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If you were a boomer, I can see it making sense. They got a radically subsidized upbringing, decently strong economic protections when starting to work, and generally did ok in that economic system.
Then, when in a position to pay it forward, they said no.
No, no, no, they "pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps" and made it where they are through "hard work" [read: government provided ladders of socialist policies] and so should we [because they pulled up all the ladders behind them while screaming about socialism being evil, despite the huge amount of benefit they personally enjoyed].
And started selling us bottled water to fight the fire with, all while gaslighting us and asking "why would you do this to your own house?".