However, despite the fact that my birth was in a certain 'era' that doesn't diminish what I, and most parents, truly hope for their children:
a life better than they[the parents] had
Though I am around fifty and was lucky enough to have had a talent that enabled me to earn a fairly large sum of money in the eighties, which has since grown considerably, I am continuing to work though I could 'retire'.
There are a couple of reasons for this.
First, the output of the trust funds that I had to participate in, virtually all track and field athletes of that time had to, is paying the room, board and costs of my kid's graduate and post-graduate degree in college. Also, I want to work...although the field I'm in currently is boring and distasteful (corporate in nature and cya in practice).
But not all boomers are bad, evil, greedy people who deserve to be put to death as soon as legally possible.
So, get a grip!