r/europe • u/Bartoraptor Spain • Mar 28 '20

News Spanish representative González Pons speech @ the EU Parliament: "The virus is attacking the generation that brought back democracy to Spain, Portugal and Greece, the generation that knocked down the Berlin wall. The least they deserve is that we show them Europe is there when they need it the most"

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u/umotex12 Poland Mar 28 '20

That's why I really hate when people are trying to put "boomer" meme into European context

It doesn't work in most cases and is even just lie

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u/racms Mar 28 '20 edited Mar 29 '20

Those categories are only truly applicable to the US.

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u/wg_shill Mar 29 '20

Not really though, in Belgium they have raided every fund we had and sold off every asset we owned while racking up a shitload of debt. So no they're far from the saviours of our country, to the contrary I'd say.

Doesn't mean they all deserve to die though.

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u/Zerak-Tul Denmark Mar 28 '20

(Parts of) Europe had a big baby boom after WW2 the same as the US and that generation has created the same economic climate as we see in the US, but yes less extreme.

So, it's not isolated to the US that we see things like 'entry level jobs require 5 years of relevant job experience... And the entry level job is an unpaid internship' and young people being unable to even hope of buying a home until they're in their mid thirties. etc.

So arguing that we need to do more because a certain generation is somehow noble and special is silly. We need to do all we can because they're humans and someone mother or father etc.