The Boomers grew up with artificial prosperty crap is total bunk. Older Boomers grew up in a, well, booming post-war environment, but one of much less absolutely wealth than what Millennial whiners experienced.
When I say “artificial”, I am referring to American economic superiority following victory in WWII. I am definitely not taking about absolute wealth (living wages are stagnating anyway, and think about the quality of things that wealth is able to buy now), I am talking about relative wealth. We are in a much more competitive economic market, especially for jobs. The incentives to build businesses are not there as much as they used to be as massive warehousing conglomerates came to the fore. Automation is about to make matters worse for our wages.