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by mmooss 220 days ago
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.