What do you think : Boomers climbed up the ladder and pulled it up after them.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t you guys ever get tired of blaming boomers? What a way to waste your mental energy.

What, and blame themselves instead?

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This is how it has been done in the US since our founding. It’s just generational this time instead of being about race or whether you are native born vs. an immigrant.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers put in long hours, don't work from home and dont use social media all day.

Boomers benefited from the mandatory retirement of the prior generation, then proceeded to sue in the name of age discrimination to get rid of mandatory retirement. Now GenXers and millenials are stuck behind 70+ year olds who refuse to retire and add little of value to the present economy.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers put in long hours, don't work from home and dont use social media all day.

Boomers benefited from the mandatory retirement of the prior generation, then proceeded to sue in the name of age discrimination to get rid of mandatory retirement. Now GenXers and millenials are stuck behind 70+ year olds who refuse to retire and add little of value to the present economy.

Well such is life living in a society where we don’t discriminate. You can always move?

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers put in long hours, don't work from home and dont use social media all day.

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.

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.

Based on your father's job title, could one parent afford that lifestyle now with the same job?

Absolutely. He was a lobbyist.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers put in long hours, don't work from home and dont use social media all day.

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.

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.

The prices for everything have risen out of proportion to wages. Fabric is now more expensive than fast fashion. Those cheap white keds are now an hour’s labor or more for a parent earning minimum wage. Gas is to expensive for a housewife to commute into DC twice a day so her DH doesn’t have to use public transportation.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers put in long hours, don't work from home and dont use social media all day.

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.

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.

Based on your father's job title, could one parent afford that lifestyle now with the same job?

Could any of you live that lifestyle? Could you forgo a car? Cell phones, premium TV, dining out, private of OOS college for your kids, new furniture, keeping a car for 13 years, No plane rides?, only road trips for vacation in your sedan, …on no, you all would be screaming how poverty stricken you were and how unfair the world has become!

[Anonymous]

Boomers and the people who raised them did without all the stuff. They were happy in a 3BR 1BA house, and a car. It’s the subsequent generation that created Affluenza and the Teardown RE market.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t you guys ever get tired of blaming boomers? What a way to waste your mental energy.

What, and blame themselves instead?

You mean like accountable for your own life? What a concept!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boomers put in long hours, don't work from home and dont use social media all day.

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.

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.

The prices for everything have risen out of proportion to wages. Fabric is now more expensive than fast fashion. Those cheap white keds are now an hour’s labor or more for a parent earning minimum wage. Gas is to expensive for a housewife to commute into DC twice a day so her DH doesn’t have to use public transportation.

You are correct, fast fashion is cheaper than ever! Guess what? Gas mileage is also so much better now. How many MPG do you think cars got in the 80s and early 90s? Want to take a stab at interest rates in loans while you are at it?

Problem is you all are hypocrites and spend so much time on social media envious about what everyone else has and the so warped at to what a middle class life is.

Carry out in my house? Never happened. People here are drunk on dining out. So many restaurants to choose from while everyone is crying poverty from their newly remodeled kitchen they hardly cook in.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers and the people who raised them did without all the stuff. They were happy in a 3BR 1BA house, and a car. It’s the subsequent generation that created Affluenza and the Teardown RE market.

+1 For example, teachers worked from about 7:30 - 4:00 with a half hour lunch and no available phone to use. There were usually 2 phones per school -- both in the front office,

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers and the people who raised them did without all the stuff. They were happy in a 3BR 1BA house, and a car. It’s the subsequent generation that created Affluenza and the Teardown RE market.

Huh? My parents are boomers. I always grew up in 5 or 6 bedroom houses, 1 international vacation a year, car at 16, state college paid for. My dad was an engineer.

I'm sure a lot of boomers lived in a 3/1 house, but not middle class ones. Working class has always struggled. I would say that my parents benefited from college in a society where few people went to college. If you went to college you were basically guaranteed a nice, stable middle/upper middle class life style.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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

PP here. I think you're focusing on the wrong side of the equation (allocation of existing resources).

IMO, their greater failing was frittering away "the ladder" itself--the opportunity for subsequent generations to generate economic growth and wealth.

Boomers benefitted from an incredibly advantageous economic, political and geo-political/economic situation. They failed to preserve that, to the detriment of all of us in subsequent generations.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomers and the people who raised them did without all the stuff. They were happy in a 3BR 1BA house, and a car. It’s the subsequent generation that created Affluenza and the Teardown RE market.

Only thing boomers did was raise such whiny lazy brats. Boomers teallly F’d up coddling their snowflakes so much. However it’s good for me a young gen x. This is my competition in life and it’s been so easy to achieve a high income with my competitors too lazy to put the effort in to make a great living.

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This is the cost of social justice, OP. Boomers worked and kept the money for themselves. We work but are expected to share the wealth with people who would have received far less a generation ago.

You can’t have it both ways - either we keep what we earn, like they did, or we support more people but then each of us who work get a lot less.