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Posted on 05/28/2026 11:50:55 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
For many millennials, the economy can feel like a game of musical chairs where previous generations already grabbed the seats, refinanced them at 3% interest and now insist there are still plenty left if younger people would just "budget better." Somewhere along the way, the American dream started feeling less like a finish line and more like one of those carnival games rigged just enough to keep people throwing money at it.
That frustration spilled into Reddit's r/economy subreddit when one millennial who grew up in the 1990s posted a blunt message about the growing disconnect between younger Americans and boomers over money, housing and financial expectations.
"I'm a millennial who grew up in the 90s and what boomers don't understand about us is that we're working three times as hard for a third of what they had at our age," the Redditor wrote. "And the milestones they want us to hit weren't postponed by laziness, they were priced out of reach by the economy they voted for."
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Ayers was born in 1944. He's a boomer.
We had millennials working for us and as a group, they never worked as hard as we boomers. Some were bright go-getters, but so many were entitled, opinionated (about everything), and had little compunction about coming in late for work, or leaving early.
As far as greedy?
Yoiks. As young folks, we boomers had fewer clothes in our closets, fewer possessions, more strength in our family units, and a far greater feeling of gratitude for what freedoms and guidelines our Country and culture provided us.
We young men knew that barring physical infirmities, we were likey to spend some quality time in uniform. Most (not all) considered this a duty, and so many of us enlisted rather that waiting for the draft.
Our culture built our character, hard work, fair play, justice in the actual sense of the word.
I'm not surprised to see that some millennials are jealous of our boomer era. We were educated by the Greatest Generation, and turned out, on balance, surprisingly well.
Exactly. I was born in 1947. Couldn't legally vote until I turned 21 in 1968.
“Ayers was born in 1944. He’s a boomer”
Lesson for the future.
If you are going to correct someone you had better get your facts straight first.
Million -—> Thousand?
hot take stupidity
L oser
Interesting that you just named three Republicans. These, of course, are not the finest examples of what a good Republican should be but, the demoncrats and the unions, the catholic church, doctors without borders and blue states that refuse to enforce the laws for the sake of their voting base are what I believe to be the real cause of our grief...
I have heard some law officers say, "They were told to stand down and NOT enforce the law by the mayor" or whatever. I say, if the politician wants the law to be something other than what it is he needs to go to the legislature and get it changed. Otherwise, ALL laws should be enforced as written.
I also believe that, if you're in a position where you're charged with enforcing the law and you're found to have intentionally fail to do so then you should be charged as an accomplice in said crime.
Well then, why didn’t you provide the correct answer yourself if you knew it was The Silent Generation (born 1928–1945).
“Well then, why didn’t you provide the correct answer yourself if you knew it was The Silent Generation (born 1928–1945).”
I was laying a trap for trolls that felt they had to correct me with their lies.
“Hey, that’s awesome. I would totally take some AI-spewed stats over my own first-hand experience.”
Whatever.
Here is a 2017 dated publication.
On the low end of the salary spectrum was help desk/computer support personnel. The average salary for those staffers at public institutions was $59,731;
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/12/14/2017-it-salary-job-satisfaction-survey-results.aspx
The Bushes, the Romneys just wanted to be liked. They would twist any direction to be liked, thought well of by the “better sort of people” , etc. Not the common “hoi polloi” - the rabble. I view the Bushes as the “last hurrah” of the “GOP me too” class. “GOP me too class” meaning we can do FDR socialism better! I have worked with a lot of Navy people. I don’t know anyone who had a good thing to say about McCain on a personal private level. Entitled admiral’s brat was the common description and not very smart at that. In Arizona he just jumped into the corrupt local politics. Back then maybe still are GOP just as corrupt as the the local Ratters.
I’m a Boomer. I can say with authority and first hand experience that you have no idea.
“Hey, that’s awesome. I would totally take some AI-spewed stats over my own first-hand experience.”
Here is some more 2017 data:
Average starting salary for all college graduates - $51k.
Starting salary Computer & Information Sciences 950 $74,183
“”””I may be wrong but I’m pretty sure Bill Ayers is a Boomer. You want to talk about America’s problems Bill Ayers exemplifies it.””””
This list below is just a little of how wrong people are about the 60s and boomers, none of them are boomers, including Williams Ayers and his wife Bernadette Dohrn.
he people we know from the hippies were almost all ‘silent generation’ people. People like Bob Seger, Jane Fonda, John Denver, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Paul & Mary, Grace Slick, Neil Young, Beatles, Van Morrison, Joan Baez, Jerry Garcia, Pete Townsend, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Jimmy Page, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Williams Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, Chicago Seven, Rod Stewart, Abbie Hoffman, Hunter S. Thompson, Malcolm X, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, and the Rolling Stones, the Jefferson Airplane, and the Mamas and the Papas, Jimmy Page, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, etc, etc, etc, just about everyone that you can name.
You're the troll. I've been here far longer than you.
Mine was more like 35 years of 7-6 with no breaks. I think the number of times in my entire “career” I took a full lunch break at less than 100 over 38 years of white collar slavery. Add the 3-4 hours commuting every day and my kids have no idea how easy they have it.
Impressive!
it is always, has always been difficult, challenging, hard to get established in life
not putting down anybody, not a one
just a fact that it takes a whole lot of work, grit, and deferred gratification to succeed, for most of us, in every generation
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