I’ve done a lot of thinking about this, and I’ve come to the conclusion that a wealth cap is the only logical solution to the problem of wealth inequality in North America.
Like a lot of people, I fucking hate boomers. What they represent is sickening to me. The idea that there was once a whole generation of people who got to live out their fantasies of false productivity, working in office jobs that essentially paid them $125,000 a year for playing solitaire and making photocopies of their assholes all day is disgusting. To me, boomers are a bunch of walking hypocrites: they benefitted from a society in which jobs were readily available, prospered from the chance to make a decent living, fucked up the planet, and then had children who got to inherit a world considerably less bountiful. Now they get to sit in armchairs in the suburbs reading from their iPads their kids probably have to help them charge because they’re too fucking stupid to figure it out themselves, and they have the balls to talk about hard work. This is a generation of people who got everything handed to them who have managed to convince themselves it was actually hard work and fortitude that got them there and not what it really was: happenstance and good luck.
I mean, even the most mediocre of boomers got the chance to earn a decent living. Back then, opportunities were so abundant that a young dumb person could still pretty much fail upwards. Now, things have gotten so bad: a successful millennial is a rarity, not a norm.
The boomer sentiment that you have to “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” and “just work harder” is hilarious to me, because it is simply not true. Most boomers are living comfortably, and have no idea what the world is actually like anymore for people struggling to make ends meet. They have their heads so far up their own assholes they think a person can just “find” a job, like they can be discovered under a rock or some shit. Boomers do not live on the same planet as the rest of us. They talk about millennials being a coddled generation as if they never had it completely awesome themselves. The hypocrisy is spellbinding. Fuck boomers: a whole generation of lazy, selfish, useless pieces of shit who reaped the benefits of a broken system. The most helpful thing most boomers could do for society would be to finally die off. Fuck them.
And yet, if that sounds too harsh…..I promise you: it’s not as mean as the boomer mentality. I could never be that cold. But if I am being 100% honest with you, I’m a hypocrite too. My resentment largely stems from the fact that I actually thought I’d get the chance to become one of them. I mean, who wouldn’t want to live like the typical silver fox 50 year old white guy CEO: you get to be completely average, but nobody looks at you that way. Women are probably more attracted to you because you’re seen as a “provider,” the world considers you to be “resourceful” and an “alpha male,” despite the fact all you did was play the cards you were dealt. You get to drive around in a shiny BMW, and when you’re at a red light everyone looks at you like you’re cooler than the rest of the population even though you’re not special at all and you die one day like everyone else.
I know you could make the argument, “This conversation is a trap. It shouldn’t be a generational divide, it should really be about the powerful vs the millennials.” I wouldn’t say that’s an entirely incorrect argument, but it’s still tough for me to have sympathy for such a greedy generation. But moving on: what I would suggest is some kind of wealth cap, coupled with some form of UBI.
I wouldn’t call myself a communist, but I don’t think that’s a terrible idea at this point. However, that is not something I’d advocate. I don’t think capitalism is good either, I think there needs to be some kind of healthy middle ground. Here’s the thing: a lot of young people were just starting to get their lives started before COVID started fucking up the world and taking a shit in people’s lungs. Greed is not good, but having a healthy amount of money to live is nice. That’s where the bar is now, and how fucked up the world is to me: all I want is enough money to live! But the problem with money: it’s too easy to become boomers. They should serve as cautionary tales: if you make too much you will let it corrupt you & end up becoming a fat fuck who does nothing but watch shit like The Big Bang Theory everyday as you drink beer & struggle to relate to your children.
I think if there was a regular UBI & wealth cap in the world, it would be best for all: people would still be motivated to work hard enough to make a certain amount. And anyone that makes over that amount would be taxed, and that would perhaps go to the UBI fund. Of course, there’d be people who would do absolutely nothing and just live off UBI, but there would also be another group of people who, if they really wanted to, would work hard enough to make their legal limit. Let’s say the wealth cap was at a MILLION dollars, which is me being generous. Who the fuck couldn’t live off a million dollars? I’ve been living off my net worth of 2 potatoes and a can of tuna for years, I’m sure a million dollars would be more than enough.
There’s no reason any human being should have more than that in this world, to want anything more than that is just greedy, evil capitalist cocksuckerism. I mean, look at people like Jeff Bezos or Epstein: they are proof that the more money people make the less morals they tend to have. As people get richer they become shittier and shittier versions of themselves. We’ve all been brainwashed to think being at the top is good, but no one ever stops to think about collective betterment, if that makes sense.
But this is all conjecture. Don’t listen to me: I truly have no idea, I’m just a guy rotting in my parents’ basement. If you’re a boomer and angry at anything I’ve said, take pleasure in the fact that my life is going absolutely nowhere.