Baby Boomers in the US are richer than their parents were (normal), and also their children are not as well off as their parents were at the same age. Not normal.
Many Baby Boomers will say that they fully deserve their wealth. They worked hard. They struggled in the post-WWII economy, growing up in a time when most countries had been devastated, but American industry was still intact. Our stock market boomed, major new industries sprang up, companies offered good pensions and other benefits, and government spending constantly greased the wheels of industry, health care was cheap and housing was affordable. It wasn't easy growing up in such a time, but Baby Boomers worked hard, succeeded hugely and built up a lot of wealth.
Now the Zoomers are whining that America has been fundamentally transformed by Obama and other Progressives. Ha! Ha! Ha! Sucks to be you!! I got mine! Baby Boomers rule! No sympathy for the children and grandchildren! If you were smart, like me, you would have been born in the 1950s! But you chose poorly and were born in the 21st century! Stupid move on your part! Next time don't shop at Starbucks and you can be rich like me!
Sarcasm aside: it is one of my fundamental beliefs that young people today are growing up in a difficult time. $40T national debt, lots of regulations, social media rotting brains, starter homes selling for $1M in some locations. A lot of young people (men especially) are leaning Conservative. The assassination of Charlie Kirk is likely to get more young people interested in Conservatism.
And yet I see a lot of older Conservatives who seem to have no empathy or sympathy for young people. The older ones think they are the victims. They struggled. Their first home. bought in 1980 had a 19% mortgage. And a price tag of $70,000. I've seen older Conservatives (right here) laugh in scorn at any young person who can't scrape up the money to buy a house at today's prices. Get a second job!! Get a third job!! You're lazy!
We could win friends for the future if we showed a little more empathy.
Kinda, kinda not. These green X kids are not simply helpless victims. The start of the problems was after Reagan our Government strip mined our manufacturing and sent it to China and started 3 decades of war. But the minute they achieve voting age, and even before, the Gen X kids have massively supported feminism, childless lifestyle, homosexuality, atheism world travel instead of starting a family or buying a house.
They didn’t get the ball rolling, but they’ve made them all impossible to stop. Enthusiastically so. And now they stand there like a victim because they can’t have a giant house. I don’t completely blame them, but at this point they’ve got a huge measure of responsibility. They vote for socialism and even outright communism every chance they get.
Conversely, boomers are not universally guilty as they like to say. Boomers work hard, played by the rules, and are having a lot of this crap inflicted on them by the younger generations. So go live in a minivan and blog about their childless life as far as I care. At some point they have to be part of the solution. They stand there pointing fingers all doing everything they can to make the problem remain.
They live a perverted lifestyle, they love Socialism, and blame us for everything. And now we’re supposed to give them empathy and make them want to like us? The truth is, a lot of them are lazy, a lot of them do have atheist socialist values, they go on world travel and waste all their money. They support the green agenda, global warming and globalism. They get worthless education degrees by choice in mass communication or XYZ studies. That’s not our fault. Now they’re hitting the age where they want a house. They supported BLM and lead the marches. They tore down the statues. They despise old America and do not want it back.
Maybe they would get a little sympathy if they change their voting patterns. The males have started, but the females are hard left.
Way too many folks send their young ones off to study ancient roman gods or social this and social that. And now they have that big fat degree but can't find two nickels to rub together.
What's really needed is far more Apprenticeship programs across all the trades.
The subsequent comments to your post mostly prove your observations.