Boomer here. Just shy of 70 years. I’m not saying our way was better, but as a child it never occurred that you live with your parents. The entire growing up experience always had a backdrop of what are you going to do to make money after high school or university. In my case my grandfather and father were US Army, WW1 and WW2 respectively. From age 7 on I was committed to following that path and spent my youth preparing for it with a final 4 year push as an ROTC Cadet while drinking my way through DePaul University. My son just completed a hitch in the Marines, so the tradition remains unbroken. My point is there was no work ethic mentioned in Boomerville. It was assumed the purpose of becoming an adult was to enter into some profession or trade you would master, become stable, get married, get a house, multiply, get old, then drop dead as a courtesy to the younger generation that needed to be cloned in our image. Obviously the Boomer DNA had a suppressed longing to not be trapped in the old day to day grind. Frankly I am jealous of this’d who outright refuse to work and I am very impressed by those who desire a career, but make serious demands on employers starting at the entry level job. Remote work, flextime, mental health days, unlimited sick days, and they freely share their salaries with their ever group. So the Boomers appear to be the last with a work ethic that was just always there. Being an out of work bum was shameful and the homeless problem was insignificant, hidden by an imposed institutional life of shame as society either looked down at the wretched men living on charity, or the women folk simply looked away. The embarrassment of being on charity provided all the incentive needed for afflicted men to make fundamental changes even if it meant ta