[constantius]

Seems to conflate capitalist elites with old people for the sake of internet clout...

The NIMBYism by people in the 70s is not related to their age, but to their acting in their own interests, as anyone else today would almost certainly have done too. The issue is lack of regulation.

The other points have literally nothing to do with old people.

What prevents us from thinking of class instead of race/gender/age/anything else?

[mmooss]

Most of your argument just calls names and criticizes. What can you say about the particular merits of the argument?

> conflate capitalist elites with old people

Old people have accumulated capital, especially the prior generation which bought homes and other capital, and now has done nothing to make it affordable

> as anyone else today would almost certainly have done too

That's only the excuse; not everyone does it - people have long fought for, sacrificed for, and invested in other's rights and welfare; that is the basis of the United States; that's how we have much of what we have today. The generation before the Boomers made homes, college, etc. affordable to future generations. The Boomers made those things prohibitively expensive.

'Today' is another way of ducking the responsibility, as if the time causes you to do it.

[boopity2025]

Because class is an actual construct where as age is not? I think your point is somewhat disingenuous