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06-25-2019, 02:35 PM #176
why does the baby boomer generation suck so bad
If it’s a public company they remove long term liability from balance sheet. Or, perhaps they are looking to get acquired. It’s much easier for an acquirer to cut cost when long term liability is removed. The senior management is also looking to maximize its profit in a liquidity event.
They have to pay severance anyway if they were to lay them off not to mention the health care costs.
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06-25-2019, 03:05 PM #177
Bob, this is the kind forward thinking that may be lacking among the millennials.
I don't know who makes up all these generational categories, they seem kinda arbitrary. It used to be classified by age, 20's, 30's, 40's, etc., which I thought was easy to figure out for most people. It's a bit like gender assignments today. Everybody wants to belong to some ever narrowing sub-group, then they complain about being treated differently. Gender fluid? Used to be someone who liked banging both chicks and dudes, which they did a lot in Roman times. Some people think this is a newly discovered lifestyle and needs to be labelled as such.
I think the world would be a whole lot better off if people didn't worry so much about giving themselves an identity or worry about what one group has that the other doesn't. Young people have health, which is priceless, and for which lots of old, rich people would give their entire fortune. Do your own goddamn thing to make yourself or the world a better (not bitter) place and stop blaming others for what you don't have."timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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06-25-2019, 03:22 PM #178
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06-25-2019, 03:30 PM #179
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06-25-2019, 04:05 PM #180
Not entirely true. We hid down in the school basement with all the peeling asbestos covered pipes.
Pot meet kettle, kettle meet pot.
Neither Bush nor Cheney got anywhere near Vietnam. (I didn't serve either) Rumsfeld wasn't a boomer--he was a navy pilot in the 50's, between wars. There's something to be said for universal military service--there would have been no Afghanistan or Iraq wars.
FWIW we did our own tile backsplash. OK, my wife did it.
The elders will always be the wealthiest (as opposed to having the highest incomes). Wealth takes time to accumulate. A large part of boomers' wealth is in their houses, which have appreciated dramatically in value. As those houses pass to their heirs at stepped up basis the wealth they represent will become millennial wealth. Another large source of wealth is in retirement accounts--much of which will be spent down as boomers age and will again pass to millennials as the boomers die, if there's anything left. However, given that such a huge portion of the wealth in this country is owned by such a tiny percentage of people, comparing the wealth of various generations as a whole is a meaningless exercise.
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06-25-2019, 04:18 PM #181
why does the baby boomer generation suck so bad
Seriously dude. The metric conversion act was signed in 1975, then cancelled by RR in 82. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metr...s#20th_century. Boomers and silent generation objected to it.
The majority of boomers have opposed national healthcare, since the 90s at minimum. Even today when most boomers are on single payer the selfish bastards say, well this works great for me but if we let YOU in it will water down my benefits that I paid for with loans you will repay for me.
The election of bush took place in 2000 and 2004, when the vast majority and large majority of millennials couldn’t vote. Those who did overwhelmingly didn’t support Bush. Majority of boomers supported Bush. So your argument here is that even though most of us couldn’t vote and didn’t support Bush and the WOT, we should have mobilized to offset the shitty decisions the boomers were making. And somehow the millennials are equally to blame for policies we opposed and boomers supported?
Yea the boomers were young when the war on drugs started but the majority supported it for their entire lives.
To add to the list, how about boomers continuing to deny climate change in the face of overwhelming evidence... https://www.statista.com/statistics/...on-generation/. Even those who say anthropogenic climate change is real are largely unwilling to act on it if it has any negative effect on them.
Boomers are completely unwilling to take responsibility for their actions. In one breath they blame George Bush on the millennials, in the next they say the war on drugs isn’t their fault because they weren’t old enough to influence politics when it started. I don’t know what is wrong with elders these days.
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06-25-2019, 04:26 PM #182Banned
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06-25-2019, 04:29 PM #183Funky But Chic
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It's not the boomers, it's not the silent generation or the millenials or the kids, it's the .01%
Point oh one.
Those are the people fucking us all, not some arbitrary group of people of similar age. But this plays perfectly into their plan, because the people that should be getting the blame (them) get ignored, while we squabble amongst ourselves for their scraps. See the truth. Act on it. Stop blaming people whose fault it is not. Blame the people whose fault it is.
Krugman's been very good on this lately, read some of it.
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06-25-2019, 04:32 PM #184
^^^ bingo.
The proles' quarters are generally free of telescreens as the Party does not care to observe them. Their functions are simple: work and breed. Proles are described as caring little about anything but home and family, neighbour quarrels, films, football, beer, lottery tickets, and other such bread and circuses.
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06-25-2019, 04:35 PM #185
Yeah, except part of what ppl are getting at is that the “greed is good” Reagan generation is aggressively protecting trickle-down while having massively benefitted their whole lives from the things they’re now undermining.
So yeah, .01% for sure, but also a critical mass of gullible fuckwits who think the rich are heroic.
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06-25-2019, 04:36 PM #186
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06-25-2019, 04:38 PM #187Funky But Chic
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06-25-2019, 04:44 PM #190Funky But Chic
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I read a thing today where a guy said he could always tell which bolts in his shit are Imperial because they all have rounded-off corners from him trying a metric wrench on them.
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06-25-2019, 04:49 PM #191
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06-25-2019, 04:58 PM #193Funky But Chic
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McCain was born in 1936 just for the record, not a boomer.
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06-25-2019, 05:05 PM #194
One of the things that is just now starting to hit the X, Y, Millineals' level of wealth is something else I believe Reagan started... reverse mortgages.. Before that working class families were steadily building more wealth via each generation. Now us boomers are saying fuck you I got mine and I'm selling it to party on until I die instead of passing it down to my offspring..
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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06-25-2019, 05:08 PM #195Funky But Chic
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Passing it down to your offspring is pretty much the worst thing you could do with your money. For an essay's worth of reasons but I don't feel like writing an essay right now. Trust me, the world will be better off if you just spend the shit and give away the rest in your will.
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06-25-2019, 05:11 PM #196Registered User
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me too #
I just sit back and pretend that I care
done too many white kitchens lately, maybe that's it not white tile white walls white kitchens
my old man used to say "I'm gonna have a million in cash in the bank by the time of forty do you know what hard work is"
guy buys a new lexus every year same color just because he can
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06-25-2019, 05:22 PM #199
As a "millennial" (I'm that weird tweener gen in the early 80s), I just want boomers to get out of the way.
They fucked things up, whatever, I'm over it. My problem is that they're more susceptible to fake news, social media manipulation and all these false things like "can't work a socket wrench, can't be trusted with the nation hurr Durr".
Just stop. The crony gangs aren't cutting it in the modern age (just like look at the indictments in Bush/Trump and to a lesser extent Clinton), so let the new competent folks in to do the job.
Iceman is spot on that it's the .01% we need to curtail, but we can't do that with Boomer majorities voting for people that enable them and for people that restrict the voting rights of younger people.
I'm just here trying to fix the mess so my kids aren't killed off by climate change after 30+ years of people sticking their fingers in their ears around climate risk.
Just walk away. Let us try and fail and try again instead of insisting on continuing to hamstring the rest of us. You probably had crappy parenting and social influences. Abdicate responsibility for all I care, just sit down and be quiet for once.
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06-25-2019, 05:25 PM #200
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