[hanamizu]

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.

[Tellurian]

Re things we now take for granted, I recently saw a family letter written in the 1940's, where the wife who authored the letter lamented that she couldn't start writing the letter sooner because her husband had the pen the previous day.

[gcparent]

It was a wonderful life
We were not spoiled. My friends and I had part time jobs in high school and college. We mowed our parents lawns. Shoveled. Raked leaves. No landscapers. One car in the family. We rode bikes. Walked 1.5 each way to school. We were not spoiled.