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I have heard this a lot but no one has ever explained how that generation screwed over those that came after.
Not having kids and so dooming their societies.
Promoting degeneracy
While in power in organisations, allowing and promoting dei despite having the most power to end and block it. It's not boomers not being hired because of dei stuff, it's millennials and zoomers. At 2x the rate, to make up for it not being any boomers being replaced. It's easy to promote or just accept dei when it's not your job on the line, but that of 2 zoomers you don't know.
Voting for house price increases and local housing restrictions, and perpetual increases in pensions, despite not having kids to support it, and their life expectancy being far higher than when the pension came in.
For the few that did have kids, spending their inheritance
Putting their kids in school and day-care instead of raising them properly...
Buying a house near their work at 3x their annual income, and then telling younger people to suck it up, work hard, and just walk in with a handshake and your resume to be able to do the same, as though it was their hard work and anyone can just do the same now.
Even religion. Look at the boomer guitar masses which drive people away. The traditional stuff was rejected, thrown out, and suppressed by boomers.
Is every boomer like that? No. But it's an annoying pattern. And now everyone is collectively stuck paying for their pensions and healthcare while unable to afford their own homes, because the boomers did not build the next generation, while relying on the next gen's support when they can ill-afford it. And then being mocked by boomers for their hardship which they refuse to see or acknowledge.
Going from "youngest of seven" to "two kids is enough" in one generation is increasingly insane to me the older I get.
yeah
I listed that one first, because it may well be the worst.
If they were just ignorant of how hard and different things were compared to what they were given and pissed inheritances down the wall, that would be one thing
But by not having kids but making others pay for their shit while not being a large block to resist that, they've fucked everything.
Boomers did start a trend of unending selfishness that’s never been seen in recorded history. Pretty much all major decisions made as a demographic were about them and their own self interest. They had less kids because it was more convenient and fun for them. Religion wasn’t fun all the time so they abandoned that and didn’t want their kids to have it. Kids were sent away to X, Y, and Z, they didn’t let or want them to stay. There was relatively less community and communal living within families in the West during that time that as far as I can tell wasn’t present before. The more egregious part is the condescension because ‘graph go up’ says things are better than ever despite it costing so much to buy a home now even in places people wouldn’t want to live that I know a lot of people going to school that just sleep in their cars. A lot of class conflict at this point is just intergenerational conflict with boomers.
I know plenty of good boomers. As a demographic, a lot of bad decisions were made.
Having seen both firsthand, I feel like that was a failure to change with the times,. 7 is too fucking many. Don't lie to my fucking face and say you can be a good parent to that many. You cant.
It used to be economic necessity I get it. But "large family" really needed to shift from 9 to about 6 when the industrial revolution.
You have 6 kids youre and idiot. You have 8 or more youre and ASShole
The nuclear family is part of the problem. It's much less of an issue to have five kids if you have 20+ adult family members living within the same county.
To add to Vicious_snek6's post, the general point about boomers is that they are too complacent and incurious to understand the effects of their actions.
To take one example, under their watch politicians let in millions of illegals and outsourced the economy through free trade and H-1Bs, destroying the earning potential of the average American worker, but a lot of boomers genuinely don't understand this has happened and will tell you that "kids just don't want to work nowadays."
They have a similar "fk it" attitude about the effects of second wave feminism essentially doubling the workforce (therefore halving wages) and no-fault divorce dismantling marriage.
Also, boomers talked massive trash about millennials for years, and yet they are the parents of all millennials so they were actually pointing the finger at themselves. Why didn't they realize this obvious implication? Because they bought the ahistorical, idiotic idea that you're a completely autonomous person as soon as you turn 18.
Boomers are what happens if you have a generation that completely buys into the lies of Jews and financiers (yes, yes, I repeat myself).
Leftists refuse to accept this as the real cause of the "rich poor divide".
Another good example of too complacent and incurious: the 1986 vaccine injury act. Cue the skyrocket of autism and autoimmune disorders.
Regulation. The generation that coined "get a job with a firm handshake" is the same generation that sicced cops on lemonade stands. They benefited from there being no rules and the regulated everything to death.
The pivotal moment was when they allowed Nixon to close the gold window in 1971. That really was the gunshot wound to the head for the economy. Because that is the start of runaway inflation that doomed the economy. As costs began to rise, (((they))) did several things to try to hide the effects of inflation, such as offshoring most jobs to China, adding women to the workforce, and flooding the country with third worlders. All of these things were done to keep the cost of consumer goods lower to prevent the boomers from rioting in the streets. That only worked for so long and now it's catching up to us. Now jobs are offshored, women are in the workforce, and the country is flooded with shitskins, and the cost of consumer goods is still rising, so is housing and food.
The only way to fix all of this is to fix the money. Return to a hard money standard like a gold or bitcoin standard. Once we have hard money again everything else will sort itself out. A lot of people don't know this, but one of the first things Constantine did when he took power was restore the gold standard in the Eastern Roman Empire, ensuring the coinage was varifiable and backed by gold, not debased, and the result was a second golden age which lasted for several hundred years.
The boomers' attitude is "go along to get along" and that screwed over society and their kids. The reality is they had no control over it and no say in it. They could go to college and get indoctrinated in marxism or be drafted to Vietnam. The government was infested from top to bottom with outright communists and still is today. They didn't have the internet. Whatever the TV and newspapers said was regarded as fact. Even today, my boomer father doesn't believe anything until it trickles down to Fox News.
This.