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0 pointsradley3y ago0 comments

FWIW, Boomers were a very entitled generation. They have the post-war benefits of their previous generation and ran up a huge deficit for the following generations to pay back.

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SlightlyLeftPad3y ago

I actually agree with you and millennials are, rightfully, somewhat bitter about it. It’s not just post-war benefits. It was the era of 9-5 jobs, pensions, union jobs that paid nearly 6 figures in rural America…in the 90s…with no education, fully paid medical benefits for the family, and cheap homes.

What do we have now? Self managed 401k which you have pour a life savings and second mortgage into in order to beat inflation, overpopulated suburbs, record levels of pollution, rising temperatures, impossibly expensive homes, their kids getting shot in schools, their rights being stripped away, skyrocketing college tuition costs…

I actually believe a lot of millennials don’t know how bad they have it comparatively and somewhat ironically, boomers also don’t know how good they had it.

dragonwriter3y ago

> Boomers were a very entitled generation. They have the post-war benefits of their previous generation and ran up a huge deficit for the following generations to pay back

That's a better description of the Silent Generation than the Boomers.

pc863y ago

I've literally never heard the silent generation described in that way.

dragonwriter3y ago

That's because the dominance of analysis of named generations for anything besides marketing labels pretty much always ignores everything before the Boomers, and 90% of the time also skips GenX, too, limping everything before Millenials into “Boomers”, and ignores things like Clinton being not only the first Boomer President, but also pretty close to the early boundary of Boomer political dominance.

radleyOP3y ago

The generation who grew up during the Great Depression and WWII were very entitled???

dragonwriter3y ago

I was more referring to the concrete description in the second sentence than the personality-based explanation in the first.

(But, now that you mention it, a lot of the Silent Generation would have no memory of the Depression and little to none of the war, and the main formation of their adult expectations would be the immediate post-War period whereas Boomers either missed that entirely or were infants/toddlers, so...)

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SlightlyLeftPad3y ago

I actually believe a lot of millennials don’t know how bad they have it comparatively and somewhat ironically, boomers also don’t know how good they had it.

dragonwriter3y ago

> Boomers were a very entitled generation. They have the post-war benefits of their previous generation and ran up a huge deficit for the following generations to pay back

That's a better description of the Silent Generation than the Boomers.

pc863y ago

I've literally never heard the silent generation described in that way.

dragonwriter3y ago

radleyOP3y ago

The generation who grew up during the Great Depression and WWII were very entitled???

dragonwriter3y ago

I was more referring to the concrete description in the second sentence than the personality-based explanation in the first.

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