I am not claiming they had the same opportunities than us I am claiming that them having things better than us economically and us having things worse off is the result of factors completely out of the control of most people of either generation and therefore not responsible and therefore not to blame
The thing that you're leaving out is the very real factor that boomer-brained people and capitalist society don't share the view that no ones responsible or to blame. And their conclusion is that their children are to blame for the world they actively benefited from and helped create. Not all boomer-aged people are equal in this equation (or younger groups), but boomer-brained people think the way they do because they benefited from that world order, they believe in that world order, and they gleefully clapped and supported the ladder being kicked away so their children couldn't climb it. Boomers don't need defending
is the result of factors completely out of the control of most people
Them being beneficiaries of a time of less severe internal contradictions of capitalism doesn't give them a free pass to be assholes and hypocritically lord it over other people that didn't get those same benefits when reaching the same age milestones.
yeah I agree it is insufferable to have someone lecture you on success when they got their success due to relative luck.
It doesn't make sense to ascribe qualities like that to generational groups though as they aren't an institution that sets member policy they are a marketting demographic.
I think at this point you're accusing me of doing something I didn't actually do: I didn't say boomers caused these contradictions to worsen here as much as I dislike the double standard and the hypocrisy of the contemporary statements made by boomers (and boomer defenders) in the OP's link.
I am not claiming they had the same opportunities than us I am claiming that them having things better than us economically and us having things worse off is the result of factors completely out of the control of most people of either generation and therefore not responsible and therefore not to blame
The thing that you're leaving out is the very real factor that boomer-brained people and capitalist society don't share the view that no ones responsible or to blame. And their conclusion is that their children are to blame for the world they actively benefited from and helped create. Not all boomer-aged people are equal in this equation (or younger groups), but boomer-brained people think the way they do because they benefited from that world order, they believe in that world order, and they gleefully clapped and supported the ladder being kicked away so their children couldn't climb it. Boomers don't need defending
Them being beneficiaries of a time of less severe internal contradictions of capitalism doesn't give them a free pass to be assholes and hypocritically lord it over other people that didn't get those same benefits when reaching the same age milestones.
"Blame" is meaningless after a while.
yeah I agree it is insufferable to have someone lecture you on success when they got their success due to relative luck.
It doesn't make sense to ascribe qualities like that to generational groups though as they aren't an institution that sets member policy they are a marketting demographic.
I think at this point you're accusing me of doing something I didn't actually do: I didn't say boomers caused these contradictions to worsen here as much as I dislike the double standard and the hypocrisy of the contemporary statements made by boomers (and boomer defenders) in the OP's link.
the news media finds the assholes in any demographic doesn't it. Millenials who are super into blockchain similarly get excessively platformed
"Something happens everywhere" is not the same thing as "it happens in the exact same proportions everywhere and for all time."