• freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world
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    This is how the billionaires are winning, they manipulate folks into being angry at everyone but THEM. “Boomers” didn’t buy $70k houses, your grandparents did.

    Meamwhile, Zuckerberg is laughing his ass off while fortifying his Kauai ranch estate.

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      “Boomers” are the grandparents to most of social media posters these days. Statistically the internet stays centered at about teenager to 20 year old being the peak of the normal distribution of users. That’s the Baby Boomers’ grandchildren. Great grandchildren even.

      Just pointing that out, but otherwise I agree. They’re all angry at a strawman “Boomer”. That strawman in reality is demographically a small portion of the world population who are very rich. The majority of baby boomers got fucked in their own way by the rich.

      You guys are all distracted into fighting each other.

      Furthermore, I’m continuously baffled at how or why people fawn over the anecdotes about those who talk about their parents having a good life straight out of college and now owning multi-million dollar homes. How can you not realize these anecdotes are from rich kids of rich boomers. You guys are so hungry to eat the rich??? That’s them right there. What are you praising and fawning over them for. Start eating.

      All part of the distraction. The lesser than billionaire rich hiding in plain sight, running distraction for the richest of the rich.

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    To be fair, there are far more entrepreneurial opportunities to generate wealth these days. If you’re not on Onlyfans, are you even trying?

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        Yeah, that’s why I drive for Uber while doing my Door Dash Deliveries. I also tie some dogs to my bumper to I can get some cash with Rover. The best part? I can also fill out surveys the whole time too to eek out an extra 0.5 cents per hour!

        I figure if I save it all, I’ll be well in range to make a 5% down payment on a 2 bed/1 bath house from the 1940’s by the time I’m 75.

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          I just stopped buying Starbucks coffee and became a millionaire overnight. It really is that easy.

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    Not just the US, we can’t buy a house anywhere, boomer cunts stole everything from future generations and will claim to their dying breath that THEY had it rough.

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      So you grew up rich? Your parents had no struggles at all right? So I mean, wow, that must have been nice. They basically had infinite money to raise you with… that’s awesome. I’m happy for you

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        What? Where did i say i was rich? How does your brain function? And my parents didn’t have struggles?!? My mother and stepdad didn’t have power or running water for 5 years in the Balkans btw, whether that’s legal or not who knows and i don’t think the cunts that turned it off cared anyway.

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          You said, “boomer cunts stole everything from future generations and will claim to their dying breath that THEY had it rough.”

          But then you said, “My mother and stepdad didn’t have power or running water for 5 years”

          Weird, it’s almost like they did have it rough after all

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            You need it spelt out for you or something? My mother was born in 1966 so she doesn’t qualify as a boomer and also those boomers that you want to defend could buy a house or two with one income while having 4-5 kids while most of us today can’t afford anything with two incomes and no kids.

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              oh wow, so you were the first poor family? I had no idea life was a perfect utopia where nobody struggled until your parents. I always thought the story of Adam and Eve was something that took place millions of years ago but it turns out it happened in 1966.

              I’m honored to meet the child of the first humans to ever suffer

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    The reason housing isn’t affordable is because of:

    1. Price fixing for rentals
    2. Corporations are buying up every last bit of housing and then see number 1.

    When you say “boomers,” are you meaning the people in power? Cuz yeah, they’re old and making these decisions to let this happen. Most normal people don’t have the power to stop this shit. Stop complaining and start working towards getting rid of 1) and 2).

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      When I say boomers and I’m talking about this, I’m talking about the retired couple still living in a four bedroom house in the suburbs refusing to sell it because it’s going to be worth just a little bit more next year meanwhile there’s a young family who can’t afford a fucking house due to none being available. Yes corporations are a problem, a big one, but the number of neighborhoods that used to be filled with kids that are now filled with retirees is also a problem.