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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]

Shouldn’t the same question be asked in reverse of boomers - why are you posting nasty attacks on your kids generation? I see a whole lot of offended boomers on this thread taking offense to every last comment. Shouldn’t the boomer generation be more mature than the millennial generation based on their age? [/quote]

With age come privileges. [/quote]

We know. Your generation put into place all the crap policies the rest of us have inherited. You seem so smug and proud of that. You should unpack that in therapy. [/quote]

The problem is that some of the Boomers have been enjoying their privileges like their movie discounts and boarding first on airlines since they were fifty five! Now they are 87 and still going first and getting served first, taking the biggest piece etc. You have been enjoying your privileges longer than half the population has even been alive.

My parents can’t drive long distances so everyone has to come to them. They started this when they were 55. So I am now 60 and driving a twelve hour round trip to visit them! When do I get to be old and have privileges? I am thinking never.[/quote]

Right there with you pp. I'm 56 and doing the same damn thing.

We would eventually like to downsize and move when we can finally retire at age 70. [/quote]

The extended lifespan predominantly caused by increasing use of life saving fossil fuels is awesome but does create some minor issues of envy and covetousness.[/quote]

Umm, when the people in their nineties are requiring things like yardwork from people in their sixties, I don't think that the issue is that the people in their sixties are envious and coveting.  The issue is that the old old, or extremely elderly don't seem to be able to comprehend that "the kids" are now in their sixties -- so now, they can't just zip on down to Florida from DC to help you with your new refrigerator.  My sister is in her sixties, and her husband is ten years older than her, making him in his seventies, and our elderly parents can't seem to understand why he can't just move their furniture, etc.  Our parents have literally been playing the 'respect their elders' card for over thirty years.  When do we get to be the elders?[/quote]

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