Why does the younger DCUM majority hate Boomers so much?

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Anonymous wrote:Nah, it's just a few bitter people who can't stand their parents and instead of accepting that their families suck they want to make it a generation-wide problem.

Btw, the poster is incredibly easy to taunt.

I don't think it's just a few bitter people.

Consider what the boomers have consumed, versus what they've produced.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were boomers. You'd be typing your messages on carbon paper and mailing them to the newspaper without BB innovations.

Well, if Bill Gates was giving his fortune to shore up Medicare or something, I'd feel differently. Instead he's spending it in Africa.

There are exceptions to every observation, that's why they're general observations. I didn't say Boomers didn't produce anything. I just said they have consumed more. In contrast to the Greatest Generation, which was thrifty, Boomers consumed, consumed, consumed. And so now, many of them cannot retire, which means there's less upward mobility in jobs for younger generations.

Ding ding! And why they are often such defensive agists about those younger than them. I am pushing 40 and a colleague, old enough to be my mother, "jokingly" asked in a meeting whether I was old enough to be a part of the senior staff team. I know she thought she was funny but her defensiveness and anxiety was readily apparent. Of course, none of her boomer managers called her out for it. But you can be damned sure if I made an agist comment against the 60-somethings in the room I'd be ripped a new one as they all cried discrimination. Never mind that I am well-educated and have nearly two decades of experience.

What she said to you was entirely inappropriate. It's a shame you can't distinguish her from the millions of other people her age who not have said such a thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bill Maher got at the heart of the issue.

Federal yearly spending per child: $3,822.
Federal yearly spending per senior: $25,455.

That is a big reason why people are angry at the Boomers. As another PP said, they hold most of the assets/independent wealth and yet they also receive the most in Federal subsidies.

I don't know, but has our country, our government, ever put so much of its investment in the elderly and not in the future (youth, job creation, innovation)?

Younger generations see that under the Boomers, pensions have been phased out, the cost of education has gone up above and beyond normal inflation, and even an advanced education doesn't ensure a job.

It's not about hatred. It's about angst.

I don't hate Boomers. And there are things that irritate me about pretty much every generation. Because let's face it, people are people. But right now, there is definitely an unequal distribution of resources in favor of the aging Boomers over all other generations. That causes tension and bitterness.

This. As a Millennial, I'm told by Boomers that I'm lazy, entitled, spoiled, etc. In the meantime, wages have stagnated. The cost of education has skyrocketed. The cost of living has increased. Health insurance costs more (and often gets cut). The entry standard for a good job has gone up (a bachelor's is now the equivalent of a high school diploma) Let's not even talk about what retirement benefits are like now. It takes more time and more money to get ahead than it did 20/30/40 years ago. Millennials are starting the race with 50lb backpacks on their back, placed there by Boomers. And then they have the gall to call us lazy because we're not running as far or as fast as they did.

I'm 29, have an undergrad degree. I have no expectation of ever owning a home or retiring in my 50s, I'll likely only have 2 kids because I can't afford more than 1 daycare tuition at a time and I don't want kids 10-15 years apart. My parents owned a home, had graduate degrees and 3 kids by the time they were my age. They were both able to retire and start 2nd careers by their early 50s.

I love my parents and respect their opinion on many, many things. But I cannot talk to them about the job market or housing. They just don't.get.it. At all. We even work in the same industry! They don't understand that what was available to them is no longer available. It's frustrating. There's a disconnect. They mean well, they want to help, but they just don't realize that the game has changed.

The Boomers did some great things. But they're not the saviors of society that they think they are. They don't have all the answers.

I'm very sorry your parents are such idiots. You deserve better. But why are you assigning their character flaws to everyone else their age? I think you just don't get it if you think everyone is like your parents.

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As a Millennial, I really dont think about this at all. Granted, I have a good job with great benefits. I have worked FT since I was 19 and also attended undergrad FT. I hear that my generation is lazy, but I see my peers grinding. I don't have any resentment towards other generations because each generation of my family has worked hard. I travel to other countries and still return grateful that I was born in America.

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Anonymous wrote:My boomer parents are selfish and could give a crap about being good grandparents even though they have the time/money to be (just had baby, helped for a day). When we are old, my husband and I aspire to be more helpful and generous with our time.

Hello, black pot! Meet the black kettle!

dumb ass

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Anonymous wrote:I think it has to do with the fact that the Boomers took what the Greatest Generation gave them and fucked it all up with their selfish bullshit.

The one adage you're supposed to follow is leave the world a better place than when you found it.

Boomers failed at this.

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I'm a boomer and I have no intention of retiring anytime soon. Why should I? I'm 63, healthy, love my work and still make a contribution in my job,. Any really, who retires anymore before at least age 70, given that life expectancies are so much longer and pensions are so much slimmer? The boomers will keep working for many reasons, and not just because of over-consumption of resources.

Just because your life expectancy is higher doesn't mean your mental capacity is still there. I know people who have dementia as early as their 40s. Rare, but it happens. Some people can work and some people shouldn't because mentally, they are incapable.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I'm a boomer and I have no intention of retiring anytime soon. Why should I? I'm 63, healthy, love my work and still make a contribution in my job,. Any really, who retires anymore before at least age 70, given that life expectancies are so much longer and pensions are so much slimmer? The boomers will keep working for many reasons, and not just because of over-consumption of resources.

Just because your life expectancy is higher doesn't mean your mental capacity is still there. I know people who have dementia as early as their 40s. Rare, but it happens. Some people can work and some people shouldn't because mentally, they are incapable.

I see what you did there. Boomers are damned if they do, damned if they don't.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it has to do with the fact that the Boomers took what the Greatest Generation gave them and fucked it all up with their selfish bullshit.

The one adage you're supposed to follow is leave the world a better place than when you found it.

Boomers failed at this.

+1000

You around like an inarticulate, selfish, miserable person. Maybe you were born that way or maybe your parents failed.
So, what sre YOU doing to leave the world a better place than you found it?

[Anonymous]

"At seventeen, I could not believe how ignorant my father was and I could hardly stand to be in the same room with him. But then at twenty-one, I could hardly believe how much he had learned in four short years."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I'm a boomer and I have no intention of retiring anytime soon. Why should I? I'm 63, healthy, love my work and still make a contribution in my job,. Any really, who retires anymore before at least age 70, given that life expectancies are so much longer and pensions are so much slimmer? The boomers will keep working for many reasons, and not just because of over-consumption of resources.

Just because your life expectancy is higher doesn't mean your mental capacity is still there. I know people who have dementia as early as their 40s. Rare, but it happens. Some people can work and some people shouldn't because mentally, they are incapable.

Your post makes no sense.

Obviously a person in his/her 40s with dementia will have a hard time holding down a job. But what does that have to do with a healthy 60+ person who has no plans to retire?

no sense . . .

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I'm a boomer and I have no intention of retiring anytime soon. Why should I? I'm 63, healthy, love my work and still make a contribution in my job,. Any really, who retires anymore before at least age 70, given that life expectancies are so much longer and pensions are so much slimmer? The boomers will keep working for many reasons, and not just because of over-consumption of resources.

Just because your life expectancy is higher doesn't mean your mental capacity is still there. I know people who have dementia as early as their 40s. Rare, but it happens. Some people can work and some people shouldn't because mentally, they are incapable.

I see what you did there. Boomers are damned if they do, damned if they don't.

no

The childish dementia PP made no point at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Because the subsequent generations are paying for the mistakes of the Boomers. And the Boomers were handed a pretty awesome deal by the Greatest Generation. Yet screwed it up. Big time.

This exactly. The Boomers are the most selfish generation of our time. What makes it so despicable for me is that they are the ones who hate the hardest on Millenials.

Millennials (learn to spell) can't hold down a job.

We've already fired three, and another is on her way out. no discipline, no work ethic, selfish

You fired you future bosses.... Not good

great comeback . . .

doubtful, however, as these kids will have a hard time finding another spot in this very narrow field
People talk.