J. Rocker

Boomers Broke the Ladder: How One Generation Rigged the Economy and Left You the Bill a.co/d/07y8qTEw

@lu_regolo_shoes @Deana_BG @NinaPanickssery Ill give you a line from the book. "Refusing to understand a system that is harming your children because understanding it would require admitting complicity — that is its own kind of failure." They don't want to understand. But you can. Dont be angry. Try to understand.

@J_offtheRocker @Deana_BG @NinaPanickssery Id like to read it!!! Ive been trying to understand boomers since i was a teen!

Genuinely curious—why don’t more people use their own parents/kid’s grandparents for childcare as opposed to daycare/preschool/nannies (which seem more common)? Is it common for boomer grandparents to show disinterest in their grandchildren?

@DejaVuMemory @NinaPanickssery Both are true. Boomers generally feel like they deserve everything and they owe no one anything. That's why new parents have to pay for childcare. That's the answer to his question.

@J_offtheRocker @NinaPanickssery They don’t want to be bothered or don’t owe you child care??

@aneggopolis @Deana_BG @NinaPanickssery Sad but true.

@Deana_BG @J_offtheRocker @NinaPanickssery most boomers hated being parents.

@lazhonguoren @NinaPanickssery It's sad but not uncommon.

@J_offtheRocker @NinaPanickssery It is happening to me too. They moved away and esch time they come back for 2 days they want us to take care of them. Personnaly I have closed my heart to them.

@EchoesOfGr @schuttsm I wrote a book so the younger gens can have the facts and data to explain their frustrations instead of getting depressed. Also, started a newsletter that explains how to use AI and get into trades work to help the young get into an AI resistant job fields. How about u?

@J_offtheRocker @schuttsm What are you doing about it other than crying on the internet

I regret to inform you that the boomers are at it again

@Deana_BG @NinaPanickssery Generalizations based on not just my anecdotal situation but on numbers, and facts shape culture and societies. I wrote a book on it. The data describes the boomer culture and attitudes. The exception is not the rule. And thank you sincerely but don't feel sorry. I'm grateful.

@J_offtheRocker @NinaPanickssery That’s a ridiculous generalization but I’m sorry if your parents or in laws are like that

@KimPrather1 @NinaPanickssery Bless you guys 🙏. Certainly where people live matters culturely. Unfortunately in many areas of the states this is rare. Share as much as you can about the joys of being around and helping with grandchildren especially with your age group. Your stories matter.

@J_offtheRocker @NinaPanickssery Not true where I live (Deep South). We can’t wait to be grandparents and enjoy spending as much time as possible with our grandchildren. I only know a few who don’t.

@LibertyCappy The average age of a homebuyer in 2024 was 56. Young people can't afford homes. Priced out.

I am a millennial. When I was a kid in the late 80s the average first time homebuyer was 29. Today the average first time homebuyer is 40. This is what reckless government spending does. Everything is expensive and Americans are broke. Both parties have sold us out.

@KathyParr101 Mathematics and logic are an orchestrated narrative, and propaganda campaign.

This is part of an orchestrated narrative, designed to denigrate pensions and the triple lock. It's a deliberate propaganda campaign which is all over Twitter and the MSM. Ignore the vicious little twerp.

@RupertMyers When you realize how dim and how many boomers actually think this way, the state of the world starts to make A LOT more sense.

This Sandy Tregent character is remarkably dim

@PeptideDesk @farzyness Ok I'm now convinced I'm autistic. Thanks.

@farzyness there’s also no social penalty for being thorough with AI. no eye rolls, no “you already explained that,” no patience running out. for autistic individuals who’ve been socially penalized for depth and intensity their whole lives, that’s not a small thing.

Autistic people love AI because AI is the only thing that can reliably keep up with them.

@nihilist9890 @annaroseridgway It's essentially social security. Boomers voting to give themselves a raise to combat the inflation they caused by the ponzi scheme they created and benefit from, at the expense of the young working class who had nothing to do with the decisions being made the last 40 years.

@annaroseridgway American here. What is this triple lock I keep hearing about?

pensioners on twitter when you suggest maybe the triple lock is unsustainable and giving handouts to millionaire pensioners is probably a bit silly

@annaroseridgway @lukerobertblack Trying to tell a child NO, who's always gotten their way in life, tends to be met with a tantrum and name calling. We're witnessing this on a generational level.

@ChiefPieEater The vast majority of that money will go to Healthcare, taxes and ultimately the government. It's already happening. The whole monetary system (pyramid scheme) will collapse when the boomers aren't here to kick the can down the road any longer. Younger gens will not see boomer $

This makes the "Boomers" are to blame mob look very stupid. There is £7tn of inheritance that will trickle down, with Government looking at an IHT windfall. theprivateoffice.com/insights/great…

@moonchild23580 Girl walks in your general direction for 3 seconds. Walks back to her girlfriends and claims she just hit on you. 🤦

Do you boys purposely ignore hints Or are you actually clueless??

@TukiFromKL Yup. Its the title of my book. Boomers broke the ladder. Women are not interested in dating broke men. The broke men are tired from working multiple jobs. Their are other problems but this one is pretty obvious.

🚨 do you understand what the economy just did to an entire generation's love life.. over two-thirds of young adults aren't dating regularly.. and if trends continue one in three will never get married.. this isn't a dating problem.. it's a math problem.. in 1980 the average home cost 3x the median salary.. today it's 8x.. rent takes 40-50% of a young person's income before they've bought groceries.. the average american under 30 has $21,000 in student debt and $5,000 in credit card debt.. and you're wondering why they're not going on dinner dates.. their grandparents bought a house on a single factory salary at 22.. got married at 23.. had kids by 25.. not because they were more romantic.. but because the economy let them.. a first date in 1985 cost you a movie and a burger.. a first date in 2026 costs you a $60 uber.. $80 dinner.. and the emotional bandwidth of someone working two jobs who hasn't had a day off in three weeks.. companies killed pensions.. killed job security.. killed the 40-hour work week.. created a generation that can't plan past next month's rent.. and now the washington post is writing about them like they chose loneliness.. nobody stopped wanting love.. they just can't afford the life that comes with it.. and the generation that pulled the ladder up is writing articles asking why nobody's climbing.

This is how the vast majority of boomers think. It's definitely how they vote. This explains why the world is in the state It's in. And in their words, it's only going to get worse.

@yarwoodwilliam It's not sustainable. But you see boomers only need the ponzi scheme to work for another 10-15 years. Once they are gone, the house of cards can collapse in on itself, and their children and grandchildren will deal with the mess. Boomer logic.

The welfare bill is set to be £406bn by the end of this decade. For some context, £406 billion is equivalent to the lifetime taxes of about 317,800 households. Total government expenditure is projected to hit over £1.5trillion, meaning 25.1% of all public spending will be swallowed by welfare by the end of this Parliament. Debt meanwhile is projected to stand at approximately £3.5 trillion by the end of the decade with hundreds of billions to be spent on debt interest alone. Meanwhile, the tax burden is projected to exceed 37% of GDP or reach 38% of national income by the end of the decade breaking the post-war record. I challenge anyone to explain to me how any of this is sustainable.