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[–] nocklobster@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They grew up in a for the most part prosperous time, middle class had 2 cars in the driveway, jobs were easier to obtain, it's no wonder alot of them think the way they do.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

Boomers grew up in a world with a 91% top-tier income tax rate that drove businesses to spend their excess income on products and services, which became their parents' paychecks.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

Think about it this way: They were literally the most spoiled highest quality-of-life group of humans to ever exist on Earth in any timeline.

  • Ubiquitous access to healthcare and vaccinations for longer life.
  • Access to pensions and retirement options no longer available where the employer did all the legwork to ensure they had a future post-work so they didn't have to learn a thing about investing or retirement savings.
  • Infrastructure that was borne from the Great Depression, so they had roads, bridges, dams all built up to last their lifetime with no care about maintenance, as they figure, "oh it was always there, it will always be there," so no money was committed to maintenance we are now having to do, freeing that money up to live like kings and queens in the short-term.
  • Easy to access jobs, homes, boats, cars with little to no education or financial acumen. Just that "walk in and hand them a resume" trope they love to perpetuate.
  • The most modern travel technology and geopolitical climate to go on vacation pretty much anywhere on the planet, and access to time to have vacation.
  • Relatively calm planetary climate so they didn't have to worry about things like today's weather weirding with tornadoes where they shouldn't be, hurricanes going inland, hail everywhere, and on and on, all the while driving their 5 MPG giant SUVs all over the country while tossing their food wrappers on the side of the road.
  • Cheap (during the majority of their lives) to relocate anywhere in the US or abroad if they wanted to work or live somewhere else, or be "snowbirds" when they're too wimpy to tolerate the winter in their home states.
  • The same geopolitical climate prevented them having to grow up in war-torn anywhere.
  • Access to any kind of entertainment imaginable any time anywhere.
  • Artificially post-world-war inflated US economy that took some decades to spin down (that "Great Again" they fap to) - which only happened because the US joined so late and had few losses ourselves. The war never happened at home, so we got out for minimal effort/casualties/infrastructure loss.
  • And they got to adult in an age of computer technology that enables them as olds to not have to drive their car, pick up food, or do any errands they don't want to do themselves, all without having to learn any technical skills because the tech was designed for idiots.

No human generation before or after them got to, or likely will ever, experience such a prosperous story-arc. They should consider themselves damn lucky and act like it, while supporting future generations to have a sliver of what their spoiled asses were able to enjoy.