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MylesRyden

@QasimRashid

Have to say, not true in my case.

My first house had an 18% mortgage which I paid 6 points on. Yes, my college was cheaper and yes, members of my generation (or slightly before, actually) voted for assholes like Reagan who smiled alot and turned the country over to billionaires.

But not all of did, so please be careful.

Also call me back in 2060 let me know how well your generation actually did. Most of my generation started out as idealistic as you are.

8 April at 17:16 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.vivaldi.net
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Kudra :maybe_verified:
Kudra :maybe_verified:

@MylesRyden @QasimRashid also, this is probably not quite the same because US politics is worse due to FPTP, but I would place serious money on the intergenerational diversity in position to remain very different, because the starting places were so wildly different. If you had a fair go in early life, you're going to want to hold on to what you were given and become more accepting of locking the gate behind you. If you weren't, you're unlikely to change your position until things change, and we have swung way too far in the direction of inequality in the last few decades for it to shift back without radical revolutionary acts.

cis.org.au/publication/generat

@MylesRyden @QasimRashid also, this is probably not quite the same because US politics is worse due to FPTP, but I would place serious money on the intergenerational diversity in position to remain very different, because the starting places were so wildly different. If you had a fair go in early life, you're going to want to hold on to what you were given and become more accepting of locking the gate behind you. If you weren't, you're unlikely to change your position until things change, and we...

8 April at 22:32 | Open on aus.social
MylesRyden

@kudra @QasimRashid

It was not "Boomers" who closed any gates. It was the billionaire class who sucked all the air out of the room and money from the economy. Boomers were like anyone else, they got up in the morning took the opportunities and lumps.

Retirement ages were raised on us -- based on lies about Social Security. We never decided elite colleges should charge billions in tuition.

Did my generation make mistakes? Of course we did. But we didn't do it to screw over our children and grandchildren.

If we don't all work together against the billionaire class things are going to get much, much worse -- and us Boomers will all be dead.

@kudra @QasimRashid

It was not "Boomers" who closed any gates. It was the billionaire class who sucked all the air out of the room and money from the economy. Boomers were like anyone else, they got up in the morning took the opportunities and lumps.

Retirement ages were raised on us -- based on lies about Social Security. We never decided elite colleges should charge billions in tuition.

9 April at 0:08 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
Kudra :maybe_verified:

@MylesRyden @QasimRashid I wouldn't say it's an either/or situation. People of Boomer generation benefited from government policies of the time which taxed the rich, and as they got older, they were increasingly happy to vote for conservative policies, which yes, were designed to hoodwink them, and used terrible manipulation, but the net effect was this generation happily voted for the tax cuts that benefited them more personally as they got older. It benefited them *less* than the billionaires, but proportionately more than their children. There are outliers, but the generation has, as a whole, been singularly selfish and easily manipulated, against their own best interest - and the rest of us suffer even worse.

@MylesRyden @QasimRashid I wouldn't say it's an either/or situation. People of Boomer generation benefited from government policies of the time which taxed the rich, and as they got older, they were increasingly happy to vote for conservative policies, which yes, were designed to hoodwink them, and used terrible manipulation, but the net effect was this generation happily voted for the tax cuts that benefited them more personally as they got older. It benefited them *less* than the billionaires,...

9 April at 0:14 | Open on aus.social
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