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The Grim Reality Of Homeless Baby Boomers

Is it fair to ask whether this is their own fault?

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Ted Bauer
Feb 16, 2024
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We’ve had jokes about the Boomers and how great they’ve had it for literal decades now, with this being a good, funny take:

And

Paul Millerd
even made the case a while back that there was a “Boomer Blockade” that was causing leadership and community involvement erosion.

And then there’s “OK Boomer,” etc.

But now there’s a different reality emerging, and again, it’s a subset of Boomers, not all of them. As with most things in America, it’s along class/money lines. I first became more aware of it in this video:

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