| There isn't much of a future for the young or even middle aged at this point. Most of the benefits the old received when they were young were systemically taken away or withheld to enrich the old. Debts were piled onto the young without appropriate representation (i.e. social security, and many other taxes). In many respects the older generation as a whole chose to willingly make their children sacrifices to the spendthrift debts of their generation; which is what happens when your leaders have no real funding plan and the population doesn't hold their leaders to account. The old through aggregate choice (inaction is a choice) of their cohort made the world they intended for their children. All the leaders needed was your willing complicit consent to do nothing. As a result, many of those children aren't having children themselves because there is no future, no economic means to support children, or even meet someone. Just like the native peoples who became slaves following the Spanish Conquistadors, where they would kill themselves, not have children, and even kill their children. These things about slavery repeat when people blind themselves. The systems which were handed off to the last generation are former shadows of what they once were. The protections have been removed to favor one party at the expense of many. One bad generation is all it takes, and from there you have a generation of suffering and violence when that suffering becomes untenable by the majority. A hellscape, and that is the legacy of the boomer generation. To make matters worse, the weapons the older generation developed to maintain control may even allow government to retain a system of enslavement thereafter, where everything collapses (i.e. Malthus/Catton). |