> You find different numbers in different places, but the median retirement savings for boomers is under $200,000. from https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/18/national-... > Greene desires something that has…
> Sounds dramatic, but what are we talking about here? How about this? https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4633773-eat-the-boomers-... > In his book, “A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America,”…
>It's going to be hard to sell policies that disenfranchise old people... Not at all. Remember how before he got dementia the president ran on an antidementia platform? > That's why I think this is all a scam. We are,…
> Is ageism not like racism, sexism, etc.? First, young people didn't choose this. It's been coming from the other direction and out in the open for a very long time. Why not make it official that it's mutual? Past time…
> You're overlooking that the geriatric people are carrying on the traditional liberal/conservative debate on both sides of the aisle. Workers skew young, capital skews old. When politics is money literally the only…
> They have three new or late-model vehicles. Depends on geography of course, but it's not rare at all for boomers to have this many houses as a normal part of how they experienced middle-class life. As a group they are…
Ah yes, the squeeze in the middle. My default assumption is that people outside ~35-45 range are often impatient to the point that they are, for practical purposes, functionally illiterate Older side has those who…
> Our gerontocracy is not the result of a malevolent plan, .. Boomers aren't distinctively evil.. The fact that they are so numerous and the fact that they are aging in era when life has been extended make the syndrome…
> You find different numbers in different places, but the median retirement savings for boomers is under $200,000. from https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/18/national-... > Greene desires something that has…
> Sounds dramatic, but what are we talking about here? How about this? https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4633773-eat-the-boomers-... > In his book, “A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America,”…
>It's going to be hard to sell policies that disenfranchise old people... Not at all. Remember how before he got dementia the president ran on an antidementia platform? > That's why I think this is all a scam. We are,…
> Is ageism not like racism, sexism, etc.? First, young people didn't choose this. It's been coming from the other direction and out in the open for a very long time. Why not make it official that it's mutual? Past time…
> You're overlooking that the geriatric people are carrying on the traditional liberal/conservative debate on both sides of the aisle. Workers skew young, capital skews old. When politics is money literally the only…
> They have three new or late-model vehicles. Depends on geography of course, but it's not rare at all for boomers to have this many houses as a normal part of how they experienced middle-class life. As a group they are…
Ah yes, the squeeze in the middle. My default assumption is that people outside ~35-45 range are often impatient to the point that they are, for practical purposes, functionally illiterate Older side has those who…
> Our gerontocracy is not the result of a malevolent plan, .. Boomers aren't distinctively evil.. The fact that they are so numerous and the fact that they are aging in era when life has been extended make the syndrome…