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

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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      1 month 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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          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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            To add, the shift to car centric began with jay walking laws in the 1920’s. A quarter century before the first boomers were born.

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        Car centrism didn’t happen instantaneously after WWII. it was strongest in the 70s and 80s. It’s still strong now we just build it better.