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lynx_and_nutmeg t1_jb1mv6d wrote

Reply to comment by erindizmo in A duo of 81-year-old women are on the adventure of a lifetime: Seeing the world in 80 days by OregonTripleBeam

Redditors: hating an entire demographic of people on the grounds of them being born within an arbitrary range of dates.

Also Redditors: can't even get that arbitrary range of dates straight so they just end up hating every old person.

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KingJaredoftheLand t1_jb1s3ze wrote

Who said anything about hating them? Silent or Boomers, the point is that these ladies are enjoying a retirement that future generations aren’t going to.

What’s hateable is a capitalist, conservative economic system that is stealing this rosy future from almost every young person living today.

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celticchrys t1_jb2tzgb wrote

And what's confusing is how anyone can possibly think this was ever the norm for most people. I just can't believe so many people seem to think sit-coms were reality. You had to be in the minority to ever have this luxury, to ever travel like this (at least in the USA) ever in your life. Most of the people I've ever known who were born in the USA of any age have still never been outside the USA unless they are financially well off, employer sent them for business, or in the military. Certainly most of the Silent Generation , like these ladies, only traveled abroad if they were in the military.

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ConnieDee t1_jb1zzpy wrote

Future generations have some time ahead of them - why not see what happens. And start putting $5 a month into your 401K now if you have any taxable income at all. If that's the system we've got, might as well take advantage of it.

(Systems are not conservative or liberal; they are just headless systems. The trick is to figure out how to nudge them in one direction or another.)

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TJNel t1_jb2nvnc wrote

$60 a year so you can retire when you are 300 years old.

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ConnieDee t1_jb386gd wrote

If I had said $100 a month people would have said Oh No We Can't Afford That! Investing 101 (it's a multi-year course so start early.) Hating capitalism is no reason not to pay attention to ways you could be one of the ones traveling in their 80s. It makes sense to try to change the world, but we also have no choice but to live in the world as it is: might as well make the best of it.

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yumyumnom t1_jb1vwd0 wrote

I mean, it isn’t really tho. There are still going to be plenty of people doing this type of thing that are young now especially given how much healthier people that are young now will be in old age.

Sure you could argue fewer people will have this level of economic freedom but ain’t like it’s gonna be 0.

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KingJaredoftheLand t1_jb1xxnz wrote

I wish you were right. But you’re vastly underestimating the affect that automation and climate change in particular are going to have on societies worldwide. These issues represent two apocalyptic horizons - one economic and one environmental - which are going to make this whole unsustainable capitalist economic system come crashing down, likely within the lifetimes of current young people.

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destruc786 t1_jb1rlwg wrote

Also redditors: Hates the generation that focused on individual greed at the cost of destroying the world for future generations while also trying to make the new generations feel like shit because of stagnated wages while the cost of goods astronomically skyrockets, while blaming the newer generations for not working as hard..

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celticchrys t1_jb2uqlj wrote

The Silent Generation didn't really, though. They were the previous "small" generation, then Boomers, (then Gen X was the next "small" generation). Pretty unfair to blame them for the Baby Boomers' actions.

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destruc786 t1_jb2xma4 wrote

I didnt say anything about the silent generation..

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