Millennials Can't Wait for Baby-Boomer to Die

Generation Z and Generation A will probably feel the same way about the Millennials in forty years! But the Millennials have ten thousand good reasons to want the old decision-makers dead. Dead and buried, and their policies and truly-bizarre views of reality, entirely forgotten. It is no exaggeration to say the Baby-Boomers and the generation previous fucked up royally, made bad choices in all aspects of economic, political and social reform. Those two generations created a 21st Century full of nonsense ideas, with no economic opportunity for tens of millions of people. Those bad choice may lead to a world economic Depression far worse than the Great Depression of 1929 to 1939. Wealth has been firmly concentrated in the upper .001%. And those oligarchs are not creating tens of millions of good jobs. They hoarding the piles of cash, for reasons no rational human can understand. For no reason at all, except that they can. The most wealthy have now secured wealth to make billionaires of the children, grand-children and great-great grandchildren. The rest of us are up the creek without a paddle. Without even a boat. Do not imagine the wealth will be spread evenly among all the little people when our current crop of billionaires kick the bucket.

The failing of the Millennials is their lack of preparation. Most have made no preparation for a global economic crash. They have no considered that a looming possibility. Most act as if our economic system is basically OK and will continue to function, with minor ups and downs. All that goes to hell when U.S. dollars become worthless pieces of toilet paper.

Many Millennials hold little perspective of human history, and therefore, their imaginations do not conceive large, global disasters, which trap hundreds of millions of people in poverty.

Poverty, with no way out. Even drug-lords and mafia bosses will struggle. No customers.

The Big Crash may or may not happen. The point is: Our entire civilization is much more fragile than most people believe. It is not a self-contained, self-repairing ecosystem. Unlike a forest, our civilization will not survive a massive wildfire, and bounce back. And, unlike natural eco-systems, we have specific power-groups, people in charge who want to stay in charge. When those people make a string of bad choices, tens of millions of people suffer. As in Taiwan, where 23.5 million people get to suffer under the oppression of mainland China.

As in Syria where 17 million people get to die, or flee to any nation which will take them.

Those man-made disaster are not limited to distant place. As with Taiwan, a completely modern, wealthy piece of real estate, and all people living on the real estate, get to suffer from the short-sighted decisions of world leaders. Millennials assume such things cannot happen here, in the United States. Well, children: It did happen. Covid, and out governments response to Covid, and the economic disasters caused by Covid, are each bad choices of government leaders. Worse, the destruction of many small businesses, moved all that wealth and property into the pockets of corporations. And, big real estate, The Blackstone Group, is buying up thousands of foreclosed homes, making it impossible for local families to buy those home. They out-bid every local family, or local real estate firm, by $1.

This prevents thousand of people from owning homes. You now get to pay rent to a huge corporation, instead of owning your own home. And our government is all for that.

Millennials assume when the Old Guard is tucked quietly in their graves, or drugged-up in nursing homes, Millennial leaders will rush forth with specific, cohesive and glorious plans. Plan to save our skins and save our bank accounts. Plans for everything in which their parents, grand-parents and great-grand-parents failed so miserably.

Talking with even the smartest of our current 30 and 40 years olds... They got nothing. A bag full of good ideas. Laws to axe. Laws to create. There exist social and political geniuses within this generation, but none have gained a large enough following, a critical mass, to create the worthwhile and fundamental changes they have invented. And few have comprehensive plan in specific arenas.

For example: How do we keep capitalism alive, and make it work well, and consistently well for 300, 400 or 500 million people? Right now, it works well for perhaps, at best, 20 or 30 million people in the United States. How do we create a social environment where children are born into responsible families? Not dumped into welfare systems, or living with this or that struggling single parent? How do we get our U.S. manufacturing back from China, so people in the U.S. gladly buy products made by their own fellow citizens, so those billions of dollars stay in the U.S. and are used and enjoyed by U.S. citizens?

I have heard not one 25-year-old offer solutions to these problems, or offer any cohesive, viable plan for any long-term reforms for the way we run our civilization. Millennials need to think all the problems through. If not, they will wing-it, as previous generations and fuck-up as royally and completely as previous generations.