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> You find different numbers in different places, but the median retirement savings for boomers is under $200,000. from https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/18/national-…

> Sounds dramatic, but what are we talking about here? How about this? https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4633773-eat-the-boomers-... > In his book, “A Generation of Sociopaths: H…

>It's going to be hard to sell policies that disenfranchise old people... Not at all. Remember how before he got dementia the president ran on an antidementia platform? > That's wh…

> Is ageism not like racism, sexism, etc.? First, young people didn't choose this. It's been coming from the other direction and out in the open for a very long time. Why not make …

> You're overlooking that the geriatric people are carrying on the traditional liberal/conservative debate on both sides of the aisle. Workers skew young, capital skews old. When p…

> They have three new or late-model vehicles. Depends on geography of course, but it's not rare at all for boomers to have this many houses as a normal part of how they experienced…

Ah yes, the squeeze in the middle. My default assumption is that people outside ~35-45 range are often impatient to the point that they are, for practical purposes, functionally il…

> Our gerontocracy is not the result of a malevolent plan, .. Boomers aren't distinctively evil.. The fact that they are so numerous and the fact that they are aging in era when li…