[yterdy]

Power has been consolidated. The things that could be done - protest (OWS), mild insurrection (Floyd protests), actual insurrection (Jan 6th), primary (AOC) - have been tried. It turns out that it's difficult to get anything done when the top 20% of us in terms of wealth are somewhere on the scale between "Zero backbone" and "Actively running interference for Boomers".

On the note of "selling": after certain Boomer family members were complaining about the cousin in NYC who won't renovate and get that sweet ABnBux cashflow from her brownstone, I pointed out that our family had let go of 8 figures worth of property in my lifetime (for about 6 figures in cash), and that they had no right to pin our landed gentry hopes on her. Like water off a duck's back; I don't even think they understood what I was trying to say, repeatedly misinterpreting, "It shouldn't be all on her," to mean, "We could swoop in and finance it if only she'd let us." No, I meant, "You squandered your portions of the pie Boomering around in the 90s and early 2000s; leave her be."

They just... don't listen.