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Why the baby boomers shouldn't feel guilty
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I’ll admit some people work harder now than before especially those in the old nationalised industries but I think it’s you who is generalising. If you think people going down coal minds or standing on production lines didn’t work hard.
I am not saying that many baby boomers did not work hard, but never has a generation worked so hard as they do today for a standard of living that they will never see for themselves.0 -
homelessskilledworker wrote: »I am not saying that many baby boomers did not work hard, but never has a generation worked so hard as they do today for a standard of living that they will never see for themselves.
I would say most 30 something’s enjoy a better standard of living than most boomers did when they were in their 30s. What the future holds for teenagers and people in their early 20s is very uncertain and is probably the worst than anytime since the war but I wonder how many of the moaners are in that age group.0 -
homelessskilledworker wrote: »I am not saying that many baby boomers did not work hard, but never has a generation worked so hard as they do today for a standard of living that they will never see for themselves.
Good grief.
Do you think the boomers have found a way to beat death?
Or do you admit that as all wealth is ultimately recycled to future generations then your point is wholly without merit....“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Because no man is an island. We're all part of a great big interconnected system. You need more than a house, you need water, power, sewerage, transport infrastructure, etc etc. For these things to be available, the system needs to work for everybody.I’m not sure why you should be heavily taxed for living in what has been your home for the majority of your life.
And the biggest obstacle is resource bottlenecks. If an essential resource is scarce, it needs to be rationed. People can't take as much as they like of a scarce resource just because they've "paid" for it.
We really need to get rid of this idea that what's "ours" is "ours". It's got no basis in economic reality."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Because no man is an island. We're all part of a great big interconnected system. You need more than a house, you need water, power, sewerage, transport infrastructure, etc etc. For these things to be available, the system needs to work for everybody.
And the biggest obstacle is resource bottlenecks. If an essential resource is scarce, it needs to be rationed. People can't take as much as they like of a scarce resource just because they've "paid" for it.
We really need to get rid of this idea that what's "ours" is "ours". It's got no basis in economic reality.
So offer incentives to get people to move out they already pay more for living in the larger house by the way of council tax and water rates. I probably pay at least twice the price per litre of water than a family of 4 living in a smaller house.0 -
Because no man is an island. We're all part of a great big interconnected system. You need more than a house, you need water, power, sewerage, transport infrastructure, etc etc. For these things to be available, the system needs to work for everybody.
And the biggest obstacle is resource bottlenecks. If an essential resource is scarce, it needs to be rationed. People can't take as much as they like of a scarce resource just because they've "paid" for it.
We really need to get rid of this idea that what's "ours" is "ours". It's got no basis in economic reality.
Exactly
Where is the commonsence/morality/justice in a 70 or 80 year old woman living in a huge 4 or 5 bedroomed house, when her children and grand children need more space to rear the next generation.
"She has her rights" just does not cut it as a sound argument.
If this country is not carefull it will not be much longer before out future generations will be reared by welfare dependant chavs alone.0 -
ISTR Lenin felt much the same. That worked out well, didn't it?
That old chestnut, along with this IPod owning generation who would sooner own a flatscreen or I phone than a house.
So you are saying that everytime anyone points out what an unfair greedy bunch of people we have in the UK they must be obviously communist to say such a thing, how convienant for you.
You older bunch Badgetr are experts at knowing your rights, so sad that you do not give a damm about your own kids, do you have kids?0 -
homelessskilledworker wrote: »Exactly
Where is the commonsence/morality/justice in a 70 or 80 year old woman living in a huge 4 or 5 bedroomed house, when her children and grand children need more space to rear the next generation.
"She has her rights" just does not cut it as a sound argument.
If this country is not carefull it will not be much longer before out future generations will be reared by welfare dependant chavs alone.
She owns it might just cut it, if it doesn't, I guess a government will have to legislate for housing nationalisation.
United Kingdom Socialist Republic here we come.
If I get to live to my 80s I dare say I won't care but my children and grandchildren might.0 -
homelessskilledworker wrote: »
80 year old woman living in a huge 4 or 5 bedroomed house, when her children and grand children need more space to rear the next generation..
And then 6 months later she dies, leaving the house to her children, who move in and give their house to their children.
It's the way things have always been.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0
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