NABALT (Not All Boomers Are Like That); I’m going relatively easy on the Boomers compared to Rudy Rucker (b. '46). In the first of his 'Ware novels (full text, Rudy kindly open-licensed them in 2010), Software (1982), the Boomers have all been deported to Florida, a.k.a. “The Gimme” (formerly known as the Social Security Administration), or “Pheezerland”
None of them had any money . . . the Gimmie had run out of Social Security back in 2010. There’d been hell to pay. A new kind of senior citizen was out there. Pheezers: freaky geezers.
To stop the rioting, the Gimmie had turned the whole state of Florida over to the pheezers. There was no rent there, and free weekly food drops. The pheezers flocked there in droves, and “did their own thing.” Living in abandoned motels, listening to their crummy old music, and holding dances like it was 1963, for God’s sake.
Castalia House Publishing founder Theodore Beale, of Vaud, Switzerland, better known as blogger Vox Day, has many times been considerably harsher, as well. Here’s one of his Jeremiads most relevant to the topic of driving up housing prices:
Has there ever been a generation more collectively wicked in the recorded history of Man? Has there ever been a generation that cared less about humanity, society, and its own descendants? As Neon Revolt observes, it’s enough to increase one’s desire for the Day of the Pillow a thousandfold.
Those who claim that Boomer hate leads to generational division are operating under the false assumption that it is possible to divide that which was previously divided. The Boomers first divided themselves from their parents, then from their children, and then again from their grandchildren. They never, ever, cared about anyone but themselves.
Were the Boomers egged on and tempted by others? Of course they were! And not every individual born during the Boomer years fell for the various temptations on offer. But it’s not as if other generations were never subject to temptation and “the Devil made me do it” has never been accepted as an excuse or obviated an individual’s responsibility for his actions.
Even if it is true that the Devil, or the Jews, or the cultural Marxists, or the communists made you do it, that doesn’t get you off the hook for your generation’s decades-long destruction of one of the greatest societies of all kind, Boomer.
You’re still the one who ate the seed corn. You’re still the one who raised latchkey children. You’re still the one who got divorced. You’re still the one who encouraged your children to take on massive school debt. You’re still the one who ignores your grandchildren in favor of ocean cruises and European vacations and other attempts to fill the void where your soul should be.
You’re still the one who sold the family farm that had been in the family for five generations. You’re still the one who owned four cars and three homes, but will leave nothing to your descendants.
And the conclusive observation, the most damning indictment, is that even now, even in your dotage, even with the grave beckoning and death approaching, you still deny that everything you ever did could ever possibly have been your fault.
UPDATE: Based on the responses from Boomers on Gab, one would have to conclude that Boomers are literally retarded and it was child’s play to manipulate them into destroying their society.
I know I have mentioned it before, but 95% of apartments in the Atlanta area are now over $1100/mo., and that includes studio apartments in the ghetto. The landlord cartel’s standard lease requires proof that that is no more than 30% of income, or $44k/yr. or $22/hr, full-time, 2000hrs./yr…
An average one-bedroom apartment is about $1600/mo., requiring $64k/yr. or $32/hr. to sign the lease.
How did the landlord come to “own” the property? Did he or she or it work for centuries to save up the money? No.
Was it or the money to buy it inherited from some one who was exceptionally productive? Possibly, but rarely.
Did they borrow the money? Yes, nearly always.
Where did the bank get the money? Not from depositors. They created a credit in their own account and a debt in the borrower’s account, creating money from nothing.
The money to buy that property never existed, but it inflated the money supply and drove up the cost of everything for everybody, particularly the people who work rather than borrow.
Another post from Vox:
Don’t blame the younger generations. They weren’t pumping up the money supply with all their home loans, second mortgages, and third car loans. Which, by the way, is the way to pin down those Boomers who try to blame everyone but themselves for their actions.
Because they are responsible for the post-1980 inflation. They borrowed and spent the money. Inflation isn’t printing money, it’s borrowing money. That’s how the money is created. And the private economy is still, to this day, considerably larger than the public one.