Every boomer I know owns a home and has significantly more liquidity than I do. Maybe your story is different, but to say they are unequivocally not in a class above anyone is false.
Perhaps you aren’t considering enough classes. There are more than 2.
I’ve spent my life watching boomers live in a manner FAR less frugal than what myself and my peers consider normal. I am in my 40s.
My grandparents had 3 children and a house and did a Hawaii trip every other year. My grandpa was a used car salesman that never stayed at one job more than a few years at a time and my grandma had part time jobs off and on.
We are not living in the same economic reality they did/are.
You’re conveniently ignoring that the numbers prove boomers had a far more favorable economic environment during most of their lives and voted in such a way to prevent the next generations from having that environment.
They worked. There’s no arguing that. But because of them we will also work, and have less for it.
I’m not disagreeing, but it is worthwhile to point out that the groups can converge.
It may be a class war, but when all the boomers you know are a class above you, it can be both.
Boomers are not the class above anyone, virtually all of them are working class. Theyre just also brainwashed to hate socialized benefits.
Every boomer I know owns a home and has significantly more liquidity than I do. Maybe your story is different, but to say they are unequivocally not in a class above anyone is false.
Perhaps you aren’t considering enough classes. There are more than 2.
Correct.
I’ve spent my life watching boomers live in a manner FAR less frugal than what myself and my peers consider normal. I am in my 40s.
My grandparents had 3 children and a house and did a Hawaii trip every other year. My grandpa was a used car salesman that never stayed at one job more than a few years at a time and my grandma had part time jobs off and on.
We are not living in the same economic reality they did/are.
It is a class pyramid.
Almost all boomers are working class, because they made the majority of their money through employment and not through capital.
The only war is class war.
You’re conveniently ignoring that the numbers prove boomers had a far more favorable economic environment during most of their lives and voted in such a way to prevent the next generations from having that environment.
They worked. There’s no arguing that. But because of them we will also work, and have less for it.