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haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

This and they were first at the buffet and are now holding onto the money (at least most I know) instead of sharing with their kids.

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They’re not really “holding onto the money”.

It’s more “they’re holding onto jobs” and refusing to retire, because they never saved for retirement

They have “wealth” because by now a lot of them have paid off cheap mortgages and their home value has skyrocketed.

But they can’t sell and buy a cheaper house because there’s no cheap houses. And if they rent it’s 2x-3x what their mortgage uses to be.

Most Boomers are still a paycheck or two away from losing everything, the difference is it’s their own fault from decades of poor financial decisions and voting habits

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- haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I cant disagree here. But in that case, they might need to check their attitude a lot since the boomers I know look down on us milennials a lot more than would be warranted even by their hierarchical thinking.
  
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  - givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    So?
    
    Boomers hated every generation before them, and every generation after them.
    
    I give zero fucks what the opinion of Boomers as a generation overall is.
    
    Because they’ve shown for decades that their demographic at large are a bunch of lead addled angry assholes with next to no critical thinking skills.
    
    I can understand that most of that is just normal lead poisoning and not their fault, but that doesn’t mean I have to listen to their ramblings just because I understand why they’re nonsensical.
    
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