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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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We can do both.
I want to capitalize on this and use these disgruntled, hurting voters to strengthen our social safety net, maybe lower the retirement age, fix the social security benefit to a cost of living index, and protect them and everyone who comes after them from dying in poverty when you no longer serve the corporate overlords and are discarded.
But I want us to do that while making comments about telling them to put down the avocado toast and stop buying so many expensive coffee drinks. Tighten your belt a little! Maybe don't have that Ensure for breakfast, gramma!
Because the truth is, while on an individual level, they likely don't deserve to die sick and miserable. But on a generational level, the majority of them are, statistically, the reason we are in the mess we're in. And we should be allowed to snark and give them back a taste of what they gave us our whole lives, while we clean up this mess. Hopefully by making them vote for what will actually help everyone for once.
Being snarky towards homeless people! You’re really showing them! Stick it to those stupid boomers!
I've been homeless before, and I have no problem snarking at a homeless person because they're still people and not strictly speaking, victims. It's far more damaging to be unseen than it is to be snarked at but ultimately, helped. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that at least someone snarking at me meant they saw me as a real human being.