Re: “One more reason to be mad at boomers: They have more money than everyone else” (Sept. 2, Opinion):
I used to be dismayed to learn in Allison Schrager’s column that as a result of there may be “a big and rising hole in internet value between People over age 75 and people beneath 35” it’s “no surprise everybody hates the boomers.”
It’s one factor to be mad, it’s one other to hate. A lot of the column goes into element in regards to the causes for the wealth disparity that has occurred between generations, however most of it’s not actually boomers’ fault, as she herself enumerates. And many people boomers are doing important issues to alleviate a few of the outcomes of this collected however unintended end result of disparity.
We already really feel marginalized sufficient, as seniors, by a youth and consumer-oriented tradition that scorns the very items that we will deliver to the desk, transferring us into assisted-living amenities, and out of sight, discarded. To be hated as nicely simply additional provides to the poverty of connection and significant relationships that we will have as people throughout the generations.
Dismayed and saddened. There’s sufficient hate happening already to sink the ship.
Elizabeth Davidson, Bainbridge Island
