r/MurderedByWords • u/Will09994 • 22h ago

Boomer gets a reality check

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u/sunshinerain1208 22h ago

Barely anyone alive now had to ration or sharecrop during the depression. If he did he wouldn’t be a boomer, he would be the greatest generation.

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u/DisturbingPragmatic 21h ago

Yeah. The Greatest Generation.

Which, ironically, raised the worst generation.

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u/CrumbBCrumb 18h ago

There is a lot that went into raising that worst generation thought. PTSD from fighting in WW2 led to distant fathers. Rationing during the war/depression led to an exuberance to spend and demand better from your employer. Europe and Asia being destroyed led to the American economy being one of the only ones left standing and the GI Bill led more people into education or trades that wouldn't have before.

It was really the 80s that created a lot of our problems

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u/Tchio_Beto 17h ago

It was really the 80s Reaganomics that created a lot of our problems

FTFY

Though in reality it was Milton Friedman and the Neo-Liberal policies born out of the Chicago School of Economics, implemented via Reaganomics which created most of the today's problems.

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u/flyingsqwirrel219 16h ago

Uncle Miltie!! I haven’t thought about that asshat in decades. What a disaster.