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The Boomer Goodbye: Burn it to ash and salt the earth

I didn’t think I’d ever get to this point. I mean, “OK Boomer” has been around for years and I sort of let it slide by me. I was raised by Boomer parents. I had a good upbringing. Didn’t want for anything. Fulfilled the Millennial prophecy of going to college and getting a useless degree.

Somehow, the “ethics of work hard and you’ll get ahead” have driven me to where I am now: sitting at a computer at Louder with Crowder Studios.

But, a union leader has finally made me turn on the Boomer generation. Harold Daggett, head of the International Longshoremen’s Association, is promising to bring America to its knees.

(Spoiler alert, Harold: We’re already there. Where were you the last four years?)

Harold is 78 years old and is crafting his Boomer Goodbye.

We have the Irish Goodbye (leaving without telling anyone), the Midwest Goodbye (saying goodbye, but never leaving) and we now have the Boomer Goodbye (burning everything down behind you, salting the earth, and then telling the people coming up they aren’t working hard enough as the you refuse to leave).

The longshoremen on strike were offered a 50% pay increase, but turned it down, demanding a 77% increase when they already make more than the median income in America. By, like, a lot. In some cases more than twice as much. Average income in America is $59,384.

The base salary for a longshoreman is $81,000 a year. The average longshoreman salary is over $100,000 because they pick up extra shifts. A third of longshoremen make over $200,000 a year. Harold Daggett makes $710,909 a year.

Along with a 77% increase in pay, the longshoremen’s other demand is no automation in ports. This means a ban on automation in cranes, gates, and container-moving trucks in the loading or unloading of freight.

In America, only four out of 360 commercial ports have at least semi-automated terminals.

Reports say automation increases productivity and efficiency. During the study, containers were processed twice as fast. Automated ports are safer. The first automated port appeared in Europe in the 1990s. The longshoreman are trying to stop progress and make processing less efficient.

The automation question is a major component of Daggett’s Boomer Goodbye. The union demands by the longshoremen aren’t safeguarding jobs, they are begging for their destruction. Because you know what doesn’t go on strike? Robots.

(Hostile work environment)

And this has happened before.

In 2023, the United Autoworkers went on strike.

They demanded a 40% wage increase over four years. One of the most egregious demands was full time pay for a four day work week.

Another of their demands was to reopen a plant in Illinois.

The plant was closed due to faltering Jeep Cherokee sales.

Why should Stellantis reopen a plant that they can’t afford to operate? The American government already bailed out the auto industry once. This kind of thing puts us on a path that will force the American taxpayer to bail out this industry again. I’m sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but no one is guaranteed a job.

Besides forcing a company to keep a non-profitable manufacturing plant open, ensuring its eventual failure, autoworkers fail to see the threat of international competition.

The much-misquoted “bloodbath” comment from Donald Trump was in regards to the auto industry.

Maybe Trump was worried about the fact that China has built 20 auto parts manufacturing plants in Mexico since June of 2022. And many of those are there under an invitation from Ford and Tesla.

So, of course, auto companies can afford your pay increase over the next four years. Because in the next four years, your job won’t exist. Forty percent of zero is zero.

I know what you’re going to say, educated reader. One of the biggest problems the auto industry is facing is the government mandating the manufacture of EVs while the demand in the market does not exist. Nobody wants your shitty electric cars, GM.

But you keep making them because the government tells you to. According to Kelley Blue Book, EV purchases only made up 7% of the market. But Biden’s administration finalized a rule proposed by the EPA requiring 67% of new light-duty vehicles and 46% of medium-duty vehicles be required to be electric by 2032.

After we dig out Asheville, NC, let’s ask them if any of them would like to replace their gas-powered anything with electric. Ask someone who lives in the upper peninsula in Michigan if they want an EV anything in the dead of winter. The answer will be a resounding no.

I know what you’re thinking. I’ve gone far afield on my point about Boomers.

Well, no, actually, I haven’t. Because all of these mandates, all of these demands, all of these stupid decisions with no regard for the future, come from a federal government where almost half of Congress are Boomers. Boomers run the White House. Boomers have refused to give up political power despite their declining years and waning demographic representation in America.

Boomers gave us the libtard hippies and those failed ideologies, like a shift away from nuclear energy. Boomers are selfish. Boomers ran up huge debts on social security and other entitlements. Boomers refused to retire and put undo weight on credentialism. Boomers gave us all the waves of feminism, which, I think is safe to say on this website, has been a net loss.

I’m done making excuses.

You take your Boomer Goodbye and shove it.

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