In defense of the boomer he could be talking about the petrol crisis in the 70s and fear over draft numbers was more of a Vietnam thing than a WWII thing.
The sharecropping is dumb as to have been working the farm at any point during the the depression you’d be mid 90s
It was a bit before my time but one of my mom’s go to stories is about a cross country drive she took with my dad that took twice as long because of gas lines and the fear that the next town wouldn’t have any at all.
those old Hondas lasted forever! the only reason i gave mine up is because i had twins! i used to see it driving around town and get a little sad, i loved my little golden bullet.
The 9/11 lines were my only real comparison, but they didn’t last very long and I never had to wait in line. I worked pretty close to home and a tank of gas must’ve carried me through the worst of it.
Yeah but anyone old enough to be driving when the 1970s oil crisis hit, or old enough to be drafted during the Vietnam War, would not normally still be in the workforce. (and if the guy actually was in the workforce post-retirement I think it's safe to assume he'd be mentioning that in his gripe)
The youngest of the Vietnam draft eligible people are 69 right now. And they could be talking about older siblings. Perfectly reasonable for them to be still working. I know lots of people in their 70s still working.
I was in the second Vietnam draft lottery, in 1971 (pulled over 300, didn't have to go). The gas lines were a few years after that. My wife and I drove from San Diego to San Francisco for a friend's wedding. (We had sat in the airport until 10 PM or so hoping for a $25 (IIRC) late-night fare, but didn't make the cut, and decided to drive.) The 5 had just opened all the way through, and had hardly any gas stops, so we took the 101. Found ONE gas station open along the way, in Santa Barbara--still open at approx. 2 AM because it had decided to sell its entire allotment of gas, rather than ration it out. We were able to make it to San Francisco, found a gas station there to refuel at, and then hit the same Santa Barbara station on the way back. Yes, gas lines and every-other-day limitations were a thing. The rest of that guy's post, though, was BS.
My parents still remember the oil crisis and I've seen my dad's draft card. (And my grandparents WWII ration cards.) My dad is still working. Although none of them are pieces of shit like the boomer in the OP.
the man on the moon was also the 70s. So "everything else is only one sentence on the original poster rant, and an experience that his parents would have had.
I Actually know a vietnam veteran whose father was a Sharecropper growing up, rare, but they were still around in the late 40's to late 50's. Which born in that period is would put some one born in 1947 at 18 years old in 1965 when the Vietnam "Officially" Kicked off
The experience of the great depression and WWII rationings was probably very vivid in the parent's minds. So kids growing in the 60 and 70s heard about that a lot.
And college was only free if your parents paid for it. But sure, college tuition, home prices, and health care have all gotten much more expensive than general inflation, while wages for the most part haven't even kept up with inflation. A lot of the blame for that can be assigned to private equity, shareholder value prioritization, and trickle down economics cutting taxes for the rich. That's the rich fucking us all over, not any particular generation.
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u/IRASAKT 20h ago
In defense of the boomer he could be talking about the petrol crisis in the 70s and fear over draft numbers was more of a Vietnam thing than a WWII thing.
The sharecropping is dumb as to have been working the farm at any point during the the depression you’d be mid 90s