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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
It says little for you that you cast that age-group as akin to villains who are gorging on their fortunate situation.
They were born when they were born; schooled in the system of the day; worked in the available jobs; bought houses as per the market of those times and managed to see a doctor same day.
To characterise them as having ridden a wave of which they were unaware at the time is disgraceful.
The following generation are the victim of poor government and wider circumstances that I have described in this debate.
As to the insulting term "baby boomer", it's only ever used in a denigratory sense and it is discriminatory.
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I thought more highly of you than to applaud what Chris has said. It saddens me that I'm wrong.
The people born after the war were completely unaware that the future would disadvantage the cohort born in the 1980s.
To characterise them as priviliged and by implication villains is grossly unfair.
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Grow up. There was a baby boom when world war 2 ended and large numbers of conscripts were demobbed and sent home. The infants born to the generation who fought the war are, and have always been, known as baby boomers. It’s a fact of history and it’s utterly hilarious of you to claim it’s discriminatory. If you’re of that generation, and especially if you’re white, male and middle class, you have been best placed of anyone in that generation to benefit from being
the first born into the welfare state and, as a young adult, among the ones who fought for, and achieved, social liberation, and also among the ones who saw housing cheap and mortgage values shrink almost by the month. You of all those who have lived in this country since the war are the most economically privileged and least discriminated against in our entire history.
I have never claimed that all of these circumstances were brought about deliberately by boomers. Some indeed were the deliberate and direct outcome of policies boomers campaigned and voted for; others were not. However, the massive wealth pile this generation now sits on, and votes to ensure it retains, is a problem that boomers as a generation are obviously unwilling to easily part with, even though they are clearly intelligent enough to understand the negative consequences their second homes and triple-locked pensions are having on their children and their grandchildren’s own future prospects.
Observe the way Teresa May crashed and burned for daring to suggest that this generation ought to pay back a little, which it could well afford to pay, out of its pension pot. That tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of this generation.