I'm in your generation and you are lying to yourself if you think that more than 25% of boomers have your or my work ethic.
Most of them are lazy liberals, RINO's or apolitical. Only the rich lib's among that type (inheritied daddy's money, most likely) will be close to self sufficient in retirement.
Those of us who earned our money and will be self sufficient are very far and few between.
I know that I will never see a company pension or social security. My whole retirement is based on three things:
My 401k
My house paid for
Personnel Investments
& I plan to retire in comfort.
I'm 49 and my situation is exactly the same. No pension. I've paid into social security since taking my first job in 1973 washing dishes at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour. My house is paid for. I've contributed to employer sponsored defined contribution plans since 1980. My investments are mostly in company stock and real estate.
When I'm ready to back off of 60 to 70 hour weeks doing mind numbing volumes of software and hardware development work, then I'll entertain a return to teaching computer science and electronics. The local university is hurting for teaching talent that has any practical experience in either discipline.