Stuff have an article on Millennial’s vs Boomers and it is obscenely stupid.
It attempts to paint each generation out as blaming each other for the failings of each generation.
It is evidence of the utter lack of intellectual curiosity and why corporate media is the problem.
Let’s ask two simple questions, why is there a difference between Boomers and Millennials and why can’t corporate media see it?
The difference between Boomers and Millennials is painfully simple. Government.
Boomers grew up under Governments who saw the horror of World War 2. They saw what happened when unregulated capitalism boomed and busted. They saw that if there wasn’t a safety net then capitalism’s extremes pushed people towards Fascism or Communism. Boomer Governments subsidised their citizens lives from the cradle to the grave and the economy was turned to the developmental advantage of the people.
That’s why Boomers have houses and assets and a standard of living far higher than other generations because the Governments they lived under believed they had an obligation to provide that.
Millennial’s on the other hand lived under neoliberal Government’s who didn’t give a fuck. Who walked away from those obligations, who deregulated and allowed free market myths of individualism to replace social responsibilities. This has culminated in Millennial’s being debt slaves in an economic environment that gives them nothing.
The reason why corporate media like Stuff can’t even comprehend this basic explanation is because they are themselves the product of neoliberal mythology.
We have ideologically blind media answering questions they can’t see.
Brilliant!
You hit the nail on the head, Martyn. Good post.
Articles like this seem to be a devised attempt to divide the generations, distracting readers from the real cause, which you rightly point out.
Classic divide and conquer. Get the peasantry fighting among themselves, and they remain oblivious to their true enemy. And that enemy continues to laugh all the way to the bank.
I agree the Stuff article seems willfully devisive.
I can also understand the GenX and millenial opinions that the boomers who benefitted from post-war reforms are the same folks who stripped away those very infrastructures to leave us in this current state, which indeed seems quite unfair.
However I gather your main point here is that we need to forget about who’s to blame and concentrate on what it will realistically take to get us back on track to a more equal and inclusive society. All else is strawman propaganda.
appears to me that both the article and the response are equally guilty of stereotyping both groups.
“Millennial’s on the other hand lived under neoliberal Government’s who didn’t give a fuck. Who walked away from those obligations, who deregulated and allowed free market myths of individualism to replace social responsibilities. This has culminated in Millennial’s being debt slaves in an economic environment that gives them nothing.”
The best blogpost ever.
Boomers: unionised, good wages, free education, housing available and affordable.
Millenials: deunionised , low wages, student debt in excess of $15 billion, housing unaffordable and a dream beyond their dream.
Have I left anything out?
Water quality, overseas land and asset sales.
Climate change.
Have you left something out ?
yes I am a boomer I also worked deunionised for low wages, have student debt,am now retired and living in a shed.because thats whats available.I havnt sold out on my social and green ideals
and I am not the only one .
this pop sociology is mindless , diversive and shameful, one would have thought some people would know better.
Sorry to here it J.R. It just that boomers had the all the best bits and keep taking. I know heaps still working, denying the youngins work and they’re really well off. Bet they vote blue, they suck so bad!
Yes the ladder has well and truely been pulled up.
Huge generalisations about age cohorts here. Nicely reflects the MSM.
No wonder we are going backwards.
After nine years of National, yeah I’m not surprised either…
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