How dare someone elses wants effect me!!
Make college and homes unobtainable… You get what you get and you don’t get upset.
Pollutes the hell out of an entire generation AND the planet they will inherit …the generation is dying off without having kids
Billionaires Boomers : “… GASP! …How dare they die off without giving me free slaves/grandkids?”
Young folks have been priced out of housing & healthcare, you can be fired from your job on a whim, food is astronomically expensive, the political climate is tense, your basic human rights could be rescinded at any time, the future of the planet is being murdered by shitty capitalists with 0 regard for human life…
I mean, who wouldn’t want to bring a child into this world right now?
Eat shit.
I’m hunting for a new job for the second time in less than a year, and I’m honestly a skilled professional with over 10 years of experience, with a lot of proof that I do great work. The labor market is stupid right now, just down right stupid. Full of executives searching for short term profits rather than anyone wanting to actually run a company well. That’s alone is a huge reason, on top of everything else. I don’t even know if I’ll have stable employment, and that means I don’t know if I’ll have stable health insurance - so genuinely what are any actual incentives to my generation to have kids? Literally are there any beyond just “you have a kid now”
Guess you shouldn’t have been entitled little shits and fucked up the world, then.
Shouldn’t 'ave fucked up the economy and environment, simple as
Make the world a place that will be liveable in 100 years and pay people enough to exist:
A) without children, and B) with children
and boom, problem solved. Statistically, anyway.
I want the lions share of the profits of our economy! I want to pull the ladder up behind me! Why aren’t these lazy millennials having kids for me!?
You’re entitled millennials!
/Vomit
you fucking millennials and your avocado toast cost me grandbebbies!
Lmfao thanks for ruining our whole society, boomers. Reap what you’ve sowed.
Yeah cuz they’re hoarding the houses.
bro theyre hoarding EVERYTHING.
Even the food! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp11jvYE408&pp=ygUbaSBoYXRlIGZhcm1lcnMgIGJhZGVtcGFuYWRh
And the water!
Even access to a clean environment! (as the IPCC has shown)
Like the substances and areas vital to human life are barely even there for us anymore.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp11jvYE408 without trackers
The most important generation.
They are the most important generation because they have watched over , stood aside and never intervened in , and participated in some of the most geneocidal capitalistic events in human history so far… so ya! …very important…
Breh this comment is 2 years old.
Breh The destruction that the Boomers have done to this planet will effect us for the next 200 years … probably more!
even if I had kids my dad would be excluded from grandparenting due to the trump worship. don’t need that kind of influence on the adult family members let alone kids.
In another timeline where boomers didn’t destroy the housing market, didn’t ignore climate change, and didn’t continue to vote for regressive policies, maybe they’d have grandchildren.
At some point, us millennials need to also start taking that responsibility. Our oldest cohort is definitely at an age where we are starting to take over power. We won’t be able to blame boomers for shit for long.
I’m sorry but the collapse of the housing market and lack of action against climate change has way more to do with the commodification/privitization of housing and energy (as well as labor exploitation in the case of fossil fuels) than some arbitrary generational definition.
Don’t let yourself be convinced to blame fellow workers for the consequences of corporate and state action.
My point was that they’ve continually voted against their own interests (and against the interests of the rest of their class, which is why they now don’t have grandchildren). I will continue to blame them for that at the very least, as they’ve continually proven that they enjoy the corporate and state inaction (because they’ve always voted to keep it up).
It should also be noted that this is a post about boomers, so of course people are going to bring them up in the comments.
It should also be noted that this is a post about boomers, so of course people are going to bring them up in the comments.
Of course and I expected that. I only bothered commenting because I see a lot of media attempting to use boomers as a scapegoat for severe structural issues. I feel it is our responsibility to rebuke this reactionary rhetoric when we see it. Yes boomers often vote against their own class interest but we must also understand they grew up in a time where propaganda was rapidly becoming more effective and increasingly privatized. Which is to say that the propaganda machine served the rich and their interest. They are severely brainwashed especially in the imperial core. Its easy to be angry at them for letting this happen but we must remember who did the brainwashing. Falling for their scapegoats makes us like dogs fighting over bones thrown by meat
Maybe they shouldn’t horde and partition their wealth from their children and do everything possible to ensure every penny is spent before death.
Elder millennial here. I had kids, my brother didn’t, and my kids, though young enough to change their minds, are adamant they won’t have kids.
I think the more interesting stat likely unfolding is the marked decrease of great grandparents in a generation.
To be clear this is not a “threat to society” or whatever, people can decide if they want kids or not. Just a shower thought.
The real solution has always been immigration to get more bodies in the country managing the economy. It’ll never happen though.
Doesn’t that just kick the can down the road?
No. The world population will hit 10 billion in the year 2040. The only question is whether there will be enough people to keep the first world going or not.
