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David Gerard's avatar

OK, Boomer....

Chartertopia's avatar

Goes right along with demanding all jobs pay a living wage, as if "You want fries with that" is a lifelong career, and then wondering where all the entry level jobs went.

Government sucks, it really does. People need to rely on themselves instead of political promises.

Gman's avatar

Many people outraged online when you point out that store managers make into six figures. Then again so do drivers for Walmart.

Gman's avatar

The generations are not the same. Boomers were mostly native born. Younger generations have far more migrants. This makes the graph even more impressive?!?

Alfred's avatar

Let's ignore the elephant in the room, the enormous wealth geezers have will be passed on to family, and not necessarily until death.

Anna OConnell's avatar

Only the Boomers who fail to outlive their accumulated money will have anything at all to pass down to and through their families. With the recent very high inflation in medical costs and daily-living assistance, this Boomer isn't sure that my money will last until I die.

Andy G's avatar

You are of course 100% correct on the substance.

I didn’t read the article, but to the extent it is about the fact that we are doing too much intergeneration government transfers from the young and less well off to the old who are much better off, given that our TFR is low enough and our legal immigration policies bad enough and our welfare state (overly) generous enough, I’d have thought you would at least support their goal while deriding their logic…