Dear Richard Stallman,
You wag your finger reprovingly at "Ok, Boomer" as a sign of disrespect:
You feel that only individuals, one at a time, can be worthy of disrespect. I think you have not considered what you Boomers--as a generation--have done to our young, also as a generation.
You enjoyed cheap college, affordable health care, affordable housing. When you left college, you expected--and got--a salary, and benefits. Your had your own apartment, and pretty soon your own house. There were a wide range of jobs, from farming to manufacturing on up. There was every reason to expect that a job in any of them would support a viable life. And now are you enjoying your Social Security? How about your Medicare?
You have left the younger generation with inescapable student debt slavery, a $1.5 trillion blossoming of college debt fueled by an even higher tuition inflation rate than the USA's stupidly expensive and second-rate health care system. You sent far too many of the nation's jobs overseas, while the cost of housing also spiraled. Most college graduates now return to live with their parents.
Let's not even talk about the endless wars--on drugs, Iraq, Afghanistan, terror. Or the almost $70k in national debt per person.
I'm a Gen-X'er, with a Millenial and a Gen-Z child, and perhaps I'm a little more in touch with how the world looks like to many in our younger generations. It sucks.
To put it plainly, your generation has handed them a sh*t sandwich. As you folks age out and lose your stranglehold on the nation, I warn you to expect more, not less, of a backlash for your miserable stewardship of this nation, and how it has lead to a withering of opportunity for its younger citizens.
Ok, Boomer?