• blazera@kbin.social
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    Youā€™ve probably heard about the ā€œgreat wealth transfer.ā€ Itā€™s the $72 trillion stack of assets that baby boomers are sitting on and going to pass onto millennials someday, thereby solving many of the economically beleaguered younger generationā€™s problems.

    take your carrot and stick and shove both up your ass, no one in the lower class is gonna see a cent of that hoarded wealth.

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      9 months ago

      They could fix that sentence by specifying that itā€™s elite baby boomers that will pass it on to elite Gen Y.

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        Thatā€™s right. All the Baby Boomers had kids at the exact same time. They totally didnā€™t give birth to Gen Xers or Millennials.

        All their money will go to one generation.

        Itā€™s a well-established pattern that, as soon as generations come up for discussion, shit gets dumbed down fast.

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          In general, I value Adamā€™s take on the notion that generations donā€™t really exist and view it mostly as a tool of marketing and the elite.

          The corporate media narrative of the Boomer-Gen Y division is a classic case in point. Looking back, there was the Boomer vs. ā€œGreatestā€ Generation narrative. Watching the current narratives of Boomer vs. Gen Y and more recently Gen Y vs. Gen Z is like watching re-runs.

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            Generations only exist for marketing companies categorizing everyone so they know how to market to you.