• AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What is it that half the boomer threads complain that boomers are hoarding all the money in their 401Ks, and the other half say that boomers didn’t save anything?

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      1 year ago

      Because despite how the internet likes to talk, you can’t generalize an entire generation in a single lemmy comment while still being accurate

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        1 year ago

        I agree, but man do they do it. Search Lemmy for this headline (just “Baby boomers are becoming homeless” because there are variations), then skim the comments and imagine they were written about any other demographic. It’s pretty frightening.

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            And teachers. Every adult millennials dealt with either was literally a Boomer or had enough of their politics to shove their bullshit down our throats our whole lives.

            We are angry because it was all self serving lies.

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      Because there was a fair portion of the boomer gen that inherited wads of cash and housing from their parents.

      The rest of us were disowned, worked low-paying jobs and/or tried to help our kids do better than we did.

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        I guess I’m in the middle. I got a good education paid for by my parents, but nothing after that. I’ve worked decent paying jobs and tried to help our kids. Not rich, but should be able to retire fine.

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      Because only a few of the boomers became ceos, the rest are just “useful idiots” that vote against their own best interests.

      A significant amount never planned to retire or else thought OASDI would be all they’d need. By the time they realized they were fucked, it was too late.