How bout you just give all your money to rich people, it will trickle down on your face and keep you warm. Just pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and work harder, put down the avocado toast.
Did they not know, they could just buy a house?
But landlords buying any and all available properties are not a problem!
I’m so jaded after months of stupid comments. All i can do now is just sarcasm.
But what about their tax cuts for the wealthy? Are they safe?
Time to start pulling on them bootstraps.
Oh no, the consequences of their actions.
Don’t worry there are safety nets in society since our corpo overlords love and care for us. Its not like the voted their entire life to get rid of them.
Gotta love how every single comment here is talking about boomers like they’re a monolith that’s been voting for Republicans since the Nixon era.
Boomers have been consistently voting conservative since the Nixon era. Sure, not all of them, but the majority. And they’ve been the largest voting bloc since. Millennials are due to overtake them soon though.
Source? https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/03/01/1-generations-party-identification-midterm-voting-preferences-views-of-trump/ Y’all really do have this boomer scapegoat in your head. Also, millennials make up a larger voting bloc now than boomers.
Republican and conservative are not identical terms. Boomers are not a majority Republican, but they are a majority conservative. (Actually it’s a plurality, not a majority, so I did misspeak. It’s a very hefty plurality, though.) Conservative Democrats are a minority in the Democrat party, but they exist, and they help pass conservative legislation, and they block progressive legislation.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/181325/baby-boomers-likely-identify-conservative.aspx
Also, as of the 2016 election, boomers still outnumbered millennials, but maybe that’s changed. I haven’t heard the news if it has. The trend line for boomers is going to accelerate down as boomers become older. You also have to factor that around 70% of boomers vote whereas only about 50% of millennials vote.
Also, where was I scapegoating boomers? I said they’re consistently conservative. That doesn’t mean they deserve to be homeless or each one is personally responsible for the housing crisis. I think you might be assuming that everyone younger than the boomers is a monolith.
It’s almost like essential services are just entirely too expensive. You know the simple things like housing, food, and health care.
On the bright side… Um, well… I’ll have to get back to you on that one.
I’d like to be sympathetic, but this is the world they created. And on top of that, our generation was called lazy, entitled, etc. by the boomers. Guess you can lay down in that nice bed you made.
“I’d like to be sympathetic” Based on your comment it seems like quite the opposite, actually. You’re no better than this boomer boogeyman figure you’ve created in your head.
If these baby boomers are still paying rent or are facing homelessness, then it’s probably safe to assume that they probably weren’t the ones who had a say in the world that was created.
Poverty and the proletariat exist in all generations.
Ever heard of a job‽ Pull yourself up by the bootstraps!
They should buy less avocado toast 😏. Lazy ass generation
And the boomers are still talking about slashing social security… We will be a beggar nation before they’re done robbing us.
Something, something socialism.
We can do both.
I want to capitalize on this and use these disgruntled, hurting voters to strengthen our social safety net, maybe lower the retirement age, fix the social security benefit to a cost of living index, and protect them and everyone who comes after them from dying in poverty when you no longer serve the corporate overlords and are discarded.
But I want us to do that while making comments about telling them to put down the avocado toast and stop buying so many expensive coffee drinks. Tighten your belt a little! Maybe don’t have that Ensure for breakfast, gramma!
Because the truth is, while on an individual level, they likely don’t deserve to die sick and miserable. But on a generational level, the majority of them are, statistically, the reason we are in the mess we’re in. And we should be allowed to snark and give them back a taste of what they gave us our whole lives, while we clean up this mess. Hopefully by making them vote for what will actually help everyone for once.
Being snarky towards homeless people! You’re really showing them! Stick it to those stupid boomers!
I’ve been homeless before, and I have no problem snarking at a homeless person because they’re still people and not strictly speaking, victims. It’s far more damaging to be unseen than it is to be snarked at but ultimately, helped. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that at least someone snarking at me meant they saw me as a real human being.
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I’m glad someone was saying it. I just wish it wasn’t a guy who also looked and acted like he was a nut. Because he was right then and he would still be right today. The rent is too damn high.
I believe you mean “if only wages hadn’t stagnated while inflation climbed.” But then I took economics as a class in school.
I mean, they often do. But if the rents too damn high and you don’t get paid enough, there isn’t much that knowing how to budget is going to help with.
welp I know what my future looks like in 40 years
