Baby boomer goals: home ownership, 2.5 kids, dream vacations to florida/hawaii
Millenial goals: having any money left after bills, an apartment without roommates, dying quickly and painlessly in the initial nuclear exchange to avoid witnessing the collapse of humanity
Accurate
Guys, the fear of nuclear annihilation hung over half the 20th century, it defined the entire boomer generation. Other boomer goals included not getting drafted, marrying someone of a different race, and living past 70.
also, not dying of AIDS
GenX = worst of both worlds; we started out with dreams of not getting nuked or dying of AIDS, and now a majority of us are in the same shitty financial state as the Millenials, plus we’re still young enough to live to see the world’s full ecological collapse. We are fucked coming and going. At least we had good music in the 90′s.
Someone should make a browser extension that changes every instance of “baby boomers” into “bourgeoisie” and every instance of “millennials” into “proletariat”
To clarify for anyone who needs clarification:
I’m saying a lot of y’all misattribute values, political leanings, behavior, and status to age cohorts instead of rightfully attributing it to class.
The problem isn’t a divide between young and old, it’s a divide between the ruling class and the working poor. And a lot of the statements made about boomers and millennials are just inaccurate euphemistic distractions from what could be oppprtunities in developing class consciousness.
So I went ahead and made the addon, you can download it for Chrome here
The most commonly accepted age range that I have seen for Millennials is, in fact, Chris Evans to Tom Holland. (1981 to 1996)
At this point, the Millennials are, for the most part, no longer the kids on your lawn; they’re your slightly-younger friends also complaining about the kids on the lawn.
The Holland-Evans Range sounds vaguely astronomical. I like it
While we’re at it, can we stop calling everyone over 40 a fucking baby boomer? Baby boomers are in their 60s and 70s. Late 50s, at the very least.
We can’t just sit around cynically waiting for some imaginary “conservative generation” to “die off”. They won’t. It’s the liberals in every generation who die, much faster.
The baby boomers were one of the most radical generations this world has ever seen. Collectively, they advanced civil rights, women’s rights, freedom movements around the world, queer rights, almost the entire spectrum of human rights in the short course of less than fifteen years. The very generation that now gets decried by young people as conservative and holding back the world was once out protesting in the streets worldwide.
And getting shot for it.
Because it’s the ones who fight back who die first, then the ones who don’t fight back but are on the side of less power second.
The most radical and effective thing we could do in the next two decades is make sure that people live and have the leisure – and it is leisure for many – to engage in activism.
The generational divide isn’t real and I’m so tired of every liberal acting like its the cause of division in the US…like most baby boomers are poor. Impoverished even. There are disgustingly rich Millenials. the average baby boomers life was ruined by the housing crash and recession and honestly if your parents aren’t going to be working until their late 60s or even 70s so they can afford to survive you’re probably too wealthy to be in touch with the rest of us but pretend to be working class online. i know one person in the baby boomer age range that doesn’t think its impossible for anyone to survive in this economy. also you all keep lumping literal 80 year olds in with baby boomers and its absolutely wild. just log off
My parents are in their sixties and I can bet you money they didn’t have the resources to fuck the future economy, but they sure as shit felt the housing crash and the Great Recession.
My 90yo grandmother tries to live on ~$500 each month from social security (because my grandfather didn’t like paying taxes but that’s a-whole-nother tirade). When was she destroying the economy: when she was floor manager at RCA or managing the books for my grandfather’s multiple small business?
It has always been the same small number of people, with more money than the rest of the earth put together, who have been fucking things up for everyone.
oppression isn’t generational and trying to frame politics as “the old people are wrong and the young people are right” erases the fact that there are old people who have been fighting the good fight for decades and the fact that there are young people who are literally nazis
Plus while there might be less old people fighting the good fight it’s usually because they were killed or were part of the minorities that have poor living conditions that kill you early
Millennials and Gen Z: Trump shows signs of being a genocidal dictator, we shouldn’t vote for him
Baby boomers: OOOOO Is your Safe Space being violated by his comments snowflake??? How AWFUL IT must be to have a REAL man for president instead of OoOoBamA
Trump, after being voted into office: *leaves the UN human rights council, puts hundreds of young children into prison camps and tent cities, takes away valuable items like rosaries similar to the removal of rings during the Holocaust, puts babies and toddlers into foster homes/orphanages, literally treats ACTUAL CHILDREN like prisoners for wanting a better life elsewhere*
Baby boomers: oh….oh no….
Millennials and Gen Z: *stare into the camera like they’re on the office*
Please stop making posts like these please. They don’t make any sense. All they do is make you feel better and hope that if only you wait a little longer, the baby boomers will die and The Young and the Woke will inherit the earth. Senior citizens weren’t the ones down in Charleston playing with those tiki torches or reading Breitbart every day.
Thirty-seven percent of people aged 18-29 voted for that nut. That’s not a number you should be comfortable with.
Elderly people are a vulnerable group. I know that some of you have convinced yourselves that anyone over the age of 45 is a Koch brother, but that’s not the case. The people of color, disabled, queer, and impoverished people who we are allegedly so concerned with were not all born 25 years ago and the ones who aren’t had to deal with even worse circumstances than we do. That includes far fewer legal protections.
The biggest advocate for voting I knew when I was a kid was an eighty year old lady who handed pamphlets out on the bus and took the time to teach me about war crimes.
The grannies and the grandfathers are so important and we need to care for them.
The supposed different “generations” i.e. millennials/Gen X/boomers etc is just liberalism’s attempt to replace class analysis by framing the different generations as coherent classes with different interests. It conveniently fails to mention that there are working class & ruling class people in all generations.
By making all ppl of a certain age responsible for inflation & higher cost of living or w/e, the responsibility of the ruling class is obscured, to the detriment of the working class & to the benefit of the ruling class.
Most of the boomers I know are mushy liberal ex hippies at the very least.
The whole idea that “the boomers did it” without specifying which ones has always made me ?????
Also like… specifically on the issue of “taking care of this silver morass of cranky old farts is hard when our economy sucks” at least
Part of the problem is their parents gleefully fucking like bunnies after a war
i mean the idea that the older generations are Bad while our generation is Good is pretty convenient for us isn’t it. we don’t have to do anything, just continue to exist and all the problems of the world will slowly melt away as the bad people grow old and die and we take over and definitely do not replicate their wrongdoing or continue to uphold existing oppressive structures in any way whatsoever 😇🌸
It’s almost as if generational conflicts are fictions constructed to distract us from systematic oppression.
I mean, speaking from a recent (say, post WWII) U.S. context, a combination of factors:
1) Having more stake in a capitalist systems. For example, making more money, and making money in different ways like having a stock market dependent 401K. People buy houses and property as well. This all makes them more likely to resent ‘taxation’ and specific kinds of taxation (property, capital gains, estate) because it has started personally affecting them.
2) owing less-liquid property makes you generally more risk averse/protective of your assets. hence more conservative financial approaches.
3) Having children also means that people have a specific person they can funnel all their altruistic impulses into rather than people in general. This also means that their conservativism can have an altruistic tinge to it (trying to support/protect resources for their children). Responsibility to another makes it no longer simple greed.
4) in the U.S., rebellion against/critique of the system is so coopted into marketable youth culture both in order to profit from it, but to infantilize the idea of being against capitalism (the “you’ll grow out of it” logic).
Which is to say, people don’t just spontaneously become conservative because some wiring in their brain does it- as a certain group of people age, conservative interests align w their own economic interests. Fears of losing the resources they have are preyed upon, and the lack of any sort of left beyond ‘youth movements’ and the coding of critique as immature exacerbates this effect.
And to kinda discuss that point, that’s why the entire argument of “people become more republican/conservative as they age” like isn’t really meaningfully true across the board demographically. It’s the same tired millenial/baby boomer situation where people extrapolate white middle class political dynamics like they are universal
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