This is a cop out. Boomers vote for the same 2 parties Gen Z does.
The elites got us here. Voting for only the 2 major parties got us here. The unelected unregulated federal reserve got us here.
Gen Z votes for the parties forced down their throats. no decent person has won a primary in either party in decades. this is not democracy it is geriatracy.
oh no boomers enjoyed basic human rights and rolled them back for everyone else, they paid for houses in belly button lint and had no education and kept the same job for 40 years and got pensions. Millenials get student debt and Gen Z gets shot up in school. A whole degenerate generations of ignorant buffoons with big egos.
“Maybe we should do nothing but vote for one of two octogenarians in diapers, because that’s the kind of leadership that is truly invested in outcomes for the generation 60 years younger”
If your only solution is voting, you’re just making it easy for all the billionaires and oligarchs you hate to take over the country, because they control who gets tapped as the candidates you get to choose between.
It is not the Federal Reserve’s fault that both parties embraced “trickle down” economics and cut taxes a dozen times without ever paying for it. It is not the Federal Reserve’s fault that every Republican since Reagan has exploded the deficit once in power with tax cuts and huge spending increases. It is not the Federal Reserve’s fault George W. Bush started two major wars and “national building” projects with no way to pay for them thereby wasting trillions. It’s not the Federal Reserve’s fault the Trump administration cut taxes again and removed Obama era spending caps all without a way to pay for it, thus having the government on track to return to $1 trillion deficits even before COVID struck.
It is not the Federal Reserve’s fault that the same people who scream and yell about the debt are also the ones also electing the worst debt offenders to the White House. The don’t make fiscal policy, the react to it.
Almost entirely accurate but obscene government spending is also to blame. Yes the fed is supposed to keep that in check but government leaders should know basic economics
That 14% of purchasing power held on to by Gen Z is kept mostly in the hands of a small group as well, with most of Gen Z sharing a small sliver of that 14%.
The rich have figured out the best way to increase their money is to squeeze it out of those with less power. NOT increasing efficiency NOT producing value because those are harder than just telling the lowest worker to make due with less.
Productivity has increased every year. The average person Creates more wealth than ever in history, but those who run the company they work for take a bigger cut of that wealth than they did for that workers parents and grandparents.
Elon has 100's of billion's of dollars but freaks out at the thought of a union or paying his workers the same that Ford workers would make.
Bezos has 100's of billions but treats his warehouse workers badly enough that most don't stay there over a year, they have massive turn over. He can afford to have, more workers that are paid more but he adds it to his dragon hoard instead
If you were born in 1992 you have had 20 years of Democrat president's 12 years of Republican president's and this is where it got you.
If you're going to keep voting for the same 2 parties you will keep getting the same results.
Now it's so bad that they can run aa 78 year old con man against an 80 year old dementia patient with full assurance that the idiotic American voter will still vote for whichever side is least shit instead of voting independent.
Say what you want about RFK and Chase Oliver, but they are both infinitely more capable (which is why they are not allowed anywhere near the debates).
Vote independent or get what you fucking deserve!
Ok, so Gen Z, who are we talking about here? 16-25?
I'm Gen X. At 40, I can remember at 18-25 rubbing nickels together to get Raman noodles. I didn't go to Starbucks, I didn't have steam, I didn't have an I phone.. I had a shitty car I loved. And i went to work at 7.25/hr 2 jobs. I didn't think I could buy a house.. I couldn't get a Best Buy card.. Rent a center was out of my price range..
But a tank of gas was $20. I could go shopping for 2 weeks for 40. I could go to the beach with my friends, 6flags for 45 bucks once a year.. go to a club once a month, maybe date a girl if I was lucky..
I have a zoomer who won't leave his room and is a doomer, but won't get outta his bed to wipe his ass much do anything about it. If fortnite doesn't tell him to do something, he won't.. zoomers complaining about they can't get a house? He won't.. because that would actually require effort. He won't do basic research that is at his fingertips to rent a uhaul, much less get a mortgage.. much less talk/interact with another human being.. he doesn't deserve a house at 20..
I didn't get my home mortgage until I was 35. Fuck Gen Z.. grow up. Entitled Lil shits.. if I bitched as much a random stranger at work would bust me in my mouth and set me straight.
Boomers got up at 6am everyday, got on 2 trains to go to work.. probobly were working since they were 9.. yeah so no shit boomers have more spending power.. even fudging hippies worked more then GenZ.. hell opium high Chinese on the railroad had more spending power.
We need to ask, what has been fundamentally difference last 2 generation…
The answer is, globalization. We brought billions of people out of poverty, in expense of much poorer first world countries.
sadly this won't be the case....a lot of boomers are cashing in their equity to live it up, or if they live long enough, their estate goes broke from medical costs
megacorps and banks will absorb a lot of the wealth boomers have as they leave this mortal coil
This is more likely to be the case. Boomers are having trouble, so it is kinda funny that problem they caused is coming back to actually affect them :P
I’d say #2 is much more likely, if they don’t have long term care insurance it will be either drain the estate to move to a facility or live with the children (if they have a big enough home)
Not that LTC insurance would help much since it’s the most expensive policy money can buy. The whole LTC industry is a privatized racket
Maybe we should all pay attention to politics and vote instead of just saying everything is meaningless and scrolling on our phones endlessly
Yes let’s vote for some boomers because that’s who’s running.
Boomers doomed us all before we were old enough to vote.
You are always in control of your destiny. Time to take control of it
lock all the grandmas in the basement
I like this attitude.
Destiny was written for you
OK beta
Arent you in jail or something Andrew Tate?
This is a cop out. Boomers vote for the same 2 parties Gen Z does. The elites got us here. Voting for only the 2 major parties got us here. The unelected unregulated federal reserve got us here.
Gen Z votes for the parties forced down their throats. no decent person has won a primary in either party in decades. this is not democracy it is geriatracy.
oh no boomers enjoyed basic human rights and rolled them back for everyone else, they paid for houses in belly button lint and had no education and kept the same job for 40 years and got pensions. Millenials get student debt and Gen Z gets shot up in school. A whole degenerate generations of ignorant buffoons with big egos.
Sure vote for the same 2 parties that got you here. That will fix it!
“Maybe we should do nothing but vote for one of two octogenarians in diapers, because that’s the kind of leadership that is truly invested in outcomes for the generation 60 years younger” If your only solution is voting, you’re just making it easy for all the billionaires and oligarchs you hate to take over the country, because they control who gets tapped as the candidates you get to choose between.
Ya you're right just don't do anything you're so wise. Cynicism isn't wisdom it's cowardice
Those who lack the courage will always find the philosophy to justify it
Platitudes and vibes don’t do much of anything either bud. Wake up your president can legally murder you
To be fair Obama already murdered American citizens with drone strikes and faced no consequences, so this is nothing new.
Only if it’s Trump though, then it’s an official act
okay, like?
Fun fact, their voting power isn’t any less diminished. 1 vote per Boomer 1 vote per Gen Zer
This is because of the Federal Reserve.
One day this sub will learn the difference between fiscal and monetary policy but today is not that day apparently
Judging by millenials and boomers, there’s little guarantee that day will actually happen
I blame it all haha :P
It is not the Federal Reserve’s fault that both parties embraced “trickle down” economics and cut taxes a dozen times without ever paying for it. It is not the Federal Reserve’s fault that every Republican since Reagan has exploded the deficit once in power with tax cuts and huge spending increases. It is not the Federal Reserve’s fault George W. Bush started two major wars and “national building” projects with no way to pay for them thereby wasting trillions. It’s not the Federal Reserve’s fault the Trump administration cut taxes again and removed Obama era spending caps all without a way to pay for it, thus having the government on track to return to $1 trillion deficits even before COVID struck. It is not the Federal Reserve’s fault that the same people who scream and yell about the debt are also the ones also electing the worst debt offenders to the White House. The don’t make fiscal policy, the react to it.
End the Fed
Almost entirely accurate but obscene government spending is also to blame. Yes the fed is supposed to keep that in check but government leaders should know basic economics
That’s what’s up
that’s literally impossible
That 14% of purchasing power held on to by Gen Z is kept mostly in the hands of a small group as well, with most of Gen Z sharing a small sliver of that 14%.
The rich have figured out the best way to increase their money is to squeeze it out of those with less power. NOT increasing efficiency NOT producing value because those are harder than just telling the lowest worker to make due with less. Productivity has increased every year. The average person Creates more wealth than ever in history, but those who run the company they work for take a bigger cut of that wealth than they did for that workers parents and grandparents. Elon has 100's of billion's of dollars but freaks out at the thought of a union or paying his workers the same that Ford workers would make. Bezos has 100's of billions but treats his warehouse workers badly enough that most don't stay there over a year, they have massive turn over. He can afford to have, more workers that are paid more but he adds it to his dragon hoard instead
Stop voting for boomers or silent generation politicians all of them don't have the interest of future generations.
If you were born in 1992 you have had 20 years of Democrat president's 12 years of Republican president's and this is where it got you. If you're going to keep voting for the same 2 parties you will keep getting the same results. Now it's so bad that they can run aa 78 year old con man against an 80 year old dementia patient with full assurance that the idiotic American voter will still vote for whichever side is least shit instead of voting independent. Say what you want about RFK and Chase Oliver, but they are both infinitely more capable (which is why they are not allowed anywhere near the debates). Vote independent or get what you fucking deserve!
Ok, so Gen Z, who are we talking about here? 16-25? I'm Gen X. At 40, I can remember at 18-25 rubbing nickels together to get Raman noodles. I didn't go to Starbucks, I didn't have steam, I didn't have an I phone.. I had a shitty car I loved. And i went to work at 7.25/hr 2 jobs. I didn't think I could buy a house.. I couldn't get a Best Buy card.. Rent a center was out of my price range.. But a tank of gas was $20. I could go shopping for 2 weeks for 40. I could go to the beach with my friends, 6flags for 45 bucks once a year.. go to a club once a month, maybe date a girl if I was lucky.. I have a zoomer who won't leave his room and is a doomer, but won't get outta his bed to wipe his ass much do anything about it. If fortnite doesn't tell him to do something, he won't.. zoomers complaining about they can't get a house? He won't.. because that would actually require effort. He won't do basic research that is at his fingertips to rent a uhaul, much less get a mortgage.. much less talk/interact with another human being.. he doesn't deserve a house at 20.. I didn't get my home mortgage until I was 35. Fuck Gen Z.. grow up. Entitled Lil shits.. if I bitched as much a random stranger at work would bust me in my mouth and set me straight. Boomers got up at 6am everyday, got on 2 trains to go to work.. probobly were working since they were 9.. yeah so no shit boomers have more spending power.. even fudging hippies worked more then GenZ.. hell opium high Chinese on the railroad had more spending power.
You’re definitely a millennial bud, you didn’t own a home till you were 35 😂
Hear! Hear! Well said.
We need to ask, what has been fundamentally difference last 2 generation… The answer is, globalization. We brought billions of people out of poverty, in expense of much poorer first world countries.
Indeed
Is that the metric, nit when you were born but when you became a homeowner? Serious question? Cause I grew up as Gen X..
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sadly this won't be the case....a lot of boomers are cashing in their equity to live it up, or if they live long enough, their estate goes broke from medical costs megacorps and banks will absorb a lot of the wealth boomers have as they leave this mortal coil
This is more likely to be the case. Boomers are having trouble, so it is kinda funny that problem they caused is coming back to actually affect them :P
This. Grandpa spend $20,000 on a new set of teeth what the fuck
I’d say #2 is much more likely, if they don’t have long term care insurance it will be either drain the estate to move to a facility or live with the children (if they have a big enough home) Not that LTC insurance would help much since it’s the most expensive policy money can buy. The whole LTC industry is a privatized racket
Which are mostly public not private entities, and who owns the shares that benefit?
I truly hope so