Baby boomers ruined America

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boomers have had zero hardship in their extended lives compared to any generation of the human race. Therefore they have no character , wisdom or value.

Right. Stagflation was much better than this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Damn, lots of angry baby boomers. Might be time to retire and spend some time in anger management.

Uh, most of us are Gen X'ers who are embarrassed by the things you are saying. It makes us look weak.

+1

Why can't my boss retire so I can take his corner office. Whereupon I will complain that he is living too long and costing me too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Millenials are the worst screwed.

As a whole yes, but at the right tail of the demographic distribution...no.

I come from a family with lots of siblings where the gap between oldest and youngest child is 16 years.

The youngest of us is in college now and in 9 months will land a six figure tech job that you get to work 55-60 hours (much less than crazy ibanker/consultant hours)...this summer gets paid almost 25k all-in comp for an internship (crazy).

Starting Biglaw is like 160 in base.....

Just like the rest of our society, it is morphing into winner-take-all and millennials with elite skills, branding, networks probably never have had it better than generations before.

A new gilded age, very nice for families like yours that already come from wealth. Very bad for our nation, a vibrant middle class is essential to democracy. Long run your family may suffer too, if inequality destabilizes the nation.

Does your sibling know the tech bubble is bursting, does she play ping pong?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Millenials are the worst screwed.

As a whole yes, but at the right tail of the demographic distribution...no.

I come from a family with lots of siblings where the gap between oldest and youngest child is 16 years.

The youngest of us is in college now and in 9 months will land a six figure tech job that you get to work 55-60 hours (much less than crazy ibanker/consultant hours)...this summer gets paid almost 25k all-in comp for an internship (crazy).

Starting Biglaw is like 160 in base.....

Just like the rest of our society, it is morphing into winner-take-all and millennials with elite skills, branding, networks probably never have had it better than generations before.

A new gilded age, very nice for families like yours that already come from wealth. Very bad for our nation, a vibrant middle class is essential to democracy. Long run your family may suffer too, if inequality destabilizes the nation.

Does your sibling know the tech bubble is bursting, does she play ping pong?

Well, yes. Ultimately winner take all is not a path forward. For the pampered rich, the "barbarians" will be at the gate within 15 years. And there's no app to stop it or uber ride away from it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boomers have had zero hardship in their extended lives compared to any generation of the human race. Therefore they have no character , wisdom or value.

Right. Stagflation was much better than this.

And the draft to Vietnam was a real picnic.

[Anonymous]

GenXer daughter here of two Silent Generation parents both deceased before hitting 65.

In my own family, my uncle was younger than my mom and a Baby Boomer. He was a total spoiled brat. His parents paid for his education. His in-laws let him live rent free with his new bride in their apartment over their garage. My parents paid him to renovate our attic for a year to an apartment when he was young and unemployed engineer.

Then, he became a hateful little jerk! He came from a working class background and it annoyed him and his working class wife to no end when union workers without college degrees made more money than he did. He and his wife moved to the suburbs, leaving my mom and dad to care for the elderly relatives before there were nursing homes. The old people lived in their own houses.

My uncle sold conveyor belts to factories in China, Turkey, and India. He was partly responsible for urban sprawl, white flight, urban neglect, and shipping manufacturing jobs overseas. And his wife returned to work after being home for years, and she always hated that she didn't have a college degree. She made money, though at some air conditioned office job. She then needed cheap labor to help around the house so illegal Mexicans. And boy were they snooty about their money! And yes they had two snooty daughters, and now theye have three snooty grandkids. Their daughters are not doing as well in life as they did. They truly do not see how easy they had it! And to think of the hatred they showed toward other working class people from their own neighborhood.

Even in my own family I see it with the Baby Boom generation and their desire to consume cheap labor and cheap goods from outside the U.S. and they had and still harbor resentment toward American union workers.

Why did they not see that a union worker with a good income was generating money into their local economy? Greed and gluttony and competitive nature to be on top.

[Anonymous]

BOO HOO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boomers have had zero hardship in their extended lives compared to any generation of the human race. Therefore they have no character , wisdom or value.

Right. Stagflation was much better than this.

Yes, some of these folks have no idea how bad the economy was when some of us baby boomers were looking for work. They have some kind of fantasy world that maybe the leading edge of baby boomers experienced but not people like me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GenXer daughter here of two Silent Generation parents both deceased before hitting 65.

In my own family, my uncle was younger than my mom and a Baby Boomer. He was a total spoiled brat. His parents paid for his education. His in-laws let him live rent free with his new bride in their apartment over their garage. My parents paid him to renovate our attic for a year to an apartment when he was young and unemployed engineer.

Then, he became a hateful little jerk! He came from a working class background and it annoyed him and his working class wife to no end when union workers without college degrees made more money than he did. He and his wife moved to the suburbs, leaving my mom and dad to care for the elderly relatives before there were nursing homes. The old people lived in their own houses.

My uncle sold conveyor belts to factories in China, Turkey, and India. He was partly responsible for urban sprawl, white flight, urban neglect, and shipping manufacturing jobs overseas. And his wife returned to work after being home for years, and she always hated that she didn't have a college degree. She made money, though at some air conditioned office job. She then needed cheap labor to help around the house so illegal Mexicans. And boy were they snooty about their money! And yes they had two snooty daughters, and now theye have three snooty grandkids. Their daughters are not doing as well in life as they did. They truly do not see how easy they had it! And to think of the hatred they showed toward other working class people from their own neighborhood.

Even in my own family I see it with the Baby Boom generation and their desire to consume cheap labor and cheap goods from outside the U.S. and they had and still harbor resentment toward American union workers.

Why did they not see that a union worker with a good income was generating money into their local economy? Greed and gluttony and competitive nature to be on top.

Sorry but your uncle was just a jerk. I, another baby boomer, did not make him a jerk.
This is sadly typical of some of the comments I see in these generation wars - my uncle was an asshole or my parents mistreated me - they were bad and it must be because they were baby boomers. It couldn't have been that they were just assholes and I didn't get the family I deserved.

[Anonymous]

Hey, I don't care what generation you belong to - if you hate someone because they belong to a certain demographic group, that's called bigotry.

So tired of these intergenerational wars. I know and love people in every generation. Stop acting as if entire demographic groups are to blame for some aspect of today's society you don't like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey, I don't care what generation you belong to - if you hate someone because they belong to a certain demographic group, that's called bigotry.

So tired of these intergenerational wars. I know and love people in every generation. Stop acting as if entire demographic groups are to blame for some aspect of today's society you don't like.

Baby Boomers brought us nursing homes, daycare centers, illegal Mexican immigrants, urban sprawl, urban decay, Made in China cheap goods, union-busting, loss of pensions, broken homes, too big to fail industries like the prison system and the education system.

We've accomplished nothing as a nation since putting a man on the moon,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey, I don't care what generation you belong to - if you hate someone because they belong to a certain demographic group, that's called bigotry.

So tired of these intergenerational wars. I know and love people in every generation. Stop acting as if entire demographic groups are to blame for some aspect of today's society you don't like.

Baby Boomers brought us nursing homes, daycare centers, illegal Mexican immigrants, urban sprawl, urban decay, Made in China cheap goods, union-busting, loss of pensions, broken homes, too big to fail industries like the prison system and the education system.

We've accomplished nothing as a nation since putting a man on the moon,

And you're still a bigot. Embrace it.

[Anonymous]

Merriam-Webster:

Bigot: a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Merriam-Webster:

Bigot: a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)

Baby Boomer: A person who came of age during our nation's extended period of peace and prosperity following World War II, who kicked the can down the road for the next generation.

[Anonymous]

This is nuts. Surely this is a troll.

Let's see:
working through college--if you were fortunate enough to go
VietNam
very high interest rates on housing in late '70s-'80's

few expensive trips--unlike the youth of today who think a trip to Cancun is a necessity
used cars
etc.

no expectation to start at the top when you applied for a job