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Jun 28, 2022 11:56 AM
Lanhdanan
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Epiphileon
Careful with the generalizations folks, my folks were WWII vets, I grew up in the inner city and on food stamps.
Hefelump
The most smiled generation in history closing the door behind them. They literally ruined the country and the planet.
TheLesserOfTwoWeevils
obligatory:
68mano
Hmm, I'm white and I don't recall living the "dream" at any time in my life. I'm a disabled Vet that's been homeless twice. Spare me the BS!
FritoParadise
Yep, we're the self entitled, spoiled generation when they're the ones that can't figure out technology without help from our generation
casjones7
Speaking as a white baby boomer, I agree, and I am sorry
mesogiria
Please don't be. Being sorry for something you can't control isn't worth anything, and just hurts you.
chemicalBagel
Boomers are objectively the worst cohort in modern history.
Onlyhereforthelaughs
Their idea of "spoiled" is "not working in the cotton fields."
OmnipotentBeing
Google the ME generation. The generations that came before the Boomers despised them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_generation
Kc0125
Boomers open the door for themselves and abruptly close it on the rest of us
Billis75
Pink Houses by John Mellencamp is about how the American Dream doesn't apply to poor people. Rubes just like it for "ain't that America!"
rakas90
My boomer parents tell me they built our economy while complaining we ruined it. I wasn't even in it until the 2010s. It makes no sense.
IsolatedAsshole
They've had it easier than any other generation in history yet have the fucking balls to call everyone else lazy.
finetoroastasimamarshmallow
My parents: Everyone has the same opportunities. Me: On what planet though?
Northwindlowlander
I count myself really lucky with my boomer relatives, they all get that they were lucky. Like, my aunt did not have an easy life at all but
Northwindlowlander
still, they own their house which they bought with a single low income. I've had a much easier life in most ways but in others not, and it's
Northwindlowlander
kinda awesome that people can recognise it both ways. I hope I'm as cool, when I'm old
Tigersterne
Some Boomers. Some got firehosed in Selma
Cheomesh
My white boomer parents lived most of their lives in poverty and they'll die in poverty.
FallingStar7669
The Greatest Generation gave rise to the Entitled Generation, and they've been fucking things up for 80 years.
gpxtom4
Not all of us do. Some of can see. Stop grouping folks.
SometimesTheresAMan28
"It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it"
Orcus424
It's a dream because it's not real.
spacepants4tw7
Trying to explain to my mom why things were great for her in the 50’s, but not great for pretty much everyone outside her neighborhood…
Hypernaut
Always makes me think of playing Civilization. Boomers were born during an American Golden Age from a surplus of happiness.
Hypernaut
Can we still build Notre Dame for +10 happiness?
MarkSoupial
Ah but they EARNED it (by simply existing during the time of America's greatest progressive and socialist economic period while being white)
kojenk
the work of their forefathers that they leeched upon without taking their example to build for the next generation
TargaX
People always get this wrong. The Silent Generation is the one that could afford to live with only 1 parent working. Got all the post-WW2
TargaX
government benefits, etc. By the time Boomers were adults the USA was already in the shitter.
tombrazelton
Boomers didn’t even earn it. Their parents fought for it.
somethingstupidandclever
Let's not forget how fucked up those parents were. They murdered for it and drank away the pain. Then blamed everyone else.
iLynux
Murdered? Killing in war is not murder.
Greatinternetpanda22
It was Nazis too. It couldn't be more justified. The PTSD will get you though.
CommodusLeitdorf
Yup, Spoiled brat boomers pulling the ladder up behind them.
nasukkin
And Gen X let them get away with it.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
The men, maybe. The women were still being raised to be wives and mothers. Getting any education beyond nursing or teaching was /1
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
considered a waste for women. Maybe the ones born right at the end, on the edge with Gen X, were in a better position, but my mom /2
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
basically was expected to get married and pump out kids. And that's what she did and she's had a pretty miserable life. /3
Mairoa
Yeah and I bet she didn't even work. It's sickening seeing all those boomers never working a day in their damn lives and still rich.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
She was actually the primary breadwinner because my dad couldn't hold down a job and spent money like there was no tomorrow. She got /1
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
caught between generations. Still having tons of kids like the old generation she was raised in, but working like the new generation of /2
Rrrrgrr
We have collective amnesia. We no longing remember the struggles of the previous generations. Facists, Women's Rights, LGBT+ Rights. Unions
Rrrrgrr
People fought and died for what is being taken away again.
commentsivehadafew
When you have it easy, you assume everyone has it easy
Californiajackson
Nobody with an ounce of awareness thinks anyone today has it easy. I know my kids will need whatever I can give them so I scrimp on spending
Neorago
And the second anything becomes harder/inconvenient for them they cry out because it feels like something was taken away
TheEvenPrez
Essentially. People default to their own worldview as a baseline, hence every accusation being a confession
NomadFeetWanderingToes
Yup. Grew up uprmid class (and I'm white) Good schools,safe environment, good parents who pushed me to be educated, had $ for college....
NomadFeetWanderingToes
Took me my 20s being on my own afterwards to realize how stacked against you it can be without that foundation, not to mention racism.
PubstarHero
Had to have a talk with my boomer mom about this. She wonders why more people cant just do college, and I had to remind her that she >
PubstarHero
> paid $4.50/credit and now everything is up to $33/credit even for community college. She went to school in the early 90's...
olafthrig
Mother-in-law grew up in the 60s with a pool etc, I grew up on food stamps without heat, she has no idea of the real world.
Arob393
Make the change. Better yourself so you can give that to your kids
youcantgiveAbabybooze
Nice idea, but when politicians are actively attacking the means of social mobility, its unlikely to happen without outside help
Arob393
What do you mean by that
youcantgiveAbabybooze
I'm pretty sure you're not that dumb, I'll not be biting today.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
If you accomplished something and the realized you had help, that can diminish your pride in your accomplishments. Many can't handle that.
TremendousDude5
1) This is why I call BS on those who claim they are self made, that nobody helped them.
Arob393
Jeez do you complain about everything? Life is terrible when everything is negative to you
SugarRay59
I mean the self-made myth is actively destroying men. Most men think they need to be self-reliant, which leads to harmful isolation.
SugarRay59
Humans aren't built to face anything alone, we're one of the single most genetically social animals existing, save some hive insects.
TremendousDude5
2) Anybody at some point received some help, then you take it from there.
TremendousDude5
3) I am grateful to all those who, one way or another helped me get where I am now in life (through advice, teachings)
Zephyrwind200
I think that might just be an issue with the surrounding language. I don't think the prevailing belief is that "self-made" means "I did...
bladderinfection
Retired in-laws bring in $13,000 a month. They had regular jobs. No doctor. No lawyer. They had the opportunity to live comfortably & save.
afatrollofmyown
A month?! I've had years where I didn't even break 10k
bladderinfection
She has a government pension, he has a union pension. They see me and their daughter struggle, they vote Republican. Fuck this place.
IMCastorTroy
My girlfriend got a new job a year ago, she was going over her benefits aloud and mentioned a pension, I whipped my head around so fast!
NotaCPA
defined benefit or defined contribution?
IMCastorTroy
I'm not totally sure, I know nothing about them, I think it has employer contributions, and a 401k, without.
NotaCPA
I ask because my last few non-contract jobs had pensions as well. All defined contributions. I would have had to dump 20% to see real growth
IMCastorTroy
yikes!
forResearchPurposesOnly
Had lots to do with all competing economies having recently committed suicide in WW1+2. US was in unique position to be the only store open.
Ninjainslippers
I forget where I heard it, but after WW2, I heard that the US had 50% of the world's wealth. And we fucking squandered it.
Slamtastik
People forget this, its like a race where all the other racers tripped but you still celebrate like you are Usain Bolt
thebluegolem
Not to mention the fact they drained the gold reserves of their allies during both wars before they got involved.
Bmxrider70763
Then they lied to kids and told us we were prosperous because we're were just better than everyone because muh freedoms.
forResearchPurposesOnly
It’s called propaganda. A feature of every nation.
4Endymion
Boomers were born after WW2. You might want to take a hard look at the WW2 generation that held a lot of power through 20th century.
historycat
Then they actively made it harder for every generation after themselves.
forResearchPurposesOnly
I wouldn’t say they collectively. Those with wealth and power for sure. Majority of boomers are in the same position as the rest of us. >>
forResearchPurposesOnly
>>That said, the middle class boomer has advantages due to the economic of their time.
historycat
Collectively? They voted for Reagan, Bushes, Clinton, and Trump. It's only when younger generations showed up do we get an Obama.
forResearchPurposesOnly
Clinton was considered a “leftist” radical, according to con’s. He lost the House because he pushed for universal healthcare and gun .. >>
forResearchPurposesOnly
>>control. Hillary Clinton was painted as a straight up capital “C” communist for her charge in fighting for universal health coverage.
historycat
Did you know that Dems had a majority in the House from 1955 until 1977 & the Senate from '55-'81? Right until boomers started voting.
Giraffehalf
Obama boasted about being basically a 90s Republican so not sure why he’s not on that list too.
historycat
Source?