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Well, the Boomers won’t move on. They refuse to acknowledge their age. They refuse to give up a single iota of power. Their rictus grip on the entirety of the world will damn us all.

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Whether this is true or not, it's an emotional reality for the Millennial generation. The Boomer/Millennial rift is fundamental, and only getting worse. Everyone I know (barely an exaggeration) is financially struggling, but has Boomer parents who are wealthy. They don't help out dealing with debts or starting a family, even though they are easily able to do so from a financial perspective, and constantly imply that it's their children's fault that they're in the situations they're in.

They're a selfish generation overall. In my personal opinion the world will be a better place when they're dead and gone.

It's not apparent to me that the following generations are any less self-centered.

Most of the powerful capitalists are not boomers: Musk, Altman, Thiel, Andresson, Zuckerberg.

Trump and Gates were the two stand-out boomers I found during a quick check. Plenty of powerful people are either younger than the boomers or older than the boomers (e.g. Elison, Biden, Buffett).

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