sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Comeuppance and all that, but good lord I just want homelessness to stop being a thing. It's such a solvable problem, but no, we get commodified housing and legions of petty landlords and now mega-landlords like Blackrock.
Mao may be dead, but so are all the landlords he let the citizens kill, and China still reaps the benefits to this day.
Obligatory "the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry" lol
They keep looking to their children to bail them out too. Like holy shit bruh maybe you shouldn't have pulled the ladder up and we could have supported you.
Fuckers expect a return from children they refused to invest in. Now we can barely afford to rent let alone help out an aging population.
Obviously this isn't all boomers and generational warfare is stupid. I feel for the ones that actually tried to do the right thing.
Obviously this isn't all boomers and generational warfare is stupid.
I'm of a split mind. My fear is that if younger generations do let boomers off the hook, then they will also expect forgiveness for their own inaction, which will doom future generations of innocent children. Which seems to me like the most unethical choice a human can make.
However I don't think that generational warfare that excludes class analysis (i.e. all war = class war) can ever really be productive.
I've always held to the maxim; boomers are real, other generations aren't
The boomer phenomenon is the result of specific and unique circumstances, the aftermath of a World War, the US controlling half of world production, entire populations poisoned from birth by lead and other toxins, the advent of nuclear weapons
To me that makes them a byproduct of class war, and I don't think that other generations have escaped being shaped by class war even if it shaped them differently.
However I agree that the boomer generation is unique and has a stronger identity than most - due in large part to the reasons you bring up.
That's the irony of rising house prices, your house may have doubled but so did the price of every other house
When you cash in and sell where are you gonna live, when the price of other homes are the same or higher than yours
Even if you settle for sub-strandard cheaper homes those are expensive too and unless you made close to a million or more on the sale your wealth is still gonna take a huge hit, to say nothing of buying homes people actaully WANT to live in, in which case you'll lose most of that liquid wealth you spent decades sitting on
Of course they could always try their hand in the house flipping racket, but that's kinda of a young man's game now, considering all the distracting hospital visits these embrassed millionaires will be making in the coming years
It's almost like capitalism is starting to suck even for the people who "bought into" it
My parents' house they bought in the 90s has quadrupled or quintupled in value, but unfortunately for them they have so many medical expenses in their old age, that even selling the house won't cover their living expenses as they become more elderly and need more and more care. It's a significant source of stress for my family, and I imagine it will only become a more common story as boomers continue to age
Homeowners who oppose new and denser housing in their neighborhoods are a major reason so many American communities are short on homes. Those who oppose building are disproportionately older homeowners. While boomers didn't create many of these not-in-my-backyard laws that restrict housing construction, in many cases, they've protected such regulations, dominating the attendance at community board meetings and fighting housing projects.
Wow, the problem was old rich assholes the whole time
Many older homeowners — particularly the growing number who still have mortgages — are struggling with rising insurance premiums. Nationally, home-insurance premiums rose by an average of 21% from May 2022 to May 2023, Policygenius, an insurance marketplace, found. Insurance companies are increasingly dropping customers and pulling out of entire regions, particularly those hardest hit by climate-related disasters.
The Harvard report noted that places retirees had flocked to in recent decades like South Florida and Arizona also face some of the most severe climate-related impacts, including regular flooding, fires, and extreme heat.
The planet is dying, but on the plus side, The Villages might get wiped off the map
Like a fucked up Yankee Atlantis, a mythic "civilization of the forebears" lost beneath the waves
the house we just bought went from like 80k in 2016 to 200k now isn't that neat
More or less the same here - anything that's a lil bit bigger and not a wreck is like 350+ so I guess I'll die here in this little shack
I think they usually end up being land leaches in poorer countries, but I might be wrong
I see the "We moved to this central American country. It was very affordable but the locals hated us for no reason. So now were back in Ohio" articles all the time. The people always move to save money but end up being gentrifiers.
Yeah, I feel like my phone knows I love to hate read those lol
Or leeching the healthcare system of some poor Asian country they probably bombed way back. Just
jet-settler entitlement.
Cape Coral is destroyed
get addicted to housing prices?