Post by @buttnugget

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@pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on sh.itjust.works Open parent

There are shitty people in every generation. Andrew Tate, for example. Nick Fuentes is another shitty, shitty dude

@turdas@suppo.fi on suppo.fi Open parent

Neither of those are billionaires. Gerontocracy is fundamentally an issue of the few holding more than their fair share of wealth and power at the expense of others and pulling the ladder up behind them. It is a class issue same as everything else.

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@LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

We’ve got Sam Altman and Taylor Swift in the millennial category off the top of my head. Elon Musk is Gen x, not a boomer. So boomers have Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia at the moment, but soon they’ll go to gen X and the problems will perpetuate.

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@turdas@suppo.fi on suppo.fi Open parent

Yes, and once boomers start dropping dead, gen Xers will be fighting tooth and nail to hold on to their slice of the state pension ponzi at the cost of everyone below them on the ladder the same as boomers did. That does not change my point at all. There is no fair and equitable world in which state pensions can continue working the way they work now. The system was built on the expectation of infinite growth with every generation being larger than the last.

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@LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

Yeah, if we saw something like an unavoidable 25% wealth tax on all wealth over $300 million, we would see around $2.5 trillion in taxes that could be distributed as a universal base income that would place $17,857 per average household (2.5) in the U.S. If we actually combated housing prices, that could potentially cover housing everyone in the U.S. from that alone, then retirements would only need to cover food costs. There are a lot of changes that would need to be made, they just won’t come until the last second when people are dying in large enough numbers to make people do something.

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@turdas@suppo.fi on suppo.fi Open parent

I see you’re talking about US numbers, but the US doesn’t really have a state pension system in the same way that many other countries doo. Maybe that’s the confusion here.

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@buttnugget@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

You’re the only one who’s confused here. You’re talking about boomers like that is a meaningful category of person rather than people who just so happened to be born in a certain period. It’s like saying “Most parents are adults”.

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@turdas@suppo.fi on suppo.fi Open parent

You’re saying that as if it makes any difference whether I talk about boomers or pensioners. The two are currently synonymous and we live in the present, not in the future. In the future when boomers are dead, if this problem still exists I will be using some other word.

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buttnugget in !lemmyshitpost

@buttnugget@lemmy.world · Dec 08

That makes no sense unless you are too stupid to use the correct term, which you are not.

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