As a millennial, I have no sympathy for these whiny millennials and Gen Zers that put all the blame for their problems on boomers. I know so many in my generation that buy crap like crazy and travel frequently yet complain about not being able to buy a house and claim to care about the environment. Also, even the dumbest of the bunch think they are smart enough to do any job without any actual knowledge or experience. They think their college degrees = work experience. Nope.
Right - the reason college has jumped exponentially in cost is due to all the subsidies, handouts, freebies, etc. to make it “more affordable” resulting in hyperinflation of tuition. Would she propose eliminating those programs? Hardly - she probably wants more of them.
As a repentant Boomer, I can tell you that we brought a lot of our problems on our very selfish selves...beginning with The Pill and unconsequential sex and accelerated geometrically by Roe v. Wade, which we cheered at the time.
But now the demographic reality is really setting in. The 2 million or so kids aborted in 1973 would have turned 18 in 1991. If some of them would have married (let us hope!) young their offspring would be turning 18 this year.
So we have selfishly aborted not one, but now TWO generations.
More evil will arise from our evil, make no mistake.
To be fair, Boomers didn’t create much of the mess in government. The Greatest Generation won WWII, and then came home and greatly increased the social welfare state. Generations before them also played a huge part. Boomers? No one ever asked us if we wanted to be enrolled in Social Security. By our time, it and MANY other programs were already well established.
That said, Gen Z and millennials will receive probably the greatest wealth transfer in human history as Boomers check out. We worked, and earned, and saved. I’m told many younger folks find showing up to work on time to be a major challenge. Will they use their Boomer created wealth wisely or blow it?
Rational ones. The NY Slimes only seeks to divide, and this article about "OK Boomer" is already passe. What generation's young rebels haven't made fun of their elders?
Gen X here and I feel we're the buffer generation between the Boomers and our kids, the Millenials. "Gen Y" became "Millenials" and then there's "Gen Z" or "Zoomers". Zoomers are too young to remember 9/11 though they might have been alive during it. Remember that. If you're confused, here's a generational cohort guide.
At the moment, there are more Gen Xers than Boomers. Huh. But who's in charge? Duh. The Boomers, mostly. Why? Because they've been at their trades and businesses working hard for the past decades.
Just like when the Boomers were 20 and started out on their jobs. Older people ran the companies and were in the senior positions. Duh.
Written all the way back almost 20 years ago is an essay from the US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute by Dr. Leonard Wong called Generations Apart: Xers and Boomers in the Officer Corps. It's a 36 page pdf talking about the generational differences and communication techniques of the (then) young generation of officers and the older leadership. An extremely good read for those interested.
If you want something a little lighter (satire, people) then read about "Nation's Gen Xers Announce Plan To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Watching Boomers, Millennials Tear Each Other To Shreds".
What every older generation owes the younger generations is teach them the hard earned lessons of experience and mistakes.
Zoomers? These are the kids born into a world where the US has been in nearly 20-year wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They're enlisting now and being commissioned in the Armed Forces.
The onus is on Boomers, Gen Xers, and even some millenials to explain this to the younger Americans.
Don't let these tools win by trying to divide the generations! We're pretty much all on the same boat, right?
MAGA!
Where We Go One, We Go All.
Your generation has a point.
If your generation looks at the boomers as a generation that created a financial world that is so far from sustainable that your generation will be the first in American history to do far less as well as theirs did, then it is completely accurate.
I think the Boomers are lucky to be referred to as Boomers. What other species comes in and consumes everything and then berates their children and grandchildren for not giving them yet more?
Locusts.
My responce is ok commie.