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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

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      I agree with parts of this, but strongly disagree with the "for", which implies causality The boomers accumulated a fair bit of wealth because, largely, they had luck to be born (a) during the early stages of a huge post war expansion, (b) before the progs regulated away growthhttps://twitter.com/strnglft/status/1290285507427962880 …

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      America's problem now is almost precisely that this intergenerational prosperity was forcibly kneecapped for a relative one-time offer for massive wealth accrual for a single generation, policies downwind of this are all some form of cope.
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

      2/ Simple narratives with villains and victims are often two simple. Young Europeans aren't making tons of wealth right now either. Is that because American boomers "stole" it from them? No. In fact "not making tons of wealth" is the default of mankind. >>>

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

      3/ You need a lot of things to go right to accumulate wealth. - you need to have low regulation / low taxes, so that you can do things and reap the rewards - you need to work hard - it helps to not have much competition

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

      4/ Boomers were born into a world with relatively low regulation, relatively low taxes, and foreign competition decimated by World War II. Europeans, Japanese, and others worked very hard among the rubble, shipped that money here to buy stuff to rebuild with.

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

          5/ During the time when America was doing great, the boomers came of age, and it was hard NOT to trip over a pile of money and do OK. People with no skills could get union jobs building cars, etc.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

          6/ But now taxes and regulations have grown, foreign competition has grown (this is the normal state - having foreign nations devastated by wars is abnormal!), and academics, gov bureaucrats and other parasites have bogged down the economy.

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

          7/ So, there is an underlying narrative that explains both how boomers did pretty well, and how the kids are not doing so well ... but it's not remotely as simple as "prosperity [ for kids ] was kneecapped for a one-time offer for massive wealth accrual for a single generation"

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

          8/ the causality flows from the underlying history to - boomers doing well - zoomers doing less well the causality does NOT flow from boomers doing well to zoomers doing less well

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

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          9/ sure, but that's mostly midwits repeating advice that worked for them, not an intentional act of sabotage against their own children intended to effect wealth transfer my argument is "crap happened, and 'boomers' as a whole aren't conspiring villains" https://twitter.com/DeanBradleySFF/status/1290323631315222534 …

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