A Boring Dystopia

Come on son, we worked hard and ruined the economy and the climate and the nature, now be a good boy and pay for our retirement.

Imagine having this much hostility towards the future.

It's like the last of the boomers is sitting in some silo somewhere waiting to nuke the Earth on their way out the door and the rest of them know it.

They not only don't want to plant trees they'll never get sit under, they want to burn the forest down because they don't get to personally live forever to enjoy it.

Unsustainable system finally collapses under the weight of greedy spoiled generation when their children cannot compete with their parents enough to continue supporting said unsustainable system.

There fixed that shit.

Those fools need to get the fuck out of here with that nonsense!

Corrected headline: boomers voted in austerity assholes and now their kids have to pay for it with their money

No one is mentioning upper management and CEO's pay. The money is trickling up, and that's more of a problem than all of the other factors combined.

My Y daughter is doing well, maybe it will be shitty for her to buy a house or condo but she can. My Z one, yeah, I'm helping her, paying stuff here and there like groceries, microwave, etc, she's in her own flat and all and is not too bad but still, rent is 40% of her earning. It's ok to help your kids.

Oh, I'm sorry, of course...it's OUR fault that we're broke!

Good, perhaps the boomers will recognize how impossible the current structure is to live under and actually pay attention to what they are voting for...

Who am I kidding, that's not going to happen 😭

I mean, despite the rampant bootlicking seen in that generation, boomers didn't create that system. They're victims of it as well, just victims that generally refuse to see it. My mom absolutely has been fucked over by capitalism, and has fucked herself over helping her kids. But she acknowledges why, and agitates for something better. My dad is a victim of this shitty system, too, but was so brainwashed by cold war propaganda that he can't see it most of the time. :/ tldr fuck the boomer politicians and brainwashers, try to help regular boomers realize they're just as much a victim of this shit as we are.

This is organized gaslighting. Dont get caught up in it.

No no. The system they built was great. The thing is, the system was changed by them, just in time to rob all the younger generations blind, then stood back and watched it happen, did nothing, and then they have the balls to blame us when we can't independently thrive in the system they stood by and allowed to be built.

So... If the boomers didn't give money to their children, what'd they do with it? Sit on it for 10 years, die, and then pass it to their children?

Articles like this are either missing the grand picture or they serve someone else's interest: Making boomers spend their money on leasing luxury apartments and other crap, so there'll be no inheritance. Leeches are the enemy of all generations.

Another article that refers to millennials in third person because they have a target audience that will be dead in 10 years.

Then they go out of business.

Have the elites who tell us we "never want to work" thought about lowering the rent below $3k at times? Even below 2k? Because we can't work or do shit with no actual place to live.

Child free gang wins again.

Time and money. What a savings.

They did not build the system. They failed to maintain the aspects that preserved its function

My parents spent most of their time getting drunk and trying to be 18 again. I wouldn't really call that a good setup for their kids.

I have no savings for retirement. Every spare penny I invest in the success of my family, mostly my own kids. I don't need to go to Florida and hang out playing golf.

Honestly? Fuck "Fortune." I hope it will eventually be called "Bankrupt."

alternate phrasing: boomers stuffed all their money in their bank accounts instead of building a world their kids could afford to live in, and now a few of them are taking a little tiny bit out.

reaping what one sows comes to mind

or the classic 'well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions!'

Wrong way to see it, yeah the boomers are rich but a lot of Gen X are broke as shit too. Kids cost money, and with the direction the economy is going, it is just the sad reality we face.

I am extremely thankful for the help my parents have given me, my dad was broke as hell for most of my childhood despite working his ass off, and this was pre-2009 recession, the recession made it worse and it is only recent he is starting to get a real foothold on finances.

Feeling so vindicated, Americans are massively becoming not just socialist, but outright communist

What retirements? What savings?

1% of the U.S. population holds >31% of the country's wealth. Is it any wonder so many of the rest of us are broke?

Unfortunately, they fucked around for us to find out. I don't feel bad if they find out a little bit too.

Of course, we can't blame boomers for poor decisions or tell them to skip that avocado toast. Clearly they must continue to suck the remaining resources from life so that they have something to bring to the afterlife when they finally croak.