• notatoad@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    alternate phrasing: boomers stuffed all their money in their bank accounts instead of building a world their kids could afford to live in.

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      As always it’s your fault that you weren’t born into a rich family. If you want to get rich you have to be rich, it’s not hard. Some of the dumbest members of our society manage it all the time.

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      While I can agree about their failures, “don’t save it’s bad for the consumer economy” can go to hell.

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        i’m not saying “don’t put money into savings”, i’m saying every now and then, people should make a decision that benefits the world as a whole rather than just their personal financial situation.

        boomers didn’t sacrifice their own spending to build their net worth, they sacrificed *public* spending to do it.

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      If they stuffed into bank accounts instead of real estate, stocks, and businesses, the played capitalism wrong.