My theory on why baby boomers are criticized

I see posts all the time on here that show a hatred toward an entire generation that mostly worked hard, saved, and retired with enough savings to support themselves. I’m not a boomer (1946 - 1964), but my parents were born during WWII and I was born a couple of years after the boomer generation. My parents grew up very poor. In fact, my dad’s family moved to Detroit in the early 1950’s when southerners were relocating there for job opportunities. His family was a bit disfunctional and moved back south shortly after they arrived and he ended up staying in Detroit and supporting himself at the age of 13 and 14 before saving enough money to move back south. He married my mom when they were 18 and 19, worked low paying jobs while mom stayed home, eventually became a policeman working extra jobs my entire childhood to support us, saved as much as he could by almost exclusively investing in CD’s, and my parents are comfortable financially in their 80’s still holding onto conservative CD investments without the advantage of market growth.

My parent’s families and grandparents were poorer than they were growing up. He gave us a better lifestyle financially than he had. My wife and I both worked, had higher paying jobs, and gave an even better financial lifestyle to our kids. Every generation has tended to live a more comfortable lifestyle than the previous one. Therein lies the problem. When I started out, I didn’t own a home but my creature comforts were similar to what I had growing up. I had a car, lived in a safe neighborhood, could pay my bills, had cable tv, etc. Today’s creature comforts would include a much larger list and no generation will accept living at a lower financial life style than what they had growing up. I never had to, my parents didn’t even though they were poor, etc. We have reached the point to where it is impossible to start out at a similar level of creature comforts as people had growing up because each generation has added to the list of basic necessities. The reaction is to blame a previous generation that ushered in a higher standard of living for us all. It is the classic blame game.