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The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts.
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You could start taxing them. Especially the rich ones.
You know that's an option, right?
Or make them pay for their own winter heating.
Yeah, except it's the rich assholes in power that would have to pass that kind of reform.
I mean, yeah. That kind of reform.
Good thing there's other options.
Sad thing with doing that, is they will be screwed over. Cool beans, but it won't go away and you'll be double screwed over. It won't fix anything for the next generations. These billion dollar companies need not exist anymore. They do nothing but harm anything they infect
Or we can give them lots of money for being old.
They didn't fight in two world wars to not be given free money.
The Boomers fought in world wars?
In utero, maybe.
They didn't fight I just said.
Sorry, the double-negative threw me for a loop.
It was just a joke. It was intentionally misleading, but I should have worded it better.
It's not an option... Look at the average age of our "representatives".