It seems increasingly unlikely that humanity will survive Boomers clinging to power.

[davidsirota@mastodon.online]

It seems increasingly unlikely that humanity will survive Boomers clinging to power.

Related: It's increasingly likely that my entire generation - Generation X - will be the first to be truly skipped over in positions of power both because our generation sucks but also because the older generation refuses to relinquish power in a way no previous generation ever has.

[arod@social.coop]

@davidsirota fwiw in my field (academia) it was the gen x'ers pulling up the ladder moreso than the boomers ... But overall I think what you're speaking to is correct

[mtconleyuk@mastodonapp.uk]

@davidsirota
An entire generation of Prince Charleses, then.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@davidsirota The Boomers "benefited" from two medical phenomena more than any generation before or since:

a) Antibiotics
b) Chronic lead poisoning by inhalation

I think this explains a lot …

[otfrom@functional.cafe]

@arod @davidsirota agreed. We learned the wrong lessons from our absent parents

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@davidsirota I have adopted a consistent and unremitting policy to permanently block anyone who uses the term 'boomer' unironically.

It's ignorant and childish. Grow up.

[riley@toot.cat]

@cstross Don't forget effective birth control. Without it, the next generation after them would have had a comparble population size, with just as high a prevalence of unplanned kids. With it, the whole intergenerational dynamic shifted.

@davidsirota