The Most Selfish Generation

[Kuciwalker]

Oh, I'm not remotely worried about my parents spending down their savings. I just feel for all the other members of my generation who won't be able to afford enough bathrooms

[MOBIUS]

You're just desperate to get your hands on all your parents' en suite toilets and generally continue in your silver spooned existence...

[Kuciwalker]

No, I'm saying that when a boomer sells off all his savings in return for goods and services, that represents a significant loss of capital vs. the scenario in which the boomer does not (to first approximation).

[giblets]

Where does "captial" go if it is not inherited ?

I think he's claiming that if it's not inherited, people will be less willing to invest and they'll just have less capital to pass on when they die.

[giblets]

Let's face reality here. The policy of Obama which tea bagging baby boomers hate the most is his "policy" of being black. If only he lightened the melanin in his skin then they would find him less objectionable. Obama has been more conservative, disgustingly conservative even when he should have stuck to his guns and could have won because the American people were behind him, then any president since Herbert Hoover, including being more conservative than the right wing man-god Reagan, yet they still hate him. There is certainly something they hate about him even though he gives them everything they want. He's spent less and had smaller deficits then Bush but Bush was white so the bigots gave him a pass yet before the negro even took office they were militantly up in arms in their hatred of him. It's hard to objectively say that is nothing but the most rank racism of the worst right wing conservative kind.

The problem might have been that he wanted healthcare for everyone and not just aging baby boomers.

[dannubis]

Darius, think about this for a bit. Without inherited wealth it is a lot harder for society to accumulate capital.

Where does "captial" go if it is not inherited ?

[Dinner]

Let's face reality here. The policy of Obama which tea bagging baby boomers hate the most is his "policy" of being black. If only he lightened the melanin in his skin then they would find him less objectionable. Obama has been more conservative, disgustingly conservative even when he should have stuck to his guns and could have won because the American people were behind him, then any president since Herbert Hoover, including being more conservative than the right wing man-god Reagan, yet they still hate him. There is certainly something they hate about him even though he gives them everything they want. He's spent less and had smaller deficits then Bush but Bush was white so the bigots gave him a pass yet before the negro even took office they were militantly up in arms in their hatred of him. It's hard to objectively say that is nothing but the most rank racism of the worst right wing conservative kind.

[Aeson]

If only the rest of the country would have slacked off during the Vietnam War, there wouldn't have been one

[RGBVideo]

The life of the average baby boomer: Despite being pampered by their parents and given every advantage in the world by their hard working parents who worked to break the depression and defeat the Axis in WW2 they were arrogant rotten little ****** as kids. Their moms stayed home to watch them and make sure they always had healthy meals to eat while their dads worked hard to support the whole family and even worked over time so their ungrateful little spawn could go to summer camps & be taken on great family vacations. The government wisely taxed the wealthy to insure they baby boomers received the best educations money could buy but what did these little bastards do in return?

They sat around smoking pot and protesting when the government actually asked them to do anything in return, they had kids out of wed lock and even when they did get married they usually got divorced in short order because these arrogant self centered ****** believed EVERYTHING was about themselves. When their parents got old rather then looking after them they promptly tossed them into old folks homes to be forgotten, they demanded ever more tax cuts for themselves thus ****ing their kids over with rotten under funded schools because, once again, they never cared about anyone but themselves.

You boomers ****ed around with every narcotic on the planet and now champion the crackdown on pot.

excellent point

Or how about the way how baby boomers reacted to the Vietnam War. What other generation would have the arrogance of making a virtue out of weaseling your way out of army service in a time of war? Opposition to the war is one thing, but slacking off from national duty and somehow making excuses in the form of creating some kind of enlightened martyrs from all of your fellow slackers afterwards...

I believe the amount of attention given to the kids born immediately after WW2 in both Western Europe and US (their parents wanted them to have a good life after all the horrors of past 30 years or so) got to the point of pampering which collectively (we're speaking about averages here) led to the sense of the whole society revolving around their age group, which led to their narcissism all through their adult life... the moral of the story is, don't pamper your kids.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

posting from beyond the grave sure makes you angry with baby boomers... are they dying en masse now so on top of regular torture in hell you have to deal with overcrowding too?

[MrFun]

2. I've been semi-retired since 1996.

This explains the amount of time you have on your hands.

[Zoetstofzoetje]

Who's drake?

qft

[Tupac Shakur]

Who's drake?

This is a very good question.

You sound like an unemployed guy blaming all his problems on whatever ethnic group his replacement belongs to.

1. The Baby Boomers are not an ethnic group.

2. I've been semi-retired since 1996.

[KrazyHorse]

[Kuciwalker]