I've been pondering how to make this post for a while. The fundamental problem I've been dealing with is that I lack the perspective and writing ability to truly explain exactly why I hate boomers so much.

Turns out someone did a meaningfully better job than I could all the way back in 2000.

Since this article the Baby Boomers have managed to be even more awful. Let's respond by gutting social security and medicare WITHOUT protecting the people who are currently on it or will get it in the future. The next time the GOP says something about privatizing social security let's collectively agree to do the deal and get something important in exchange. I don't know about you guys, but for me paying for my own retirement would be a whole lot easier if I didn't have to pay for today's retirees.

This particular crop of old people is really lousy. They do not deserve our financial support. For once in their lives they should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps the way they've been claiming the rest of us should. The baby boomers think anything that isn't given to them by the government is 'socialism'. Let's put their money where their mouths are.

Let's fund useful stuff like infrastructure, basic science research, healthcare (with medical rationing where we actually think about cost), and education. They didn't pay for the benefits they are receiving. Unless we want to end up like them we need to stop their mooching before it gets any worse.

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idk I'm torn, the older I get the more I feel like ****ting on baby boomers is just too sweeping a generalization to be valid anymore. They (most of them?) were told their tax cuts would be paid for by magic and they believed it. GenX'ers came along, were told the same thing, and (mostly?) believed it. Deplorable millenials will be duped in large numbers as well, if they haven't been already. Feels like we should be placing more blame on the message/messengers than the audience. Maybe?

They had choices about which messages to believe. They chose the ones that they chose. Choices have consequences. Why should their choices consequences be born primarily by the rest of us?

Agreed. Our clientele are all boomers and they're fueled by greed and money. That's their drug.

Millenials are no different but because we can't just go earn a bucket of money and then walk away with a pension we have another way to get off: social media. It's even worse. My ex who was 25 spent the first hour of her day every single day on social media.

I don't think you understand how stupid the average person is. Like most people don't watch the news and if they do they get it from one source (Fox or CNN) and believe every single word of it.

Garbage in = garbage out

Agree, generally, with OP.

I will say that boomers born in the 60s are vastly different from boomers born in the 40s and it's kinda silly they are lumped in together.

Round 'em up and put them in concentration camps. Hell, that would cost too much. Extermination!

I don't think you understand how unimportant that is at the macro level. The screwage is going to have to be born by someone. We could burn every single boomer leader at the stake tomorrow and take all of their assets and we still wouldn't be close to covering the giant wave of screwage that is coming.

I definitely think we need to make sure that the Boomers take their share of at least that.

Too far lol. Not by a whole heck of a lot mind you... but too far.

This is my feeling as well. There were many boomers in the 60s and 70s pushing (marching!) for an end to the Vietnam war, civil rights, equal rights for women, "green" things before being "green" was fashionable, etc. They most certainly weren't *all* bad.

So when they felt personally threatened you mean.

Outside of very general and largely unfalsifiable statements, 'Boomer', 'Xer', 'Millennial' etc is just a form of astrology. Not that old people aren't annoying AF, but they always have been, and we will be too when we're old, imo.

Yes, like the labor & women's suffrage & abolitionist movements that came before them, correct.

Does anyone else see how crappy is is that the only promises they absolutely will not see broken are their own to themselves about retirement? Promises they made very loudly but very definitely did not fund?

There's no point in hating a whole generation of people when you'd have behaved the same way yourself given the circumstances at the time, other than to make yourself feel superior.

Hate the system instead.

This take is almost as dumb as all the old people takes about millennials. Broadly stereotyping any group is dumb and counterproductive.

What about the group that broadly stereotypes people?

I hate those people.

**** that noise. These morons in the Trump generation want to chuff about “personal responsibility,” they can take some responsibility for what they’ve done to the country.

Most of the people of your generation (whichever one that is) would be no different if they'd been born earlier. You need to get a sense of perspective.

And yet I've been hearing about how terrible my generation is from boomers since I was very small. Sorry not sorry.

Right, and then they got older and had families and wealth and power and turned selfish, just like GenXer are starting to do, and like millennials have gotten a head start on. Lots of boomers are horrible selfish people, just like every other generation. Do millenials actually think the techbros are going to age better than boomers? My ex-hippie boomer AOC-supporting uncle who's lived in SF since the 70s has some strong opinions about millennials and how they've ruined the Bay Area.

If I was raised differently I might be a ****tier person. Not sure why this means MAGA chuds get a pass for being *******s.

I get this, but isn't your uncle kind of proving the point that it's as dumb to lump all boomers together as it is to lump all millenials together?