Current Events > why do people think baby boomers are selfish?

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when most of them used to be hippies. hippies were about sharing. you can't accuse an entire generation of being bad. that's the same as racism

because they were called generation me, not generation we.
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KILBOTz posted...

because they were called generation me, not generation we.

ironic considering the hippie movement. I think that name came from their parents who didn't understand them. modern people don't need to be attacking our parents based on logic from our grandparents

people are selfish. Baby boomers are just winning the numbers game.
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because they fucked the country/world over and blame everyone who came after them

They're the ones who had everything handed to them (relatively speaking) and yet call millennials lazy when we're actually working several times more than they ever had to and we still can only barely afford all the things they take for granted.

FrenchCrunch posted...

because they fucked the country/world over and blame everyone who came after them

they didn't ALL do that though. your insulting an entire generation and basically acting like 100% of them are guilty

Bagamak posted...

KILBOTz posted...

because they were called generation me, not generation we.

ironic considering the hippie movement. I think that name came from their parents who didn't understand them. modern people don't need to be attacking our parents based on logic from our grandparents

I think you are really over estimated how many hippies there were. Hippies were a tiny minority.
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Baby boomers are selfish just like millennials are entitled. I challenge anyone today of the millennial generation to say they would have lived their life any differently than a boomer did given the chance. And I challenge any boomer to say they'd never complain if they had to deal with the current situation in their 20s.

It's pretty rich all round.
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Bagamak posted...

FrenchCrunch posted...

because they fucked the country/world over and blame everyone who came after them

they didn't ALL do that though. your insulting an entire generation and basically acting like 100% of them are guilty

no im not

FrenchCrunch posted...

because they fucked the country/world over and blame everyone who came after them

What would you have done differently though. Asked for higher taxation? Not taken advantage of the housing bubble? What?

Everyone just takes what's good and complains about what's shit since the dawn of time.
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They're the generation who spouted "You can grow up and do anything!"

They're the generation currently spouting "You should have picked a practical major!"

They're the generation that scoffs at millennials not buying houses.

Millennials are the first generation to make less than the previous generation. Who employs the millennials?
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Baby boomers are the worst.
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pinky0926 posted...

FrenchCrunch posted...

because they fucked the country/world over and blame everyone who came after them

What would you have done differently though. Asked for higher taxation? Not taken advantage of the housing bubble? What?

Everyone just takes what's good and complains about what's shit since the dawn of time.

speak for yourself. i give back to the world even though i have barely anything to give

What's a baby boomer again?
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Villain posted...

They're the generation who spouted "You can grow up and do anything!"

They're the generation currently spouting "You should have picked a practical major!"

They're the generation that scoffs at millennials not buying houses.

Millennials are the first generation to make less than the previous generation. Who employs the millennials?

My personal favourite is the participation trophies thing they always mention. Like fuck me, we didn't ask for those. You gave them to us at an age when we'd barely learned how to pee solo yet.
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DesuDeku posted...

What's a baby boomer again?

Old people. Old entitled people.
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The world in general has this ridiculous "got mine" philosophy.
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FrenchCrunch posted...

speak for yourself. i give back to the world even though i have barely anything to give

So you're saying that given an economic situation where you could comfortably work one job without a degree and support a family, you would have done what? Donated more of your salary to charity? Lived off the land? Never bought a house when it was financially viable to do so?

I'm just curious what your response would have been because I strongly doubt you would have thought "fuck me, life is great right now in my middle class life but I have too much, I need to be worse off to make it fairer for the next generation. Also I know nothing about the environment but I'm going to be more conscious of my carbon footprint".
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DesuDeku posted...

What's a baby boomer again?

your parents or grandparents depending on how old you are. baby boomers are the generation born after soldiers came home from WW2 to fuck their wives. kids that grew up in the 50's and 60's

pinky0926 posted...

My personal favourite is the participation trophies thing they always mention. Like fuck me, we didn't ask for those. You gave them to us at an age when we'd barely learned how to pee solo yet.

not to mention that kids know they're bullshit. when I played anything growing up where the coach didn't keep score, you can bet that we all did
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pinky0926 posted...

FrenchCrunch posted...

speak for yourself. i give back to the world even though i have barely anything to give

So you're saying that given an economic situation where you could comfortably work one job without a degree and support a family, you would have done what? Donated more of your salary to charity? Lived off the land? Never bought a house when it was financially viable to do so?

I'm just curious what your response would have been because I strongly doubt you would have thought "fuck me, life is great right now in my middle class life but I have too much, I need to be worse off to make it fairer for the next generation".

i would have voted in the interests of the country, not just the wealthy. id have continued to give me time to the community, donate blood, volunteer

of course i would have wanted more taxes. i can do all those things and still live a leisure filled life. im not a hedonistic fuck like some of the chuds who destroyed the future

Because they usually are.
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FrenchCrunch posted...

i would have voted in the interests of the country, not just the wealthy. id have continued to give me time to the community, donate blood, volunteer

of course i would have wanted more taxes. i can do all those things and still live a leisure filled life. im not a hedonistic fuck like some of the chuds who destroyed the future

I just think this entire idea is funny, like every boomer was just greedily hoarding money for no particular reason whereas every millenial is a do-nothing entitled snowflake. Do you think everyone from the past voted Republican? Did they all get together and decide to create a housing bubble knowing what would happen?

Really, that does not reflect any kind of reality at all. People live according to their situations, the economic situation that unfolded was due to regular pressures and reactions and not some grand conspiracy by everyone around the age of 50 to fuck over the next generation.

The average person wants to work a good job and get paid well for it. The average person wants to own a house. The average person wants to be able to support a family and put their kids through college. The average person knew nothing about the housing bubble or climate change in the 80s and 90s. You can dismiss these basic human needs as people acting like "hedonistic chuds" but it's a weak argument.
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pinky0926 posted...

I just think this entire idea is funny, like every boomer was just greedily hoarding money for no particular reason whereas every millenial is a do-nothing entitled snowflake. Do you think everyone from the past voted Republican? Did they all get together and decide to create a housing bubble knowing what would happen?

JustMyOpinion posted...

Kid, he's generalizing a generation. Of course they weren't all a collective hivemind that all did the exact same thing.

JustMyOpinion posted...

Kid, he's generalizing a generation. Of course they weren't all a collective hivemind that all did the exact same thing.

yea well it's stupid to do that.

oh god pinky's found another soapbox he likes

FrenchCrunch posted...

oh god pinky's found another soapbox he likes

Weak
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JustMyOpinion posted...

Well if we can't generalize then there's no point in the concept of a generation as none of them ever agreed on anything 100% outside of roughly what years of birth correspond to that generation.

the concept of a generation is simply a bunch of people born around the same time. that's it. you can't generalize them.

JustMyOpinion posted...

Bagamak posted...

JustMyOpinion posted...

Kid, he's generalizing a generation. Of course they weren't all a collective hivemind that all did the exact same thing.

yea well it's stupid to do that.

Well if we can't generalize then there's no point in the concept of a generation as none of them ever agreed on anything 100% outside of roughly what years of birth correspond to that generation.

The problem with the generalisations is it creates a pattern that goes full circle. Rather than simply talking in terms of the economic/political challenges that X generation faces, it creates a pretty nasty rhetoric where you start dismissing or being dismissed based on what amounts to little more than astrology.

You hear it all the time. "Fucking millenials don't want to work, they're such lazy little bitches", or "boomers are to blame for everything".
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JustMyOpinion posted...

You literally did the exact same thing in the first post. At least be consistent in your shitposting.

mine is based on facts though. the other side is based on hurt feelings

pinky0926 posted...

I challenge anyone today of the millennial generation to say they would have lived their life any differently than a boomer did given the chance.

I'd actually be rich. They had so many things to take advantage of and...most didn't.
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Fuck boomers.
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wall street
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Sunhawk posted...

Fuck boomers.

screw you. that's your own family you are talking about. have some respect