Have the Boomers Pinched Their Children’s Futures? - with Lord David Willetts (47:25) ~ The Royal Institution, 2020-01-23

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[–]Riva 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Division being sowed. It's not the boomers fault.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes and no. I agree obviously on some level. They were/are as manipulated as the Greatest Generation, the Gen X, and the Millennials, and the Zoomers. They made the ruling class lots of wealth and power and went along with their wars and covert ops and so forth, building the excessive military and oppressing the world.

However, if you actually watch this video, you'll see that he's not "blaming" the Boomers so much as pointing out that they have (unconsciously, due to the ruling class' systems) "pinched" or "stolen" - or as I'd say without the negative connotations "accumulated" - the majority of the wealth (besides that owned by the ruling class), prosperity, and opportunity that have been rigged to be out of reach for the majority of successive generations.

Sure many of the Boomers "woke" up and have tried their best. But most of them did not. Just as now, many of other generations are also sleeping sheeple and are responsible for not rising up and resisting the rigged corrupt unfair systems.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ironically this is before the manufactured coronavirus crisis, and the stock market pillaging of the Boomers' wealth, again as in 2008. And now this "pandemic" and eugenics programs seem to be aimed at taking as many Boomer "useless eaters" down as possible.

There are pros and cons to large generations. A large school class gets you less attention and personalized education. The small class in the year before a large class won't have all the resources that could be made available to that large class - but a small class after would have MUCH more plus the personalize attention.

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    [–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I wrote that only referring to his introduction about large generations. There's much more of interest in this whole lecture.

    [–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    This is a terrific A++ inter-generational economic analysis (not limited to criticizing Boomers), perhaps too dry for most. I debated also posting it in /s/economics but wasn't sure anyone would care much. Perhaps someone researching it might find it useful so...

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