> The fact that it enrages you, and you blame it on boomerdom, makes me think you're just a bigot who wants to blame others for your own failings. That's just my guess - I've never personally met a successful younger person who spews vitriol at boomers as a whole.
This paragraph made me wince. Success doesn’t qualify your opinions as valid or not. Personal failings don’t invalidate a logical argument either. I don’t like shallow dismissal or criticism either, but isn’t that what you’re doing here?
Some of the criticism is of the inequality of success itself, and the trappings of it. Those who are successful in retirement communities are perhaps too easy a target, and an unfair one in some ways, as they have had more time to invest and accumulate wealth than their critical juniors in age.
It’s fine to be critical of systems and structures that disadvantage those who are already successful, like states that don’t collect the same taxes as other states do. It’s also fine to criticize others for taking advantage of these systems. I don’t find it especially productive or convincing to direct these criticisms at an individual. Directing it at the entire group doesn’t seem ideal either, as it alienates those who may otherwise be allies.
What is the solution then? I don’t know either, but wedge issues driven between generations feel like someone’s trying to pull strings and play us all for fools, devolving into infighting.
This paragraph made me wince. Success doesn’t qualify your opinions as valid or not. Personal failings don’t invalidate a logical argument either. I don’t like shallow dismissal or criticism either, but isn’t that what you’re doing here?
Some of the criticism is of the inequality of success itself, and the trappings of it. Those who are successful in retirement communities are perhaps too easy a target, and an unfair one in some ways, as they have had more time to invest and accumulate wealth than their critical juniors in age.
It’s fine to be critical of systems and structures that disadvantage those who are already successful, like states that don’t collect the same taxes as other states do. It’s also fine to criticize others for taking advantage of these systems. I don’t find it especially productive or convincing to direct these criticisms at an individual. Directing it at the entire group doesn’t seem ideal either, as it alienates those who may otherwise be allies.
What is the solution then? I don’t know either, but wedge issues driven between generations feel like someone’s trying to pull strings and play us all for fools, devolving into infighting.