Corporate welfare for them, austerity for you. Tax cuts for them, sorry not enough to fund social security we'll have to raise retirement age or cut benefits.
How revolutionary. They're going to upend the world of finance by trying to give loans to people who can't structurally afford to pay them back in all likelihood? Isn't that the entire playbook for wage slaves to those who are otherwise of sound mind and body?
Maybe they try to just continue with the current (awful)status quo without the psuedoscience? Course then they'd lose out on the fascism.
Sociology is one of the few majors that Florida is trying to cut from public school programs. They apparently think it radicalizes people to educate them about the way the world works.
At some point they'll realize Putin is not running a car import business either and could maybe see through a bit of the fog, but they won't. Willful blinders don't come off.
They would rather deny their children schooling than admit they were wrong and foolish.
The bubble was accelerated by people assuming prices would always rise, often their own greed and flipping or becoming landlords,, and this was only possible due to the financial engineering that made lending to these folks posivle, but all of that droce the value of the underlying assets down significantly.
You claim there wasn't a bubble...look at home price values in the sunbelt in 05 vs 2009.
You'll note they always use "average"(mean) rather than median savings/assets to mask that it's really a small portion of boomers that are living the easy life. Still better off as a whole than later gens but to your point, no warfare but class warfare. I read a recent book , "work, retire, repeat" looking at the life crisis that has been built with insecurity and poverty driving most people, regardless of age to work too much and work until they die. Your point is the best one; billionaires and their lobbyists and owned politicians are the real problem.
There are many boomers with nothing, who did not have or get a pension, who didn't or couldn't accumulate wealth through housing, who may not have gone to college because (and the article leaves this out) they didn't even need a degree to move up. The book mentioned above calls out that only 8% of people working past 62 are doing it because they really want to be and have a job they enjoy. Many are still working for healthcare, to service debt, concerns of future unknown/instability/inflation, social security being threatened, and also it notes they many keep working because they have kids or other dependents they see struggling in a tougher world and want to help/ensure they aren't another burden.
I'm not a boomer or discounting the relative advantages they had, but it's the concentration of wealth to the owner class/.5% that are by far the issue not an age group.
Half of the plot points from all the movies have been enacted, attempted or discussed in the first year of Trump's presidency by his cabinet, handlers, backers or string-pullers or funders. Fictional supervillains as entertainment are a distraction, dangerously so when the real thing is happening as we speak.
There are few social spaces where people can meet in healthy ways without having to pay some private entity for the privilege.
The rungs of society have never been further apart, nor has it ever been more transparent.
Education has been systematically underfunded for 50+ years, the economy in accelerative wealth concentration. Adults suffer and the home environments for children suffer.
I can't stand street racing, and barely drive unless forced to but it's not hard to understand why many would find a somewhat cheap thrill attractive when their lives are filled with hopelessness or despair.
The analytics are overblown, and coaches need to get back to the big picture. Stanford traded Hollins at the deadline for Wu, but picked up the player option on Candell for the 4th year. The performance bonus if they make the all-star team should provide enough motivation to ensure they don't get saddled with a mid-career ball hog. Team chemistry will be key, hopefully during the preseason they can get it together and not have any niggling injuries interrupt. There is concern about the defensive strategy on set plays, their specialist Franco just had their contract waived and stretched under the current contract, so the team may look to the transfer market mid season when it opens, or potentially to move up in the spring draft to fill needs. Still can't believe they traded Simpson and pay 2.7 per year for Johnson.
Universities run by MBAs and academics operating like sports franchises.Meanwhile, they're arresting students in campus for protesting genocide and fascism.
Yeah then Elon can blackmail them instead of someone else