uses a ladder to reach a higher spot (uses privileged situations to improve their life standards) and pulls the ladder up from behind them so those that follow can't use it.
For example: taking advantage of government subsidised secondary education to reach a higher income without loads of debt and then voting to get rid of the subsidies so you can pay slightly less in taxes because "you don't want to pay for someone else's schooling"
See my formerly poor father who got a pell grant and used it to get out of poverty to comfortable middle class but is a conservative who generally does not want the government helping people because it could be abused.
On the bright side he became disillusioned with MAGA and now just generally hates all politicians which I will consider a win for him
Ah! So irony can be a noun.
Wow almost full circle. Uneducated—> college —> ladder pull —> far right maga —> hates all politicians.
Now maybe if he went back to school one more time he might actually understand what a stupid path he took.
Thanks! Great metaphor.
Greg fucking Abbott, governor of Texas had an accident when he was younger that paralyzed him. He sued the fuck out of those responsible, and then proceeded to pass a law that caps penalties to those responsible for accidents.
That's a ladder pull.
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ageism alienates allies; no war but class war
Yeah, this inter-generational blaming is really the most effective propaganda method applied by the ruling classes to make people forget about class war.
Not to defend Boomers, but let's not let the "Greatest Generation" off the hook that easy...
They get a pass for the horror they lived through
Boomers lived through plenty of horrors. Vietnam, deindustrialization, the Volcker Shock, leaded gasoline/paint, AIDS...
The 1970s was a fucked decade.
The 20th century in general is kind of unfathomably different from most of the rest of history. It was a wild time to be alive.
You could say, humanity learned how to REALLY fuck around.
We are now REALLY finding out.
Thanks, grampa
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Sure they get a pass for that, then they squandered it with their epic entitlement.
I want better world for children but I'm not bringing any into this hell hole.
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Lol yes yes but there are so many boomers who are fucked, just like the rest of us.
I work in hospice, and was recently made aware of a child who was contacted as their parent's emergency contact (parent in the hospital signing into hospice, but rapidly deteriorating.) She said she'd sign papers if needed to make sure her parent didn't end up on the street, but otherwise wasn't interested in updates/contact till her parent passed.
There's many flavors of ways this will come back to bite people.
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Oh, I didn't have kids simply because I don't like them, never had any desire to be a parent, and there is literally nothing in my life that children wouldn't ruin
The important thing about not having children is that any reason is all the reason that is needed. I've heard so many people want an explenation, instead of just accepting that to some people, children just straight up suck.
My life would also get infinitely worse by having children, because how I wanna live my life, and what I dream of, is completely incompatible with taking care of someone.
I have kids, but I don't understand how some people feel like it's an obligation to have them.
Nobody should feel obligated to do so. It's damn hard to do more or less properly and requires quite a bit of sacrifice.
Oh, and if society as a whole complains about a low birth rate, maybe let's focus more on the hardships the new generations have to face: hard to find and keep a job, unfair pay, costly rent, and the nearly impossible cost of homeownership.
Let's tackle those and see what happens instead of pressuring people into parenthood.
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Plenty of people just don't want kids, but they feel pressured to come up with reasons such as money, the environment, or whatever else, because people can't accept "I don't wanna" as a reason
I have lost count of the number of times I've heard "that's selfish" when I say that I am child-free
Always from fucking morons.
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Thank you fistingenthusiast for not letting kids get near your entertainment lol
Gen-X here (the ones immediately after the boomers but before the Millenials), it is amazing how many of my school mates ended up having no children. Yes many did, but a surprising number did not. In my circle (childhood neighbors, classmates, family) it's almost half.
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Things would be very different if there were no billionaires. But they do exist, and that's why we live in a world where children have no future.
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Paul Simon sums it up in "That Was Your Mother" off Graceland, singing to his child:
That was your mother and that was your father Before you were born, dude, when life was great You are the burden of my generation I sure do love you, but let's get that straight
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Honestly yeah. I'm here so I'm gonna try my best, but why would I want to drag another being into this shit?
This is what "voting for the lesser of two evils" got us.
This would hit a lot harder for me if I didn't spend the last decade watching a disturbing fraction of the population not just vote for, but vocally support and make a part of their personality, one of the worst people on the planet. (edit: you know, the "greater of two evils.")
I'm in the US, of course.
This literally what not voting for the lesser of two evils got us. Letting what you refer to as the greatest evil run the country is cutting off your nose to spite your face, and the lesser evil still gets blamed. Damn, that's some effective evil.
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Current generation: "yo (llm Ai) are we cooked?!"
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