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To: lodi90

Why do you think boomers are the greediest generation? I don’t see that at all.


11 posted on 10/13/2019 6:25:09 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: gcparent

As a Boomer, I don’t think we are the greediest, but we were spoiled. My dad graduated HS in 1932—into the teeth of the Depression. By the time WWII ended he was in his early 30s before ‘normal’ times returned for the first time in his adult life. Postwar prosperity led many parents, I believe, to want to give their kids what they had been deprived of.

By today’s standards, growing up in the 50s would seem in fact to be poor and deprived. One phone in the house. One radio. One TV if you were lucky. But by my parents’ standards it was a time of unprecedented abundance. As one who lived it, it was wonderful.


29 posted on 10/13/2019 7:38:19 AM PDT by hanamizu
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