I agree.
the problem was (and largely still is even with the current gen) that they think that pension are "savings".
not sure if they could understand what the central banks are doing (their information sources were quite limited and it required real hard effort to understand it; who am I kidding my coworkers still call me names, because I'm based in austrian theory).
they were scammed as well is what I try to say.
which of course doesn't entitle them to demand to be bought out.
>”the problem was (and largely still is even with the current gen) that they think that pension are "savings".”
Kind of. The problem is Western Boomers have a bastardised view of “””the social contract”””.
They believe, as there forebears did, that kids would look after their parents.
They believe this was systematised through the Boomer’s god - the State.
But that was never true, it’s not what happened, it is not reality.
The State setup a Ponzi scheme and the Boomers, in their arrested development, bought it hook, line, and sinker.
You’re right in that they see pensions as Savings. They think that they paid in and that money would be there for them in old age.
But where I disagree is that they weren’t scammed. They are adolescents in senior bodies. They were too brainwashed by the State (particularly via M5M), they believed too much, didn’t think to question anything, and now we have to deal with a massive generation of old people who live in an alternate reality as effectively children.
I’m not prescribing malice, rather naivety to a degree which we as humanity have no historic records of. It’s so bad I personally find it evil but I understand the pushback I get on going after Boomers too.
Again I agree.
They were naive and from my POV even retarded.
see I'm only like 20 years from them. but our situation is likely too different as a post soviet colony...
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Yeah I can’t talk to your context, when I say Boomers it should be constrained to Western anglosphere Boomers - that’s who I’m talking about as that’s what I understand. Soviet bloc Boomers had a different arc so I can’t say for them.
Western-Anglo Boomers weren’t just naive, they were massively programmed and ate it up. I agree that they are retarded in that they don’t have a clue how programmed they were.
And that’s why I posted this. They’re so naive they think they’re owed something but are literally going to take out more than they ever put in; which is absurd.
Fuller had a section talking about this programming as a positive in Critical Path: nostr:note1zx050vhq9cxxzz5a8583redeqhl42afkv666jwldnfe2gukf5skqcjrmdc
But even he would have been disturbed to see how they turned out.
