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re: All the "Boomer-Hate." Now, define to me what a Boomer actually is?
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:07 pm to Jimbeaux
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:07 pm to Jimbeaux
I'm 34, my parents are boomers, I spend a lot of time online, so I know the discourse even when I don't agree with it. I was still in school during the 2008 financial crisis. I grew up rural so I didn't have access to the internet at all until probably 2003, didn't have broadband internet until 2006, didn't have a cell phone until 2008, and didn't have a smart phone until 2013.
Generational stereotypes are stupid and reductive. However, comparing economic data can be useful.
Generational stereotypes are stupid and reductive. However, comparing economic data can be useful.
This post was edited on 12/4/25 at 5:08 pm
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Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:11 pm to Nosevens
quote:Well THAT would seem to be an inconvenient truth.
Boomers are people who had children that blame everyone else for their problems
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:16 pm to Jimbeaux
I'm early gen x. Having worked with boomers millennials and gen z a few things stand out. Few of us that came after boomers really understand what many jobs were like in the sixties through the early eighties. If they were blue-collar/factory workers they worked and worked hard, nasty physical labor for a boss that did not care about their feelings. I caught some of that but by the late eighties it started changing. They also had a much better education than gen z and millennials. The number of graduates coming into the workforce these days without any sort of basic knowledge of history, math, geography, and science is alarming.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:16 pm to BarberitosDawg
We taught our millennial children the value of a “work ethic” and how to save and invest money for the future. Those that listened and are implementing the wisdom we imparted know the value of that wisdom. We also taught them discipline and how to discipline their children firmly with love. Those kids are now free of mental issues and have learned how to contribute to society & raise mentally & physically healthy children for the future. You should be thanking us boomers for strengthening the future of humanity.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:17 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
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There’s a better argument to cut off the birth year for Boomers at 1957.
I'm not a boomer then. I was feeling guilty.
Well, in my mind, a boomer hit adulthood in the 1960s. I was 5 years old when the Tet Offensive hit. Too young for the disco scene and drugs, and they kept raising the drinking age in front of my birthday until it hit 21.
Now, it amazes me how vilified this generation is against all pre-Internet generations, but they can't explain it?
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:21 pm to kingbob
quote:
I'm 34, my parents are boomers, I spend a lot of time online, so I know the discourse even when I don't agree with it. I was still in school during the 2008 financial crisis. I grew up rural so I didn't have access to the internet at all until probably 2003, didn't have broadband internet until 2006, didn't have a cell phone until 2008, and didn't have a smart phone until 2013. Generational stereotypes are stupid and reductive. However, comparing economic data can be useful.
Thanks for answering my query.
I’m curious to hear your thoughts on the 2008 financial crisis. As a working adult with 3 kids, I was kind of busy.
To me, it was a fubar caused by Wall Street in cahoots with Democrats. Nevertheless, the housing speculation bubble they caused had to bust eventually.
How specifically did this bust affect the Millennial generation?
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:22 pm to BarberitosDawg
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1960s
Early to mid 70s.
I know what a boomer is. I know what these young 'uns are talking about. I hope they become more secure the older they get. And I hope they are good at what they do and are innovative.
Otherwise we get socialism to get back at the boomers.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:23 pm to Jimbeaux
The swamp being exposed daily changes everything.
This post was edited on 12/4/25 at 5:25 pm
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:23 pm to kingbob
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1. Their relatively liberal ideas towards sex, identity, and individual liberties as youth which have done a complete 180 in old age
Like this is the first time in human history this has ever happened.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:26 pm to Jimbeaux
Those who entered before mostly kept their jobs and career trajectory. Those who entered later found the entire landscape of entry level jobs forever altered. They faced significantly higher barriers to get entry level jobs and internships. As a result, their careers were often delayed and started at a lower trajectory while taking on more debt.
The end result is most of the people I know who started before live similarly to gen xers with large homes, multiple vehicles, multiple kids, and sometimes camps or vacation homes. No one I know that started working post recession has those things without wealthy parents helping bankroll it. They largely live in smaller homes or apartments, share one vehicle, have no more than 2 kids, and live far more modest lifestyles in general, much more similar to zoomers.
The end result is most of the people I know who started before live similarly to gen xers with large homes, multiple vehicles, multiple kids, and sometimes camps or vacation homes. No one I know that started working post recession has those things without wealthy parents helping bankroll it. They largely live in smaller homes or apartments, share one vehicle, have no more than 2 kids, and live far more modest lifestyles in general, much more similar to zoomers.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:41 pm to Nosevens
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Boomers are people who had children that blame everyone else for their problems
Brilliant.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:45 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
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Early to mid 70s.
I know what a boomer is. I know what these young 'uns are talking about. I hope they become more secure the older they get. And I hope they are good at what they do and are innovative.
Otherwise we get socialism to get back at the boomers.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:46 pm to geauxtigers87
you go suck
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:53 pm to BarberitosDawg
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Yes, this is true, as life is fleeting, but you are going to be right behind me
Hold up a minute BarberitosDawg, one can never tell about these things. Coach may just precede you in a display of one upsmanship.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 5:56 pm to BCvol
A boss that did not care about employees......Thats BS! We had defined retirement programs. Summer and Christmas company parties that included families. Long term employment. Softball leagues, etc. Take your misinformation and suck a turnip
Posted on 12/4/25 at 6:09 pm to kingbob
quote:The Boomer generation is 18yrs in toto, or 120% the timespan of X, Y, or Z each.
The idea is that boomers are resented for two reasons:
1. Their relatively liberal ideas towards sex, identity, and individual liberties as youth which have done a complete 180 in old age
"Boomers" basically sunder to two disaffiliated groups. The first nine years (b~1946-1955) aka "Hippies" vs the second nine (b~1956 -1964) aka "Yuppies." The two groups are near polar opposites. Your stereotypes fairly identify Hippies.
quote:Relative economic prosperity is a floating signifier. Relative to Gen Y and Z upbringing, there was little economic prosperity at all
The relative economic prosperity of much of their upbringing juxtaposed with their seemingly out of touch notions on modern economic problems.
This post was edited on 12/4/25 at 6:10 pm
Posted on 12/4/25 at 6:09 pm to CoachChappy
Lmao
Great comeback “Coach Chappy”, cricket the cocky old bastard, lol
Great comeback “Coach Chappy”, cricket the cocky old bastard, lol
Posted on 12/4/25 at 6:10 pm to geauxtigers87
Did you have to pay over 18% interest rate on a home loan?
Cry me a river.
Cry me a river.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 6:16 pm to NC_Tigah
quote:Exactly. Kingbob is an idiot.
Boomers" basically sunder to two disaffiliated groups. The first nine years (b~1946-1955) aka "Hippies" vs the second nine (b~1956 -1964) aka "Yuppies." The two groups are near polar opposites. Your stereotypes fairly identify Hippies.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 6:25 pm to CitizenK
your house was 50,000 (maybe) yeah 18% is high but 50 isnt 300,000+ then insurance and every thing else. frick off with this shite
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