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 @corbden @cobweb @msbw US Boomers had everything handed to them. Women and PoC couldn't get equal jobs/education/loans. Lots of people died in WWII, Europe's economy was in ruin, Asia's economy was closed. They had all the labor rights and education access prior generations struggled to give them and few in prior generations had used credit.
Boomers stole and squandered it all on themselves.
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@obscurestar @cwicseolfor @cobweb @msbw Remember though that those said women and POC were also boomers. Don't give the whole generation over to those who screwed the other half.
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@corbden @obscurestar @cwicseolfor @cobweb notice how now we’re all sidetracked to reassure the “not all boomers” crowd who jumped in here to derail the larger conversation?
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Yeah. I mean. I guess I in part understand. I get a little rubbed the wrong way when lumped in with 'white voters' (eg: The idiots who voted for Trump) BUT I don't police it because I understand it's not me that's being talked about and concise wording in limited text is a challenge and sometimes people just need catharsis.
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@obscurestar @msbw @cwicseolfor @cobweb My main thing (as not a boomer) is making sure we don't blame victims for choices they had zero part in making and in many cases actively fought. But we all know that... right? :)
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My mother and aunts were at least partially complicit, making excuses for the men. Also, let's not forget that bulk of the damage the boomers did was not in the 1960s but in the 1980s and 90s. They're a far larger group than Gen X. They have basically controlled all the shit decisions for my entire life.
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