23 July

As the boomers have aged, their enormous demographic clout has gradually removed all of the public services they benefited from, for free, in education, health care, energy etc. That’s what the privatisation push was. Once they’d milked the rest of us for those free benefits for themselves, they also wanted to avoid tax as they aged, to pay for ongoing public services. The pension age is of course next. Many of them retired at 55, on a full salary for the rest of their lives. Not those who came after. This is also kidult culture, folks. Me me me is the countercultural revolution. This is Woodstock culture, which was always full of shit, preaching world peace and love and equality, while becoming far and away the richest generation in world history, gorging themselves on the institutions they affected to despise in their anti-establishment youth. Youth have crazy ideas, you just expect them to grow out of them. The young today are like peasants, priced out of basics like housing, hammered for basics like education. While their elders are on permanent recreational gap years, travelling the globe in lifestyle retirements with enormous tax-free super nest eggs. This is what happens when you replace stages of life, with mutual responsibilities to each other, with ‘living your best life’ permanent adolescence. It’s a culture. The individuals are lovely people.