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I think these last few years of geriatric rule is just going to be a lesson of what not to do for when we take control.
By the time these fucking boomers retire we'll be geriatric too :(
But with the lessons learned from a lifetime of hardship, perhaps we stand a chance of not continuing the cycle. We lived the struggle, the grind, the hustle. It's just up to us to not inflict it in turn.
"We'll be different" - Every generation ever.
These people do realize that boomers used to be the hippies, right?
The cool ones died or retired. What we have left are the cowards, hall monitors and people so boring that even though they can afford to retire they wouldn't know what to do with themselves so they keep working, keep being in charge, keep shitting up everything.
That's not true - a lot of them were also killed or incarcerated by the government through programs similar to Cointelpro. Especially those boomers who were people of color and were active in the Civil Rights Movement
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
Most people weren't hippies. They were called counterculture for a reason.
What I mean is that by the time it's our turn to lead the best decision will be that we're too old and we should let zoomers run the show lol
It will never be "our" turn to lead. Power isn't based on age, it's based on wealth.
The next generation of billionaires is no different from the last.
If they promise with their actions to stay woke, tolerant to all but the intolerant and respecting towards the planet i don't care who rules the world.
I think (most) millenials and gen z are in pretty good agreement with what policies we want for the future, though. So I'm not that worried.
A good sign that this is what's gonna happen is if you look around our generation is the first generation that is trying to work with the next ones to do better which has never been the case before. There is a reason millennials and gen Z are always in the headlines together.
Millennial here. An old one at that. I'm proud of my generation and even more so of gen z. We got your back.