I agree. I'm a Gen Xer (1971), and my folks were born in 1933 and 1935. Instead of Baby Boomer indulgence, I was raised with Depression-era stoicism. I think I got the better deal.
A relative was a traveling salesman who visited some relatives on the road in S. Dakota. A young niece showed him her birthday present - a doll, or rather a *picture* of a doll pasted on some construction paper. Out of the Sears catalog. How far would that fly to-day in the age of iPods and GameBoys and all that? As a practical matter there is a whole lot more stuff to spend money on, but as a student of U.S. history, we can see that the real "greatest generation" was the one that produced the folks that lived through the depression and raised the WWII/K/V generations...