@WarOnTheSlugs has been inundating this thread with post after post when a separate thread to discuss inter generational wealth disparity would be a far more appropriate home for this.
Just a few posts in, the OP posted:
"It's so offensive, to be stereotyped as greedy, stupid, selfish women, deliberately ruining society for the next generation, basking in our undeserved riches. Unacceptable."
My posts have been to explain why many younger people feel such resentment towards the Boomer generation, as a whole. The economic facts are undeniable. Social attitudes and the general trend for dismissiveness of younger people's concerns (well demonstrated in many posts here!) are also well-documented. These things are not "prejudices", they are established factual phenomena.
Boomers - as a cohort - have been exceptionally greedy and selfish. Have made life more impoverished for future generations than needed to be the case: other policy choices for completely foreseen problems were available. They do tend to be disparaging to younger people, have a total inability/ refusal to understand the struggles they face which are objectively proven to be much more difficult and give them fewer opportunities to become successful, for home ownership, for social mobility, for affluent retirements, for working abroad etc... than they had themselves. Younger people are faced with a much higher cost of living relative to salaries, a much higher tax burden, a much more uncertain future, crumbling infrastructure, failing services, underfunded education, all for far more tax than Boomers paid.
This is fact.
And many here seem to be unwilling to accept that as a generation, you are responsible for the situation you leave behind for your children. The Government of the day can only operate within the possibilities that global economics/ geopolitics dictates at the time however, things in the UK are much worse for current adults and likely those who are children now when they become adults, as a direct result of choices that this cohort made. Largely for their own benefit, when it was crystal clear at the time that not acting on these issues when it should have been done would impoverish their children and grandchildren.
That is why there is such a high level of intergenerational inequality in the UK. It's a problem in many advanced economies because economic conditions globally are less favourable now, yet many countries who also foresaw this acted upon it: their Boomer generations did something to ensure a decent future for children and grandchildren, as much as one can. They invested in infrastructure and power generation and education and a sustainable healthcare model and social care model and a fair tax system operated on a household basis without the distortions we have and decent childcare systems and pension systems that aren't ponzi schemes and paid taxes commensurate to what their own costs to the state would be over their lifetimes.
The refusal to accept that Boomers did not do enough - anywhere near enough - to ensure decent living standards for those following behind, and the self-righteous blaming of those who are younger for not being able to fix all of the foreseeable and foreseen problems they allowed to come to fruition, is the reason for resentment.
Someone upthread stated that more older people vote. I countered that younger people have nobody to vote for because no political party is proposing policies that will help younger people (particularly adults in their late 30s/ 40s who have been hammered the worst: graduating in the global financial crisis, no real-terms pay growth whatsoever during their working lives, then Covid, Brexit, mortgage hikes, increased taxes...).
Perhaps if older people genuinely DO care about the prospects of their children and grandchildren, they would be pressuring politicians to do something to help the Millenial cohort that have been royally stitched up? To introduce policies to help them? Are any of you who proclaim how it's not your fault and you wanted a better life for future generations doing anything to campaign for policies to help us?