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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Boomers paid like $1500 for tuition, $50k for their first home and then when their parents died at normal ages, got inheritances in their 40s. Now they’re super charged with modern medicine, loaded, and aren’t going anywhere. They’re also not maintaining their houses. Just check the market and see all the “as is” $1.2Ms that have fallen into disrepair. These folks need to start riding off into the sunset.[/quote]

They were also making $40,000 a year with a masters degree. And their parents were primarily blue color workers- no inheritance. [/quote]

+1 Thank you.[/quote]

+2. Late boomer here. We graduated into a recession and took whatever job would pay the bills if we didn’t option of going to grad school. I paid 12% on a PLUS loan. [/quote]

Millennials graduated into a recession too. You didn't have it harder, we all have had it hard. The comparison game doesn't look good on you [b]grannies[/b].[/quote]

NP. You don’t need to be ageist. You could have left that off and still have been successful in your comeback. Ageism is pernicious.

—genX [/quote]

Graduated early 80s. Huge recession factories closing, massive inflation , 18 percent interest rates. Billy Joel singing “livin here in Allentown closing all the factories down our teachers lied that an education gets you a job” Springsteen sang The River “isn’t any work on account of the economy”.

All the recessions since have never been bad enough for the most popular artists to write devastating lyrics about the difficulties.

Life is way easier and cushy today but people don’t appreciate it at all and are treading water in a sea of covetousness and envy.[/quote]

What a strange take re: music. [/quote]

DP here I think but the point is that older generations also faced hard times. The music is influenced by the widespread economic issues like unemployment.[/quote]

The point is that life is cushier now but the population is weaker physically and mentally. Results in more covetousness and whining. I think the average boomer can still beat up the average millennial.[/quote]

Not sure about your last point since our generation is getting up there but the rest is true. [/quote]

Boomers raised millennials. [/quote]

Exactly.  There are so many millennials because there are so many boomers, which is why the term “echo boom” was created.  So if your parents are boomers, and you’re posting broadside attacks on boomers, do you hate your own parents?  I think most of this anti-boomer posting is from Gen Z — or from millennials who were abused or who had non-boomer parents.[/quote]

Nope. Millennial poster here. Both of my parents were boomers. But not Trumpers. Never abused. I just look at the state of the country and realize that their generation contributed to most of the current problems we find ourselves in. Things are unaffordable - healthcare, real estate, education, and a middle class lifestyle largely because of their selfishness and the decisions that they supported. Oh, and our environment has also been wrecked. But thanks for the inheritence, I guess. It's cold comfort given the country you've left to us.[/quote]
so you also blame your parents?[/quote]

I blame the whole generation. You're a selfish lot and left those coming after you with a helluva bill to pay.[/quote]

I’m a boomer.  With five millennial kids.  So pray tell what your boomer parents actually did or didn’t do that is an expression of their selfishness — so I can avoid it myself, or at least stop doing it.[/quote]

Np. Destructive Materialism, at the expense of everything else. That’s the ethos of the Boomer generation and what they will be remembered for. [/quote]

If you’re not materialistic then you don’t have to pay any “bills”. [/quote]

Yep and start with canceling cell, WiFi and cable service that burns coal 24-7. Then stop using A/C. Those things are destroying the earth. [/quote]

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