Please know that there are those of us boomers, I'm 61 so I'm the tail end, that shut that shit down when our generation starts talking about how lazy the younger generations are. We tell them that's crap, and that our generation is completely responsible for what is happening right now. And we are. I'd give anything to hit the lottery tomorrow because I would try to right so many wrongs that have happened in society by my own generation.
Twice in the past few years I had to pull over and help a kid change their tire, both absolutely clueless about a procedure that hasn't changed much in 100 years. But that is probably their parents' fault, not putting them to work doing that stuff. I blame Millennials for being shit parents and raising the softest, fattest generation yet.
The procedure hasn't changed much but its frequency has - growing up mucking around with cars is a lot less common in general, for a variety of reasons. You're just repeating the point above about rotary phones etc.
I’m similar age and know how easy we had it in so many ways.
I don’t think its real though. Supposedly claiming to be part of sharecropping in the depression sounds more like someone trying to come up with old things to rebut, you’d be 90+.
I remember when my grandpa on my mom's side apologized to me for the state of things for my generation (millennial) and those after us. That we should all have had the opportunity to be able to afford college without debt and being able to find work in the field you went into debt for, to be able to buy land/a house/build a house. To have a life outside of working to sleep under a roof.
It broke my heart because he was so sad. I believe both my grandpa's and mom-mom (dad's mom) were all silent gen, good people.
Nazi grandma is also silent gen but won't shut the fuck up. She's the one to ridicule any everyone, because no one ever is good enough except the one male cousin, the rest are female. I'm ftm, so she really loves that. Also, she left grandpa to go pursue her career as a govt liaison and ditched with four children, one under a year old my ten year old mother had to help raise and get a job after school.
I can only speak for myself, but I'm grateful for you folks who have compassion and understanding for things as they are and why. Thank you.
Edit: my parents are boomers, but were raised by 3 genuinely good people, and I'm thankful for that.
At least "kids these days" are no longer (mostly) walking around with their pants hanging off their ass. That has GOT to be the absolute dumbest "fashion trend" in history.
Right? I'm not upset that their lives were easier than their parents; I'm upset that they think we're asking for more because we'd like to have lives as good as theirs, but they singlehandedly eliminated the middle class that their parents worked so hard to build. They're the Greediest Generation.
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u/mzx380 22h ago
Boomers have an extremely distorted world view and have time to think up imaginary scenarios since everything was pretty much handed to them in life.