"There is also a real onward danger, Mr Pringle believes, of older Australians pulling back from the sort of social community activities that are vital for physical and mental health.

"If they are not able to leave their house, because doing so in any way except maybe going for a walk around your block is going to cost you some amount of money, it means that all they're doing is just trying to get by day-to-day," he said.

"That's a really horrible way for somebody to live. "

Young double income homebuyers I work with are already in this situation.

As a boomer, I agree with much of what younger generations say. I'd also like to remind you that it was the Boomer generation who advanced a number of movements that questioned 'the establishment' and made the world less constricting: feminism, gay rights, civil rights, indigenous land rights, the Green movement and environment protection laws, broader access to higher education, to name just some. Not all people of my generation are selfish old farts. I'd say the old farts at the top of the economic ladder ARE selfish (to be polite) and I'd also add that the younger farts that lick their boots are just as selfish and seek to be where their bosses are. I'd like you to picture, for example, the potus and his band of merry warmongers and environment destroyers and you will see that most are Gen X & Y. Ditto for most big industry. Hey, just remember the Tech bros and their energy-guzzling projects, like the Data Centres and what they are costing the Earth.

Everyday people did not understand (and many still don't) that they were causing climate change. They just swallowed the consumer narrative very adeptly churned out by big polluting and health-poisoning industry and their political counterparts. I could almost guarantee that if younger generations had been born when Boomers were born, you would have done what they did.

Being a generational 'racist' does not help any of us to change this deranged, exploitative system. We must work together as much as we can for the sake of not just you but of your children who are going to face an even worse situation and for Nature which is struggling to keep the place, our home, liveable.

Funny, byo sammiches, no we can't afford it and all the shit they're complaining about was something to stop fucking whingeing or i'll give you something to cry about about when i was a kid.

What happened to that mindset booms? You were the ones that pounded your chests and got it all done with hiiiiiiiigh interest rates.

No War But Class War. Don't fall into this generational squabble trap.

agreed, i read the story a couple days ago and am only a few years younger with little sympathy for them. It also reeks of entitlement.

and it's odd they say there's no chance of their house flooding and then complain about the price of flood insurance. I don't have flood insurance because i live on a hill, that was a deliberate choice in the face of climate change.

Im too busy getting fucked at both ends to care about the boomers that are still hanging around

Are we talking about the same boomers that globally indicated they plan to leave nothing to their kids and use all their ill-gotten gains on themselves before they die?

These guys?

Suck it.

Oi, better stop ordering that avocado toast, mate.