I’m fifty one years old and just kinda wanna break down what I’ve seen in my life:
My grandparents generation: Was able to buy housing, get healthcare, receive retirement. Note: They lived through the great depression, and categorically never spent any money that wasn’t necessary, even when they had several boatloads of it.
My parents generation: Housing was achievable but not given (I remember a whole lot of single wides, apartments, and duplexes among the adults of my childhood). Healthcare was affordable. Retirement was promised but not delivered.
My generation: Housing was achievable if you moved to the sticks and loved you some Jesus at the local Baptist Church, but not in the cities. We got a taste of healthcare twenty five years ago, but then yeah no. Retirement? Hahahahaha! We got 401(k)s forced in us, and they never materialized into dick. Many flatout vaporized when our marriages fizzled out.
My kid’s generation. Seriously, just die in the street. You’ll get absolute fuck all nothing, and you’ll like it as the older generations blame you for our fuckups.
My great contribution is that I’ll be able to leave my house free and clear of mortgage to my spawn when I check out. She can live in it, sell it, rent it, burn it to the ground. Whatever she wants, but damnit, I’m giving her the opportunity to do it, which most of her peers will never have.
What if in the future her family’s possession of a house is used as justification for judging her “capitalist scum” and she gets sent to the gulags for it?
Just kidding. Not that that can’t happen, but you shouldn’t plan for that.
It’s good that you’re doing the work necessary to give your daughter some security and stability.
Your grandparents and parents got to live that way because they lived in an empire that destroyed democracy where my grandfather came from and extracted wealth from client states around the world to fund their fight against Russia. All of that affordability and prosperity was on the backs of people like my family that lived around the world. My prospective is much different and I’m nearly your age.
My grandfather was impoverished in Iran. My parents escaped the Iran Iraq war which was funded by the US dealing drugs and I’m doing the best of all.
Yeah, recognizing the fact that the boomer generation had those privileges because of wealth extraction from the third world is an important part of growing up and that you will never regain it because it wasn’t yours. Looking back to the past like this is conservative thinking aka for idiots. If you want those things the boomers had you’re going to have to create a new equitable system and not recreate what once existed. Your grandparents fucked up the world.
I’m fifty one years old and just kinda wanna break down what I’ve seen in my life:
My grandparents generation: Was able to buy housing, get healthcare, receive retirement. Note: They lived through the great depression, and categorically never spent any money that wasn’t necessary, even when they had several boatloads of it.
My parents generation: Housing was achievable but not given (I remember a whole lot of single wides, apartments, and duplexes among the adults of my childhood). Healthcare was affordable. Retirement was promised but not delivered.
My generation: Housing was achievable if you moved to the sticks and loved you some Jesus at the local Baptist Church, but not in the cities. We got a taste of healthcare twenty five years ago, but then yeah no. Retirement? Hahahahaha! We got 401(k)s forced in us, and they never materialized into dick. Many flatout vaporized when our marriages fizzled out.
My kid’s generation. Seriously, just die in the street. You’ll get absolute fuck all nothing, and you’ll like it as the older generations blame you for our fuckups.
My great contribution is that I’ll be able to leave my house free and clear of mortgage to my spawn when I check out. She can live in it, sell it, rent it, burn it to the ground. Whatever she wants, but damnit, I’m giving her the opportunity to do it, which most of her peers will never have.
What if in the future her family’s possession of a house is used as justification for judging her “capitalist scum” and she gets sent to the gulags for it?
Just kidding. Not that that can’t happen, but you shouldn’t plan for that.
It’s good that you’re doing the work necessary to give your daughter some security and stability.
Sounds like you’re a good father, sir
Your grandparents and parents got to live that way because they lived in an empire that destroyed democracy where my grandfather came from and extracted wealth from client states around the world to fund their fight against Russia. All of that affordability and prosperity was on the backs of people like my family that lived around the world. My prospective is much different and I’m nearly your age.
My grandfather was impoverished in Iran. My parents escaped the Iran Iraq war which was funded by the US dealing drugs and I’m doing the best of all.
I don’t feel bad for Americans at all.
Well, what a refreshing and completely reasonable opinion that’s totally objective, accounts for all historical nuance, and doesn’t arbitrarily villify hundreds of millions of people for being born somewhere.
Yeah, recognizing the fact that the boomer generation had those privileges because of wealth extraction from the third world is an important part of growing up and that you will never regain it because it wasn’t yours. Looking back to the past like this is conservative thinking aka for idiots. If you want those things the boomers had you’re going to have to create a new equitable system and not recreate what once existed. Your grandparents fucked up the world.