re: Baby Boomers: The Entitled Generation?

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while in the past, it's been about hard work and building a career

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easy to do when opportunities are plentiful

when opportunities get scarce, like they are today, the competition for those opportunities drives salaries/benefits down

i'm a capitalist. i'm not asking for government to fix this problem. i'm just stating that this is a problem and boomers cannot relate

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We are all too dismissive of the trades as a solid and financially rewarding career path. The cycle of learning a trade, getting a lower entry-wage job, becoming very good at it, starting your own business, then hiring others to make money for you and building a business is no longer an aspiration.

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again, even here, the regulatory and economic jungle that youths would face doing this is nothing like the easy road the boomers had to do the same

it's not impossible, but it's a lot more costly, risky, and difficult

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I still maintain that hard work, talent, and social skills result in success.

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i don't disagree, but we're dealing with tens of millions of employees (or potential employees). this is a macro-level problem and we're not just talking about the super successful. we have tens of millions of regular people who need regular jobs, and to get there we need boomers to get out of the market, basically (and a great gift would be not to make us pay for their retirement and healthcare)

i mean there is one sector keeping our economy propped up right now and insulating retirement investment accounts. that sector is tech, and it's dominated by non-boomers. so obviously it is possible for non-boomers to succeed, being they are teh ones giving our entire economy CPR