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We may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop. (lloydalter.substack.com)
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As the baby boomer bubble pushes into its eighties, we are driving into a demographic wall.

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[–] 14 points 1 day ago* (5 children)

The world they created for themselves. Stupid shits.

I know exactly one boomer that supports public transit over cars.

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  • [+] -8 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

    No... the boomers were born and it was already that way. Could you please re-evaluate your knee-jerk hatred and maybe get some historical understanding? When was the car invented? When were highways built? How old were the boomers then?

    JFC

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  • [–] 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

    We bulldozed the cities to make way for cars. Boomers built car centric cities and voted for car centric infrastructure despite all evidence showing this was a really bad idea. Instead of improving public transport, they elected to add more lanes and remove aidewalks to the tune of millions or billions. Every time. Again and again. Through the entire US and honestly, world

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Yeah those Boomers really were the ones voting for redlining, the Eisenhower Interstate system, and bulldozing minority neighborhoods for freeways. Sure were a lot of Boomers running things in the 50s and 60s when these were at their height...

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