throw-234

6 ms·

1.
by throw-234 4mo ago
> You find different numbers in different places, but the median retirement savings for boomers is under $200,000. from https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/18/national-... > Greene desi
2.
by throw-234 4mo ago
> Sounds dramatic, but what are we talking about here? How about this? https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4633773-eat-the-boomers-... > In his book, “A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betraye
3.
by throw-234 4mo ago
>It's going to be hard to sell policies that disenfranchise old people... Not at all. Remember how before he got dementia the president ran on an antidementia platform? > That's why I think this is all a scam. We are, almos
4.
by throw-234 4mo ago
> Is ageism not like racism, sexism, etc.? First, young people didn't choose this. It's been coming from the other direction and out in the open for a very long time. Why not make it official that it's mutual? Past time
5.
by throw-234 4mo ago
> You're overlooking that the geriatric people are carrying on the traditional liberal/conservative debate on both sides of the aisle. Workers skew young, capital skews old. When politics is money literally the only thing th
6.
by throw-234 4mo ago
> They have three new or late-model vehicles. Depends on geography of course, but it's not rare at all for boomers to have this many houses as a normal part of how they experienced middle-class life. As a group they are not only
7.
by throw-234 4mo ago
Ah yes, the squeeze in the middle. My default assumption is that people outside ~35-45 range are often impatient to the point that they are, for practical purposes, functionally illiterate Older side has those who invented and lived by pow
8.
by throw-234 4mo ago
> Our gerontocracy is not the result of a malevolent plan, .. Boomers aren't distinctively evil.. The fact that they are so numerous and the fact that they are aging in era when life has been extended make the syndrome endemic. .. A