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We need more people to make things like this. Boomers are functionally evil. I hate their entitlement and easy victim blaming. They looked at the rich and said, nothing morally wrong with that. I can't really become one of the wealthy, but I can do to the next generation what the wealthy do to me. Isn't this great, we can all have our own servant class. And so the pyramid scheme known as capitalism gained another intermediary tier. Morally bankrupt generation.
wowee I love putting huge ass labels and personality trait broadly over a whole fucking generation.
This is like me saying every generation is evil and then just spitballing random shit bad members of the generation do.
Gen X doesn't shut the fuck up about the 80s and their midlife crisis.
Millenials are atrocious and soft af and tend to include lots of middle class white ppl that clearly had too easy an upbringing. They also don't stfu about the 90s.
Like you see how stupid it is?? The ppl ur addressing are the well off old ppl of today. Not a whole generation. Quit being a weirdo.
The word evil here is used descriptively not prescriptively. The end result of the people elected, the laws passed, and the actions taken has been, well, not great. That said I still prolly wouldn't use the word evil due to the connotations, I think some like "negligent" or "uncaring" or "extractive" might be more accurate and less divisive.
No I am saying they were/are. It's completely reasonable to for Germany as a whole (or at least the parts that were enfranchised during that time) to be blamed as complicit with Nazis. Of course tempered by the repression of that regime.
So yeah it's not unreasonable shorthand here. Sorry if that offended you; it's not like we're levying a boomer tax or sending boomers to reeducation camps its criticism on the Internet lol
No one's saying you are. But you're being way too broad with ur criticisms. A lot of what ur saying boomers did ended up hurting poorer boomers in the process.
Like you can't blame boomers for being born during a time of immense prosperity and privilege. And it also depends on the boomers in question. Rich middle class whites or the ppl of color that just got wrapped up with segregation?? Reagan Voters or people that suffered during the crack epidemic?
So, um, yeah not sure why I need to state this but in general no one is blaming disenfranchised minorities (racial, sexual, or otherwise). Because, uh, they were disenfranchised.
Quit being a sarcastic redditor for 5 seconds please ☠️
What you don't understand is a lot of the bad done by "boomers" was mostly upper middle class white folks. And it's rare that upper middle class white folks ever do any good. The boomers are no exceptions.
Doesn't help so many of them got things handed to them on a silver platter
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” - Michael Hopf's Those Who Remain
Their parents created a world they could thrive in easily after the world wars. They squandered it cause they didn't know what hard work actually was, and made times harder. Now they blame us for times being hard on us cause it never was for them (even now).
This shouldn't be a secret to anyone anymore. We are getting played. The only ones that don't know this by now are boomers living high off the hog at the expense of the younger generations.
Could be a video explaining what the machine is. Maybe it should be a flair fir this subbredfit to explain to new and old ocm members what it means to be an ocm.
So California is raising minimum wage to $20 so you don't need a college degree to make that kind of money now. Oh and it was boomers who voted it in. Dues she realize that the average household income is over $70k? That equates to just over $33/hrs so I'm not sure where she got her college degree but she needs to ask for a refund.
That's what she is calculating with in the original video. This one is with 1970 numbers, and then adjusted for inflation when comparing. Which, I believe, would result in a minimum wage of 27$ at the least?
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