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What do you think : Boomers climbed up the ladder and pulled it up after them.
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Anonymous
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I've been seeing this posted around and agree.
It feels like we younger folks need to work multiple jobs to keep up. Sad |
Anonymous
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Boomers put in long hours, don't work from home and dont use social media all day.
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Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| I'm no Boomer apologist, but these navel-gazing posts about how hard you have to work to "keep up" are starting to sound whiny. Yes, the world has changed in many ways--and for the worse, in some respects. I think it's easy to assume that the generations that came before you had it so much better because [insert complaint here] but that's not always accurate. Things sucked for a lot of us for many years. |
Anonymous
Some did. Boomer wives where able to not work. Boomer families could enjoy a relatively comfortable standard of living based on those hours. From the time that they had the numbers to control elections, they've vacillated between voting for lower taxes and better benefits for themselves. They have medicare and social security, but they never bothered to shore it up for their kids and grand kids. |
Anonymous
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Boomers simply got lucky. They inherited the post WWII "golden age" of American capitalism and benefitted from it.
They didn't pull the ladder up; they just weren't clever enough to keep the ladder in place for subsequent generations. Fair to chastise them for being fools, especially as compared to the greatest generation. Probably not fair to criticize them for "pulling the ladder up". They were too busy gazing at their own navels to even see the ladder. |
Anonymous
There are plenty of families today with a stay-at-home parent. Just like it was 30 years ago, it's a tradeoff. As for their voting preferences, the oldest Millennials have been able to vote for 20 years now and there are enough of them to make a difference. If you want to see changes, get out and vote. Besides, you can't blame Boomers for a lot of the policies you cite. The GOP has plenty of Gen X and older millennials in its ranks who vote the same way. |
Anonymous
If you look at the major expenses that you'll face; boomers decimated funding for higher education at the state level leading to a situation where you have to save from birth to afford a child. They where the impetus behind the ridiculous regulation that makes large scale housing developments (i.e. the developments that their parents moved out of cities to raise them in) impossible. They've done nothing to shore up social security or medicare despite being in the best position demographically to do so and now both programs will be on the brink of insolvency when it's gen X's turn to start using them |
Anonymous
Boomers have made up the largest cohort of voters for decades now. It's starting to shift, and republicans are talking about raising the voting age |
Anonymous
Right, so maybe this is all a function of conservative policies benefitting a specific segment of society (i.e. White men) than it is about an entire generation? |
Anonymous
At least they weren't whiny and boring. Like you, posting this anti-boomer crap all the time. Grow a spine. Take some responsibility for your own life instead of blaming it on mommy and daddy, even grandma and grandpa. Such a weak attitude, OP. |
Anonymous
| They were simply a large enough generation to influence elections for things in their own interest. They also benefited from timing. |
Anonymous
| Don’t you guys ever get tired of blaming boomers? What a way to waste your mental energy. |
Anonymous
I was raised by boomers. You want to live like my boomer parents? Feel free! We had one car growing up and my mom would drive into DC each day to drop and pick up my dad. We never flew anywhere, I got my passport when I was an adult and rode in a plane for the first time at age 20. We never went out to eat and my mom cooked simple meals at home. Most days I packed a lunch of peanut butter and jelly in a brown bag. We did not play travel sports, nor were we allowed to go to college out of state. My mother sewed us all of our clothes when we were little and my “sneakers” were cheap white keds. There was no internet or cable TV. Wr had PBS and they watched Masterpiece Theater at night. Wr never had a kitchen or bathroom remodel and I still remember the orange shag carpet in my bedroom I shared with my sister. My parents are now retired and still live modestly. None of you on DCUM could live like my parents did. Your be screaming poverty. So so so much whining by my fellow older millennials comrades. However you are just mad that you can’t live an Instagram lifestyle. Pathetic. |
Anonymous
Based on your father's job title, could one parent afford that lifestyle now with the same job? |