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‘Unconscionable’: Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate ‘not seen since the Great Depression’ — here’s what’s driving this terrible trend (finance.yahoo.com)

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I wish I could feel sympathy, but I don't. The Reagan generation did this to themselves, and the rest of us have to suffer with them.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Generational fights are mostly incorrect. It is rarely one generation oppressing another or even themselves, it is class(es) oppressing others. It's annoying when another generation is out of touch, though. Boomers are often, but not always, guilty of that.

The homeless are generally the least to blame, they are the poorest of the poor in a capitalist hellscape. Their mistreatment at the hands of our economically-carved society also serves a function for the ruling class: it's what will happen to you if you (allegedly) don't accept that shit job for that subsistence pay.

Rather than directing your frustrations at generations or the poorest and least powerful, get organized to fight the ongoing class war. The ruling class is always fighting it whether you join or not.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's annoying when another generation is out of touch, though. Boomers are often, but not always, guilty of that.

I'm starting to see their being out of touch as partly because they only engage within their generation. If we want to put a stop to generational shit what we need to do is build more cross-generation communication. Arguably social media is doing this already though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100%. Even things as simple as tabling can help with this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what is tabling?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's where you set up a little table, usually with some pamphlets or something, and set up where there's lots of foot traffic. It's handy for getting petitions signed, collecting money for whatever, or just talking to people about a cause to build community support.