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"Shortage of homes" created by a parasitic class of people and corporations who gobble up all the available homes
Baby boomers aren't, but capitalists are.
They're the ones who gobble up all available real estate to manipulate everyone else with for their own benefit.
I assume that was Karashta's intent, not Baby boomers as you deflected to.
The plan was that they sell their home and downsize into an easier to maintain condo.
It existed 15 years ago, when millennials were starting to move out of their parents' home.
What everyone is saying is that boomers were greedy. They held on to everything. Jobs, homes, they voted away our social safety nets because they wanted to keep their tax money and voted for conservatives and neo liberals.
Now the younger generation had a late start in life because of this. They got an education but couldn't find jobs. They wanted to get a house to raise a family but they had to forfeit that whole idea because of the little savings they could make. And because raising a child in a one bedroom 500sqft apartment, or condo unit at best, isn't ideal.
I'm Canadian btw. I voted for the NDP at the federal level and for b Quebec Solidaire at the provincial level.
They can go rent the places everyone else is currently forced to because of their generational bullshit.
It ain't the boomers doing that. It's the corporations.
And who runs those corporations?
Rich out of touch assholes ranging from Boomers, Gen X and millennials?
Bunk beds in assisted living, pack them in tight so they briefly get to experience a taste of the consequences of their generation's gluttony before shuffling off this mortal coil. The rich won't be affected, of course, so significant opposition isn't likely. Through their votes and actions, they made their bed so now they get to climb up and lie in it.
Yeah? And if a person from the third world whose island is half under water because of your 'luxurious' lifestyle comes to you for some of that sweet justice? The average American emits 15 times the CO2 compared to someone in Tuvalu. Would you like to be put in the bed you made?
Oh you're not the one that made the system the way it is? Well neither did the majority of "boomers".
Thanks doc.