Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by olliej 2332 days ago
No you didn’t - you supported massive reductions in social services, reductions in tax rates that benefited primarily businesses and the already wealthy.

Boomers voted to decrease how much they paid for everything once they were earning money. The way they did that was purely by increasing how much the following generations had to pay for every service, while also reducing their employment protection and actively preventing their wages from increasing at the same rate living costs were being made to increase.

Your generation did nothing but make it harder for the following generation after benefit from all the work you parents generation did to improve your opportunities.

Things your parents produced for you: cheaper/free high level, a functional Medicare system that covered the majority of the people who needed it, employment protection, retirement benefits, ...

Things your generation did: killed free higher education, actively defunding it so you paid less taxes having already got your free education, vigorously worked to remove layout protections, defunded Medicare, defunded infrastructure investment, blamed “millennials” for all the problems your selfish choices caused.

The fact that you can’t understand basic cause and effect of your actions warrants it:

Ok, boomer.

1 comments

please. you are way overstating the situation. if anything its boomers who massively increased the scope and reach of govt social programs and spending.
No. The majority of the large scale social support systems were made during and immediately after WW2. Those systems paid for universities and education for boomers. They paid for the retirement of boomers (or at least their parents, we’ll see how things turn out). They increased wages for boomers.

Once they got all their support and started paying taxes boomers started reducing social services so that they could pay less taxes. The retirement age is being increased, but always with a decade or so delay so that it doesn’t affect boomers, just every subsequent generation.

You say you have your kids a great start? Cool. That was possible because of the support and government systems you voted to destroy. Your kids may have got a “great start” but they’re already far behind you the moment they leave home.

Good job.