101@feddit.org to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 days agoThe boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts.theconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1external-linkThe boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts.theconversation.com101@feddit.org to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squarepsvrh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoYou could start taxing them. Especially the rich ones. You know that’s an option, right?
minus-squareZip2@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoOr make them pay for their own winter heating.
minus-squareWanderer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoOr we can give them lots of money for being old. They didn’t fight in two world wars to not be given free money.
minus-squarepsvrh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoThe Boomers fought in world wars? In utero, maybe.
minus-squarepsvrh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoSorry, the double-negative threw me for a loop.
minus-squareWanderer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-222 hours agoIt was just a joke. It was intentionally misleading, but I should have worded it better.
minus-squaresouthsamurai@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoYeah, except it’s the rich assholes in power that would have to pass that kind of reform.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoI mean, yeah. That kind of reform. Good thing there’s other options.
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.
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.
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.