• usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I do not believe boomers caused these internal contradictions to intensify over time. US boomers happened to be lucky in being born in the only country to make money off of WW2 (other than Switzerland). Them having been born during a period of relative prosperity due to factors beyond their control and then having those factors go away also for reasons beyond their control just makes them lucky relative to other generations and yes it is insufferable to have someone who was merely lucky lecture you about how they got their success due to being smart. This good luck on their part is not however the cause of the bad luck on our part.

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      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        no there were clearly several causes but you do seem to be angry at them and I do not believe it is just to be angry at someone for things beyond their control. It's false consciousness to blame the elderly who were less mistreated by the capitalists rather than the capitalists choosing to intensify the mistreatment.

        Rather than boomers as a group deciding to force Amazon workers to have timed bathroom breaks it is specifically Jeff Bezos and the Amazon board of directors

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          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I'm not angry I am just concerned about the common false consciousness that harms organising that it is in fact boomers and not capitalists to blame which your arguments are at the very least adjacent to

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              • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                I said you seem angry I apologise if I misinterpreted your tone

                You are angry at the wrong people and that is poisonous to solidarity it is legitimate anger at those people specifically but it is also important to recognise that those people are just a bunch of random assholes who cannot meaningfully be said to speak on behalf of anyone else

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                  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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                    telling them their anger is invalid

                    I from here assumed you were referng to yourself as a part of them and thus did consider your feelings to be anger

                    I am tired and after this comment will disengage

                    someday those wealthy boomers will die leaving their wealth to their children thus making millenials the wealthiest generation and you and I won't be a penny richer for it