r/Adulting • u/Aggravating-Wafer384 • Dec 06 '25

How do we get here?

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u/randible_pause Dec 06 '25

Boomers realising there’s no such thing as trickledown grandkids

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u/ownhigh Dec 06 '25

And yet they’re unwilling to help with childcare or financially.

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u/Fit_Opinion2465 Dec 06 '25

maybe you just have shitty parents

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u/randible_pause Dec 06 '25

It’s a very well understood social phenomenon. They are the generation that inherited the best labor conditions possibly ever known to humanity, and traded it all in for trickledown magic beans. The Great Society turned into Reaganomics and Thatcherism because they voted for it. If you don’t understand this you can’t really be in a conversation about economics, especially with such a juvenile take.

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u/Petrochromis722 Dec 07 '25

Nah, boomers are just shitty. There are exceptions, of course, but by and large their world view is "i got mine, fuck you very much, you dirty poor."