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My job has me around yuppie boomers pretty often and I have to tell you they are absolutely fried right now.

All of the institutions they’ve put their entire lives into are crumbling right in front of their eyes and I think they’ve reached the point where they can’t really cope anymore.

They’re addicted to bad news in a way that has made them almost feral. They wallow in their recent defeat in a way that makes them wish for more bad news. They desperately want things to get way (way) worse just so they can be right.

Tell them a piece of good news and they’ll barely acknowledge it.

Tim Dillon is right. The hippies of the 60’s/70’s never believed in anything, they were just drug addicts who ended up moving to different drugs. When they got old it became about money/power and their own egos.

What a way to leave the world. So many lessons to be learned from this failed generation.

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Stephan Rinbaum 9mo ago

"yuppy" boomers? That's like "jumbo shrimp". "Yuppy" literally came from "young urban professionals".

Boomers are now in their sixties at the very youngest. Most are not much part of the economy and they will be surpassed by Gen X in terms of wealth by the end of the decade. "You can't take it with you."

In terms of numbers, millennials will be the largest generation by 2030. I can't find any research regarding "generational wealth", but all of that boomer-owned real estate will have to go somewhere.

I agree that "yuppies" were, and are, the worst of humanity. The obsession with wealth, and things was excoriated in the movie "Fight Club", which was distributed in 1999. I see that the term "dinks" - dual income, no kids - is coming back into use. Maybe it's time for another "Fight Club" to remind the millennials of the faults of their progenitors.