Yep, every generation wants to blame someone else for their problems/bad decisions. Its always "the boomers" who are villified for causing all the world's problems, even though the average boomer was mid-teens to early 20's in 1971. The federal reserve started way before the infamous year of 1971. People still fall for the tactics of division that central banks and govts use as a control mechanism.
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1862 Lincoln ushers in Commissioner of internal Revenue
1913 16th ammendment allows for the taxing of income
1913 Wilson signs the Federal Reserve Act
1933 FDR Executive Order 6102 confiscates gold and replaces it with fiat
1971 Nixon completely takes US off gold standard
Some call me Boomer, Some call me x. I was born on the cusp, but most of these bad laws and policies happened before my parents were born.
In recent memory:
2010 Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin
2020 reserve requirement set to 0%
The above two will change money and wealth over the next few decades.