re: Boomers and long-term impact on younger generations

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Curious if others see it this way or think there’s more to it.

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Is this another thread where you people whine and blame everyone and everything for your poor life decisions?

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facts. Hmmm...I have 3 kids out in the world that prove your facts wrong.

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Nice anecdotal evidence that means exactly nothing

Boomers are the most selfish and greedy people on planet earth.

Of course, thanks to all the people 45 and up working their asses off to cover the lazy younger generations

Life is hard. It’s supposed to be
ADAPT
Affording a house takes two incomes usually. Young people today are not getting married.
Pay your dues. Do the time. Quit playing video games. Live within your means. Get off social media. Quit drinking. Join a gym. Go to church.

Get off my lawn.

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Since then, it feels like the pattern hasn’t changed. Wealth and property have continued to concentrate, housing is harder to access

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lThis has nothing to do with "boomers". This is a function of the Fed and US treasury re-inflating the real estate bubble. An administration millennials overwhelming supported.

Using an entire generation of people for a scapegoat for government's failures is the most millineal/genZ thing ever.

Instead of whining, look for different opportunities than what worked 1-2 genrations ago. If the "boomers" had tried to make their wealth the same as it was in the early 1900s, (horses, buggy whips, manual labor) they would have been failures too.

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Curious if others see it this way or think there’s more to it.

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Opposite. There's no better filter for fining the dumb and intellectual lazy than people whining about "boomers".

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many stayed in the workforce longer, which slowed opportunities for younger people trying to move up.

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That’s a you problem. If you didn’t “move up” you should’ve moved on. Blaming your lack of success or advancement is a cop out for your own failure. It’s also hypocritical. You’d do the exact same shite in the same situation.

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Wealth and property have continued to concentrate, housing is harder to access, and politically, the same generation is still firmly in control. A lot of them just don’t step aside—they stay in power well past typical retirement age.

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Wealth isn’t finite. There isn’t less for you because someone else has it. Again, you’re making excuses as to why you don’t have the things you want. And blaming/resenting others for their success. Quit the generational hate and blaming and concentrate on what you need to do to get where you want
To go. This constant bitching about everyone else isn’t gonna get you anywhere.

And I hate to tell you, but there are more and more younger people in political circles. They’re as corrupt as any corrupt boomer still breathing. You think AOC is virtuous? You see the local “young” politicians pushing reform? No. They’re every bit as slimy as any other politician or bureaucrat.

Whether people's gripes are valid or not, the only real answer is to work hard and make good decisions. The negativity does not help at all. You have to rise above it, regardless of the obstacles.

I'm Gen X. I think it's sad that I was able to have a career and retire before some of these boomers will get the frick out of the way. By every measure throughout life I was a hard-working, achieving guy who would have had more opportunities if Boomers would have retired sooner. What's funny, though, is that I see some of my older bosses who are STILL frickING WORKING while I relax. I'm glad I made a lot of excellent decisions that compounded into my being able to live and give like no other. I feel, however, for my peers who did not and still have to deal with the bullshite. I know I'm an outlier, but it was by design and it took sacrifice to get here.

Working isn’t stealing

Work for your own money

The hard-working generation before you doesn’t owe you anything