In Reply to: (link) Op-Ed piece from WaPo on why younger... posted by SagoBob on April 07, 2024 at 19:55:20
The part I like is that the generation of 65+ has stolen from millennials. I believe a person over 65+ received $400K more in government vs millennials who are projected to receive $300K less than they put in.
This is in no way the unluckiest generation ever. First of all, if you are gay, a woman or of color, it has never been better for you.
Currently, we are in the best economy on the globe. If you can't be successful in the US, there is no other place in the world you can be successful. A lot of success is driven by the wealth of your parents but we have more ladders to the middle class than most other counties.
Regardless of taxing the rich more we will not be able to keep social security as it was. In 1940, 42 workers supported 1 retiree. Today the ratio is 3 to 1. By 2050 it will be 2 to 1. We don't have enough young people to keep social security at the levels it was.
I'm curious when else would young people rather be living?
Before penicillin? Before vaccines? Before any unions? Before electricity?
Were times during WWI, WWII, Civil War, or the Vietnam war better?
Every generation has challenges. This generation's expectations IMO of what they should have given what they do is out of wack from other generations.
If we remove post-WWII years when exactly were the better times to grow up in the US? Especially if you were gay, a minority or a woman?