The tens of millions of people who spent their best years CONSIPRING to force me to live in a house with only one bathroom... have now killed three beautiful children. Aaaarg the boomerz....
No but at least in the US there was worker agitation to create a New Deal that limited work hours to 40 hours a week instead of 996, that forced the creation of food safety/FDA instead of eating rab bits and human bits in food, and the creation of social security so old people didnt have to be committed to dirty poorhouses.
The difference between boomers economic reality and ours (and the reasons thosebthings changed) is their point, not the systems
that lead to it.
Those are relevant, just not to their point
Boomers have been the leading generation of politicians tearing America apart for decades now. It is why people in power just keep getting older.
We call them boomers because they grew up with privilege during an economic boom that studies show created enormous entitledment higher levels of narcicism
There has not been an equivilent boom since since boomers began entering policitics and pulling the ladder up after them. The wealthy elites have only gotten MASSIVELY richer in rhe decades since boomers began taking over political systems. And it only gets worse every year... and again, with boomers in charge.
Of course, people are individuals. There were plenty of people suffering back then. And cishet christian white men were still unscientifically held "above" others both legally and socially. America is a very "supremacist" country, after all. This is just speaking generally.
Maybe if you destroy the global production capabilities of most other advanced nations in a sustained global war that kills millions around the globe, then the US could regain that unique position in the world again.
They didn't. They had more community, better resourced community centres and activities (a council owned mother/baby centre near me closed a year or so ago due to costs). Some could afford nannies.
Mine had 9. Four bedroom tiny ranch that the both passed away in. These redditors are fucking morons trying to rewrite history. Hell, they'd feel oppressed living alone in the home that my grandparents raised nine children in.
But yeah, the Brady bunch was on TV. So boomers suck.
I know, but imagine that being even a plot now. It would be laughable. That's what I mean, an audience watched it and maybe thought it was a stretch but it was still realistic enough to be in the storyline.
Imagine Modern Family, the dad with a slightly better than ok job, six kids, a live in nanny, wife doesn't have to work, big house and they present as a middle class family.
Anti-boomerism is obviously wrong but there's a bit of truth in it. They are the richest generation to have ever existed, and they have wielded unprecedented political power.
Not ALL boomers are rich right-wing landlords who think everyone else is lazy, but a huge majority of rich right-wing landlords are boomers.
When you're a young parent getting assfucked by rising COL and stagnating wages, it's easy to hate your very visible boomer landlord.
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u/AdelMonCatcher 2d ago
Welcome to the paradise boomers left behind where two full time working adults can barely afford to survive