• DeckPacker@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    It’s not an age thing, it’s a class thing. This is just a psyop to direct anger away from the Epstein class.

    No war, but class war.

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      Absolutely. Note that the only boomers who are able to hoard money are the ones who have it to hoard.

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      I’m not disagreeing, but it is worthwhile to point out that the groups can converge.

      It may be a class war, but when all the boomers you know are a class above you, it can be both.

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        Boomers are not the class above anyone, virtually all of them are working class. Theyre just also brainwashed to hate socialized benefits.

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          Every boomer I know owns a home and has significantly more liquidity than I do. Maybe your story is different, but to say they are unequivocally not in a class above anyone is false.

          Perhaps you aren’t considering enough classes. There are more than 2.

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            Correct.

            I’ve spent my life watching boomers live in a manner FAR less frugal than what myself and my peers consider normal. I am in my 40s.

            My grandparents had 3 children and a house and did a Hawaii trip every other year. My grandpa was a used car salesman that never stayed at one job more than a few years at a time and my grandma had part time jobs off and on.

            We are not living in the same economic reality they did/are.

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        Almost all boomers are working class, because they made the majority of their money through employment and not through capital.

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          You’re conveniently ignoring that the numbers prove boomers had a far more favorable economic environment during most of their lives and voted in such a way to prevent the next generations from having that environment.

          They worked. There’s no arguing that. But because of them we will also work, and have less for it.