Boomers hate to admit how easy they had it. They got out of high school in some nowhere, one horse town, accepted one of the dozen job offers they got, made a decent wage with regular increases stacking potatoes in a warehouse somewhere, bought their houses with whatever change they had in their pockets. Yet any time I've ever suggested that their generation might have had an easier time than others, either online or in real life, I get a flood of abuse and "you don't have a clue". "We worked hard for our success" they scream, to which I reply "congratulations, my generation works hard just to get by."
All the talk of how "entitled" younger generations are is infuriating. If a boomer doesn't like something, they complain to a manager, or they're on the phone to their local rep, my generation just shrugs and moves on, because we're used to disappointment.
And my kids generation is even more cynical again. They barely even seem to have aspirations. It's like they looked around and said fuck that, we'll share memes and tik tok dances instead. And that's their strength, in a way. They're not going to kill themselves struggling for the white picket fence and 2 cars. They're going to be happy living in shared rentals and taking ubers when they do bother going anywhere. It's one thing that won't be able to be used to hold them down.
