07-13-2013, 11:42 AM
This is a generalization of course, but statistics show that boomers are controlling large amounts of wealth/resources in this country- including jobs! They are hoarding jobs that could go to younger people. It's well documented. I just think it's backwards. I want to die penniless and have my heirs wealthy, employed and successful. I do not want to "have to downsize" because I've been hoarding my entire life. I do not want a large house where my grown kids live unemployed while I pay all the bills. No thankyou! I want a tiny house. A house that my children are itching to leave and embark on their own journey to "make their mark on the world". I want to live with them in their houses when I am old! Not the other way around. I do not want "people kissing up to me because I am rich and might leave them something". I just absolutely to not want to live the way I see so many boomers living. And I also do not agree that boomers have "worked harder than younger generations and therefore deserve everything that they have". I believe there was a lot of luck involved. Luck about being born at a certain time, in a certain country. I do not believe the wealth that so many boomers have come to expect is due to any "special qualities" that other generations do not share. I think this world has gotten harder and harder, and I think it will be harder still for my grandchildren. The world currencies are equilibrating. The world labor markets will also equilibrate. Other nations are rising, as the US is sinking. Dont get me wrong. I love this country. I still think it's the greatest. IT is just harder for the younger people right now to get ahead and I do not appreciate boomers who had it so much easier. to feel "they have the right" to lecture. This is related to Hawaii because of the large disparities here between the wealth of the older retirees, and the younger people here trying to make it.