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[–] 13esq 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I work with boomers that were given everything, house with the job or a council house and the right to buy, final salary pensions, free education, free prescriptions, publicly owned utilities, a path to progress up the pay scale and they voted it all away when it was my generations turn to benefit.

Plenty of money for their generation, but now it's our turn and suddenly the money is gone. This is the generation that struts about telling us that we don't know how good we have it, sitting in their paid off houses that cost 3-5x the average salary whilst we pay £1000pm to the slumlord, triple locked pensions whilst we suffer real term pay cuts.

There's never been a greedier, more selfish, entitled generation than the boomers. The first generation in history to leave the world worse off than when they inherited it.

Fuck them.