1 year ago16 points(+0/-0/+16Score on mirror)3 children
Yes. And worse, they’re broke on top of it. Jobless, minimal effort fucking losers that refused to help their kids but demand financial support. One resents me for being successful without her, the other is too apathetic to care one way or the other.
One is a “republican” the other is a “democrat”. They both think and act exactly like the jews on TV news.
1 year ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)3 children
yeah but how does that happen? even average boomers with average jobs with average salaries, who bought an average house, would still have 401Ks, pensions, and a house worth 5-10x what they bought it for.
My uncle is like 65 and has never held a steady job. He's been a stoner his whole life. He lived his entire life as if he was forever 18 and partied everyday. It's something else.
Mine were as well. Just mostly did barely enough to survive. Resented their workaholic parents, but received just about everything they owned from them. Secretly admired (or maybe envied) hippies. Didn't understand investing in anything. Believed (or maybe hoped) that the world was going to end soon and Jesus would come take them away.
1 year ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)1 child
Debt. Boomers are addicted to debt like crack. They saw the most insane real estate value appreciation ever. Some of them bought homes in California in the 90s for $100,000 and those homes were worth $1,000,000 just a dozen years later. And every time their home inched up in value, they'd immediately do a cash out refinance of the home and spend it on overseas vacations, boats, RVs, etc.
Some of the more "responsible" ones that tried to do good still acted just as stupidly, instead using said debt to send their kids to school. Except they sent their kids to out of state schools costing $25K per semester instead of the local state school or JC/CC for $1000 per semester. And then they continued to cut blank checks even as their fuckhead kids got Cs and Ds and dragged out their undergrad for 7,8,9, 10 years only to major in something retarded anyway.
If you know a millennial college grad without student loans, then 90% chance their boomer parents have $200,000 in debt for them, 5% chance the parents are just loaded, and 5% chance the kid is actually smart and avoided/paid off the debt quickly.
1 year ago6 points(+0/-0/+6Score on mirror)1 child
That's the worse part; if they don't have money, Boomers expect you to take care of them.
My ex's family used to steal baby bonus checks from each other constantly as the one kid got passed around (fucked up custody situation). Her Dad was decent; he sold us his old car for $500, which is the most financial support we ever got from any of them.
My own parents have plenty of money but expect me to do things for them for free. Any time they want something done with a computer, no matter how complicated or time consuming, they figure I'll use the skills I gained on my own just because I must love doing it. When I was a kid I was expected to help renovate their house, which I had no say over, and which they've sold without any consideration or compensation to me. By contrast, my mother flat out refused to babysit *ever* when it would have helped out but now that the kids are self-sufficient want to see them all the time and my father refused to let me learn his business, even as I was using my vacation time from my own job to work for him.
Frankly, I don't want their money at this point. I've got my life setup; it's not glamorous but I'm debt free and make my own decisions. It would take over a million dollars to buy a house in my area and anything less would put me hundreds or thousands in debt. Twenty years ago I'd asked them for money for a downpayment and they refused even a loan (even though their own parents *gifted* them the money to build a livestock barn and equipment), telling me "it's actually better to rent".
Well, it wasn't then but it is now and the last thing I need is to give them an excuse to meddle in my affairs or try guilt me into wiping their asses for them as they age.
I'm glad there are decent Boomers out there but I'm constantly disgusted at how often they seem to fall into the same selfish patterns.
I’ve disowned my Mom because of that mentality. She refinanced her 60k home repeatedly just to get a lower payment for 30 years. She never got through half the payment on it.
My father used to be the head of sales at a large company, travelling all over the world making massive sales and commissions, now he drives a van for Amazon, he doesn't own a house and he has a loan for his car.
Honestly I have no idea where the money went, since he never had big boats or expensive cars. Perhaps he had families world wide?
1 year ago10 points(+0/-0/+10Score on mirror)1 child
My parents weren't boomers.
The only major mistake my dad made (really my grandpa) was getting off of the land and trying to make money with a career. I'm reversing that mistake as we speak.
1 year ago4 points(+0/-0/+4Score on mirror)1 child
Your grandpa probably got fooled by big AG that you need to invest in fertilisers and chemicals to make a profit, but then when the margins disappeared after some decades because his machines weren't large enough or efficient, you just decide to pack it in and do something else.
Small scale farming with minimal external inputs is where it is at, and forget about growing cereals or corn, it's all about the ruminants (whichever you choose).
No, he was a shepherder in the mountains. He left and ended up joining the marines in WWII. After that he got trained as an accountant and made a pretty good life doing that.
It was after WWII that fertilizers and such started to be used.
1 year ago8 points(+0/-0/+8Score on mirror)1 child
Yes
One has no money at all. That one tries to get money or free work from the children.
The other one flipped out when a small problem in my life leaked over to theirs. That one thought it might cost a tiny bit of their retirement savings ( It didn't).
I've been cut out of the one with money's will and another family members because I wouldn't apologize for pointing out their terrible parenting.
I've been on my own since around 6-7 years old. I did not see them in the mornings or after school. I had to make my own breakfast and lunch. Only dinner was provided. No help with school. No push into school activities. They gave me a beater car in h.s. and paid for some college. They still hold it over my head many years later. They did not teach me a single life skill. When I confronted them with this they whined about their bad childhoods. We had a few good family vacations... they think that qualifies as being good parents
Mine aren’t, and I know I’m very lucky, because I know of a couple of people whose parents are like this. Here in the south though, most of my friends and families parents are the opposite of the boomer meme.
mine arent really either, but the boomers as a whole did up-end some long standing traditions:
- bringing your own kids into your family business, even if it was a corporate job
- multi-generational households where the grandparents [boomers] help take care of the grandkids while the parents work and take care of the grandparents
- passing down the family home to their children
- multi-generational wealth
- staying married even when they werent 100% happy 100% of the time because raising children in a 2 parent household is the most important factor for the children's success in almost every aspect of life.
boomers on average did not do those things
the rest listed in the 4chan post boomers may have not understood the ramifications of what was happening, but they didnt object, they went along with it because it made them wealthier at the expense of their children/grandchildrens future
Yes. I have an uncle who is wealthy beyond belief. He wants my cousin, his only son, to buy his childhood home from him at market price instead of just giving it to him.
My father is and so are many of his friends. The amount of people my age with parents that fought tooth and nail over their inheritance after their parents died only to spend it frivolously on themselves is insane. "Well mom passed away, instead of renting it out with the intention of keeping it in the family, we sold it to a family of Mexicans for a massive profit."
If you ever want to hear boomer hate, ask the guy with the handle of "CEO of Based" on Gab what he thinks of them. I've got a GOAT rant on the subject somewhere on Gab. There's a lot of adult children of boomers who know that they were completely fucked over by their parents and their parents' generation.
"Boomer" is a mentality more than an age. Technically, my parents are boomers but even though they made mistakes raising me and my millennial siblings they did the best with the hand they were dealt.
Unless you are in your 50s, your parents aren't boomers.
Most people have zero of these problems. This board has a lot of whiny losers who think their lack of skills, education, and motivation has nothing to do with their failures, and that they are somehow entitled to everything their parents or grandparents worked a lifetime for.
If you can't make a decent living in the USA, other people aren't the problem.
Not saying jews, niggers, and illegals aren't a huge problem, just that they are not what is keeping you personally from success.
I really don't care about inheritance because, by that point, it's far too late.
What I wish is that they'd taught me their trade. They convinced me to get a useless degree with my grandparents' money but I eventually went right back to my Dad's trade, which earned way more, but I had to start from scratch. If I'd gone straight into it I'd have been able to buy a house during the 2008 crash.
Money is only paper, or even less. Skills last a lifetime and bring people together.
One is a “republican” the other is a “democrat”. They both think and act exactly like the jews on TV news.
It's retarded, but possible.
Some of the more "responsible" ones that tried to do good still acted just as stupidly, instead using said debt to send their kids to school. Except they sent their kids to out of state schools costing $25K per semester instead of the local state school or JC/CC for $1000 per semester. And then they continued to cut blank checks even as their fuckhead kids got Cs and Ds and dragged out their undergrad for 7,8,9, 10 years only to major in something retarded anyway.
If you know a millennial college grad without student loans, then 90% chance their boomer parents have $200,000 in debt for them, 5% chance the parents are just loaded, and 5% chance the kid is actually smart and avoided/paid off the debt quickly.
My ex's family used to steal baby bonus checks from each other constantly as the one kid got passed around (fucked up custody situation). Her Dad was decent; he sold us his old car for $500, which is the most financial support we ever got from any of them.
My own parents have plenty of money but expect me to do things for them for free. Any time they want something done with a computer, no matter how complicated or time consuming, they figure I'll use the skills I gained on my own just because I must love doing it. When I was a kid I was expected to help renovate their house, which I had no say over, and which they've sold without any consideration or compensation to me. By contrast, my mother flat out refused to babysit *ever* when it would have helped out but now that the kids are self-sufficient want to see them all the time and my father refused to let me learn his business, even as I was using my vacation time from my own job to work for him.
Frankly, I don't want their money at this point. I've got my life setup; it's not glamorous but I'm debt free and make my own decisions. It would take over a million dollars to buy a house in my area and anything less would put me hundreds or thousands in debt. Twenty years ago I'd asked them for money for a downpayment and they refused even a loan (even though their own parents *gifted* them the money to build a livestock barn and equipment), telling me "it's actually better to rent".
Well, it wasn't then but it is now and the last thing I need is to give them an excuse to meddle in my affairs or try guilt me into wiping their asses for them as they age.
I'm glad there are decent Boomers out there but I'm constantly disgusted at how often they seem to fall into the same selfish patterns.
Honestly I have no idea where the money went, since he never had big boats or expensive cars. Perhaps he had families world wide?
The only major mistake my dad made (really my grandpa) was getting off of the land and trying to make money with a career. I'm reversing that mistake as we speak.
Small scale farming with minimal external inputs is where it is at, and forget about growing cereals or corn, it's all about the ruminants (whichever you choose).
It was after WWII that fertilizers and such started to be used.
One has no money at all. That one tries to get money or free work from the children.
The other one flipped out when a small problem in my life leaked over to theirs. That one thought it might cost a tiny bit of their retirement savings ( It didn't).
I've been cut out of the one with money's will and another family members because I wouldn't apologize for pointing out their terrible parenting.
I've been on my own since around 6-7 years old. I did not see them in the mornings or after school. I had to make my own breakfast and lunch. Only dinner was provided. No help with school. No push into school activities. They gave me a beater car in h.s. and paid for some college. They still hold it over my head many years later. They did not teach me a single life skill. When I confronted them with this they whined about their bad childhoods. We had a few good family vacations... they think that qualifies as being good parents
*Well, everybody’s been there, and I don’t mean on vacation*
- bringing your own kids into your family business, even if it was a corporate job
- multi-generational households where the grandparents [boomers] help take care of the grandkids while the parents work and take care of the grandparents
- passing down the family home to their children
- multi-generational wealth
- staying married even when they werent 100% happy 100% of the time because raising children in a 2 parent household is the most important factor for the children's success in almost every aspect of life.
boomers on average did not do those things
the rest listed in the 4chan post boomers may have not understood the ramifications of what was happening, but they didnt object, they went along with it because it made them wealthier at the expense of their children/grandchildrens future
If you ever want to hear boomer hate, ask the guy with the handle of "CEO of Based" on Gab what he thinks of them. I've got a GOAT rant on the subject somewhere on Gab. There's a lot of adult children of boomers who know that they were completely fucked over by their parents and their parents' generation.
Most people have zero of these problems. This board has a lot of whiny losers who think their lack of skills, education, and motivation has nothing to do with their failures, and that they are somehow entitled to everything their parents or grandparents worked a lifetime for.
If you can't make a decent living in the USA, other people aren't the problem.
Not saying jews, niggers, and illegals aren't a huge problem, just that they are not what is keeping you personally from success.
Are you certain that you're not just acting like a faggot?