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Younger baby boomers are facing a homelessness crisis as rents skyrocket and outpace Social Security
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Seriously. Everyone here talks about taking down corporations and everyone getting their needs met, but is pretty quick to generalize and discard a now at risk population who has a lowered ability to self serve.
The vitriol towards baby boomers is disturbing. Blaming a single, entire, generation for all of the current problems in the US is insane. It’s like if we blamed millennials for the Trump craziness.
Hang on, because I don't think ~~anyone is~~(I should say) most people are actually doing that. When we speak of "Boomers" we mean the generation, and the individuals who espouse those prototypical generational thought processes. If I meet someone in that age group, I don't go "Aw, fuck you for trickle down economics" because I don't blame all Boomers on a personal level. But recognizing where they fucked up, and why their ideologies have created an existential crisis for future generations, that's fair game.
Stop with your nuance. You have to either personally punch every homeless Vietnam veteran in the face or absolve Reagan voters of 100% of the damage they did (and continue to do). It's one or the other.
Ok? A majority of the top level comments on this post are saying that they are unsympathetic towards the homelessness problem because they are boomers, or even insinuating that they deserve it.
It's a good reminder to me that many voices on Lemmy are just edgy folks spitballing opinions as if they are gospel.
Boomers have fucked my generation so I couldn't give a chicken fried fuck about this, hell maybe now that its affecting boomers the government might actually be forced to do something about it.
"boomers" are not individuals, it's a title for a large group.
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