Waiting for Boomers to die.

Will society improve when boomers all die

  • Yes, things will generally be better

    Votes: 30 21.0%

  • No, things will get worse

    Votes: 60 42.0%

  • No, things will stay the same

    Votes: 53 37.1%
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Agarathium1066 said:
I used to be the sort that considered Boomers responsible for most woes but now I think they're simply one of many albatrosses that weigh down on the US population. Gen X turned Millenials into mentally unstable latchkey kids. Millenials then began violently shitting on everything and flailing around, wallowing in it.

Identity politics and all this sort've stuff isn't being championed by Boomers. The obscene state of consumerism that has reached new heights that even Boomers think is shocking.

Everyone has some responsibility for it and should focus on improving rather than trying to offload the guilt to others.
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Millennials born 1981-1996 are not Gen X's children.
 
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Uncle Buck said:
It may be the dumbest thing you’ve heard him say, but it’s far from the dumbest thing he’s said. He occasionally makes a profound statement on matters of freedom of speech and expression, but other than that he’s not the sort of person anyone should be taking their political cues from.
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He sounds more profound in comparison to most users here because he's not an economic libertarian, which was his primary userbase until around 2019.
 
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Mecha-King Ghidorah said:
Gen X started in the mid 1960s, there are plenty of latter Millennials born to elder Gen X.
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Latchkey kids were more or less made illegal when the Boomers in power said that it was illegal to leave kids under 12 at home by themselves.

After leaving Gen-X at home alone starting at... oh... 2.
 
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It doesn't matter since generational wealth is a thing. The wealthy are the modern aristocracy, and that wealth just passes from one generation to the next. Those resources are tied up for basically all time. Look at the Koch Brothers, the Purdue Family, the Rothschilds, etc. That wealth is forever gone and incestuous. Not only that, but it has grown by sapping the wealth from the system itself.

Wealth is a finite resource, so unless the entire system collapses, the wealth collected is simply passed on as the next generation does the same as the previous: Enrich themselves at the cost of everyone else.
 
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The child blames the parents for all the faults in the world.

The increasingly-common idea that all old people should be killed, is not just terrifying with how nonchalant people are when they say it, it's indicative of an ill, mentally-handicapped and perpetually-infantile state of mind that the youth of the west find themselves brainwashed into.

No group should be killed or wished to die. If we are talking hypothetically about which group, removed from existence, would offer the greatest boon to modern-day society? Then it is those 35 years old and younger.
 
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Bog-standard Poster said:
The child blames the parents for all the faults in the world.

The increasingly-common idea that all old people should be killed, is not just terrifying with how nonchalant people are when they say it, it's indicative of an ill, mentally-handicapped and perpetually-infantile state of mind that the youth of the west find themselves brainwashed into.

No group should be killed or wished to die. If we are talking hypothetically about which group, removed from existence, would offer the greatest boon to modern-day society? Then it is those 35 years old and younger.
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Kinda sounds like a bunch of Commie color revolution bullshit, doesn't it?

Speaking of, the Chinese are only two generations removed from their revolution. That place is going to start changing as the next generation takes over, which is soon.
 
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Personally, it will benefit me since I stand to inherit a substantial sum of money and property (and I really get to stick it to my wayward brother, who is a selfish asshole).

But, on a societal level, I think things will get worse, possibly much worse. I base this on what happened when "The Greatest Generation" (the most fucking ridiculous piece of self-aggrandizing shit ever) died off. Things took a nosedive when they all finally died off because they were the bulwark against which the degeneration of society broke for many decades. When it finally gave way and the silent generation as well as the boomers took over, things suddenly got much worse. If history repeats itself, we are looking at another nosedive after the boomers die off. We have to realize that when the boomers die off that will leave Gen X in the majority of positions of authority and trust, with the Millennials taking a minority of those position. I don't know about anyone else, but I think we might be really fucked when the Gen X/Millennial coalition take over. As bad as the boomers were, I have far less faith in Gen X/Millennials.

Mecha-King Ghidorah said:
Gen X started in the mid 1960s, there are plenty of latter Millennials born to elder Gen X.
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Gen X was 1965 to 1980, so, what you posit is likely.
 
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from what i've heard it used to be that all families - not just the rich - would put more emphasis on passing down their accumulated wealth to the younger generations, and would ensure that their children have support and a roof to live under until they were ready to start a family. now the boomers bought into the nuclear family thing and encourage their kids to get the fuck out of the house as soon as they finish high school and never return, and instead of helping the younger generation get established they like to go on cruises and reverse-mortgage their homes with the expectation that they can live a lavish lifestyle until the moment they kick the bucket. A lot of them are also buying multiple homes so they can do a really shitty flip then rent or sell them for a big profit that nobody can really afford anymore. When they die they will leave behind nothing, but hopefully enough houses enter the market that it becomes possible to afford them again. Then future generations will learn from the damage they've caused to society.
 
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Agarathium1066 said:
Gen X turned Millenials into mentally unstable latchkey kids.
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Wasn't Gen X considered to be more of the latchkey kid generation? As I've always understood, it was Millenials who were known as that first generation where the parents (the younger Boomers, and Gen X) were doing helicopter parenting where it became a joke that the kids couldn't play on the front lawn without wearing a helmet and a lot of the parents would barely let them do that because they watched too many Dateline specials and thought there were vans everywhere just waiting to whisk kids off to unknown rape shacks 24/7.
 
In some way Gen X is worse than Boomers. Boomers burned down most advantages the USA had from ww2, Gen X never called them out and instead wrapped themselves in nihilism, cynicism and a faux intellectual superiority as well as starting the trend of "the left are the smart and virtuous group" that never stopped in 30 years.

Look at a lot of popular Gen X creators/cows on the site and you'll discover that they are gutless trend chasers who'll toe the line against everything they claimed to stand for.
 
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Local Fed said:
Wasn't Gen X considered to be more of the latchkey kid generation? As I've always understood, it was Millenials who were known as that first generation where the parents (the younger Boomers, and Gen X) were doing helicopter parenting where it became a joke that the kids couldn't play on the front lawn without wearing a helmet and a lot of the parents would barely let them do that because they watched too many Dateline specials and thought there were vans everywhere just waiting to whisk kids off to unknown rape shacks 24/7.
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Mixed bag really, Gen X were latchkey in many cases and made certain that their children learned that is 'normal'.
 
I think of the Boomers like that one scene from Gone With The Wind where Scarlett and Rhett are trying to escape from the burning of Atlanta. They're stopped by a long column of retreating Confederate soldiers. Scarlett, impatient, wishes for them to hurry up. Rhett says "I wouldn't be so happy to see them go - with them goes the last semblance of law and order." Sure enough, in the next scene, the looting and rioting of the city begins. The Boomers represent the Confederates - the people that got everybody into the horrible fix they're in, but they're still the only people who remember what it was like to live in a functional world and they still have enough institutional power to stop the immediate chaos around them. Scarlett is like Gen X, wishing for them to go so they can get out of her way. I hate what the Boomers did and I want their idiocy to stop, but whatever's coming next is going to be a lot worse. Boomers at least reacted to the environment they were in, acting like spoiled children who had everything handed to them. Their Communist faggotry can at least be explained. The generations after them are going to act like Communist faggots even when doing do would be in their worst interests, because they've been brainwashed into thinking that Communist faggotry is super keen and what all of the cool kids are into.
 
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Bog-standard Poster said:
The child blames the parents for all the faults in the world.

The increasingly-common idea that all old people should be killed, is not just terrifying with how nonchalant people are when they say it, it's indicative of an ill, mentally-handicapped and perpetually-infantile state of mind that the youth of the west find themselves brainwashed into.

No group should be killed or wished to die. If we are talking hypothetically about which group, removed from existence, would offer the greatest boon to modern-day society? Then it is those 35 years old and younger.
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More like the fact that everyone grows physically that decades later millennials will be the new boomer relative to other newer generations. If the mindset is unchecked, then the millennials will be blamed for whatever societal problems that will exist like they blame boomers right now.
 
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