Rich vs working class, not boomers vs millennials or whatever garbage you’re trying to push.
Boomers are the rich, that’s the whole point.
They lived through the largest economic boon in history and kept it all for themselves.
Yeah fuck their kids too but let’s not forget who is perpetuating this system and it ain’t young people.
Hell the “young” candidate this election is 60!!!
Millennials are children of boomers. Boomers were having children up to the late 90s. You cast a very wide net.
Actually there is some truth to this SPECIFICALLY with Boomers. After the War, Western countries rebuilt economic powerhouses up to a certain point, after which the ladder was pulled up. Boomers had more opportunities than any generation before or after them.
You could start taxing them. Especially the rich ones.
You know that’s an option, right?
Or we can give them lots of money for being old.
They didn’t fight in two world wars to not be given free money.
It’s not an option… Look at the average age of our “representatives”.
Yeah, except it’s the rich assholes in power that would have to pass that kind of reform.
I mean, yeah. That kind of reform.
Good thing there’s other options.
Or make them pay for their own winter heating.
Sad thing with doing that, is they will be screwed over. Cool beans, but it won’t go away and you’ll be double screwed over. It won’t fix anything for the next generations. These billion dollar companies need not exist anymore. They do nothing but harm anything they infect
One thing these kinds of articles that are designed to stoke generational conflicts never mention is that rich people live longer. Like, obviously older people would be proportionally richer, the poorer people from that generation are dead. Also, friendly reminder, all this stoking of generational conflicts does is distract us from the real divide in society.
Regardless of the electoral politics, as Chris notes, the important challenge in social policy is helping people who won’t benefit from wealth transfers from wealthy relatives, rather than engaging in fantasies about “generational warfare”. What matters is not generations, but class.
Digging a hole of debt deep enough to contain an ocean isn’t “hitting the jackpot”.