Posted on 08/31/2025 2:20:36 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
“””Look up Generation Jones.
Defined as being born between 1955 to 1965,”””
That is cool to learn. I’m right in the middle.
From a person who cannot spell hoarding????
Reading is fundamental; give it a try some day.
“I get tired of the ‘Boomer are the cause of all the trouble in the world.’”
According to my teen great-niece, white people are the cause of all the trouble in the world. She’s half white.
I’m a boomer and am proud of it. We had high educational standards in our schools in the ‘50s and ‘60s. No generation since ours has had a better work ethic. We were patriotic, but I guess that diminishes as some get older.
I’ve heard we were terrible parents, and maybe that’s so. I never was one.
“ If a boomer sells their home …”
I was responding to the beginning of the article, repeating the language
I am a boomer. Trump is a Boomer. The economy needs to get fixed. Every generation needs to see that and do their part. Pointing the finger is not part of fixing it
Retiring people right now happen to be boomers
One silly notion of retiring people is expecting their family to help them with their plan
There is life insurance, that cast way less whe one takes it out in their 20s and 30s when starting a family.
Theres paying off a mortgage and or hanging on to the house. Theres setting up trusts. There’s taking care of one’s health
Having a good savings. Budget and prep for inflation
Retirement advisors
If living with one’s children is the plan what do the children think of that. Does one tell them to put in an in law suite? Or is there relationship building, reciprocity, non interference, levity, no whining?
Has there been a nurturing relationship, where the parents assisted in all ways expected, school and career? Health?
Above someone mentions Hispanic families.
I’m from a different cultural background. Our elders came to the house a few times a year. Grandmother one or two holidays. They were non intrusive, pleasant, intelligent and kind. They brought presents and food and never got into any mood of having expectations. Some lived to 100. The women had been financially set up for by their husbands. Never had to move out of their homes. And were well cared for by their visiting children and grandchildren even nieces.
When they died there was no expectation of inheritance except by a couple of outliers.
Does that make us worse than Hispanics?
When we visit with family we enjoy our time together. I don’t see anything wrong with that or with managing one’s own retirement. Especially in the context of this account with someone getting rid of their home by choice without consulting the family whom they expect to foot the bill with no input
Many Zoomers feel that Boomers refuse to retire and that the “good jobs” are not available and no forward motion is available up the corporate ladder because aged Boomers are “hoarding the jobs”.
Many Zoomers feel that Boomers bought cheap houses in 1982 and refuse to sell them or downsize therefore limiting the stock of available homes that young people can buy.
The feeling is that Boomers got the good life and refuse to give it up and share the wealth with younger generations.
I make no claim that this is a fair characterization. You are free to strongly disagree and state that this is total BS. But that doesn’t change the fact that many young people have adopted a stereotype of Boomers being selfish.
My daughter says she wants me to move in with her so I don’t have to go to nursing home. That is until I said I want her bedroom
I’m getting up there in years.
My wife was a certified Nurses aide,
but we are the same age.
I am not, nor will my wife, is ever going
to be a burden on our daughter and
her family.
She may have to sign a few papers
and that is it.
Kids don’t get to pick their parents,
so parents cannot demand certain things.
Parents are providers, not burdens.
It is expected they help with small things like driving mom to the doctor, or pushing dad through a store in his wheel chair.
But kids are not your future nursing home!
That is your problem! Hopefully they
come to visit you.
I have a “do not revive” notice on my Drivers license.
I’d rather see God than waste away in a bed in a nursing home.
“””But that doesn’t change the fact that many young people have adopted a stereotype of Boomers being selfish.”””
They sound like little brats that expect everything to be handed to them.
I didn’t live in a house with indoor plumbing until I was in second grade. I’m not giving up my large house on a large lot for anyone. I worked my tail off all my life. They can fight over it when I am dead. These young whippersnappers don’t know what a hard day of work is like.
nope. her parents sound foolish and that is a huge imposition, to even ask!!!
“ Many Zoomers feel that Boomers refuse to retire and that the “good jobs” are not available and no forward motion is available up the corporate ladder because aged Boomers are “hoarding the jobs”.
Many Zoomers feel that Boomers bought cheap houses in 1982 and refuse to sell them or downsize therefore limiting the stock of available homes that young people can buy.
The feeling is that Boomers got the good life and refuse to give it up and share the wealth with younger generations.”
It’s not that I disagree, it’s that there’s a lot of “feel” language in there, instead of “think”
Here’s one thoughtful observation: I work. And when my boss tells me to do something in a certain way I do it. When I trained someone recently in my busy job, I don’t know how old she was, she stopped me all day long to say ‘why do you do this that way? Why do you save this like that on your documents? Why does Medicare not have an entry for patient data that includes gender specificity? Why do you send the report out at this time?
And they’re just questions. The answers are not listened to, she’s receiving phone calls.
In that time I can get ten tasks done. I know people of all generations who just work, and don’t point the finger.
I get paid to accomplish tasks. I am much more valuable to my organization than someone who thinks they get paid to be there, do their own thing, argue, talk in their phones to people at home
This is typical according to what I see and what people tell me
If anyone thinks - I mean feelsl- that organizations exist to keep people there and pay them instead of to make money, then they’re thinking that all organizations are like the government. That’s not the case
My suggestion is get competitive
And, as I tell my cohorts, retirement is coming. Denial is not helpful.
But what you bring up has a lot of facets. One is the dependency for younger generations to pay for older people. My own elders in the thirties hated the notion of Medicare, social security and welfare. They said they were idiotic and harmful notions placed by democrats
Well Trump is a Baby Boomer and I suggest supporting his effort to fix this. It means getting to work and planning correctly
“Many Zoomers feel that Boomers bought cheap houses in 1982 and refuse to sell them or downsize therefore limiting the stock of available homes that young people can buy.”
Boo frickin’ hoo. How arrogantly presumptuous to have that opinion. Like they deserve to have our stuff. And... oh yeah... we just UPsized at age 75. So they can suck it. I’ll be happy to rub their faces in it.
It’s one thing to help your parents if they experience problems through no fault of their own. It’s another thing if your parents make an insanely stupid financial choice.
The parents need to suck it up and find their own place to leave.
If you have good luggage, are pure of heart, and have Meg Ryan with you, the volcano will spit you out.
Ugh. I know. I can be…
But will people please plan for retirement. I do not know why the martini people the adults of the ‘50s did not talk to us about retirement all of my ideas I got from the aughts. 1903, 1909 They were brilliant
we’ll look at my #44 if you would.
Planning for retirement is a simple concept. It takes doing it takes planning but to just expect others even ones kids to take on the task is insane
“Any boomer who put their kids into day care at six weeks should prepare for the same in their older years from their families. Period.”
Yes. Kids do learn from their parents.
“ It’s one thing to help your parents if they experience problems through no fault of their own. It’s another thing if your parents make an insanely stupid financial choice.
The parents need to suck it up and find their own place to leave.”
And then there’s that.
Boomers tend to be richer than their parents.
Boomers tend to be richer than their children.
The only generation in history in such a privileged position.
And the Boomers love to rub everyone’s face in it.
That’s why so many young people love you so much.
It’s no fault of the daughter that the parents’ retirement dream fell apart.
So why should she now have to take them on as her responsibility?
I’m in a situation as an only child that I would prefer to not be in. My husband and I agreed to allow my mom to live with us. The plan is for my mom to sell her home, which is paid off, and use a portion of the money from the sale to pay for a good sized addition on our home for her. I would prefer she not live with us, but the thought of her in a nursing home is even less appealing. My recent experience though, that has severely put me off, is being expected by her to make trips to her current home to help her get it emptied out of excess stuff she has “collected” and cleaned up in order to sell it. When I said I would not do that because it would be too disruptive to my own home and schedule (I work, we homeschool, etc), she told me that basically I owed her because she would be putting so much money into the addition on my home for her to live in and we would financially benefit from it. She thinks nothing of it; I am having a hard time looking past it.
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