Really, ….. it's my fault they built a terrible system?

Come on son, we worked hard and ruined the economy and the climate and the nature, now be a good boy and pay for our retirement.

Imagine having this much hostility towards the future.

It's like the last of the boomers is sitting in some silo somewhere waiting to nuke the Earth on their way out the door and the rest of them know it.

They not only don't want to plant trees they'll never get sit under, they want to burn the forest down out of spite because they don't get to personally live forever to enjoy it.

Unsustainable system finally collapses under the weight of greedy spoiled generation when their children cannot compete with their parents enough to continue supporting said unsustainable system.

There fixed that shit.

Those fools need to get the fuck out of here with that nonsense!

alternate phrasing: boomers stuffed all their money in their bank accounts instead of building a world their kids could afford to live in.

No one is mentioning upper management and CEO's pay. The money is trickling up, and that's more of a problem than all of the other factors combined.

My Y daughter is doing well, maybe it will be shitty for her to buy a house or condo but she can. My Z one, yeah, I'm helping her, paying stuff here and there like groceries, microwave, etc, she's in her own flat and all and is not too bad but still, rent is 40% of her earning. It's ok to help your kids.

Corrected headline: boomers voted in austerity assholes and now their kids have to pay for it with their money

Oh, I'm sorry, of course...it's OUR fault that we're broke!

Good, perhaps the boomers will recognize how impossible the current structure is to live under and actually pay attention to what they are voting for...

Who am I kidding, that's not going to happen 😭

This is organized gaslighting. Dont get caught up in it.

Another article that refers to millennials in third person because they have a target audience that will be dead in 10 years.

Then they go out of business.

I mean, despite the rampant bootlicking seen in that generation, boomers didn't create that system. They're victims of it as well, just victims that generally refuse to see it. My mom absolutely has been fucked over by capitalism, and has fucked herself over helping her kids. But she acknowledges why, and agitates for something better. My dad is a victim of this shitty system, too, but was so brainwashed by cold war propaganda that he can't see it most of the time. :/ tldr fuck the boomer politicians and brainwashers, try to help regular boomers realize they're just as much a victim of this shit as we are.

No no. The system they built was great. The thing is, the system was changed by them, just in time to rob all the younger generations blind, then stood back and watched it happen, did nothing, and then they have the balls to blame us when we can't independently thrive in the system they stood by and allowed to be built.

So... If the boomers didn't give money to their children, what'd they do with it? Sit on it for 10 years, die, and then pass it to their children?

Articles like this are either missing the grand picture or they serve someone else's interest: Making boomers spend their money on leasing luxury apartments and other crap, so there'll be no inheritance. Leeches are the enemy of all generations.

Child free gang wins again.

Time and money. What a savings.

Have the elites who tell us we "never want to work" thought about lowering the rent below $3k at times? Even below 2k? Because we can't work or do shit with no actual place to live.

My parents spent most of their time getting drunk and trying to be 18 again. I wouldn't really call that a good setup for their kids.

Unfortunately, they fucked around for us to find out. I don't feel bad if they find out a little bit too.

Of course, we can't blame boomers for poor decisions or tell them to skip that avocado toast. Clearly they must continue to suck the remaining resources from life so that they have something to bring to the afterlife when they finally croak.

I have no savings for retirement. Every spare penny I invest in the success of my family, mostly my own kids. I don't need to go to Florida and hang out playing golf.

reaping what one sows comes to mind

or the classic 'well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions!'

I've gotten tired of this whole "everyone from this generation thinks the same, acts the same, is poor/wealthy", etc bullshit. The coincidence of your birthday doesn't automatically identify you.

Wrong way to see it, yeah the boomers are rich but a lot of Gen X are broke as shit too. Kids cost money, and with the direction the economy is going, it is just the sad reality we face.

I am extremely thankful for the help my parents have given me, my dad was broke as hell for most of my childhood despite working his ass off, and this was pre-2009 recession, the recession made it worse and it is only recent he is starting to get a real foothold on finances.

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Feeling so vindicated, Americans are massively becoming not just socialist, but outright communist

What retirements? What savings?

Honestly? Fuck "Fortune." I hope it will eventually be called "Bankrupt."

Children cost, who would have thought.

what's the point of having kids if you're not gonna do anything for them the second they turn 18

Tbf, the boomers came of age in the 70s, so the economic system was well in decline by then.

Part of the problem is a secular cycle. The baby boom of the postwar period helped fuel a big economic expansion that helped people for a while, but eventually the power of individuals fall because there's so many people.

Most boomers didn't want their jobs to move to China. China is starting to experience the same secular cycle ironically.

Many millennials were the same age during the gfc. Are you to blame for that? Are you to blame for the debt expansion and money printing that have promised to destroy the next generation? Zoomers came of age during covid, are you to blame for covid policies that destroyed the economy?

1% of the U.S. population holds >31% of the country's wealth. Is it any wonder so many of the rest of us are broke?

"Fuck planting a tree, I'll never get to sit in its shade!"

I mean, is it really surprising that a generation full of Karens who have blamed other people their whole life for their problems are now blaming their posterity?

What's retirement? -the adult children

Late Gen X with a Gen Z kid here, not contributing nearly as much to my retirement as I should be because I'm supporting her through college (without loans). We inherited this shit and we're sacrificing ourselves for the sake of our kids. I don't know who's to blame, but we've been dealing with this shit our whole lives. Don't blame us; we're trying to help

It is, at least partially, an inevitable consequence of an educational system that, whether by design or by accident, makes social mobility really difficult. Accessing advanced education often requires financial or personal sacrifices that are harder to make for lower income parents and kids. This is also compounded with the fact that in many places there's a perception that if you want a really good job you will need to go through this advanced education.

I was in that situation myself, I was always told that I couldn't expect to get a really great job in IT unless I went to college, which was unfeasible for me both financially and in terms of my aptitudes as a student. But fortunately for me, I discovered that my country had a vocational education system that prioritized the quick transition from education to employment, and a mere year and a half later I had a decent job, six years later I am an engineer. Turns out it wasn't necessary to go through four years of extremely expensive, pointless hoops, I only needed a chance to prove myself in a professional environment. It only cost my family 800 euros in two payments, now we are doing well financially.

So yeah, maybe just maybe if there were more systems in place like that, we wouldn't be reading how more and more parents are having to sacrifice everything just to give their kids a chance at some sort of future, you know?

Idk maybe I'm rambling.

It's intellectually dishonest to suggest we older people broke the system. And the story is true. A large number of parents with adult children have to make sacrifices to their own retirement plans to take care of their kids. This is a systemic problem, not something to blame on Gen Xers and Boomers.

Have they not figured out yet that this whole capitalism thing is imploding on itself

Not your fault but "They built a terrible system" is wrong too. If your parents were congressmen or business owners, you might have a point, but the actual affect the average person has on the system is negligible. The rich and powerful were going to destroy it.

That's why it doesn't really matter who sits in the presidential chair, bad laws still get made, and only the absolute worst get repealed, because they all overall agree with the direction of the country, it consolidates their power when they get it. People think "Things will get better under Biden" should really have been saying "Things won't get as bad as fast." because that's more accurate.

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This is a classic example of the divide-and-conquer strategy used by the Aristocracy. They divide us into different categories (Boomers, Gen X, Millenials, and Gen Z) and then release articles blaming every generation for x or y reasons to sow division, discord, and resentment so that we'll blame each other instead of the Aristocracy. Examining the results of the last 100 years' worth of wars and laws, the ultimate beneficiaries have always been members of the Aristocracy.

Instead of fighting, blaming, and resenting each other, we should endeavor to be more patient, kind, and accepting of each other.

Haha. Good. Suck it.

The system needs changing.

The goal should be overtime everything gets relatively cheaper and relatively better. Housing is the big exception.

Stop immigration as a mean of increasing population and keeping wages down.

In crease density in cities even if it means new taxes (LVT) or forced government buy outs.

Built new cities or high density suburbs with direct train links to the city centre.

It's a result of weak parenting.

Young men keep voting against their interest for liberals makes this part of their fault. Ask Canadians about it.

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The irony is that people think that giving the government more power and more money will solve their problems... weird that 100 years ago when taxes were miniscule and government funding was too small, people were rich compared to today, and a single income was enough to fund a whole family.

I don't think it is the way forward to lay blame on our elders, or to be disrespectful towards any generation other than our own. Some people are stupid, some are not. Stupity is not dependent on age. We all blunder through life and fuck up sometimes. Beeing smarter after the fact isn't that much of an achievement.

No, but its your fault you're still a teenager.

Grow the fuck up.

Millennials are between 25 and 40 years old now and you guys are still blaming "the system"?!

You guys ARE the system, at this point in time.

For fucks sakes, you should be well past the age of being in college and should have many years (nearing a couple of decades at this point in time for the older millennials) into the work force. You are also the single largest voting bloc, but you don't exercise that power so even though Boomers are now a smaller group, they out-vote you by a wide margin making them more important. You still haven't connected the dots that those who vote the most get the most attention from politicians?? There's a reason why the rec center has a broken AC, but the senior bus has those expensive, cushy seats.

If you are still blaming anyone for your failures in life, you should be blaming yourselves. If the world isn't the way you want, then get off your asses and be the change that you want to see. You are the largest generation, but you still act like a tiny minority group. Obama was in his mid 30s when he was elected to the Senate, and in his mid-to-late 40s when he was elected President. Yet as of 2 years ago, Millennials only represented about 6% of Congress. Are you expecting those seats to just be handed to you? Because that's not how it works. That's not how any of this works.

You guys are still acting like you're some powerless 16 years old and still need to beg your mom to borrow the car on Friday night. Hell, even older Zoomers are in their mid 20s at this point in time and have little excuse for their woes.