Boomers, Generational Wealth, and Inequality

[MrWookie]

@Jalfrezi

It should be quite clear that we are discussing generations, not individuals. If you want to make me personalise this you’ll have to do better than that.

Let’s go to the tape:

@Jalfrezi

If anything somewhat behind the curve.

I remember a very smart mate of mine disparaging our parent’s generation for their ruthless short-term selfishness and material greed - voting left wing after the war when it was in their interests (as young students) and switching to Thatcher/Reaganomics when paying less tax suited them.

That was in the 1980s.

But the whole boomer-hate is irrelevant because, promised the land of eternal milk and honey after the war most people itf would have behaved exactly the same at that time.

Even now, crying “WAAF!” at the same time as obsessing about your 401Ks, spending thousands on dinner, investing in STONKS and inflating the housing market hardly marks people out as being morally superior to Boomers, who at least didn’t have millions of homeless people or the impending disaster of climate change to consider.

It’s so much more convenient to put yourselves on a moral pedestal than face uncomfortable truths about yourselves and your country. Maybe people itf should ask themselves what future generations will be saying about the decisions they made when they were aware the world was about to burn…

You’re the one who made it about people in this forum instead of millenials or gen X in the abstract, not me.