Boomers

[Aeson]

As for opportunity, now is the greatest opportunity anyone's ever had. You want proof?

http://trustedfinancialadvisor.com/

That site is almost surely pulling at least $10k/mo, and maybe as much as $30k/mo. There is no actual information on the site. The internet is awesome.

[Aeson]

My dad enjoyed a lot of those things with me.

Not the first 25-30 years of his life he didn't.

[Aeson]

For those of you who don't follow links:

You can never be too safe when it comes to your money, so many sure that the person that you trust in handling it is someone who will treat the money like as if it were his very own.

Imagine being paid 5 figures a month for having written such prose (or had some Indian or Filipino write it for you for $1) a year ago... this is our destiny!

[MRT144]

As for opportunity, now is the greatest opportunity anyone's ever had. You want proof?

http://trustedfinancialadvisor.com/

That site is almost surely pulling at least $10k/mo, and maybe as much as $30k/mo. There is no actual information on the site. The internet is awesome.

Of course you'd say that.

[Dinner]

I actually expect a big inheritance from my remaining boomer parent unless the ******* suddenly increases his expenditures. Even having to split half of it with my so undeserving sister should leave me with a couple of million. The guy may have been a jerk to me in my formative years but he was great at real estate investing here in California.

[Aeson]

Of course you'd say that.

Quite right. It's true and applicable. Why wouldn't I say it?

[Tupac Shakur]

I actually expect a big inheritance from my remaining boomer parent unless the ******* suddenly increases his expenditures. Even having to split half of it with my so undeserving sister should leave me with a couple of million.

Rich kid who resents his family? So hipster...

[Dinner]

Die in a fire, *****.

[The Mad Monk]

I thought you got along with your father.

[Dinner]

I do. Truth be told I will miss him when he is gone but he was very much a self adsorbed ******* for my first 20 years. He's gained a lot of credibility in the last 15 years (or maybe I'm appreciating it more) but either way he seems much more understandable to me these days compared to when I was a teen. Not surprising, I know.

[Jon Miller]

In many countries, your children are your retirement fund.

This makes sense to me.

JM

[Tupac Shakur]

at the level of public policy and moral leadership, as a generation we have largely failed. The Boomer Progressive Establishment in particular has been a huge disappointment to itself and to the country. The political class slumbered as the entitlement and pension crisis grew to ominous dimensions. Boomer financial leadership was selfish and shortsighted, by and large. Boomer CEOs accelerated the trend toward unlimited greed among corporate elites, and Boomer members of corporate boards sit by and let it happen. Boomer academics created a profoundly dysfunctional system that systemically shovels resources upward from students and adjuncts to overpaid administrators and professors who by and large have not, to say the least, done an outstanding job of transmitting the cultural heritage of the past to future generations. Boomer Hollywood execs created an amoral morass of sludge — and maybe I’m missing something, but nobody spends a lot of time talking about the towering cultural accomplishments of the world historical art geniuses of the Boomer years. Boomer greens enthusiastically bet their movement on the truly idiotic drive for a global carbon treaty; they are now grieving over their failure to make any measurable progress after decades spent and hundreds of millions of dollars thrown away. On the Boomer watch the American family and the American middle class entered major crises; by the time the Boomers have finished with it the health system will be an unaffordable and dysfunctional tangle — perhaps the most complicated, expensive and poorly designed such system in the history of the world.

All of this was done by a generation that never lost its confidence that it was smarter, better educated and more idealistic than its Depression-surviving, World War-winning, segregation-ending, prosperity-building parents. We didn’t need their stinking faith, their stinking morals, or their pathetically conformist codes of moral behavior. We were better than that; after all, we grokked Jefferson Airplane, achieved nirvana on LSD and had a spiritual wealth and sensitivity that our boorish bourgeois forbears could not grasp. They might be doers, builders and achievers — but we Boomers grooved, man, we had sex in the park, we grew our hair long, and we listened to sexy musical lyrics about drugs that those pathetic old losers could not even understand.

What the Boomers as a generation missed (there were, of course and thankfully, many honorable individual exceptions) was the core set of values that every generation must discover to make a successful transition to real adulthood: maturity.

Listen Up, Boomers: The Backlash Has Begun

So true. So very, very true.

[Hauldren Collider]

Saw that article as well.

[Aeson]

I never thought I'd see the day Tupac and HC agreed with an article about how corporate greed is bad. Why do you hate freedom so?

[Hauldren Collider]

I can overlook an article's flaws when it so viciously attacks baby boomers.