Re:Summary: $200B Broadband Scandal (2005)
by dragonwriter on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:34AM
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> And then the baby boomers came along.
To be fair to Boomers and contrary to the popular current Boomers.v. Millenials (with Gen X occasionally acknowledged) narrative, the effects you describe began under the social, economic, and political dominance of the “Greatest” Generation, not the boomers.
Further, it's not really a generational thing, it's about shifting distribution of power among economic classes over time; which generation is ascendant at the time isn't the controlling factor, and generation v. generation narrative obstructs the kind of coalition building that could work to reverse the problem.
Re:Summary: $200B Broadband Scandal (2005)
by atonse on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:30PM
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Well put. I can think of no better way of explaining our situation than this.
Actually I kind of forgot the baby boomers line. I got hung up on the "oligarch phase" which is totally apt.
I don't know if we can just blame baby boomers, unless somehow they were responsible for voting all the current politicians in.
And then the baby boomers came along. And they have just cash cowed that infrastructure, not doing a good job maintaining it, not advancing it, letting it rot, while they pocket the benefit, stuffing it into the stock, bond, and real estate markets, benefiting really no one but themselves. They are a hoarding generation. And they seem fairly OK with a re-emergence of aristocracy as a result: I've got mine, you go get your own. Everything is a product. Rich people get more. Cooperation is socialism. Etc.
So it'll be up to gen X and millenials to decide what comes next.