I’d like to send a special “fuck you buddy” to all the boomers that told me “oh you’ll get more conservative as you get older, once you get some money”
I don’t know what world those people live in, but every day since probably 1989 everything I have seen in the world has only convinced me more and more that capitalism is a disease that is destroying lives and the planet.
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@cobweb @msbw I think one reason is most of us didn't, like them, get more money.
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@corbden I worked a long time for people who mostly had a whole lot of money. A whole lot of them in the younger gen X and down expressed the same sentiment, and since part of my job entailed supervising that their donations got done, I can at least attest they put some money where their mouths were.
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@corbden The more I think about this (apparent, from my anecdata) generational disparity, the more I think it's that the gap between haves and have-nots in the Boomer generation was largely set along demographic lines; they could effectively rely on whatever privilege they started with holding out & didn't mingle beyond it. Whereas late X-onward, post-Reagan, it became clear meritocracy was a lie as social groups mixed, & we accepted "minorities" (incl. women) "should" succeed. @cobweb @msbw
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@cwicseolfor We were literally the first post-segregationist, post-civil rights act generation in the US. Every generation after that has been exposed to more diversity. That's why they destroyed the public school system starting in our generation.
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@corbden THAT THAT THAT. (I'm a middle millennial, though. Talk about a K-shaped trajectory. With the bottom leg sticking wayyyyy out beyond the top one.) @cobweb @msbw
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@cwicseolfor @corbden @cobweb boomers really pulled the ladder up behind them.
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@msbw @cwicseolfor @corbden @cobweb That would be funny/correct if all boomers were doing well. In case you didn't know many are not doing any better than anyone else. So probably better to not condemn people as a class.
The OP is talking to "all the boomers that" not all boomers.
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@coffeetest The boomers who (were allowed to) cast ballots, then. @msbw @corbden @cobweb
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@cwicseolfor @coffeetest @msbw @cobweb *allowed to cast ballots and chose not to vote for their and everyone else's best interests.
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