Boomer Hate Thread

[Audit]

Marriage was just a standard life goalpost that you go for because its a desirable thing, so that you can have a family. It was never obligation in the modern sense imo thats just deranged. You are obligated to your family if you have one, but you have a family because you wanted it in the first place.

The reason everyone agreed on certain goal posts is because they were based and correct tbh

Marriage was, in the past, the universal tool to reduce living expenses, increase labor efficiency, and provide for offspring. People got married because it made practical sense. Regardless of any affections, marriage was convenient for all of the parties involved. Men received a homekeeper who would make his domestic life easier and provide him with children. Women received a sizeable income to cover personal and household expenses in addition to the legitimacy of any children in the eyes of the wider society. If anything has disrupted this convenience, it's the emergency of modern household appliances (circa 1960's) that have made the need for a person to dedicate large amounts of time to household chores obsolete, the welfare state subsidizing child rearing expenses and housing for single mothers, and shifting social values permitting bastards to be seen in a less negative view.

I'd emphasize that boomers were born during the transitionary time when marriage was shifting from a practical arrangement of convenience to a luxury belief. Today, marriage is still convenient but it's much riskier. No-fault divorce makes the use of marriage as a vehicle to reduce personal cost of living very risky for the wealthier party, who will owe alimony in the event of a divorce. Legitimacy of offspring is increasingly dubious, at least in the US where simply failing to contest infidelity will get you shackled with child support payments for your wife's products of infidelity. And, it's cheaper than ever before to just hire a maid to stop by once a week to do your chores. Marriage is a risk engine now, not a source of security. The generations succeeding the boomers have already watched the boomers' marriages fail as this became apparent. The trouble is that the present system has seen the boomers' failures and decided that the best route forward is to double down on the absurdity that ruined the boomers and continue to make the masses into increasingly isolating niggercattle free of familial obligation and spousal duty.

 

[Slap47]

My greatest gen grandma was left with a small two-bedroom appartment because communists had banned her from using the rest of the house. The larger bedroom out of the two HAD TO be filled with fancy china, worthless trinkets, knicknacks and souvenirs and she called it ''guest room'' even tho nobody ever was allowed to set a foot inside to not break anything. My dad as a boy got a shitty couch in the kitchen. I guess that was a mindset of a spoiled brat who fell out of luck, except that actually did not, because she still had her good job and good enough social credit and means to travel abroad and buy new and new crap for the collection.
She can't be my family, this just can't be. But what can I do, anti-role models are important too.

My greatest gen grandparents used the China and fancy dishes for family events. The China and fancy dishes are too fancy so my family use cheap dishes for family events.

Its the small things that reveal.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

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Boomers talk about walkability.

Hey, that looks like practically any road in a Floridian city on US 1. Boomers will say the same exact thing, too.

The generations succeeding the boomers have already watched the boomers' marriages fail as this became apparent.

People who have two plus failed marriages under their belt have no place to give relationship advice to anybody.

 

[Paper Machete]

Marriage was, in the past, the universal tool to reduce living expenses, increase labor efficiency, and provide for offspring. People got married because it made practical sense. Regardless of any affections, marriage was convenient for all of the parties involved. Men received a homekeeper who would make his domestic life easier and provide him with children. Women received a sizeable income to cover personal and household expenses in addition to the legitimacy of any children in the eyes of the wider society. If anything has disrupted this convenience, it's the emergency of modern household appliances (circa 1960's) that have made the need for a person to dedicate large amounts of time to household chores obsolete, the welfare state subsidizing child rearing expenses and housing for single mothers, and shifting social values permitting bastards to be seen in a less negative view.

People really under appreciate how much household appliances have basically made being a stay at home wife obsolete beyond child rearing. You can put literally everything in a dishwasher if you really want to by choosing dishwasher safe things only, laundry is literally done by putting it in and taking it out of a machine and you can avoid folding by quickly hanging up everything if you want, cleaning can also be really efficient but it's also cheap to hire someone to come once a week or so to do the basics, for groceries you can get everything delivered or ready for pick up at the store for a small fee and get premade stuff like rotisserie chicken and prepackaged salad so a lot of stuff you don't even need to make and it's not even processed slop. Before all of these things required lots of time and labor to get done, but that's not the case anymore.

It's amazing how people pretend this isn't the case on both sides of things. Women are caught up in household stuff being such demanding labor!!! And the guys are so gunshy about doing basic easy chores that would take no time especially as a single person that they try to get a dependent who can easily decide to sperg out and fuck up their entire life by being retarded instead of buying a dishwashing machine.

I also hate boomer housewives. Their retardation is on another level because many of them have never actually worked before in their lives and have basically been sheltered since childhood. It's the most annoying type of boomer IMO.

 

[Ygolonac]

We never see anyone marriage maxxing like boomers used to. You would only ever see Boomers get married and divorced like 6 fucking times. Extreme NPC behavior.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

I think boomers just have trouble accepting that there's just a lot of people who have no interest in romance, let alone marriage, and now aren't socially obligated to participate in either of them.

That, and a lot of them are jealous that they didn't have the same freedom back in the day.

 

[BlazikenLover]

the people who wholesale burn the hoarder's shit and throw literal historical artifacts & things with intrinsic functional value & beauty into the dumpster because they're too fucking lazy to even take cursory glances at the things they are getting rid of are another side of the boomer coin. i've seen motherfuckers force their families into helping them burn their dead parent's entire book collection nazi bonfire style because "i want more room on the shelf for my models". seen people put out perfectly good, supremely comfortable furniture (sturdy leather couches, beds, all manner of things) to get rained on, infested by bugs & crushed in the back of a garbage truck because "muh spring cleaning". seen a nigga burn a functional wurlitzer piano and take the irreplaceable cast brass insides to a scrapyard for money because "wifey didn't like how it looked". seeing shit like that imbues some serious spiritual pain especially because you know it will be replaced with the most millennial garbage IKEA junk possible.

It is always the fucking women who go "ew that furniture is like for old people, I don't want it" then will pay premium for the flimsiest garbage furniture thats made with the shittiest wood ever just because it is trendy.

 

[pro drivor]

just because it is trendy.

"b-b-but i saw it on facebook reels! i've gotta have it!"

 

[MightyMorphin'Willbender]

To be fair, boomer furniture is often ugly af (and they are also not exempt from having bought literal garbage), and the silent generation's were 50/50 borderline jugaad or actual craftsmanship.

One thing a boomer got on my nerves as of late was me showing some new contraption and the boomer goes "I had an Idea like this 20 years ago, if I knew this would made me rich I've done it". It's just funny because usually it's
1- usually contraption would not be possible to be mass produced without contemporary machinery/materials so good luck going back in time to reinvent everything 20 years earlier
2- when they describe the idea they had it occasionally doesnt look or work anything like said contraption. So it would be essencially a shit version of what it's been currently discussed

 

[Attempt Turd]

People really under appreciate how much household appliances have basically made being a stay at home wife obsolete beyond child rearing. You can put literally everything in a dishwasher if you really want to by choosing dishwasher safe things only, laundry is literally done by putting it in and taking it out of a machine and you can avoid folding by quickly hanging up everything if you want, cleaning can also be really efficient but it's also cheap to hire someone to come once a week or so to do the basics, for groceries you can get everything delivered or ready for pick up at the store for a small fee and get premade stuff like rotisserie chicken and prepackaged salad so a lot of stuff you don't even need to make and it's not even processed slop. Before all of these things required lots of time and labor to get done, but that's not the case anymore.

Housekeeping used to be at least a 100% for one person. But actually cooking and preparing food is something like two-three hours per day in a family. Canning, butchering and harvesting is all hands on deck for days.

Even if you just get half a pig or deer just butchering, grinding, packing is about a day. You want to do stock from the bones it's skimming reducing and cleaning. Maybe a couple of hours active time.

The economy when doing your own things is completely different from having to buy all the refined inputs and then spend the time and effort. You want to get bones today without butchering you need to pay at least a couple of dollars per pound so in the end you spent more on the inputs than what the equivalent liquid bullion or cubes cost for hours of work. Sure, it will be twice as good but stock is not the main flavor of most dishes. So you have the choice of spending hours and ten bucks on stock that you can buy for a couple of dollars.

I don't think you have any idea of the work that is needed to run a household when your inputs are raw ingredients.

If you buy wheat by the bushel it costs about ten cents per pound. What does a loaf of bread cost if the labor is free? All the middlemen in the modern economy are taking their cut and no one has time or skill anymore to keep prices reasonable for basic goods.

I don't even know what my point is but boomers are fucking lazy and threw away millenia of skill so they can buy boil in bag rice for 2000% markup because it is convenient and they can have a career.

 

[Paper Machete]

I don't think you have any idea of the work that is needed to run a household when your inputs are raw ingredients.

Most people do not process their food that way even if cooking from scratch. They didn't even do that in the before times. Most people do not live in areas where they have easy access to doing homesteading shit like that and even if they did the economics of it vs. time spent would actually be a waste a lot of the time. It's fine if someone wants to live that way but it's unrealistic. Some people at most might debone a whole chicken but they're not packing sausage or whatever. Even a lot of hunters do not process anything themselves.

Even cooking from scratch can be efficient if you plan ahead and have a system down. People just do too much and get overwhelmed.

Yeah, canning and harvesting your own shit is nice. But let's be real that's a HOBBY. You can still eat economically and pretty healthy without tending to a garden and canning soups yourself. You do not have to process a whole hog yourself. You can do a hybrid system where you make chicken stock because it's easier to buy a whole chicken and use the bones and such but buy beef stock rather than buying the bones. There's a vast gulf between being a homesteader constantly working around the clock and using hyper processed boxed stuff.

I don't mean to go off but sourcing food and other such things has always been compartmentalized aside from peasant farmers living in times where it was literally work sun up to sun down. There is no good reason in modern times to try and do a lot of this stuff yourself unless it's your hobby to do so. It's perfectly fine and makes economic sense to find a decent paying job and just buy basic staples for your kitchen rather than sourcing and processing things yourself.

 

[Attempt Turd]

Most people do not process their food that way even if cooking from scratch. They didn't even do that in the before times. Most people do not live in areas where they have easy access to doing homesteading shit like that and even if they did the economics of it vs. time spent would actually be a waste a lot of the time. It's fine if someone wants to live that way but it's unrealistic. Some people at most might debone a whole chicken but they're not packing sausage or whatever. Even a lot of hunters do not process anything themselves.

Even cooking from scratch can be efficient if you plan ahead and have a system down. People just do too much and get overwhelmed.

Yeah, canning and harvesting your own shit is nice. But let's be real that's a HOBBY. You can still eat economically and pretty healthy without tending to a garden and canning soups yourself. You do not have to process a whole hog yourself. You can do a hybrid system where you make chicken stock because it's easier to buy a whole chicken and use the bones and such but buy beef stock rather than buying the bones. There's a vast gulf between being a homesteader constantly working around the clock and using hyper processed boxed stuff.

I don't mean to go off but sourcing food and other such things has always been compartmentalized aside from peasant farmers living in times where it was literally work sun up to sun down. There is no good reason in modern times to try and do a lot of this stuff yourself unless it's your hobby to do so. It's perfectly fine and makes economic sense to find a decent paying job and just buy basic staples for your kitchen rather than sourcing and processing things yourself.

You barely have to go back to the great depression to get most of these.

No one ground their own flour in the beforetimes but the same time we got the domestic machines we could make small mills that would be economical to run if families are big enough and you have a housewife with nothing to do but dream of a career.

Even in the cities you would have root cellars. You buy potatoes near harvest and keep it until the next harvest. You take them out every couple of months and remove the root shoots. Super markets are a thing of the 50's

It is not worth doing these things yet our societies are dying. We can not afford children. I have done the math on subsistence farming and if you can get work for money it's a much better thing to work a few hours here and there than farming. But we don't work a few hours here and there we work 40 or more hours per week and don't have children.

 

[Paper Machete]

I'm not saying it isn't good to be aware of more skills like that but that it's not as good as an alternative for a lot of people. A lot of people plain do not want to live that sort of lifestyle regardless of kids or not. Canning will not raise the birthrate.

Where people need to budget better is in other areas, not in food. Things like not overpaying for cars more expensive than they need, all the subscriptions to watch slop, buying clothes when they already have a closet full, housing affordability, etc.

 

[Sigmahat]

And, it's cheaper than ever before to just hire a maid to stop by once a week to do your chores.

Wow, where do you live, my cleaner is $200 for once-a-month in LCOL. Worth it, she's a human tornado, but I still have to keep my house clean myself, I just don't have to DEEP clean. Think I'd rather keep up with the place myself and save the additional $5k/yr of after-tax money I'd have to pay for her to come weekly. I also prefer growing my own veg and cooking my own food and baking my own bread. If you raise your own kids and have a small home business, there's plenty to keep a homemaker busy. I'm making my husband get a job again because it turns out he's not a good homemaker (and not interested in improving).

 

[NevskyProspekt]

the people who wholesale burn the hoarder's shit and throw literal historical artifacts & things with intrinsic functional value & beauty into the dumpster because they're too fucking lazy to even take cursory glances at the things they are getting rid of are another side of the boomer coin. i've seen motherfuckers force their families into helping them burn their dead parent's entire book collection nazi bonfire style because "i want more room on the shelf for my models". seen people put out perfectly good, supremely comfortable furniture (sturdy leather couches, beds, all manner of things) to get rained on, infested by bugs & crushed in the back of a garbage truck because "muh spring cleaning". seen a nigga burn a functional wurlitzer piano and take the irreplaceable cast brass insides to a scrapyard for money because "wifey didn't like how it looked". seeing shit like that imbues some serious spiritual pain especially because you know it will be replaced with the most millennial garbage IKEA junk possible.

That anecdote about the Wurlitzer piano caused me physical pain, damn.

 

[MrJokerRager]

 

[Starscream's Loyalty]

I was once again the designated pack mule for my boomer coworkers who act like they're managers but aren't. God help me not grab guitar wire and do what He should've done 15 years ago

 

[geckogoy]

Marriage was, in the past, the universal tool to reduce living expenses, increase labor efficiency, and provide for offspring. People got married because it made practical sense. Regardless of any affections, marriage was convenient for all of the parties involved.

Nah, there were practical aspects but it was always about a woman. Men losing the will to live because their spouse died is a tale older than time, has always been a major traumatic event, and never stopped being that.

You don't do that over losing a talking dishwasher. That would be a servant or a slave. For instance, in the roman era a human being was a fairly common household appliance.

Of course there were practical upsides but that wasn't the only reason. In all honestly generally speaking your costs went up somewhat vs living alone because a higher standard of living was expected and you needed a lot more space. People would be like, you should get serious and start making a lot more money and get into a proper house so that you can have a wife and a family.

 

[Hallucinogenic Penguin]

Live in a boomertopia, and with the older batch of boomers starting to sunset, there is a worrying trend, especially with the liberal hippie boomers.


I’ve had two first hand accounts from friends of mine who have decent properties next to boomers, and in both cases, two hippie lib boomer women who lived next door didn’t sell their properties when it came time to go to the “retirement community”…but donated their properties.

Ok great! But to who?


Drug addicts.

Both of my friends now have drug addicts living next door. Pitbulls chained up in their neighbors yards. Suspicious cars driving by day and night.


Boomers will literally give their properties to ANYONE but their own children.

 

[geckogoy]

they donated their properties.

Ok great! But to who?

Drug addicts.

Perfect tbh microcosm of everything that horrible generation did over the years