Thread: Why Babies Born In 1948 Were The Luckiest

Yes, but they have less time to live now than someone born after them. Hey-ho.

The collapse of sterling two weeks after the new government come to power will make their retirement funds worthless.

Red Karma, on 09 November 2009 - 11:54 AM, said: I thought they just lost 50% of their lifetimes accumulated wealth in equities and 25% (apparently on the way to 40%) of the value of their house, have had their final salary schemes terminated, lost 30% of the value of their currency and are faced with losing much of the rest once the carbon taxes, retirement health care taxes and every other tax kicks in? Or maybe I just dreamed...

The greed of the boomers will crush future generations and force them into poverty and grinding desperation. The old ones should be so proud of what they've achieved in past 60 years. Well done. A masterclass in how consumerism doesn't work.

The original post says that the 1948 generation are going to "take it all with them". Now, this generation may have been lucky, but unless something REALLY big has changed in terms of the rules for entry into heaven or hell, I thought that you definitely couldn't "take it with you"?

cashinmattress, on 09 November 2009 - 01:43 PM, said: Why babies born in 1948 were the luckiest Yep and yep. Yet we lot behind them get finger waggled and brow beaten daily by our silver haired, once hippy, then greed-is-good-yuppie, now champagne socialist boomers. Well, they did win the sperm lottery I suppose. The karmic balance will be restored when families tear them selves apart in greed driven carnage and connivance in a rush to get...

DementedTuna, on 09 November 2009 - 02:28 PM, said: That's around about the time my dad was born. He had a pretty shit life back then, lost his parents because in the forties women were put into mental institutions if they had a child outside of marriage. There was also a ton of rationing and it was a pretty miserable time to be a kid. What else? Oh yeah, no central heating, indoor toilets or even electricity for most. Not exactly ideal....

no matter what happens going forward id rather be born in 1982 than 1946 or 1951 like my parents

people of that generation clearly made the mistake of beleiving in their betters

getdoon_weebobby, on 09 November 2009 - 03:12 PM, said: no matter what happens going forward id rather be born in 1982 than 1946 or 1951 like my parents Born 1982? Now that's the gap-year generation, spent the boom years gadding off around the world with riches that would've been unimaginable to their parents at the same age, and have so much money as students they can drink beer, not occasionally but regularly. (well, if you want...