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[–] 186 points 3 years ago (42 children)

On an unrelated note, suddenly, boomers care about affordable housing for no apparent reason.

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    [+] 110 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)
  • [–] 41 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Maybe it should be. Decoupling retirement and Wall Street would probably let us take a more honest look at the costs and benefits of for profit corporations in our society.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    agreed. retirement and healthcare should not be tied to employment. Want a snazzier retirement. Fine that is 401k/ira material. Retirement plus health insurance should be enough to pay for a retirment home private room where you won't be molested (i.e. - pays enough that folks don't want to lose their job)

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Actually, it kind of literally was. Though it's frustrating how common it is for people to share that misconception.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Or more accurately, social security should be a proper national pension plan. Fund it by increasing contribution rates and uncapping contributions.

    I stick with my underpaid government job solely for my state pension. At 55, I can start to get 70% of my final salary guaranteed, with annual COLA adjustments. I may not be rich in retirement, but I can get by.

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    [–] 107 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    They should cut back on avocado toast and get rid of cable.

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    [–] 67 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Have they tried trickle down economics or maybe pulling themselves up by their bootstraps??

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    [–] 66 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    "Fuck you, I got mine" turns into "Fuck, they got mine".

    Maybe voting just for soi and against vous wasn't that clever after all? Will they stop voting Republican?

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    Unfortunately, no. They're going to watch Fox News talk about how this is all Biden's fault and only the GOP can save them from suffering the same fate. They will continue to follow the same pied Piper that led them here.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago*

    Dear Boomers,

    First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist.

    Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.

    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. [YOU ARE HERE]

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    Yeah it's like Republicans are not going to help you, other than enflaming culture wars and talking about woke. When they funnel all taxes and assets to the wealthy, and deregulate all industries, and make vaccines illegal, etc, all you'll have left is a tattered red hat and a shopping cart full of your belongings.

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Anyone here who comments about how they deserved this fate or how they got what was coming to them needs to grow the fuck up.

    There are very, very few people in this world who have done something bad enough to have this kind of condition even be remotely justified. They're gonna either be on the streets or in basic Medicaid nursing homes for the rest of their lives. Many will get beaten and robbed. Many will probably just commit suicide to avoid the nightmarish conditions. And people here are celebrating this?!

    Newsflash, the baby boomer generation are also people who also deserve to have someone give a shit about them. You people are sick.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    In any case, it's going to overwhelmingly not be reaganites who are going homeless. If someone spent decades shilling for austerity and had it bite them in the ass, that's one thing, but this is the economic bottom dropping out, so it's mostly not those people.

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    [–] 33 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Oh no! It's the consequences of my own actions!

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Ugh, I just knew what this gross comments section was gonna look like.

    Look, whatever perceived collective guilt an entire cohort of humanity has in your view, it's really disgusting to celebrate and gloat over a report about the elderly becoming homeless.

    When subsequent generations decide they have the right to dance on our graves for whatever it is they decide we did, I hope your ghosts aren't too whiny about it.

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure there were Zero homeless boomers during the great depression.

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    [–] 18 points 3 years ago

    "over-50 demographic"

    Hey, hey, hey, don't group all of us in with those assholes...

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Enjoying the trickle down of piss? This is what you wanted

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Bruh they were and still are brainwashed by so much anticommunist propaganda. They had to survive in those material conditions, and if they made it they had to buy into the lie of American Exceptionalism for their prosperity and not the Dollar becoming the worlds reserve currency and propping up European Social Democracy, Dictators, and Kings. They reaped benefits they were actively being kept in the dark about, if they are waking up cause piss is tricking down their face, i will still celebrate them waking up. We need all the people we can to wake up and realize how the elite have stolen from the working class and are only taking more and more as we continue to kill our planet to give them more wealth...

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    Like there aren't babyboomers who also have no say in policies and those that haven't struggled their entire lives

    The more things change, the more they stay the same

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    if they only voted blue 😭

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Don't worry, as the saying goes "pull yourself up by the dick", and maybe they will gain enough wealth to become expats and gain more in foreign wealth and sex on Southeast and East Asia..., /s (Edited for clarification)

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