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Yup. Boomers okay, and why not? They built most of what you're enjoying.
Blue collar boom? College grads, baby boomers big winners in Trump's economy
Yup. Boomers okay, and why not? They built most of what you're enjoying.
Blue collar boom? College grads, baby boomers big winners in Trump's economy
The nearing world without them will be a terrifying place indeed. As has become the world without veterans of the Great Wars.
The sad part is, the people who are trashing the Boomers have never known any real hardships. They think hardship is a cell phone dropping service between cities.Yup. Boomers okay, and why not? They built most of what you're enjoying.
Blue collar boom? College grads, baby boomers big winners in Trump's economy
The nearing world without them will be a terrifying place indeed. As has become the world without veterans of the Great Wars.
We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.
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Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP. The list goes on.
However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.
Alyssa Ahlgren
Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop on our entitlement/ungratefulness problem....
That would be mostly Democrats, but Republicans too. 23 trillion and counting!Boomers love spending their children's money
They are spending your parent's money?Boomers love spending their children's money
Bullshit.There were a number of generations of boomers. And while some; like all generations have advanced society... None have done more damage to the nation than the gluttonous, self indulgent boomers. None...Yup. Boomers okay, and why not? They built most of what you're enjoying.
Blue collar boom? College grads, baby boomers big winners in Trump's economy
The Boomers are the largest generation in numbers in American history. They are twice the size of their parents generation. Gen. X is half the size of the Boomer generation. Or the same size as the parents of the Boomers. Millennial generation is about the size of the Boomer generation. It is much more diverse and much more angrier. The Boomer generation paid that 15% social security/medicare into the federal general fund since the 1980's and before it was incrementally upped to that number it was 12% for some years. They started to slow down during the end of the Clinton administration causing the stock market collapse of 2000. W. Bush inherited it. As more and more Boomers retire less and less 15% tax is going into the general fund and more people are collecting social security and medicare benefits. 3 million a year for at least another decade or more added to the rolls which will peak out at about 100 million people collecting and using benefits. That is a big swing in resources.Yup. Boomers okay, and why not? They built most of what you're enjoying.
Blue collar boom? College grads, baby boomers big winners in Trump's economy
The nearing world without them will be a terrifying place indeed. As has become the world without veterans of the Great Wars.
Gen X may hang on for a bit, but after that, it's mostly sheep without wool.
Boomers love spending their children's money
You’re skipping a number of generations, who have suffered the cultural decline, culminating in millennials. A rather appropriate illustration of the psychological disconnect Boomers have created to insulate themselves from the results of their efforts.The sad part is, the people who are trashing the Boomers have never known any real hardships. They think hardship is a cell phone dropping service between cities.Yup. Boomers okay, and why not? They built most of what you're enjoying.
Blue collar boom? College grads, baby boomers big winners in Trump's economy
The nearing world without them will be a terrifying place indeed. As has become the world without veterans of the Great Wars.
A young millennial wrote about that, let me see if I can find it.
Here it is.
We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.
….
Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP. The list goes on.
However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.
Alyssa Ahlgren
Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop on our entitlement/ungratefulness problem....
You’re skipping a number of generations, who have suffered the cultural decline, culminating in millennials. A rather appropriate illustration of the psychological disconnect Boomers have created to insulate themselves from the results of their efforts.The sad part is, the people who are trashing the Boomers have never known any real hardships. They think hardship is a cell phone dropping service between cities.Yup. Boomers okay, and why not? They built most of what you're enjoying.
Blue collar boom? College grads, baby boomers big winners in Trump's economy
The nearing world without them will be a terrifying place indeed. As has become the world without veterans of the Great Wars.
A young millennial wrote about that, let me see if I can find it.
Here it is.
We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.
….
Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP. The list goes on.
However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.
Alyssa Ahlgren
Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop on our entitlement/ungratefulness problem....
News flash Boomers! These millennials didn’t spring forth from the Ether. These are your children, grand children, and great grand children. They are the fruit of your efforts and loins. They are the result of your myopic sef indulgence. They are what abortion on demand, no-fault divorce, gynocentric courts, and basic apathy beyond your SS payout led us to. The best thing you worthless sacks of shit could ever do is live long, suffer hard, and die slow.
It’s the very least you could do...
Boomers love spending their children's money
Bullshit.There were a number of generations of boomers. And while some; like all generations have advanced society... None have done more damage to the nation than the gluttonous, self indulgent boomers. None...Yup. Boomers okay, and why not? They built most of what you're enjoying.
Blue collar boom? College grads, baby boomers big winners in Trump's economy
Naw. I think we should live hard and then take the whole fucking world down with us rather than leave it to a bunch of ungrateful, spoiled, tiny dicked losers who can't even figure out what bathroom they should be using.You’re skipping a number of generations, who have suffered the cultural decline, culminating in millennials. A rather appropriate illustration of the psychological disconnect Boomers have created to insulate themselves from the results of their efforts.The sad part is, the people who are trashing the Boomers have never known any real hardships. They think hardship is a cell phone dropping service between cities.Yup. Boomers okay, and why not? They built most of what you're enjoying.
Blue collar boom? College grads, baby boomers big winners in Trump's economy
The nearing world without them will be a terrifying place indeed. As has become the world without veterans of the Great Wars.
A young millennial wrote about that, let me see if I can find it.
Here it is.
We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.
….
Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP. The list goes on.
However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.
Alyssa Ahlgren
Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop on our entitlement/ungratefulness problem....
News flash Boomers! These millennials didn’t spring forth from the Ether. These are your children, grand children, and great grand children. They are the fruit of your efforts and loins. They are the result of your myopic sef indulgence. They are what abortion on demand, no-fault divorce, gynocentric courts, and basic apathy beyond your SS payout led us to. The best thing you worthless sacks of shit could ever do is live long, suffer hard, and die slow.
It’s the very least you could do...
