You run up the tab to buy a couple of consecutive generations and give them everything so you can destroy the ones that follow.
This is exactly what I have thought for the past 5 or so years at least. In the aftermath of 2008 "they" never bailed out the real economy. They bailed out the stock market, and bypassed the real economy when doing so. This meant, and still means, that if you were retired, or about to retire, with your retirement in the stock market, you made more and more money while that same money caused more and more inflation for all the working people. Thus the epicness of the generational divide. something has to give, but of course I've been saying that since 2010...
we_kill_creativity 2 points 13 hours ago
This is exactly what I have thought for the past 5 or so years at least. In the aftermath of 2008 "they" never bailed out the real economy. They bailed out the stock market, and bypassed the real economy when doing so. This meant, and still means, that if you were retired, or about to retire, with your retirement in the stock market, you made more and more money while that same money caused more and more inflation for all the working people. Thus the epicness of the generational divide. something has to give, but of course I've been saying that since 2010...