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minus-squareAmazingAwesomator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·28 days agoi told my mother (boomer generation) that now that she’s 70 she should think about planting a tree she will never see grow. she looked at me like i told her to go fuck herself and told me that was dumb. the boomer problem is an everyone problem.
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-228 days agoNot all boomers. Also, I don’t see all that much difference in boomer attitudes than some of the ones I see/saw in the Silent Generation and the “Greatest” Generation when it comes to at least a subset of them being very conservative and selfish in older age.
i told my mother (boomer generation) that now that she’s 70 she should think about planting a tree she will never see grow.
she looked at me like i told her to go fuck herself and told me that was dumb.
the boomer problem is an everyone problem.
Not all boomers.
Also, I don’t see all that much difference in boomer attitudes than some of the ones I see/saw in the Silent Generation and the “Greatest” Generation when it comes to at least a subset of them being very conservative and selfish in older age.