History How did the Baby Boomers ruin everything?

[Agent23]

Another problem that the Boomers have caused is that a good majority of them would rather burn the place down than have things change, which is why they would rather vote for someone like Trump than anyone remotely sane.

In essence, a good portion of the Boomers are acting like this:

They can't accept that things have changed... and they complain that their children and grandchildren are killing everything when the reality is that they are killing everything. They are either willfully ignorant or outright maliciously ignorant that the job market has been disappearing, they ignore that the CoL has been rising to ludicrous highs, they ignore that companies have made college degrees worthless... I could go on here.

Both of my grandparents would slap their children silly (especially my grandpa Adolf (it was a common name at the time), who would probably bend all his children over the knee for even thinking about supporting the now-fascist GOP) if they were still alive.

Excuse me ser, would you like some pepper with those huge ass piles of TDS brand salt you have there, or maybe you and your purple haired, doorknocker faced friends will like to actually ask Mr
Trump for some rent given he has been living rent free in your heads.

It is not the boomers, dude, of is the increasingly fucked over and marginalized middle class, small business owners, the working class and those that are sick and tired of the increasingly inbred, feckless and idiotic establishment that prioritizes their own profits or their trendy idiotic ideas they can brag about at Davos or other idiot talking shops.

Cope harder!

 

[Cherico]

Excuse me ser, would you like some pepper with those huge ass piles of TDS brand salt you have there, or maybe you and your purple haired, doorknocker faced friends will like to actually ask Mr
Trump for some rent given he has been living rent free in your heads.

It is not the boomers, dude, of is the increasingly fucked over and marginalized middle class, small business owners, the working class and those that are sick and tired of the increasingly inbred, feckless and idiotic establishment that prioritizes their own profits or their trendy idiotic ideas they can brag about at Davos or other idiot talking shops.

Cope harder!

People can tolerate a corrupt establishment that enriches itself as long as their not too greedy and as long as their not too controlling. But when your a mixture of incredibly self rightous, corrupt, controlling, overbearing and disrespectful of all of the things that created your society then people are going to want your ass out of power.

And the harder you fight that process the worse its going to go for you.

 

[Crom's Black Blade]

At the end of the day, economies work on labor

I would say economies run on value. It doesn't matter how much labor you put into something if it exceeds the value the action performs. What your describing is more akin Keynesian economics. That burying and digging up jars full of money will stimulate the economy because people are *working*.

In contrast renting a house is a service with obvious value, since we all need a place to live, and thus nothing is inherently wrong with it as long as supply doesn't exceed demand lowering the value to a suboptimal level. Far from being a drain on the economy as you seem to envision it, such an act should be a benefit since the person renting can more effective use his resources and time rather than attempting to find/build shelter as he otherwise would be forced to if he couldn't rent/buy while the owner generates wealth for what would otherwise be unutilized space.

 

[Blasterbot]

Both of my grandparents would slap their children silly (especially my grandpa Adolf (it was a common name at the time), who would probably bend all his children over the knee for even thinking about supporting the now-fascist GOP) if they were still alive.

I don't believe you understand what fascism is if you are using that word to describe the current GOP.

"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." is the simplification of it. The GOP doesn't want to nationalize a bunch of businesses. The GOP doesn't want to put people in every company to ensure ideological purity.

How the fuck do you even think the GOP is fascist? it better describes the DNC at this point and that would be stretching the definition.

 

[Scottty]

I don't believe you understand what fascism is if you are using that word to describe the current GOP.

"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." is the simplification of it. The GOP doesn't want to nationalize a bunch of businesses. The GOP doesn't want to put people in every company to ensure ideological purity.

How the fuck do you even think the GOP is fascist? it better describes the DNC at this point and that would be stretching the definition.

"Fascist" has become a snarl-word, an expression of the person's feelings about something, not a statement about the thing itself.

In reality, over there the choice the average voter seems to have is between a party that doesn't care about him at all, and a party that hates him for existing.

 

[colorles]

I would say economies run on value. It doesn't matter how much labor you put into something if it exceeds the value the action performs. What your describing is more akin Keynesian economics. That burying and digging up jars full of money will stimulate the economy because people are *working*.

In contrast renting a house is a service with obvious value, since we all need a place to live, and thus nothing is inherently wrong with it as long as supply doesn't exceed demand lowering the value to a suboptimal level. Far from being a drain on the economy as you seem to envision it, such an act should be a benefit since the person renting can more effective use his resources and time rather than attempting to find/build shelter as he otherwise would be forced to if he couldn't rent/buy while the owner generates wealth for what would otherwise be unutilized space.

Landlord hatred is a psy op that, in the coming decades, is designed to make things harder and harder and potentially destroy all the small time landlords and by extension the middle class, so that the big fish can buy up and own all the properties. Not even going to bother getting into the details of why landlord hatred is foolish and misguided; a basic understanding of economics would be suffice for anybody to understand why rents are going up. but promoting analytical thinking is not how an easily manipulated cattle population is created; nope. just direct and redirect their primitive energies and emotional responses towards whatever "enemy" is so deemed. In this case, small time landlords. the middle class. and who benefits in the end?...of course, the big fish who then buy everything up and then we're all a bunch of serfs.