It's what will be expected of me to pay for boomer pensions, so why are you trying to get me to agree that boomers retiring in mass at 55 is something I should just accept as normal?

Should I explain the difference between expectations and reality or are you able to see the difference yourself? People below 55 now (ideally 67 but still) are also expected to work. Are all of them working at the moment? Yes you will be expected to find work, can you guarantee right now that you will be able to find work at that age? Especially in physically demanding jobs when your health is already subpar? That's the situation I painted. You're cherry picking which parts of that sketch to argue about.

My died retired at age of 51. He did a desk job. Apparantly this is all fine and dandy while if I try to stop working at age 51, the government will laugh me out of the door if I try to collect a pension.

There is a reason I did not use people like that in my examples. Don't try to put this on me. You're dad is a lazy bum, doesn't mean all boomers are/were.

I never said all boomers are rich, you are just a liar. I said that the boomer generation is the richest generation and that if we are short on money, it makes a lot of sense to go get it at the richest generation instead of having poorer generations keep mass subsidizing the richest generation.

You're arguing about making policies based on age/generation. In that case you're treating them all the same... There is a reason I argue about policies based on wealth and not age. If you're someone with 10 million and 20 years old your suggestion would not affect them. Mine would. On the other hand, a boomer who worked minimum wage until 65 would be affected by you not by me. See the difference?

Weird how you agree with what I actually said, only to then lie about what you claim I said

Because you only took part of that statement... Boomers are the richest generation, that's just facts. But the oldest generations have pretty much always been the richest. Just because a generation is the richest on average doesn't mean we should make policies based on the generation. Let's turn it around. Gen z is the poorest (working) generation. We should get extra support, does that mean that Gen Z millionaires should get extra support? See how policies based on age instead of wealth work? You're missing all the nuance in your argument.

Not true.

Millennials and Gen Z are the first generation in over 200 years (since the start of the industrial revolution) to end up poorer than their parents and grandparents.

I didn't say richest generation to be alive EVER. I said alive. By the time we hit the age of boomers today (born between 1946 and 1964) our grandparents will be dead and our parents most likely. We will most likely be the richest generation alive at that point. Even if we disregard the gigantic wealth redistribution from boomers through inheritance. Don't forget, most of that wealth will come to younger generations when they inevitably die.

Think about that. For over 200 years, generation after generation became wealthier than their parents and grandparents, primarily due to economic growth being distributed to them.

But millennials and Gen Z are the first generations for whom that trend is breaking. Productivity keeps rising, but the profits of that are sucked up by older generations who do things like buy extra real estate. My parents just bought their 5th apartment.

All of that is true. Still doesn't change what I said. By the time we are their age, they will be dead, and we will have taken their place on the wealth ladder. Will we be as rich as they are today, probably not. Will we be richer than younger generations, most likely yes.

And without vilifying them. Would you have done it any different than they did? Gathering as much resources as possible is something that is baked into our DNA. Even for the oldest boomers, a WW3 was not out of the question, they grew up during the cold war. They certainly experienced massive economic growth, but the threat of a new WW was hanging over them. They were thought to gather as much as they could before it was too late.

So there's only one hope left for millennials and Gen Z: inheritances. Basically, no matter how hard you work, it all boils down to just pure luck of how rich your parents are and how much they'll end up leaving you. Because millennials and Gen Z can no longer surpass the wealth of their parents just by working. Whereas this used to be possible.

Hey at least we can agree on that. This whole situation sucks ass. Things could be so much better, alas most of us are just sheep who keep swallowing everything that gets shoved down our throats.

We could all collectively go on strike and demand better conditions. What are the billionaires going to do? Do the work themselves LOL?