OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[OrangeAfroMan]

I skipped a couple of pages, but how is Pokémon any less credible than collecting baseball or football cards ?  Baseball cards were a big deal to the boomer generation and before. There just wasn’t much else to do. Three channels on TV and your favorite baseball players.

When I moved to Phoenix, I checked out some card shops.  I felt like the weirdo, looking for baseball and football cards.  Much of it was Pokemon and all that other stuff.  Many more people there for Magic the Gathering, Pokemon, etc. than sports.  

Role reversal!

[OrangeAfroMan]

Please elaborate.    What have the boomers “ taken”?

I've posted on this previously, but all I got was shrugs and 'I don't get it.'  Some of you guys don't want to hear it.
Scott Galloway argues that Baby Boomers have perpetuated "intergenerational theft," using their political and economic power to enrich themselves at the expense of younger generations. He frequently points out that the Boomer generation hit an unprecedented lottery of economic and demographic circumstances, leaving younger workers with fewer opportunities. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Core Arguments

• Surging Wealth Gap: Galloway notes that the average 70-year-old is significantly wealthier now than they were decades ago, while the average person under 40 is less wealthy. [1]
• The Housing Crisis: Older, home-owning generations have used zoning laws and local regulations to artificially restrict housing supplies. This has caused home prices to skyrocket relative to household income, locking many young people out of the housing market. [1, 2]
• Reckless Economic Policy: Galloway points to federal policy decisions—such as bailing out markets, expanding reckless spending, and keeping interest rates low—as moves that disproportionately inflate stock and real estate prices for asset-holders while ignoring the stagnating purchasing power of younger workers. [1, 2]
• The "Silver Tsunami": As Boomers age and retire, they control a massive portion of the nation's wealth. Galloway notes this will trigger a massive wealth transfer, though early-career job disruptions from AI remain a persistent headwind for the youth. [1, 2]

Basically, Boomers have hoarded wealth like no one has before, made it more difficult for the following generations to take life steps Boomers benefitted from, and has (yes, thanks to Citizen's United - gasp!) used their wealth in politics like never before.
It's not political to say this, it's just the reality of the newfangled situation.....orchestrated by Boomers. 

*AND it would be great to address the points made instead of dismissing it because you're a boomer and haven't had a direct hand in these points.  Instead of focusing on the sample size of one (yourself), address the larger issues.  Avoid clutching your pearls and just have an actual discussion, por favor.

[847badgerfan]

That's a crock.

Some Boomers (and GenX) are guilty for sure. 

They coddled their offspring into being lazy slugs, sending them off to college for a garbage degree, then allowing them basement space as they try to figure out life, collect Pokeman cards and order Door dash.

This rather than inspire their kids to work hard, take risks and support society.

Big mistakes were made.

[Honestbuckeye]

I've posted on this previously, but all I got was shrugs and 'I don't get it.'  Some of you guys don't want to hear it.
Scott Galloway argues that Baby Boomers have perpetuated "intergenerational theft," using their political and economic power to enrich themselves at the expense of younger generations. He frequently points out that the Boomer generation hit an unprecedented lottery of economic and demographic circumstances, leaving younger workers with fewer opportunities. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Core Arguments

• Surging Wealth Gap: Galloway notes that the average 70-year-old is significantly wealthier now than they were decades ago, while the average person under 40 is less wealthy. [1]
• The Housing Crisis: Older, home-owning generations have used zoning laws and local regulations to artificially restrict housing supplies. This has caused home prices to skyrocket relative to household income, locking many young people out of the housing market. [1, 2]
• Reckless Economic Policy: Galloway points to federal policy decisions—such as bailing out markets, expanding reckless spending, and keeping interest rates low—as moves that disproportionately inflate stock and real estate prices for asset-holders while ignoring the stagnating purchasing power of younger workers. [1, 2]
• The "Silver Tsunami": As Boomers age and retire, they control a massive portion of the nation's wealth. Galloway notes this will trigger a massive wealth transfer, though early-career job disruptions from AI remain a persistent headwind for the youth. [1, 2]

Basically, Boomers have hoarded wealth like no one has before, made it more difficult for the following generations to take life steps Boomers benefitted from, and has (yes, thanks to Citizen's United - gasp!) used their wealth in politics like never before.
It's not political to say this, it's just the reality of the newfangled situation.....orchestrated by Boomers.

*AND it would be great to address the points made instead of dismissing it because you're a boomer and haven't had a direct hand in these points.  Instead of focusing on the sample size of one (yourself), address the larger issues.  Avoid clutching your pearls and just have an actual discussion, por favor.

😂😂. You’re a strange dude     

you’re saying, we should be able to have discussion about this which I agree.
But someone posts a sweeping generalization and I say “please elaborate “—and I’m the one clutching pearls lol. 


I haven’t even given a position or opinion nor disagreed with anyone else’s. I just said please elaborate. SF admitted, his post was political when he shouldn’t have said it, something intelligent authentic people do from time to time.  But you wouldn’t know anything about that.

[Honestbuckeye]

Or we can post random stuff from the net like you do....






https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2025/04/03/the-great-wealth-transfer-and-its-implications-for-the-american-economy/

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[Honestbuckeye]

Many say the "WE" generation (boomers) are about to pass a huge generational chunk of wealth to the  "ME"  (you know- today's youth, look at me, I want a trophy for participation, look at my nose ring and purple hair).

[utee94]

Man sign me up for some that generational wealth!

[847badgerfan]

I remember this from when I was a kid growing up in the 1970's.

[Honestbuckeye]

Man sign me up for some that generational wealth!

You are out there creating your own.  

you non conformity guy.  

[847badgerfan]

Kiss were/are good.

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[utee94]

Yeah I'd say the "ME Decade" of the 70s, morphed directly into the "Excess Decade" of the 80s.  And it was a good thing.  It was okay to just be happy and have a good time.  Gone was the incessant whining and lazy "activism" of the hippies, replaced by pretty people doing fun things.  

Of course then we had to pay for it with the return of whiny complaint-rock in the 90s but I could always change the station back to something more fun.

[847badgerfan]

Yeah I'd say the "ME Decade" of the 70s, morphed directly into the "Excess Decade" of the 80s.  And it was a good thing.  It was okay to just be happy and have a good time.  Gone was the incessant whining and lazy "activism" of the hippies, replaced by pretty people doing fun things. 

Of course then we had to pay for it with the return of whiny complaint-rock in the 90s but I could always change the station back to something more fun.

Exactamundo, amigo.

[jgvol]

Of course then we had to pay for it with the return of whiny complaint-rock in the 90s but I could always change the station back to something more fun.

Direct correlation to the "Me" generation ignoring their kids "latch key", and divorcing en masse.

Cause and effect.  IMO.

[utee94]

Direct correlation to the "Me" generation ignoring their kids "latch key", and divorcing en masse.

Cause and effect.  IMO.

I was a latchkey kid, pretty much all of my friends were as well.  It didn't turn me into... whatever those kids became.

I think it was more related to being a generation that really had so few struggles that they had to invent things to complain about.  They had zero perspective on what it was like to live a tough life.  They didn't even live with the Cold War terror that my generation grew up with.