Great point Wendtk. I fear this myself. That all the boomers (and I'm one of them...almost) are doing is building up equity to pay for the plane flights to see their grand children for a few days at a time. Pointless. Yet they'll never vote for a wealth tax or land tax or capital gains tax.
Great point Wendtk. I fear this myself. That all the boomers (and I'm one of them...almost) are doing is building up equity to pay for the plane flights to see their grand children for a few days at a time. Pointless. Yet they'll never vote for a wealth tax or land tax or capital gains tax.
Yay Bernard - you are the perfect person to be onside with the puzzle! I'm a tad pre-boomer and I think they are quite mad. We have to stop this waysystem of hogging properties so that people can't have homes. It seems suicidal to me.
Also not a boomer myself but have parents and in-laws who are. I've had some recent 'discussions' [sic] with them, trying to convince them that they now need to stop voting for themselves, and start voting for their grandchildren.
There is zero chance that boomers will live to see their Superannuation or Gold Cards taken from them. There is zero chance they will be 'forced' into buying an EV or riding a bike in their lifetimes. There is zero chance their house price will drop below the equity they have in it.
Boomers need to stop voting against some imagined world where their lives are worse, and open their eyes to the reality that the clock has already run out on us being (politically) able to roll back any of the spectacular opportunities they have had. They could throw away their vote on the most wacky leftist-communist-socialist party and, still, the remainder of their lives will essentially be unchanged.
When you're down to your last 10-15 years, it's time to be thinking about how you're going to hand over the world to the next generation, not yelling at them to "get off my lawn!"
...all due respect to Boomers who already know this, of course, like yourself Bernard
Great point Wendtk. I fear this myself. That all the boomers (and I'm one of them...almost) are doing is building up equity to pay for the plane flights to see their grand children for a few days at a time. Pointless. Yet they'll never vote for a wealth tax or land tax or capital gains tax.
Yay Bernard - you are the perfect person to be onside with the puzzle! I'm a tad pre-boomer and I think they are quite mad. We have to stop this waysystem of hogging properties so that people can't have homes. It seems suicidal to me.
Also not a boomer myself but have parents and in-laws who are. I've had some recent 'discussions' [sic] with them, trying to convince them that they now need to stop voting for themselves, and start voting for their grandchildren.
There is zero chance that boomers will live to see their Superannuation or Gold Cards taken from them. There is zero chance they will be 'forced' into buying an EV or riding a bike in their lifetimes. There is zero chance their house price will drop below the equity they have in it.
Boomers need to stop voting against some imagined world where their lives are worse, and open their eyes to the reality that the clock has already run out on us being (politically) able to roll back any of the spectacular opportunities they have had. They could throw away their vote on the most wacky leftist-communist-socialist party and, still, the remainder of their lives will essentially be unchanged.
When you're down to your last 10-15 years, it's time to be thinking about how you're going to hand over the world to the next generation, not yelling at them to "get off my lawn!"
...all due respect to Boomers who already know this, of course, like yourself Bernard