Generally, you’ll see terms like “demographic collapse” instead, but yeah basically.
A lot of people were born during the immediate post-WWII years. Those people are now dying. Cause and effect.
Death Boom sounds cooler
I agree 💀
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Yes indeed
I mean, thats kind of taking the religious route.
Unless you’re claiming the greatest generation is coming back from the dead as zombies just to kill their children.
…which is totally a thing they would do.
Who’d have thought me being a tosser and replying to the wrong comment would spark such a theological debate!
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Kinda the ultimate name for a boomer shooter. And I just now realised how easily misinterpreted that name can be, had never thought of the “boomer” part as the generational term. It has no connection to that but I absolutely think many people think it does.
Death Boom sounds cool but the opposite would be “Birth Boom”.
I think it should be “Corpse Boom”.
I remember seeing “papy boom” in some French school books.
Darth Boomer: “No… I am your father.”
Luke Y-walker: “No, that’s not true! That’s impossible!”
It sounds like Guile’s special move for when someone’s royally pissed him off.
Sick band name
But is there something cooler?
Corpse boom?
Boomer doom boom?
Morpheus toon makes room for the death boom.
Also ‘boom’ sounds a lot more fun, like a party with games or refreshments.
Boomer death death boom.
It’s going to be a lot cooler, too… On average these people have destroyed the world at a higher rate than those before them.
To an extent, COVID hit some of the oldest boomers - it was a little early, if we had held of COVID for another 10 years it definitely would have been a prime boomer expiration accelerator.
As things are, my parents are some of the earliest boomers and they’re just turning 80. The death-rate boom should be picking up speed soon. Too bad they’re giving all their acumumulated wealth to the healthcare industry instead of their kids.
We just want them to give us their houses.
Nah, they have a reverse mortgage on them so you’ll need to buy them at further inflated prices because of it. Your inheritance was just debt and crippling depression.
Best we can do is a huge wave of reverse mortgages and Medicaid seizures due to end of life medical bills.
The baby boom was ten years or so. The death boom is more spread out…people start dying in their 60s and can live into their 90s. So figure 30 years or so for the “boom.” Much harder to notice.
We had one in 2020 and 2021
It has already started.
Yup.
Americans can’t afford nursing homes and elder care.
So, afraid death it is. Hope there’s no reverse mortgage for any of you to deal with.
Yes of course. The aging population phenomenon is well-documented. In Japan, it has been a matter of political discussion for decades. The U.S. has (until recently) relied on immigration to offset the declining birth rate.
Starts with a “oh shit these old people have expensive healthcare needs!”, proceeds to “how the hell are we going to pay for their elder benefits?” (Social Security in the US), and eventually to “even their houses got gobbled up by the banks and private capital when they had to reverse mortgage their homes to pay off their medical bills and live out their final days…”
We can only fucking hope…
The worst part of WWIII will be the second wave boomers, because they’ll trigger WWIV when they age out of relevancy.
We generally call those wars and plagues.
Famines.
Pestilence, even
Is there any football on tonight? Is my gun oiled up? Are we bombing brown people? YEE HAAAAAAW
A baby is the product of birth, the product of death is a corpse, so it’d be a corpse bloom.
I think the deaths are a little more spread out.
Retirement is more of a synchronized event, because folks generally retire around the same age…
People are generally born at the same age too.
Yes, but the point is their dying is more of a distribution.
Unless it’s Cities Skylines. Then they all die at the same exact moment and your entire network gets slammed with hearses unable to get anywhere.
LOL.
But to be fair, OP did not specify whether it’s Cyties Skylines or not.
But OP is imagining they’ll all die at the same time too.
I like to call them death waves because that is what we called them in Cities Skylines.
Hating on everyone from a race or gender: ❌️
Hating on everyone from a generation: 👌
The ruling class owned and controlled media has been peddling intergenerational conflict for decades, and millenials remember it well, all of the news articles about how millenials are causing all of society’s problems.
We need to realize that it was always a psyop to divide us. From boomers to zoomers, the working class must stand together in solidarity against the elite pedophile billionaire cabal running the planet.
We need to come together but in terms of convincing the Baby Boomers, it’s a server uphill battle that’ll get worse as they age. They had so much environmental lead that as they age it’s seeping out form their bones. I don’t know if there’s more recent studies on it but it’s not NOT having an effect.
There are already boomers who are on our side. Yeah, the majority have been sucking down propaganda all their lives and are probably a lost cause, but pushing anti-boomer messaging doesn’t do anything to help them realize the problems in society are caused by the ruling class, it just makes them feel attacked and defensive, and people like that are more likely to withdraw and become more extreme and set in their ways.
Our messaging should be consistently anti-ruling class and focused on cost of living and that sort of thing. Conservative/reactionary boomers are just useful idiots playing the role of both victim and perpetrator, they just do what they’re told and repeat propaganda fed to them.
I made some parody comments about the ruling class in some other threads, and I thought this response was to one of those.
Do you disagree? If so, why? Curious to hear your thoughts.
People write those articles because the readers want to believe it. They write the article. They get positive reviews or, since most news moved to the internet, clicks. As people read such articles, they come to believe in it and will be interested in more such articles in the future.
The people who do the research and polling on generational opinions also are more likely to continue when it brings them attention.
It’s simple human nature and some activities getting rewarded and therefore are repeated. It requires no secret cabal nor centralized control. It’s driven by the invisible hand and societal evolution.
Don’t worry, you’ll be able to censor stuff like that if your guys get power.
I think this is a bit of a misunderstanding, I don’t believe that there’s some centralized control or secret society going on, but the problem is the “invisible hand” operates to the benefit of those with power and wealth, and never against them.
It’s well known that the press has to keep special interest groups happy in return for access, for example, and that is one of the reasons that Israel is spared from critique in the mainstream press. It’s a far more complex system than just some shadowy group deciding what to cover, but rather a system of perverse incentives that all works to keep the powerful in power and to make the wealthy wealthier.
It doesn’t really matter why the media has/does push intergenerational warfare, ultimately - just that they do, and that benefits the ruling class to the detriment of working class solidarity.
Not sure who “you guys” is referring to, but I am absolutely against censorship and all kinds of authoritarianism and coercion.
