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Younger baby boomers are facing a homelessness crisis as rents skyrocket and outpace Social Security
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2024
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Right, but relying on the voting habits of a majority to justify mocking a poor old person becoming homeless is pretty reductive and just ever so slightly cruel. It really doesn't make for a compelling discussion.
Edit: thanks for the downvotes, but in case you didn't read lolcatnip's first comment, I'm agreeing with them as a rebuttal to hperrin, not saying hperrin is doing the things I said. hperrin was going to bat for the commenters.
I’m not a fan of mocking homeless people. Calling it a consequence of the voting habits of their generation is a perfectly valid argument though. It’s a good jumping off point to a larger discussion about the consequences of a generational rejection of progressive policies. We’ve consistently allowed wealth, property, and power to accumulate in the hands of a tiny group of powerful people/companies, and this is the result of those policies. We already knew that this would be the result, because it always is, every time.
Didn't say you were. OP of this thread was talking about the general response from all commenters.