MY THOUGHTS ON BOOMERS!

Stefan Molyneux

In this episode, I explore the defining characteristics of the Baby Boomer generation, drawing from personal insights rather than statistics. I reflect on generational trauma, particularly my mother's experiences during and after World War II in Germany, and how these events shape collective behaviors within affected generations. The discussion transitions to the ethical implications of Boomers' attitudes towards younger generations, addressing the hypocrisy in their advocacy for personal responsibility while failing to practice what they preach. I examine the disconnect between the financial security many Boomers enjoy and their demand for social benefits from a younger, less fortunate generation, raising questions of moral accountability. By analyzing voting patterns and the need for a reevaluation of values, I suggest that fostering honest dialogue between generations can enhance mutual understanding and encourage shared responsibility for societal progress.  SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON X! https://x.com/StefanMolyneux  Follow me on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/@freedomain1  GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND THE FULL AUDIOBOOK! https://peacefulparenting.com/  Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!  Subscribers get 12 HOURS on the "Truth About the French Revolution," multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material - as well as AIs for Real-Time Relationships, Bitcoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-In Shows!  You also receive private livestreams, HUNDREDS of exclusive premium shows, early release podcasts, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more!  See you soon! https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2025

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00:00Hey everybody, hope you're doing well, it's the Fan Molyneux, 27th of September 2025,

00:08in our Lord's Year of Science Fiction, and I wanted to talk about Da Boomers, Da Boomers,

00:171945, birth to 1965, and just, this is not statistical, this is not data-driven,

00:27this is just sort of my experience. One of the good things about getting older is you just have

00:34gathered so much experience that you understand things that you're just not going to understand

00:39as much when you're younger, right? You get it. So, sorry, a bit redundant. So, with regards to the

00:44Boomers, if you have a generation that has particular characteristics, it's more difficult

00:52to ascribe moral responsibility to each individual, right? So, for instance, if you look at my

01:00mother's generation, the children who were born shortly before the Second World War in Germany,

01:06they had particular traumas, as did, of course, a lot of the people in other countries, but,

01:12you know, Germany and Japan were sort of bombed end-to-end. And so, the kids had a set of

01:19characteristics around trauma. Like, I could never quite understand why my mother and her relatives

01:24were just so strange, just so bizarre, and all of that. And, of course, we understand now,

01:33sort of looking back, not only the trauma of the war, but the trauma that happened to the population

01:39after the war was staggering. How much of the rape of the Germans, the destruction of the Germans,

01:48the starvation of the Germans, like, just wretched. And again, you know, you can say,

01:52well, but Germany started the war, and so on. It's like, yeah, but my mom didn't, right? She was

01:56just a little kid. So, when you look at particular generations, and they have very specific

02:03characteristics, there must be something that affected all the generation, and therefore,

02:11it's harder to blame each specific individual, if that makes sense. Is it fair to blame my mother's

02:21generation for being estranged? It is not fair, because they all went through the war. And because

02:29they went through the war, that is insanely traumatic. And especially, again, they underappreciated

02:36what happened to the Germans after the, well, at the end and after the war, where all the women from

02:43like 8 to 80, and I'm sure somewhere outside of that range, too, were, you know, repeatedly raped by

02:48Russian soldiers, and starvation, and all of the horrible things that happened. And so, you can't

02:56blame specific individuals for that which is inflicted on a generation as a whole, and produces those

03:04kinds of specific characteristics. Collective trauma can't be laid at the feet of particular

03:11individuals, particularly, of course, when they're children. So, with regards to all of that,

03:18that's important to remember. That's very important to remember. And so, blaming the boomers when the

03:25boomers all share particular characteristics is unfair, because if there's something in the air,

03:31you can't blame these specific individuals. So, sorry, I know that that's a bit repetitive,

03:36but it's important to make that point. But there's an exception to that, as well.

03:42There is an exception to that, as well. The exception, and I think why people get so particularly

03:48bothered by the boomers, is that the exception to that rule is if the boomers, or not the boomers in

03:57particular, but if there's a generation that demands of its offspring particular values that it refuses

04:05to live by itself, then you have reason for criticism. So, if the boomers were to say to the

04:18younger generation, you have to live within your means, you have to be responsible, don't get into

04:22debt, and then the boomers keep voting for more and more government spending without wanting to pay

04:26the requisite taxes to cover those, resulting in deficits and debt and unfunded liabilities,

04:32then that's a different matter. In other words, just about everything, and I genuinely mean this,

04:39and again, I'm not talking about violence, I'm talking about sort of mental attitudes and so on,

04:43just about everything is forgivable, except hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is the one unforgivable sin.

04:52For the simple reason, or maybe it's simple, maybe it's not, but for the reason that hypocrisy is a

04:59clear indication that you know the values that you're talking about. You respect and treasure the

05:09values that you're talking about, and therefore, you cannot rationally or reasonably blame people

05:15for not pursuing those values or for failing those values. So, boomers said to young people as a whole

05:27that ignorance of the law is no excuse, don't get into debt, be responsible, and you have to accept

05:35the negative consequences of your own bad behavior. If I tell you, don't take the cookie, and you take

05:45the cookie, then you will be punished. And that punishment is just and right and fair and good,

05:52and if you don't study for the test, then you will have to, you have to fail the test, and that means

06:01that you might in fact be stuck in that particular grade for another year. You might be held back and

06:08lose an entire year of your life. That's a very, very big deal. To lose an entire year of your life

06:14is a very, very big deal. And if you didn't save for it, then you can't afford it, then you shouldn't

06:19buy it. You know, all of these things. So, that, to me, is the big problem with the boomers. And you

06:26could sort of argue that they gave to their children the lectures that the cash-starved

06:33greatest generation, right, those who went through the Great Depression, Second World War, and, you know,

06:39all of that sort of stuff, and if old enough, even the First World War. But they gave the lectures

06:45that they had received from the greatest generation, which was the last pragmatic generation

06:50of the West, the last sensible, objective, empirical, results-based pragmatic generation

06:55that lived in the West. So, they gave the lectures to the young that they had received from their

07:03elders, but did not apply the same rules to themselves. And they were very keen on all of

07:12the consequentialist ethics of their elders. If you can't afford it, don't buy it. Don't get into

07:19debt, right? And you have to be responsible. And you have no one to blame but yourself. And if you're

07:25not responsible, then you have to suffer the negative consequences. And I will punish you

07:31for failing to listen and failing to be good and failing to be practical and failing to be sensible

07:35and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I said on X that evil

07:40is when you use the principles of virtue against the virtuous, right? So, when you say to people,

07:47well, you have to be responsible, and then you exclude yourself from all consequences, right? So,

07:53you say to a little kid, if you fail to save up for the toy, then you don't get the toy. If you fail

08:00to study for the exam, you fail. If you fail enough, you get help back a year. You've no one

08:04to blame but yourself, and so on, right? So, if pragmatic consequentialism is used and

08:13responsibility is applied and inflicted on kids, on kids, then consequentialism should be applied to

08:20adults, right? I mean, if a seven-year-old who failed to study for a test fails the test, you say,

08:25well, you should have studied, even if that kid is in a situation where studying is, you know,

08:31fairly impossible because of chaos or violence or addiction or dysfunction or whatever it is,

08:36yelling and fighting at home, well, it doesn't matter, right? You're still 100% responsible,

08:42and you fail just like everyone else. So, the kid who's got a good home life and parents who are

08:48knowledgeable and encouraging, he fails if he fails the test, as does the kid whose parents are

08:54the drunken, drug addicts, irresponsible, yelling, screaming, violent, it doesn't matter,

09:00right? It's judged by the same standard. I mean, I understand that. I understand that

09:04because facts are facts, but what it's saying is that harshness and an inability to study through

09:12no fault of your own, right? Because it's not like, I mean, if you're a, I understand you've got

09:15to have a doctor. Your doctor's got to know their stuff, right? You can't just make up, oh, well,

09:20if you have a drug addiction, we're going to pass you because drug addiction is tough because being

09:25an adult and studying to be a doctor is all voluntary chosen stuff, right? So, I get all

09:30of that. And we're talking kids here. Kids don't choose their families, but they are blamed for the

09:34effects of their families, which is bad. So, the issue with the boomers is that they inflicted ethics

09:46on their children that they would never submit to themselves as adults. So, the boomers say

09:57things like, like if you were to say to the boomers, look, we, as you'd have to, like in any sort of

10:03sane system, you'd have to say to the boomers, look, um, we don't have the money to pay your

10:11retirement benefits and your healthcare and all of it. We just, we don't have the money. The money's,

10:16my money's not there. And they would say, well, that's unfair because we paid into the system.

10:24But that doesn't, that doesn't mean much. And the boomers would say that too.

10:30So, let's say that you studied for an exam, but still failed. If you failed the exam and you said,

10:39but I studied, they'd say, well, you didn't study well enough or you didn't study the right thing or

10:45you didn't practice enough or you didn't study enough at all, right? You'd still fail. Even if

10:51you, quote, did the right thing, you still failed. Or even if you studied diligently and still failed,

10:57they'll say, well, maybe you're just dumb. You still fail, right? Even if you did all the right

11:02things, even if you did have a tutor and study and go over the material and ask the teacher for extra

11:08help and, right, you did all that and you still failed, say, well, maybe math is just not for you

11:12or maybe you don't have a math brain or maybe you're not that smart or whatever. You still fail,

11:15right? And they would drop you down to the basic courses and all of that. When I was a kid,

11:19I was basic, intermediate, and advanced. So, doing the right thing does not guarantee a good

11:26outcome. So, if you're a kid, you're working in a hardware store, and the hardware store goes out of

11:37business, and you say, but I was working hard. I did all the right things. And, you know, maybe you

11:40don't get your last paycheck or two or so because they're bankrupt or whatever, right? Well, they'd

11:44say, well, that's a real shame. That's a real shame. You did all the right things, but, you know,

11:49that's the way the cookie crumbles, right? Sometimes you do all the right things and bad things happen.

11:55If you are the victim of a con, right? If you're the victim of a con, and some guy says,

12:08oh, give me $100, and I'll give you $200 in a month, and you give the guy the $200,

12:18and then you get a receipt, right? And then there's guys nowhere to be found in a month,

12:25then what would the boomers generally say? They'd say, well, yeah, he was wrong, but you were dumb.

12:31Yeah, he was wrong to offer you $200 for $100. But you also, you know, if something seems too good

12:36to be true, it probably is, and you should be skeptical, and yeah, maybe the guy should be

12:40thrown in jail, but you also shouldn't have fallen for such an obvious con.

12:44And if you could get your money back, maybe the boomers would support that, and they'd say,

12:49well, you know, if we arrest the guy, and he's got all the money in the suitcase, we should go back,

12:52give it back to everyone who has a receipt, sure. But they would also say that it's buyer beware,

13:00and if something seems too good to be true, and you've got to be skeptical, and so on.

13:04And they wouldn't say, if you, at the age of 30, let's say, gave $1,000 to someone who said,

13:10I'll give you $2,000 in a month, they'd say, oh, come on, like,

13:14nobody provides that return on investment, you should be skeptical. And while what the guy did

13:18was wrong, you're not innocent in the matter. And they might even go far, so far as to say,

13:23well, this will teach you a lesson, right, which is not to fall for scams, right? That's how the

13:29boomers in general would respond and react. So that's the question, is the boomers were also raised,

13:38you know, you're born in 1945. So you're 20 in 1965, you're born in 47, you're 18, you're born in

13:461950, you're 15 at the age of, at 1965. And, you know, in the 60s was a massive counterrevolution

13:55against government. Government is a ripoff. And a lot of it was driven, of course, by the fact that

14:02the American government was opposing the communists in Korea and Vietnam. But there was, you know,

14:08stick it to the man, sex, drugs, and rock and roll, be a rebel, don't trust the government,

14:12I don't trust anyone over 30, hope I die before I get old, all that kind of stuff, right?

14:16So you would have been exposed, whether you directly participated, it is not particularly

14:20relevant or important, but you would have directly been exposed to foundational criticisms

14:26of the government. There was not much blind patriotism in the 1960s. Rebellions on campuses,

14:36and everyone's a fascist, and we need more free speech, and government and corporations are in bed

14:42together, and the military-industrial complex, and, right? So there was all of that. It's a big deal.

14:49So people can't, in the boomer generation, they can't say, now, maybe, of course, if you're born in

14:571965, then you're zero to one in 1965. So I get all of that. But then when you grew up, you still

15:04had the backwards history of the 60s. So you're born in 65, then you're 15 in 1980, but you still have

15:11the whole 60s thing, right? You'd still be aware of the whole 60s. It was still in the rear view.

15:15So that's really the question for me with the boomers, is not, were they propagandized? Sure,

15:22sure they were. Sure they were. I mean, they were propagandized a lot less than the current

15:27generation, and certainly the males in the current generation are very skeptical of power. The females

15:34are leftist and socialist for the most part, but the males were able to resist that, and in fact,

15:40go the other direction. And part of that, of course, is memes and the internet and Pepe and

15:46all that kind of stuff. But there was a lot of counterculture. It was called the counterculture,

15:52right, in the 1960s. It went against the dominant culture. Don't trust the man, don't trust the

15:56state, blah, blah, blah, right? Now, I think that what the socialist meant was don't trust the current

16:00state. We'll give you a much better one that's way bigger, but whatever, right? I mean, there was still

16:04a pushback against sort of dominant narratives in the boomer generation, and the internet was full

16:12of books that were very skeptical of the government, and hostile towards the government in many ways.

16:19So, when the boomers say, we paid into the system when they were raised on, the system sucks and is

16:29corrupt, and is full of liars and cheats, and is a con, right? They can't say, we did everything

16:39right, and we enforced the doctrine that if you do everything right, you should get a good outcome.

16:47I mean, certainly, when I was younger, and worked hard, and had a good resume, and so on,

16:54if there was a recession, the boomers didn't hugely sympathize. It was like, well, you know,

17:00the economy's up, the economy's down, and so what does it, I mean, what does it really matter,

17:06right? It all evens out in the end, blah, blah, blah, right? But there wasn't a huge amount of

17:09sympathy, even if you do everything right. And if you buy a stock, and the stock crashes to zero,

17:20a company goes out of business, just a bunch of worthless wallpaper, then it was like, well,

17:24you know, but those are the risks, right? There's an upside, and there's a downside. Those are the

17:28risks. So, for me, the issue with the boomers is not that they were propagandized. Sure, they were,

17:34but part of their propaganda came from the greatest generation, which was, you know, be responsible,

17:40don't spend more than you earn, and just because you do everything right doesn't mean that you have

17:44the right to have everything turn out well. I mean, there's lots of people who make the right

17:48health decisions, and exercise, and eat well, and maintain healthy weight, and they still get sick,

17:52right? I mean, there are people who invested into Bankman Freed's, there are people who invested

17:57into Bernie Madoff, there are people who invested into Enron, and they lost their money, right? They

18:02did everything, quote, right. I mean, these places were all approved of by the SEC and had all of the

18:10right paperwork on the walls and all of that, so they did everything right. And again, I'm not saying

18:16that the boomers wouldn't have supported Bankman Freed or Bernie Madoff or whoever the Enron guys

18:21going to jail. I get the fraud and all of that. But they would say, they would also say,

18:26buy and beware. If it seems too good to be true, it almost certainly is too good to be true.

18:32So when the government that they were trained to be skeptical of comes along and says,

18:35we can spend infinity dollars and not tax you too much, what did the boomers say? What did the

18:44boomers say? I remember leading a SOT, save our teachers, when teachers were being underpaid or

18:52their job security was threatened. I remember leading that in junior high school. I led a whole

18:57sort of campaign to support the teachers. And of course, the nihilists, the males, the boys,

19:05they changed SOT, save our teachers, to stretch our tits. That was sort of inevitable in hindsight,

19:12but yeah, that was a... So there was a movement, and that's me as a 14-year-old doing something,

19:19you know, obviously not massive, but you know, it's quite a bit of effort and time. I'm giving

19:24speeches in front of the classes. So that's me as a kid doing some activism to help a course that I

19:35considered right and just and fair and good. So I want you to sort of picture something, right?

19:40So picture the protests that would erupt if Social Security became means-tested, right? So if they

19:50were to say to the boomers, look, there's not enough money, we can't afford to pay you everything,

19:57so if you have savings and assets, we can't give you Social Security. Now, if you have, let's say,

20:02let's say you have, if you have over a million dollars in assets, we can't give you Social

20:08Security. And let's say it's not all real estate, because, you know, getting people to sell their

20:12houses would be a challenge and all that. But let's just say you, if you have half a million

20:16to a million dollars in liquid assets, we can't give you full Social Security, maybe half or a

20:21quarter or something like that. Like, it has to become means-tested. Now, imagine the protests

20:25that would erupt. It would be massive, immense, intense. And you really wouldn't be able to sleep

20:34for the caterwauling of the aged if you made a proposal like that. What's it? The third rail, right?

20:39Social Security. It's the third rail of American politics. You touch it, you die, right? Okay.

20:45Now, were there the same protests when governments were overspending like crazy? Like, we can't give

20:54the kids this much debt. This is terrible. This is wrong. Well, no. Now, I get one would be a policy

21:02announcement, which would be concentrated. The other is a bit more diffuse and so on. But have you ever

21:06seen a protest among the aged when the... And it doesn't have to be, you know, 10,000 people or 100,000

21:13people in Times Square? It could be anything. But when the government votes to raise its debt ceiling

21:20again, right? Is there any particular protest from the aged saying, oh, this is terrible. This is

21:26wrong. It's too much debt for the kids. My kids want to get ahead. I'm, you know, the boomers are

21:31the richest generation in human history, right? So, some of them at least can afford fewer government

21:35benefits and they'll still survive, right? So, that's the issue. I think that's the issue

21:42that they only protest for their own benefits and they refuse to accept the rules as adults

21:48that they inflicted upon their own children, right? And they also do not seem to have,

21:57collectively, a shred of conscience over the certain knowledge that they have that there is

22:05no money to pay them their retirement benefits. And therefore, the only way that their retirement

22:11benefits can be funded is by excessive tax upon their children, which is horrible, grossly unjust,

22:19unfair, immoral. Even by the general standards of statism, it's wrong to vote for yourself

22:27all these benefits, to not accept the level of taxes necessary to pay for them. And then rather

22:37than say, well, we're already in a massive debt and deficit and we voted for all of this and we

22:46refused to protest the massive accumulation of debt and deficits, so then it's wrong for us to drop

22:57hypertaxes on the young in order to get our own benefits. I mean, we've all heard of or imagined or seen

23:04the sort of tragic tale of the drug addict who's so desperate for a fix that he smashes open his daughter's

23:11piggyback, takes out the scant money there and goes hunting for his drug of choice, right? That's, that's

23:18appalling, right? But that's kind of the situation. It's kind of the situation. I mean, imagine an old person

23:25who refused to restrain his spending, ends up half a million or a million dollars in debt, right?

23:34And then goes and steals from his children to pay off his debt. In particular, when his children kept

23:42telling him, stop getting into so much debt, it's going to end badly, it's wrong, it's bad, blah, blah,

23:46blah. I mean, we would consider that pretty monstrous. If there was some, some older person, he got into a

23:54gambling debt. And he had to go to his kids and say, uh, you need to sell your condo to pay my debt

24:02because I can't pay my debt. I mean, if you heard that story, if you heard that story, what would you

24:07say? I mean, if someone called into my show and said, I kept telling my dad not to gamble, not to

24:18overspend, not to go into so much debt. And now he's in debt. And he's demanding that I sell my

24:27condo and sell my car and take the bus and rent in order to pay off his debt. And I'd say, gosh,

24:33that's terrible. He must be horribly in debt. I said, well, no, no, he's got over a million dollars

24:38in assets. Be like, well, what? Hang on. He's got a million dollars in assets, but in order to pay

24:43his debt, you have to sell your house and your condo, why doesn't he just sell his? Why doesn't

24:50he just sell his house? Or why doesn't he just dip into his savings to pay off his debt? No, no,

24:55no, right? But that's the situation is that you've got the wealthiest generation in human history

24:59demanding that a far less wealthy generation pay for their end of life when the youngest generation

25:04is just starting out. And then that kills the birth rate and so on, right? You know, most boomers

25:12have enough money to fund part of their retirement so they could survive with a reduction in benefits,

25:20but they won't. And boomers say, well, I paid into the system. And it's like, but you were told

25:25that the system was corrupt from the sixties onwards. And you told me if I didn't study for

25:33my test and I failed and I lost a year of my life, well, that's just consequentialism,

25:38even though I was a kid. And even though I was in a crazy household where studying was virtually

25:42impossible. And if you are a boomer, could you honestly say, can you honestly say, look,

25:51we had no idea that there was a national debt, like not the first fricking clue. You know,

25:57we're not psychic. You know, it's just like trying to tea leaf, tea read, leave, sorry, tea leaf,

26:02read the Epstein files, right? They're not available, right? So the boomers who watch TV

26:10and read the newspaper and so on, were the boomers aware of the national debt of the deficits of the

26:16unfunded liabilities? Well, sure they were. Of course they were. Everybody knows about the

26:19national debt. I knew about it. My friends and I were laughing about the possibility of ever getting

26:23our pensions when we were in grade eight. So at the age of 12, we knew. I'm not saying everyone

26:32in the class knew, but at least half just laughed at it. So if the 12 year old can figure out it's a

26:38scam, maybe the 40 year old can figure it out too. So if they say, well, I paid into it, it's like paid

26:45into what? You gave your money to the government, which you were told from the 60s onward was corrupt

26:49and nefarious. So you gave your money to the government and then you demanded a lot of

26:55services, a lot of government spending that you didn't want to pay for. So if you demand a lot of

27:02goods and services that you don't want to pay for, the inevitable result is debt, right? If I have a

27:10$2,000 and I order a $5,000 worth of things on Amazon, then I'm minus $4,000. I'm in debt. If I

27:20have to borrow to pay the extra, it's not complicated. So if you want $10 trillion worth of services from

27:27the government, but the government only collects $8 trillion in taxes or whatever, right? Then you're

27:33minus $2 trillion. It's not complicated. And I just had a conversation with the MMT guys. So I know they

27:39have a different take. I'm just, I'm just talking about the general, I mean, MMT only came in sort

27:43of 2010 post, right? So I'm talking about the general boomer understanding of taxes and debts

27:49and deficit and unfunded liabilities. So the unfunded liabilities in America are 10 to 15 times the size

27:57of the entire economy. Yep. Yep. I mean, you wanted a bunch of monopolistic government unions. And so

28:04what happened? Well, when the governments can't pay the wage requirements or the wage demands of

28:09the unions, what they do is they just kick the can down the road by offering them a whole bunch

28:13of retirement benefits that are paid for by people after they're long out of the office and long

28:17debt, right? So you wanted all these things, right? You wanted the government to do a whole bunch of

28:21stuff, but you didn't want to pay the taxes for it. And so we have debt. And part of the reason why

28:26you accumulated all your money and resources and assets, oh boomers, is because the government paid

28:33for a bunch of stuff that you didn't have to pay for. And therefore part of the money that you

28:39accumulated was debt based. I mean, a simple example would be that if you vote for socialized

28:45medicine, then your medical bills go down considerably because, yeah, I mean, you're paying taxes, but not

28:52enough to cover the whole system. Otherwise it wouldn't be in debt, right? Wouldn't, there would be no

28:55deficits. So you get a lot of subsidized, which is partially free healthcare and therefore you can

29:02save more money. So part of the assets that you have is based upon the national debt. So what is

29:10the responsible thing to do? The responsible thing to do is to say, okay, look, we're the older

29:15generation. We had 40 years to, we had 50 years to vote or whatever. And this is what we voted for

29:21and it's not worked out. So let's have a rational conversation about what we can cut for what we

29:28take out. And let's make some sacrifices. And in particular, when the young people under COVID

29:36are supposed to sacrifice a year or two of their lives and half their educational achievements and

29:42not have any proms or sports or theater or dances or gatherings or anything like hang out with friends.

29:49So if young people are supposed to sacrifice massive developmental and social milestones,

29:56then the old can't say, well, we just don't recognize the value of sacrifice because the

30:01young was sacrificed for giving a couple of extra months of life potentially to some boomers or old

30:09people who were already living with four comorbidities and had an average death rate from COVID that was

30:15longer than the average lifespan or the death span of the country as a whole.

30:20So when the boomers demand everyone else make sacrifices because of COVID and the young have to

30:25take this vaccine, even though the young are not really threatened by COVID at all, face almost no

30:32risk from COVID, well, you got to take it because otherwise you'll spread even though it wasn't tested

30:36for spreading transmission. So when the old people querulously demand that the young people sacrifice,

30:42then the old people are recognizing the value and virtue of sacrifice. So when the young people say,

30:47listen, we can't afford these taxes, you're going to have to loosen up control over the economy and

30:53you're going to have to give us the opportunity to get into some housing and stuff. And if the old

30:59people say, well, we're not willing to sacrifice anything, well, that's a problem. Then that's hypocrisy,

31:05right? That's hypocrisy. So, and the last thing I'll sort of say about this, I'd love to get your

31:12thoughts on it. But the last thing I'll say about this is that it would actually be super healthy if

31:17the boomers were to get less, fewer subsidies in their old age, because then they couldn't live

31:24these lives as splendid, vainglorious isolation, but they would actually have to sit down with their

31:30kids and say, listen, kids, I'm going to need your help. I might need to move in. Maybe I can't afford this

31:34on my own. And then the kids would say, well, we don't want you to. And they'd say, well, why not?

31:38It's like, well, you know, we're not that close. You spent a lot of time and money on your own.

31:42You didn't really take much interest in your grandkids. And you put me in daycare. And you

31:48could try and break through that sort of shell of avoidance and narcissism that characterizes a lot

31:53of the boomers. And you could actually have some healthy conversations in families. I mean, it would be

31:57great. I mean, painful, I get, but you know, so what, right? I mean, it's painful for kids to be

32:03denied their childhood for the sake of boomer hypochondria. But apparently that was really

32:07good and valuable and important. So pain and sacrifice is really good. But of course, if it's

32:12only good for everyone else and always bad for you, then you can be morally held to account. So

32:17yeah, I would love it if the boomers had fewer subsidized resources and had to have more honest

32:24conversations with family members and actually take some responsibility. It would be really healthy

32:29for them. I mean, they'd end up much happier. I mean, it would be tough, but you know, that's

32:33fine. I mean, it was tough to grow up with the boomers in charge. Um, well, I guess to some degree

32:39it was the greatest generation, the younger, the younger, uh, were, were, were boomers. But yeah,

32:45it's been tough to grow up with boomers in charge. Uh, and they've been fine with that. So it should be

32:49fine the other way. So, and, and of course, if they're not willing to do that, then, um, they can,

32:54they lose all moral authority because if you only inflict moral rules that you'd never accept

32:58yourself, then you're just a complete hypocrite. And I don't think there should be any sympathy

33:03for anything you have or want going forward. So I'd love to know what you think.

33:08Freedomain.com to help out. Take care, my friend. Love you. Bye.

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