And to those MPs, I have only one thing to say, “ok, boomer.”
I dont care about the age of the people who are criticized for wealth hoarding.
I see plenty of old people struggling, who are looking for deposit bottles to return or begging in the streets. I see plenty of old people counting their money contemplating which items to put back at the supermarket checkout.
I am angry about people who sit in their house they could buy cheaply or even subsidized and telling me that the youth of today would be lazy, while their post school education was three years in trade school and i have an university degree. I am angry because my income, which is in the top 5% of my country would only allow me to buy a decent house or apartment if my wife and i life frugally, have no kids and pay it off until we retire.
I am angry because rents have went up so much, that it is cheaper for old people to stay in their 4 room flat they can hardly keep clean, because downsizing on a new contract would be more expensive for them, while young families are struggling to find a flat.
[The report] also said discussion of intergenerational fairness tended to “pit younger and older generations against each other in a perceived fight for limited resources”.
Good take. Remember, the real divide is class not generation.
aka people who couldn’t stop whining about young people if their life depended on it accusing young people of being “ageist”
“We are not hoarding anything,” they say from the comfort of the antique sofa inside the house which they wholly own.
Inside one of the multiple houses they own.
FTFY
There is a very small faction of billionaires siphoning wealth away from the world, truly hoarding it such that it is unused and unproductive. The role of the political class is to facilitate this and distract the general population away from it by setting naturally allied groups against each other. Divide and conquer is as old as humankind and we still fall for it every time.
I just want to point out that billionaires do not have billions on their bank accounts, they own companies worth that much. The issue is the concentration of power they have through that.
So it is ageist to criticize boomers but not ageist to criticize gen z and younger? Sounds pretty ageist to me.
And we are supposed to feel sorry some boomers, and older, never bothered to learn how to use a computer or smart phone properly? Fuck off you disingenuous pieces of shit.
Middle-class boomers and above. Us poors have never owned jack shit in any era or generation.
Y’know the interesting thing is, I’ve never had a poor old person talk condescendingly to me about economic prospects. The elderly widow taking public transit, counting their coupons, and desperately trying to stretch their dead husband’s pension check has never lectured me about pulling myself up by my boot-straps. Similarly, I’ve never called any of these people a Boomer pejoratively. To me, the stereotype of a Boomer has very little to do with age, and everything to do with socioeconomic status, and I absolutely will keep insulting the Boomer fucks that pulled the ladder up behind them.
My gut reaction to this article was probably the same as a lot of people here “this is just baby boomers complaining about younger people again” and it kinda is, but it’s mostly a targeted parliamentary review into the effects of ageism on the older generation, and I would expect the government to do a similar review on the younger generation, if they haven’t already.
I do believe that pinning negative stereotypes on whole generations is wrong. It was wrong when the boomers did it to the millenials, it is wrong when millenials do it to gen z, and it’s wrong to go the other way.
Where does all the power and wealth concentrate? Amongst the boomers and older Gen x. Are they all wealthy and powerful? Fuck no! We’re all being exploited by the top 0.1% of the population, let’s not forget that.
I mean the hippie guy living in a earthen starship is not the issue its the ceos, board of directors, and well yeah wealthy politicians.
Stfu boomer
