As the baby boomer bubble pushes into its eighties, we are driving into a demographic wall.

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[–] 1 point 39 minutes ago

there are not many countries where "too old to drive" actually exists. They will just keep driving and killing themselves and others.

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

    The world they created for themselves. Stupid shits.

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

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  • [–] 0 points 59 minutes ago

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago (1 child)

    Self-driving cars would seem to be a perfect solution for this.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 hours ago

    Good, insurance premiums are about to go up, like all of them, health, auto, death by boomer insurance...

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  • [–] 16 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    Perfect age for running a fucking country. Hire them to the US gov immediately. They'll fit right in.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

    If we had robust public transport for everyone, this wouldnt be as big an issue.

    Dont forget that it is not generation vs generation, its the 1% vs the working class.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

    And a friendly reminder that boomers own far more than billionaires and as such are very much invested in the system. Your poverty allows them retirement.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    You're not wrong but let's start addressing wealth concentration with the trillionaire, and billionaires first. A lot of boomers may be millionaires but the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is a billion dollars.

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    In what fucking world is it ok to avoid jail because you're fucking old. If she's too old to go to jail then we need an option to euthanize elderly criminals.

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  • [–] 9 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    My 95 year old mother in law picked me up at the airport and still goes golfing each week pushing her clubs around the golf course. I trust her than most kids on the road. However, She is much different than my 80 year old mother where the doctor took away her handicap pass because she kept hitting cars in the parking lot.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    People don't want to accept it, but we really should be testing drivers more frequently. We don't, cuz car brain society, but we should.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago

    Should tie it to retirement age. Once you no longer need to get to your job every day, get tested more often. Plus people often start losing mental clarity when they no longer have anything to keep them occupied and for many that's their jobs.

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