Boomers as Boogeymen: Should You Fear the ‘Silver Tsunami’?

[1srelluc]

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Mad about the price of eggs? How about the dearth of new homes, skyrocketing cost of gold, global warming, the fiscal deficit, prescription drug access, student loan debt, mortgage rates, the decline in (or perhaps the persistence of!) public union rolls, that promotion you didn’t get at work or the soulless corporate hegemony of America’s downtowns?

You could try to parse the interlocking, complicated sociopolitical factors that have convinced many Americans that the economy is in poor straits, and that their lives will be less fruitful than their forefathers’. Or you could blame the baby boomers.

An estimated 73 million boomers, ages 60 to 78, live in the United States, making them roughly one-quarter of the population.

Their departures from the work force will amount to a “silver tsunami,” in the words of financial analysts and economic researchers, that will upend life, work and retirement. An uptick in use of the barometrically inflected term nods to what some see as an unstoppable demographic disaster caused by the confluence of a wave of retirees and relative dearth of young people.

By 2035, the Census Bureau estimates, older adults will outnumber people under 18 in the United States for the first time.

LOL.....The NYT should be concerned that once boomers die off so does their leftist paper.

Meh, it's not my fault that younger generations have forgotten how to get laid and have kids.

 

[initforme]

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Mad about the price of eggs? How about the dearth of new homes, skyrocketing cost of gold, global warming, the fiscal deficit, prescription drug access, student loan debt, mortgage rates, the decline in (or perhaps the persistence of!) public union rolls, that promotion you didn’t get at work or the soulless corporate hegemony of America’s downtowns?

You could try to parse the interlocking, complicated sociopolitical factors that have convinced many Americans that the economy is in poor straits, and that their lives will be less fruitful than their forefathers’. Or you could blame the baby boomers.

An estimated 73 million boomers, ages 60 to 78, live in the United States, making them roughly one-quarter of the population.

Their departures from the work force will amount to a “silver tsunami,” in the words of financial analysts and economic researchers, that will upend life, work and retirement. An uptick in use of the barometrically inflected term nods to what some see as an unstoppable demographic disaster caused by the confluence of a wave of retirees and relative dearth of young people.

By 2035, the Census Bureau estimates, older adults will outnumber people under 18 in the United States for the first time.

LOL.....The NYT should be concerned that once boomers die off so does their leftist paper.

Meh, it's not my fault that younger generations have forgotten how to get laid and have kids.

All of this of course is a bunch of fake news. Like we are really supposed to believe a big surge in retirements is going to affect the beloved corporate workforce? Let the corporations have to struggle to find a warm body to fill positions. Wages will go up. And, there's plenty of kids being born.

 

[1srelluc]

All of this of course is a bunch of fake news. Like we are really supposed to believe a big surge in retirements is going to affect the beloved corporate workforce? Let the corporations have to struggle to find a warm body to fill positions. Wages will go up. And, there's plenty of kids being born.

I don't think anchor babies from below average IQ parents count.

 

[TNHarley]

and have kids.

Birth control.

 

[rightwinger]

Mad about the price of eggs? How about the dearth of new homes, skyrocketing cost of gold, global warming, the fiscal deficit, prescription drug access, student loan debt, mortgage rates, the decline in (or perhaps the persistence of!) public union rolls, that promotion you didn’t get at work or the soulless corporate hegemony of America’s downtowns?

None of which significantly affect boomers

 

[initforme]

I don't think anchor babies from below average IQ parents count.

I'm speaking about citizens. While all growing number of young married couples are foregoing having kids, there's still plenty being born. One would think some of you think it's a responsibility or duty to have them and that's simply wrong on every level.

 

[WorldWatcher]

I don't think anchor babies from below average IQ parents count.

Why would you call the children of Trump cultists "anchor babies"?

WW

 

[1srelluc]

I'm speaking about citizens. While all growing number of young married couples are foregoing having kids, there's still plenty being born. One would think some of you think it's a responsibility or duty to have them and that's simply wrong on every level.

Hell no, you don't get off that easy.....You have to count them till the birthright citizenship issue is address by SCOTUS.

In the United States, the highest fertility rates (per 1,000 women ages 15-44) during 2019-2021 (average) were to Hispanic women (63.5), followed by blacks (60.2), American Indian/Alaska Natives (55.8), Whites (54.4), and Asian/Pacific Islanders (52.9).

That said I think Pacific Islanders have moved to #1 by now.

 

[braalian]

Soylent Green

 

[Vastator]

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Mad about the price of eggs? How about the dearth of new homes, skyrocketing cost of gold, global warming, the fiscal deficit, prescription drug access, student loan debt, mortgage rates, the decline in (or perhaps the persistence of!) public union rolls, that promotion you didn’t get at work or the soulless corporate hegemony of America’s downtowns?

You could try to parse the interlocking, complicated sociopolitical factors that have convinced many Americans that the economy is in poor straits, and that their lives will be less fruitful than their forefathers’. Or you could blame the baby boomers.

An estimated 73 million boomers, ages 60 to 78, live in the United States, making them roughly one-quarter of the population.

Their departures from the work force will amount to a “silver tsunami,” in the words of financial analysts and economic researchers, that will upend life, work and retirement. An uptick in use of the barometrically inflected term nods to what some see as an unstoppable demographic disaster caused by the confluence of a wave of retirees and relative dearth of young people.

By 2035, the Census Bureau estimates, older adults will outnumber people under 18 in the United States for the first time.

LOL.....The NYT should be concerned that once boomers die off so does their leftist paper.

Meh, it's not my fault that younger generations have forgotten how to get laid and have kids.

They can't die off fast enough. Looking forward real estate being freed up, and becoming available at realistic prices.

 

[braalian]

They can't die off fast enough. Looking forward real estate being freed up, and becoming available at realistic prices.

You might not even have to wait for them to pass.

We’re fast approaching the time when they’ll all be of an age where most of them will need the nursing home