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People keep recycling the following FUCKIN FANTASY

"Boomers had it easy, dad worked and mom stayed home. College was cheap and a family of 5-6 could live on one income".

This is BULLSHIT taught to you by your college professors that KNOW better. It is propaganda.

How do we know? Because the generation known as GenX were called "the latch key kids".

Wake the fuck up GenZ! If what you are told was true, all us aging GenX'rs would not have grown up on our own, fixing our own shit, etc. You have to be intentionally and willfully ignorant to believe the bullshit you're being fed.

You got to go back to the Silent Generation to get close to the lie you are being sold.

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Brian 1y ago

What benefit would the lie tellers gain by propagating that story?

Matthew 1y ago

Probably creating division and angst between family members. I've certainly internalized some of this and it becomes easy to become angry at my parents because of that.

That's not always right, because my parents did work hard.

My take on that is that it was more likely for their hard work to pay off than it is for people now (because of the money supply inflation situation).

Stacking Functions 1y ago

I agree that the generation division is not great, and I try not to lump people into “cohorts” but man the boomers are easy to pigeonhole. Obviously these are generalities and don’t apply to all..

The positives: they are fun loving, generous, optimistic, self-assured, hard working, trusting.

The negatives: they’re naive and obedient to legacy institutions (govt, tech, media, white coats).

Most of them write off bitcoin and alternatives to the dollar and 401ks.

So many are disconnected from the natural world and as a result are not great stewards of land. Largely consumers who have little concept of where things come from or how that thing impacts the world beyond them (lifecycles of products)

They have a really hard time seeing health as a holistic system and how things are connected, and don’t like to acknowledge that they’re going to die (and in many cases plan for it)

These are just a few of my observations after being raised by boomers and getting to know their siblings and friends well.

Each generation has its pros and cons, and that’s ok. We all bear responsibility for where we are as a whole society

Sandor Clegane 1y ago

Yes and no, depends what work they chose, there was less competition.

That being said, they were more frugal in the earlier days & most of the difference is the inflation now.

Sandor Clegane 1y ago

I have no idea about over there at the time though, your population was alot larger & the industries offshored faster there.

Sandor Clegane 1y ago

As almost always, they misrepresent by omission or cherry picking more often than outright lying, at least until lately, the end result is the same.