2010s: Baby Boomer Self-Entitlement
November 11, 2019
By AHNZ
Rob Rattenbury, or “Rats” as he calls himself, is getting a bit defensive in his latest Baby Boomer Entitlement Press Release.
The Boomers. They burned the world down, spent up what their fathers had given them and then went on to spend against the wealth of the unborn children and grandchildren. They refuse to die and refuse to pass on the torch to the next generation/s. Listen to this man try to justify it. They always do that…
Highlights:
- “You call us ‘rich old baby boomers’, but we deserve everything we’ve got”
- “Your time will come soon enough, and I really hope you can become as self-indulgent as I am now.”
- “We do not do Pak’n Save, it feels a bit common…”
- “I will load our new car with bins..”
- “We usually talk about our investments, latest international travel plans, the cost of bloody travel insurance…”
- “I like to keep an eye on Parliament just to make sure my employees are doing their job. “
- “This all sounds very self-indulgent and yes, it is. You know why? I spent 47 years…This does not count the..very stressful …bastard Muldoon”
- “..atomic annihilation…crazy wars…bloody Americans.”
Standard Boomer rhetoric.
In the Strauss Howe Chronology, Boomers are identified as a prophetic or idealistic generation born in about the years 1946-64. Hence, their retirement years started kicking in from about 2011 (though NZ lags behind a bit from the USA-based Strauss Howe.) In his elderly life cycle phase the Boomer has become massively entitled and self-absorbed as the above comments show.
They literally think that they, not future generations, are the only ones that matter..
OK Boomer!
Some of the posts on AHNZ about Boomers…
- The Boomers: Kiwis vs Frogs
- 1944: No serotonin for you, Boomer!
- 1946: In Endless Fear
- 1947: Socialised Dentistry for Kids
- 1950s: Oblaten Swaps
- 1953: Everest- ‘Kiwi Kids are Weetbix Kids’
- 1953: Prize-Giving Speech
- 1954: Mazengarb
- 1955: Uranium flavoured ice cream
- 1957: Happy Families
- 1960: Arise, Television
- 1963: The Great Ricardo
- 1966: Radio Hauraki
- 1967: The Heretic
- 1970s: Anthropomorphic Television Demigods
- 1970s: The Fall of Four Square Stores
- 1970s: Road Warrior Boomers
- 1990s: Bye Grandma
- Upham upherself!
- 2014: The Lego Movie
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Ref. You call us ‘rich old baby boomers’, but we deserve everything we’ve got; Stuff
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