Nevertheless, if we look at how the Boomers acted, they:
- Presided over a bunch of aggressive and needless wars.
- Led the slow decay of the US economy, weighed down with regulation, struggling to build things and stuck in a money printing spiral.
- Have done a terrible job of letting up the political reins to new blood, and generally allowed liberty to backslide in some stunning and catastrophic ways (pointing particularly at the monetary system that has been consistently getting more repressive and the surveillance state).
In some sense it is impressive that they only got a few things wrong, as a generation there was some amazing technological work done. But it is hard to recover from political and economic mistakes that profound. There isn't enough real wealth generation, retirement savings have been blown up in a lot of exotic foreign countries like Iraq and someone is going to have to do without. It'd be fairest if the blow fell on the Boomers, they set this up. The next generation can pay for their own mistakes.
You don't have to like it.
Similarly, age-based discrimination is illegal in the workplace, but only against older people. It is perfectly legal to discriminate based on age against younger people! This, despite younger people having less power and getting paid less on a group level.
Very odd how all this concern only flows one way...
My reply already states this in other terms. It's impossible to be for equitable treatment without seeing individuals instead of groups.
Sorry, help me out. What "bunch" of wars did they "Preside" over? Boomers were born 1946-1964 (per Wikipedia).
Also, if you look at local democracy, it's mainly boomers voting.
What happens online doesn't matter for these things. What matters is who shows up and shakes down city council members by being angry and claiming to represent concerted voting blocs.
Well, that and those who are changing the state level regulation of local municipalities to force them to build more housing. But that is a strategy pursued by younger groups advocating for housing (which also includes Boomers!).
But the opposition is nearly uniform in their age, largely due to who has the free time to set city level policy.