My parents received a lot o financial support in order to afford to buy an apartment for our family.
Neither my sister, nor myself has received similar financial support to buy a place to live in.
My parents instead live in a gigantic place they don’t use fully, and own several houses and apartments they rent out for profit. Of course none the real estate they own is anywhere near myself or my sister’s family. They also love to go on fancy expensive vacations all the time and complain about the younger generations. Of course they also get pensions from the companies they used to work for. Something that just doesn’t exist anymore.
There’s a lot of overlap between generational and class war.
But this is your personal experience. There are a shit ton of boomers that are amazing and give their kids hand ups. It’s the system that is broken. Weren’t the proud boys mostly millennials? They were probably living off their parents. Gen Xers are never really shit on anymore because there isn’t enough of them to give an opinion. I can say though, there are a fucking ton of shitty gen xers too.
It’s a class war that built this system, not a generational war.
Sure the system is broken and my experience is anecdotal.
There’s a generational war if you want to call it that. Birthdates fell below replacement rates starting over the last 60 years in European countries. At the same time life expectancy increased significantly. In European countries with state run health care and pensions this has a huge impact.
So now you have lots of boomers that retired early, own real estate, receive government retirement benefits, company or government pension, healthcare, etc.
At the same time there are a big number of immigrants, who cost the state more than they contribute. On top of that the quality of infrastructure and state services keeps decreasing.
Gen X and Millenials are the workforce, who are forced to pay for all of that. Stagnant wages, high taxes, worse government services, worse healthcare, etc. All of it was caused by boomers, their life choices, and political votes.
Boomers still occupy the most powerful positions in the state, other institutions, NGOs, corporations, political parties, etc. Gen X only starts getting there.
The whole demographic crisis was known for decades. However retirees are the biggest voting block. In the end we have an alliance between retirees, capital, welfare recipients, and the state against the productive working population.
proud boys
The success of the populist right is directly caused by the decades of failures by institutions run by boomers and the policies they have voted for.
It’s a class war that built this system, not a generational war.
It won’t be happening any where near as often with millennials children, because millennials don’t have any where near the generational prosperity that boomers did. As has been posted many times in this thread:
Good times make weak men. Weak men make hard times. (The world is here.) Hard times make strong men. Strong men make good times.
I’m fairly sure I won’t be making any good times, or any children as a Millennial. I might not even live much longer, thanks to a system designed to fuck over people like me specificaly.
It is wild how selfish people can be though. That same time line over the last 50 years, saw a lot of rapid change both social, technological, and economic. Makes sense why there exsists such a rift.
It can be both. Some generations have a higher percentage of shitty people. The obscenely wealthy have always been shitty. AND Boomer’s grew up in circumstances where they were able to get/do whatever they wanted. Now the only way to do that is to shit all over their children. The Boomer’s parents sacrificed a lot to give them a better life without having to worry about how they got there. The Boomers in turn believe they deserve and are entitled to everything they want and their children can fend for themselves.
It’s a class war, not a generational war. Every generation has shitty people in it.
My parents received a lot o financial support in order to afford to buy an apartment for our family.
Neither my sister, nor myself has received similar financial support to buy a place to live in.
My parents instead live in a gigantic place they don’t use fully, and own several houses and apartments they rent out for profit. Of course none the real estate they own is anywhere near myself or my sister’s family. They also love to go on fancy expensive vacations all the time and complain about the younger generations. Of course they also get pensions from the companies they used to work for. Something that just doesn’t exist anymore.
There’s a lot of overlap between generational and class war.
But this is your personal experience. There are a shit ton of boomers that are amazing and give their kids hand ups. It’s the system that is broken. Weren’t the proud boys mostly millennials? They were probably living off their parents. Gen Xers are never really shit on anymore because there isn’t enough of them to give an opinion. I can say though, there are a fucking ton of shitty gen xers too.
It’s a class war that built this system, not a generational war.
Sure the system is broken and my experience is anecdotal.
There’s a generational war if you want to call it that. Birthdates fell below replacement rates starting over the last 60 years in European countries. At the same time life expectancy increased significantly. In European countries with state run health care and pensions this has a huge impact.
So now you have lots of boomers that retired early, own real estate, receive government retirement benefits, company or government pension, healthcare, etc.
At the same time there are a big number of immigrants, who cost the state more than they contribute. On top of that the quality of infrastructure and state services keeps decreasing.
Gen X and Millenials are the workforce, who are forced to pay for all of that. Stagnant wages, high taxes, worse government services, worse healthcare, etc. All of it was caused by boomers, their life choices, and political votes.
Boomers still occupy the most powerful positions in the state, other institutions, NGOs, corporations, political parties, etc. Gen X only starts getting there.
The whole demographic crisis was known for decades. However retirees are the biggest voting block. In the end we have an alliance between retirees, capital, welfare recipients, and the state against the productive working population.
The success of the populist right is directly caused by the decades of failures by institutions run by boomers and the policies they have voted for.
Class war accelerated the generational war.
So, are Millennials going to be viewed the same way?
It won’t be happening any where near as often with millennials children, because millennials don’t have any where near the generational prosperity that boomers did. As has been posted many times in this thread:
Good times make weak men. Weak men make hard times. (The world is here.) Hard times make strong men. Strong men make good times.
I’m fairly sure I won’t be making any good times, or any children as a Millennial. I might not even live much longer, thanks to a system designed to fuck over people like me specificaly.
I agree, It’s just the time line of things.
It is wild how selfish people can be though. That same time line over the last 50 years, saw a lot of rapid change both social, technological, and economic. Makes sense why there exsists such a rift.
It can be both. Some generations have a higher percentage of shitty people. The obscenely wealthy have always been shitty. AND Boomer’s grew up in circumstances where they were able to get/do whatever they wanted. Now the only way to do that is to shit all over their children. The Boomer’s parents sacrificed a lot to give them a better life without having to worry about how they got there. The Boomers in turn believe they deserve and are entitled to everything they want and their children can fend for themselves.
Yeah, the problem is that one generation keeps shitting on the others.
OK boomer
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