Boomers Pension Gravy Train Finally To Be Derailed

Malthusian

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Typical privileged response. The young who can't afford today's stratospheric boomer engineered housing costs should just die out.

The case study presented in the article could afford today's stratospheric gerble gerble gerble, but chose to spend the money on reproducing and other stuff instead.

It's her money and her free choice and good luck to her. But she doesn't get to have her baby and eat it too, or complain that she should be allowed to have babies and have her own house, paid for by people who are deferring having children (and other discretionary expenditure) while they save for a house.

borkid

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Typical privileged response. The young who can't afford today's stratospheric boomer engineered housing costs should just die out.

I suspect when you are in a nursing home requiring someone to carry you to the bath you won't feel quite the same.

I've heard this said on many occasions but recently a young couple moved into a house on my estate. I went to say hello, they are in their early twenties in 'ordinary jobs' not anything high paying. The house they have is about the same size as the one I and OH started off in but much newer and needed no work whereas our first house needed a lot. Also on my estate there are several young couples, late twenties with children, SAHM in 4 bedroom houses far larger than we had at that age . One is a delivery man and the other an electrician, this doesn't seem to match with the idea young people can't afford to get on the housing ladder. The ones of that age who aren't buying around here are single parents with several children.

ruggedtoast

borkid wrote: »

I've heard this said on many occasions but recently a young couple moved into a house on my estate. I went to say hello, they are in their early twenties in 'ordinary jobs' not anything high paying. The house they have is about the same size as the one I and OH started off in but much newer and needed no work whereas our first house needed a lot. Also on my estate there are several young couples, late twenties with children, SAHM in 4 bedroom houses far larger than we had at that age . One is a delivery man and the other an electrician, this doesn't seem to match with the idea young people can't afford to get on the housing ladder. The ones of that age who aren't buying around here are single parents with several children.

Right thanks for that scientific study on your neighbours. People whose financial circumstances you almost certainly know nothing about.

westernpromise

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Right thanks for that scientific study on your neighbours. People whose financial circumstances you almost certainly know nothing about.

Unlike boomers, whose financial circumstances and historical voting habits you know all about.

You need a more hatey word for boomers, toastie. What about "filth"? "Filth's Pension Gravy Train Finally To Be Derailed" - that would whip up a lot more hatred against people you envy and know f@ck all about.

Although admittedly if you only posted about anything you did know more than f@ck all about, you'd never post at all.

ruggedtoast

westernpromise wrote: »

Unlike boomers, whose financial circumstances and historical voting habits you know all about.

You need a more hatey word for boomers, toastie. What about "filth"? "Filth's Pension Gravy Train Finally To Be Derailed" - that would whip up a lot more hatred against people you envy and know f@ck all about.

Although admittedly if you only posted about anything you did know more than f@ck all about, you'd never post at all.

Oh I see. And now the abuse starts. Complete with disguised swear words.

Ad hominem abuse, The first polemic resort of the man who has nothing worthwhile to resort to.

Cornucopia

borkid wrote: »

I've heard this said on many occasions but recently a young couple moved into a house on my estate. I went to say hello, they are in their early twenties in 'ordinary jobs' not anything high paying.

The more general point, of course, is that some people are able to afford housing, and not just Landlords. If that were not the case, then the market would adjust, or collapse.

Against that fact, I'd be interested to know what the alleged "Boomer engineering" of HPI is supposed to consist of?

The other truism is that housing in London, the South East and many other parts of the UK has always been expensive, and has always been a struggle for young people to buy.

Cornucopia

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Oh I see. And now the abuse starts. Complete with disguised swear words.

Ad hominem abuse, The first polemic resort of the man who has nothing worthwhile to resort to.

To be fair, you have been at this for a long, long while.

Once you start referring to forum members by a single collective derogatory name, and begin making derogatory remarks and misleading, inflammatory statements about them, you've very much already lost the moral high-ground, and then some.

It's unfortunate that MSE does not seem to care about age-related bigotry in the same way as it undoubtedly does in other areas. However, we are where we are.

westernpromise

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Oh I see. And now the abuse starts. Complete with disguised swear words.

Ad hominem abuse, The first polemic resort of the man who has nothing worthwhile to resort to.

No, the abuse complete with disguised swear words started in your own post right here
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5552279

westernpromise

Cornucopia wrote: »

Against that fact, I'd be interested to know what the alleged "Boomer engineering" of HPI is supposed to consist of?

It consists of voting in their own interests instead of handing over their homes and wealth to the likes of toastie. This is why he is justified in hating his fellow citizens.

ruggedtoast

westernpromise wrote: »

No, the abuse complete with disguised swear words started in your own post right here
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5552279

So it's fine for you, a boomer, to do something from which I, a younger person, am supposed to be prohibited?

That just sums up the Boomers attitude to the younger generations.