In general, boomers didn’t have to do anything special to get ahead. They showed up and rode the wave of fiat expansion.

Of course there is variation within the sample (not all boomers are lazy) but if we want to understand why millennials, Gen Z, etc. are so frustrated and lost and acting out, it is because the boomers soaked up all the value of the fiat system during their working years and are hoarding it for themselves as they age.