They won't be willingly lowering any ladders. We're gonna have to dilute their political power and pull the ladder back down. Of course, the later generations still have too many rich assholes that will try to prevent that, so it'll be a fight either way.

And fruits and vegetables. Vitamin C sneaks in in a lot of places if you aren't living off preserved food

You know as well as I do those types of people would just say "why do you think I want to deport 1/3 of the country?"

I know I'm going to end up caregiver for another entitled boomer I just know it.

I have a boomer on my wife’s side that just remortgaged his house at 84

Why attribute to dementia what can be attributed to malice of forethought?

Boomers are also falling for phone scams and online phishing attacks in record numbers. Almost as though they're old af, living alone, and incapable of taking care of themselves.

Someone who uses a ladder to reach a higher spot (uses privileged situations to improve their life standards) and pulls the ladder up from behind them so those that follow can't use it.

Greg fucking Abbott, governor of Texas had an accident when he was younger that paralyzed him. He sued the fuck out of those responsible, and then proceeded to pass a law that caps penalties to those responsible for accidents.

That's a ladder pull.

Clarence Thomas

A boomer /s

We didn't sell it. They sold it because it wasn't to be used by anyone else after them and they kept their ladder money until it gets funneled into the medical system because their kids "didn't earn it".

Boomers lived through plenty of horrors. Vietnam, deindustrialization, the Volcker Shock, leaded gasoline/paint, AIDS...

The 1970s was a fucked decade.

I have kids, but I don't understand how some people feel like it's an obligation to have them.

Nobody should feel obligated to do so. It's damn hard to do more or less properly and requires quite a bit of sacrifice.

Oh, and if society as a whole complains about a low birth rate, maybe let's focus more on the hardships the new generations have to face: hard to find and keep a job, unfair pay, costly rent, and the nearly impossible cost of homeownership.

Let's tackle those and see what happens instead of pressuring people into parenthood.

I have one kid, and everyone asks when Im having another. Some people just expect you to keep breeding.

For me the one kid is fine. Two would be a substantial downgrade in quality of life for my wife and I AND our kid. Three is right out.

Plenty of people just don't want kids, but they feel pressured to come up with reasons such as money, the environment, or whatever else, because people can't accept "I don't wanna" as a reason

I have lost count of the number of times I've heard "that's selfish" when I say that I am child-free

Always from fucking morons.

I have kids and absolutely love it. In fact there's not much that my kids haven't made better. Of course there's day where I wanna smash my head against a brick, but most days are wonderful.

I've never heard someone say they don't want kids and thought really anything of it. If someone doesn't want kids that's nobodies business but their own and I think for most people it makes sense to not. They're a lot of responsibility, they cost a lot of money, and take up all your time. It just so happens that if I had no responsibilities, nothing but free time and more money I'd be shooting up and sleeping in a ditch somewhere.