Posted on 05/31/2026 2:53:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Once upon a time, inequality in Europe was largely horizontal. The rich western half drove BMWs and holidayed abroad, while the poorer east rewired its own appliances and queued for bread.
But three decades of catch-up growth in erstwhile communist countries has put paid to jokes about Romanian cars whose top speed was “downhill”. These days inequality in Europe has a vertical dimension—one that goes up and down family trees.
Youngsters unable to move out of their parents’ spare room due to sky-high house prices wonder if they will ever enjoy the lifestyle as adults which they knew as kids.
Thirty-somethings in jobs pay hefty taxes to fund the pensions of oldies who retired in their prime. Costs related to ageing are guzzling a quarter of the European Union’s GDP, a figure unlikely to fall as the Old Continent grows older still. To be a young European is to feel oneself an unwitting participant in an intergenerational confidence trick.
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
More generational hate.
When will they pull us up on stage for our shame session?
Generational stratification is not unknown to Europe. It existed for thousands of years.
Poor widdle Bommers.
Always the victim.
Blah blah blah Boomers...... Hate hate.... If it wasn’t for them everything would be wonderful.
Whine whine whine..... What a pant load.
It is the Boomer Generation that concluded that White civilization needs to be EXTERMINATED and they are doing a very, very, effective job of getting to that goal.
Blame it on the politicians and their asinine legislation..no different then here in the US.
Our problems are the result of Congress.
It’s Europe...wine, wine, wine 🙄
Correction. It's the boomers within the POLITICAL CLASS, the so called "experts" who pushed the hatred of whites. The middle class boomers aren't full of white guilt.
Pour me a glass of Spatlese or Spatburgender please. Preferably from the Mosel River Valley.
How about Communists and all the morons who keep voting for more "free stuff"? After all the destruction they have wrought with the importation of hordes of the third-world, they keep voting for the same Party/People.
Sheesh. Boomers? Pffft...
Want more proof? How close with the election be in LA? Klepto-Communist Karen Bass should be shamed out of office and put in prison, yet the race appears close.
That’s why I used the word “Generation”. No prior generation of people, in the 250 or so prior generations throughout recorded history, ever got themselves into a position to Exterminate their own people, and went forward to do just that.
Yes…I sit on the porch of my huge, empty home, clipping my bond coupons and taking my used underwear to the goodwill store so the poors will have something nice to wear when they trudge to work.
Oh the humanity. LOL
How about Communists and all the morons who keep voting for more “free stuff”? After all the destruction they have wrought with the importation of hordes of the third-world, they keep voting for the same Party/People.
Then after the Revolution, they will get the shock of their lives when they find out, if they don’t work, they either get shot, or go to a gulag.
Boomers are a selfish selfish bunch. And that’s their prerogative.
I choose to leave my kids set up after i am gone. I want them to be better off than I. My parents, they don’t care about that. Neither do my aunts and uncles, who all happen to be boomers. They are taking their selfishness to the grave. Good for them, it’s their perogative. It’s their money, they can do whatever they want with it.
The youth aren't showing any signs of wanting to veer right. So if they continue to vote left, they are endorsing perpetual crippling high taxes.
If they also buy into the atheistic, nontraditional, pro-abortion, anti-children beliefs of their parents, then they are a part of the problem.
HOWEVER if they are AFD Germans, or National Rally French, or Reform UK Brits, then indeed they are trying to fight their way back from the brink of Communism and back toward sanity, prosperity, and conservatism, and religion. I genuinely feel sorry for them, and I hope they are motivated enough to free themselves from the yoke of high and crippling taxes.
We will see.
It's more than just high taxes.
They're the last generation of native Europeans in Western Europe.
The West is disappearing before our eyes.
That’s as ridiculous a comment as any I’ve read around here lately. Trashing the largest cohort in American history with a broad brush like that is just silly. Yeah, your relatives might be jerks. But that doesn’t mean everyone born during that time is a jerk.
And I find it humorous that all you kids can think about it money, money, money. I guess your parents were jerks if they did not tell you there is more to happiness and life than how many dollars you can stuff into your pockets.
It’s always someone else’s fault.
How Europe screwed itself: It never learned the lessons of two World Wars.
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