ruclips.net/video/BI0_q57zarg/видео.html One Thing Boomers Don't Get About How Younger Generations Vote "This comment section is like a support group for kids of boomers." Something for boomers to keep in mind while whining about how unfair it is some student debt is being forgiven. Remember how much college cost for you? And how you gutted funding for higher education after you already got yours and stuffed that money in your own pockets, saddling everyone who came after you with the bill? Thanks again, boomers. Enjoy complaining about yet another problem you created and refuse to take responsibility for.
Didn't realize my dad, who'd served in the Army, and has worked his whole life gutted funding for higher education. All this time I thought it was because of all the grants and stuff being given out with schools raising tuition corresponding with those grants. Naw, in reality, you're a sucker who got bedazzled into getting into debt when you would have done fine going to a Tech college and don't mind being used as a pawn for Democrats to buy votes.
You're an idiot if you think high tuition is caused by anything other than the government involvement in student loans and subsidizing of student loans.
"lets give them trophies for losing the tee ball game when they are tiny kids so that we have something to hold against them when they are in their 30's instead of holding ourselves accountable"
GenZ and MMillenials... the biggest bunch of entitled crybabies to walk the earth. Wha! I don't have free college. Wha! I don't have free healthcare. Wha! The company I work for won't pay my 250k annually to make coffee. Wha! I don't have 10 weeks of paid vacation every year. Wha! I have to be responsible for myself. Give me my pacifier and wipe my butt.
@BillowsPillow This had nothing to do with boomers not "physically," disciplining children. Physical discipline is the worst least affective most abusive form of discipline. What the boomers did was raise a generation of children in fatherless homes, filled with empty promises for the future and no guidance on how the world works. Discipline is about keeping your own promises to your children, acting as an example and providing correction and dialogue where needed. Instead the boomer's philosophy was promiscuity, empty homes, abused and neglected children. Where step-fathers and single-mothers continued the abuse (single/step parents are more likely to abuse children).
@BillowsPillow You didn't need guidance, the world was your oyster and the economy was easy on you. Your wealth wasn't built because you were smart, it was because you got lucky. Everyone's already taking your advice, and it's being put to the test; *it's failing.* For the first time in history the new generations are not wealthier than their parents. If this is not the result of your teachings, then you failed to teach us. You are not like the Greatest Generation, you are children who had it easy; few of you have ever seen beyond the dunning-kruger effect. And now with your reckless behaviour, and continued pursuit of greed and wealth - this world is crumbling. Baby boomers will be looked back upon in history shamefully. All these cliffs you speak of are your own design, you never built roads. They were already there and you trampled on them until they were dust.
@@doomakarn Hey mate want me to explain why todays generation has less than baby boomers? Because most baby boomers worked from the age of 13, most baby boomers had a family at 20 they actually did shit with their life not just sat home watching RUclips complaining about how everything and everyone else is to blame for their own choices.
The generation that became homeowners in their 20s with high school diplomas and then shames college-educated millennials in their 30s for not being able to afford rent.
@@regi2475you’re parents hd so many chances to buy a house when they were dirt cheap.. nobody to blame but themselves if they still live in greedy capitalists apartments
@@regi2475 Boomers weren't rich per se, rather they were more easily allowed to rent, use, borrow things at much cheaper prices. Their rent was cheaper, cars and insurances, homes, etc. I thought many of the baby boomers seemed rich as if they just had a better start, but when i spoke to them and learned more about their financial history even till today, they actually just had so much good stuff from paying mortgages, rent-to-own houses, making payments on cars, basically they were making payments on things that many of them still never fully paid off and some went into debt. So they actually don't own that stuff, and now days people aren't easily able to make such payments because many won't trust such young people, especially considering credit scores, that most have to just pay rent and more for most things in general than the boomers did. They were basically just given better deals at lower prices/rates without even having life in general being as bad or difficult as it is today for most. But some of those boomers sure set themselves up for their lives to come falling down like dominoes if they didn't maintain it well with how life drastically would change overtime.
Millennial here. I was 19 when I was first told the world was screwed up and it was all my fault. I thought, "Really? At 19 we're making this call? Maybe it's YOUUUU."
The stick shift is always a boomer favorite to demean younger generations. The part they leave out is that the younger generation never refused to learn nor were they ever offered to learn.
look up the history of participation trophies, its wild, for all the whining the WORLD WAR 2 MILITARY HANDED THEM OUT. you know, the racially segregated group we are to unquestioningly worship? they did it too. im gen x but the kicking down on mills and z's annoys me. and im mad when we do it too.
What's up with the participation trophy stereotype? That literally never happened to me or any millenials that I've know. Where are they getting that from? It sounds like it happened to a minute percentage of millenials and then got used as an excuse to hate us ever since idk...wtf is a participation trophy??
I can only provide you with my experience, but they we fairly pupils when I was in middle school through junior high. We'd play a game of basketball or soccer, and the losing team received an award for giving their best, or trying in some cases. I've seen parents lose their shite because their kids didn't get any awards. It always felt to me that participation trophies were more for the parents, as a reward to justify the work of taking their kids to practice and the like. Of course, my family would later parade the idea of participation trophies as a negative against me for not embracing their right wing values, as if I had any say in the matter, and ignoring how they used to celebrate the award. Just my experience, though.
@@Silicolnwow thanks for sharing that really interesting. I could see a participation trophy being given to the "family" as a whole especially for the parents to make spending money on the sport more worthwhile and keep them on board.
@@jpkjnn6733 There's plenty when it comes to IT jobs. Lost count of how many instances I've seen of companies request ring 5 years experience with software that hasn't existed that long. Even cases of denying people that helped develop programs because they don't have enough years of experience with it. If you haven't seen instances then good for you, just means your career path doesn't align with these issues. Doesn't mean they don't exist fam.
And they refuse to understand how the world has changed. I remember my boomer aunt yelling at me to "go out and get a job" because she absolutely would not believe that I could job hunt on the internet. I came back that evening and showed her the cards with web addresses to apply online that almost every place had given me instead of an application.
things are going even more in this direction. at some businesses if you would normally call ahead to see if they had a timeslot for whatever work you need done, now that call gets routed to a central office first.
I hate seeing everybody brought up in the hood, trailer parks or actual homelessness be told they're so lazy for not putting it all together before age 23 and becoming a doctor. Especially when we're all out here working 40/hrs+ in a work environment that's more customer-convenience oriented than it's ever been before.
@@michaelhaydenbell if you've ever lived in rural America then you'd know there's hardly any work to go around for the youthful, most you'll find is crap that requires an education or work that isn't being offered to anyone but their own families, I'm literally trapped in a wasteland of zero opportunity having to travel hours out for any work that can hardly compensate the expenses it takes to get maintain my employment there.
Must be nice to work at Taco Bell and think your labor is worth $15/hr when you can't even get people's most BASIC FUCKING ORDERS right half of the time. You're defending people who think their bare minimum is worth a cushy existence. It's not. A bare minimum of effort in your work is worth a bare minimum standard of living, simple as.
"Participation trophy generation! Participation trophy generation!" - Generation of people who were able to raise a household of 5 kids off of a single salesman's salary who got a college degree for $1,500 in an economy benefiting from dominating half the world back before all the people at the top figured out how to funnel 99.9% of the spoils to themselves. Yeah they just worked harder than us, that's what it is.
Literally this. My mom was first in our family to get a college degree and she made certain that not one of my siblings or I were able to get a degree. I literally have a sixth grade education bc "education isn't important, hard work is". they pulled the fucking ladder right up behind them.
My Boomer parents like to always castigate my wife and I saying "live within your means!".... this is coming from the same people that never lived within their means, bought multiple homes and properties their entire lives, caused the housing crisis, had banks take homes from them.... yet, they somehow still manage to have a new home near the ocean today. Grilling out back, Margaritaville in the background with their Boomer friends... telling us we must have poor money management because we don't have a house yet (add in my wife is a cancer survivor and I'm a disabled Marine veteran, they gave us nothing ever).
Pretty embarrassing they wouldn’t show much empathy towards you considering you’re their son and you’re a disable vet. Also thanks for your service bro!
A generation that prospered off the backs of their parents, the post WW2 economy was an amazing boon that will never be repeated for the generations that need it.
What are you talking about? Tech produced more billionaires than any other time in history. Green energy and AI is the next big wave. Are you serious? There is more money to be made now than 50 years ago.
I hate the fact that my mother married a army guy and brought me here in 1971 atbage eight,just to watch candy bars go from a nickel to 25 cents and then 75 and then a dollar,all in one year,1972! I would have been better off if she had left me with my grandmother,who was raising me since forever and I would have enjoyed the success of the reunification and rebuilding of my country and the welth created and all the family around me. Here,after her divorce,living in San Francisco in the seventies wasn’t exactly the best experience for someone like me. So don’t blame me because I came here unwillingly and I was always an outcast and the new kid so I didn’t get any favors from anybody. I used to be angry about a lost childhood but I guess that’s what made me strong enough to manage what I have without the help of anyone,because I didn’t have anyone,not even a mother.(she got rid of me to a catholic boarding school when she and her boyfriend decided that I was in the way).
@@grokster9ontheroads174 Many fellow GenXers grew up in bad situations in the '70's, so you aren't alone. Sure we had lost childhoods but it made us more resilient in a lot of ways.
I realized the other day what Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z all have in common. We are all being judged by the same generation who is still in power and refuse to pass the torch or get out of the way.
Yup, and the silent generation ( the ones born before and during WW2) ppl now in their 80s. Don't forget them. Hell how many of em are still in politics.
We're told we have to gain skills to take over when they're gone, but they aren't willing to train anyone. We're expected to just show up knowing everything. Well, when they're gone, no one's going to know how to do shit. Whatever. AI needs to either save us all or doom us all.
My grandfather literally asked me for my dog because he can't find a we'll-behaved one at the shelter and my dog "had such a calm and pleasant demeanor". Bruh. I did that. That's not a "demeanor". I trained him. It took years. I raised him since his birth and trained him EVERY DAY. So I told him it was because I trained the dog. He thought I was being PRETENTIOUS, as if it was mostly the dog's "innate understanding" on what commands are. Never. Never in my life have I seen someone so segregated from reality. An entire generation of people, totally ruined. Spoiled absolutely rotton to the core.
@@NoFace-ke9pc My house was 82 grand and 1 dollar(auction lol) Now it's 700k I have the largest property on the street .30 of an acre compared to the .10 people pay for 400 grand. I wanna sell and find some place in the middle of no where and live off the land, but property for land IN THE MIDDLE OF BUMBLE FUCK is worth millions Like I mean a 10 hour drive to town and you may or may not be in canada I assume we'll be like China in ten years. Thousand floor welfare apartments and you can only have 2 kids.
I’m trying to save money while working and going to college so I don’t go out that often to clubs or bars and my dad got kind of mad saying “why aren’t you going out and having fun?” And when I explained that I have no money to go out every weekend he said “it’s not expensive to go out” and he gave me $20 to go out... I used it for gas so I can go to work and wasn’t even half a tank for a mazda3.
Same man like "why dont you go out?" "Why you wasting your life on the pc?" "where your friends / girlfriend?" "When im i getting grandchildren?!" Like im about almost had it to shove my bank statement for the last 5 months in their fuckin mouth to show why i dont do anything because i P A Y them to cover the mortgage E V E R Y M O N T H
I’m genX. The baby boomers were like locusts, devouring everything in their path. Now we are paying the costs. While they are having a great retirement.
Boomer: [Buys house for 30k] Also Boomer: [Tries to sell same house for 500k] "Why aren't millennials buying my house?? They must be buying too many avacados!"
Bro, most people have poor financial literacy. Inflation causes the cost and value of everything to go up. Homes will appreciate over time (provided the local economy is healthy). Are you surprised that people hold onto a house for forty years and it's worth much more? Would you sell your $500K house for just $30K? Make it make sense. Lol
@@sunnysied713Homes appreciate over time because the demand for them increases. The demand increase could be from a healthy local economy as you say, but it could also be caused by an unhealthy public economy. When everywhere else has no supply, guess who gets to ramp up their prices without increasing their supply. That's right. The boomers get to sit on their butts and benefit from the dismal conditions elsewhere else that they caused in the first place. Them getting peeved at zoomers for buying food rather than their price gouged housing is perfect. Sure. I agree. It doesn't make sense for boomers to sell their houses for anything short of an arm and a leg. In what world would they free our tired limbs when they can have it all at our expense? When we have a noble class starving and oppressing the poor again to keep hands stupid and obedient, we'll have our elderly landlords to thank for rekindling the tradition now with neurolink implanted ads. Better start saving stuff offline.
@@mostlysure1077 Homes will also appreciate over time due to inflation, home improvements, developments in the area that make the location more desirable, etc. Demand is also determined based on population growth and availability of land. People could've purchased homes in less populated, more remote areas, which could've been slowly developed over forty years periods. The United States has a huge areas of empty space where land and housing is cheaper, but everyone wants to live for cheap with all the creature comfort of civilization (which are also the overpopulated areas). There have many periods of economic downturn, recession and depression. It's funny when young people cry, "Why didn't I get to live in the post-World War II industrial boom so that I could benefit?" But they never cry and say, "Dang, I wish I grew up during the Civil War, Great Depression, World War I, World War II, etc." Every generation causes problems. Has there ever been a generation that doesn't cause problems. The young generation thinks they're superior, become old, and then their grandchildren blame them. Neuralink? Lol. Human beings have always lived in a class-based system. It's never going to change.
@@xerxes2044 Some of these people who are selling expensive homes, with high appreciation, did so after 30-40 years of ownership were living in the boonies. They settled in remote areas that were on the outskirts. When those areas developed, they reaped the rewards. If your area has lack of supply, then it's overpopulated. You gotta look elsewhere. Overpopulation is overpopulation. Stay away from crappy big cities and over-developed suburbs. The individual States and U.S. are huge. Gotta adapt and survive. It was no different for people back then.
My grandparents were the Greatest Generation they created all the great things my parents generation the Boomers are hard at work at destroying. The Greatest Generation survived the depression, fought WW2 and Korea and built the greatest economy in the countries history just for their children to squander that gift. So they are remembered fondly and will continue to be remembered fondly. The Boomers on the other hand….
@@shadow6543 They fought and defeated fascism, welcomed and valued the contributions of immigrants, and believed everyone deserved the security of a home, an education, and food on the table. Only for their kids to become neo-cons and eventually MAGA. They tossed out everything that made America special and admirable and then complain that everyone else ruined the country.
@@Ultrad321 They tried to hold the fact that they went through Vietnam and the culture wars over us. Then just within our early adult lives elder millennials had 20 years of war and the rise of political extremism. And this after 9/11, an event that shattered all of our expectations for what our future lives were going to be like. Now in the phase of life when they were generating shitloads of wealth (if they bothered to save for retirement as many didn't), we are experiencing rising wealth inequality, the eroding of the middle class, financial insecurity, a declining quality of life, and the general pessimism of wondering if and how this human race is going to make it (after the boomers ignored all of the warnings about carbon since the 70's btw).
They sit retired for the last 20 years being inept to working in today's economy trying to tell us how it's done when they got us into the shit situation we're in where everyone works like slaves and Joe Biden been sending all the money to Saudi Arabia and Iran through never ending wars everywhere but for the last 30 years. National debt we just make interest and they jack it up and Jack it up and then the ones who jacked it up talk about how if you keep voting for them they'll solve the problems. Another war in urkraine after Biden Obama finance the Taliban more than ever before sure yeah why not it's already hell on earth at it is
Crazy thing is they had it easy thanks to the unions and wage wars their parents literally fought and died for, before the boomers believed all the propaganda about how evil and destructive unions and communism was.
@@youtubesucks1499 what are you saying "no" to? That is not how conversation works my guy. They said here is what they think. You said no, followed by something unrelated
My dad is a boomer. Told me to get a job when I was 12 because he wasn’t paying for anything. Well, I did get a job and paid my own way from cars to college. During a conversation on finances, my dad tried pulling the “I paid for your college” card. Like, no the hell you didn’t - I moved out at 18 and got a scholarship and worked 3 jobs through college. Their collective memory doesn’t let them see reality - they can never own up to just how selfish they are.
@emro164 yea. I’m an older millennial. My daughter is finishing up kindergarten. My parents put zero effort into coming to my family a few states away when she was born - we always had to travel back. My final straw was when my dad would be on the adjacent couch while my mom was FaceTiming my kid - and he couldn’t be bothered to show his face or say hi to his granddaughter. I told him he could step up and put in the work to build a relationship with her or he’d never get to see me or her again. You know the choice he made. I haven’t spoken with him in almost 4 years now.
@@hueco5002 you made the right decision. He wasn't going to be a good influence anyway. I know it's hard to do what you did but you're stronger for it. Parents are just "people you know" when you're an adult. You don't owe them or need to speak to them. The child parent relationship is only a result of how well the child was raised
Im a late boomer born 1963. The number of women, of my age, with children who have ZERO contact with their children and grandchildren. When you ask them why this is? They have no freaking idea! I guess thats the answer. They paid no attention and their children cut them off. Boomers are also the generation who want to spend every last penny and leave nothing to their kids. How disfunctional is that kind of selfishness!
@@TheMan8452Isn't it ironic that the break up of the family started with the Boomers? That it's their kids who started the "no contact" thing? Isn't it ironic..doncha think?
Depends on where you live. The house my parents lived in when I was born 44 years ago hasn't really increased in value that much. (It was in Little Rock, Arkansas). But I'm sure the house my dad grew up in, in Seattle, is worth a sh*t ton more than my grandparents paid for it.
This is literally what happened with my grandfather, he bought 3 houses and a condo. That condo he bought in 1966 for $30,000. He just sold it for $3.8million. His house in the bay he got in 1969 for $45,000? Now goes for $6.8million. He bought land in the 80s-90s up north and put a few properties on it for next to nothing, and I know that 2 of his 8 plots go for something like 5million each. He was Army SF airborne for around 15 years then he worked for an oil company for like 50 years until he was made VP of sales. Started on the oil fields and was given seniority as he got older. Recently retired with a $56million dollar golden parachute and plenty of options in the energy and oil business. I think his net worth is now around $150million publicly. We haven't really checked yet what the real number is since he has money in Franks, as well as collections in gold. None of us want his money, but his wonderful wife died, and now a gold-digger trailer trash woman has him hitched and worshipping trump. My entire family has always been very liberal, my grandfather is the only one that did not go to college. We are pretty worried that our family fortune is under siege by this woman. Though it's hard to want to do anything about it since it is my grandfather's money and he should choose to use it for whatever reason. But he does put the family at financial risk if something happens like this upcoming recession. My grandfather was extremely progressive most of his life, mostly because he hung around really intelligent people at his job. None of which were beyond moderate politically. Even though they heavily benefited from republican rule, and were involved with state politics, they all hated the ethics of the republican party. Was so weird hearing my grandfather in the early days talking about gays having rights, weed being recreationally legal for all, and women being treated equal. The guy was in-tune with reality constantly, always sharp and witty. But now he's a husk of his former self, pouring money into the trump campaign. Buying ridiculous lies from fox news and believing his town is a dirty hobo town going to shit becasue weed is legal in his sleepy rich town, lol. When in reality, it's his rich neighbors and cancer patients that only ever use the dispensaries around him. He even now has grown immensely racist towards black people. Something no one in the family has ever seen before, even when he was younger. His father is a native american, so he saw what prejudice does, and was the one kid on the block that became friends with the one neighborhood black kid. They were best friends and my gradfather even fought for his friend's right to be at the same school as him during the jim crow era. The republican party took my grandfather away. They injected his brain with poison and made him an angry hateful idiot that is constantly being robbed. I fucking hate this country for allowing such a cancer to grow, and take away one of my most respected family members. Fuck you, GOP, I hope you all die.
My grandfather (who was a baby boomer) always told me how disappointed he was with his generation and that they saddled the rest of us with their bullshit. He'd say that he watched these free-spirited, open-minded, caring, and loving people turn into selfish corporate dogs. He thought his generation were the revolutionaries, only for them to become all things they claimed to hate.
For me it is my mother who is the Boomer who openly stated that her generation screwed over the young people. My mother has listened to her Generation X niece and nephew and her own Millennial children converse about modern working life, economics, etc. so she's aware that it's not like it was when she and my dad grew up. I highly appreciate that she is self aware about her generation and critiquing them.
I used to work with a guy who was a boomer and said that a lot of the problems in society was his generation's fault. I guess he would agree with your grandfather.
It's not sex, drugs, and rock n' roll they took. They took away affordable housing, affordable healthcare, affordable higher education, and jobs that pay a living wage.
Im a Boomer, but I’ve always been in favor of a strong social safety. That’s the reason I’ve always voted Democratic ( though the Democrats aren’t much different from the Republicans nowadays.) 😢
Too? The following generations didn't get everything handed to us. Most of us will never own property, baby boomers could buy and own a house on minimum wage.
They always respond with an angry rant about how hard they had it and how hard they worked. Most of them wouldn't have survived a week if they had been transplanted to this time.
@@matthewatwood8641 They got handed everything from the Silent Generation, they're called that because many had families that were shattered after WW2. The reason why things were so good; "You could go into a workplace and get a high paying job handed to you!" and all that crap was because 2/3rds of the labor forces were *CRIPPLED* after WW2. We needed anyone and anything that could run machines. That's why people stopped making fun of cripples so much because everyone knew someone that was missing a critical limb (leg or arm.) and many that died from complications from those limbs. Boomers are all going to hell. They didn't care about what happened or why or whom; just that they could snort blow and then dodge Vietnam. The government hated them that badly that they wanted to ship them out to an idiotic war where the enemy slew us with tripwires and grenades; which didn't work as they came back even more upset. TL:DR? A boomer wrote your history books, don't think they wouldn't leave out stuff they wouldn't like.
@@jazzfan67Us Millennials had the best childhood of any generation. The American dream is still out there but you’ll have to leave NYC and LA to get it.
@@shadow6543Yes because LA and NYC makeup the vast majority of the country’s population, riiiight. No, and the cost of living is out of control everywhere.
I remember I went to a restaurant with my mom and grandparents, and when we finished eating, I took a couple of seconds to stack the plates and glasses before we left, and my grandpa just looked at me and said "You don't have to do that, it's their job." And it's just like, excuse me for taking a few second to make their job a little easier grandpa.
@@DarkMatterX1 There's no argument to be had, people shouldn't have to convince you that cleaning up after yourself a little in a restaurant is a thing people should do.
@@rabidrabids5348 Nor should tell someone else _they shouldn't_ if they choose to. That said, "ok boomer" is an asinine internet colloquialism that makes little sense. You might as well just say "you're old."
They also don't want apartment buildings in their neighborhoods because it would ruin the peace they cherish so much of the home they inherited. The poor souls
It's crazy with the housing affordability disaster we find ourselves in that most cities in North America have the majority of their land zoned for single-family housing. Europe doesn't have a "missing middle" problem because they allow people to build four-story walk-ups. All we need to do is change zoning laws and housing could be affordable but god forbid these entitled Boomers can't control the land use of their neighbors. As long as the building isn't blocking light who cares if a midrise get's built? Imagine being so afraid of people that living next to a midrise makes you act like a whiney little brat.
@@jonathanwilkinson4299 I'll tell you why they don't want the midrise built. "the poors" are the ones that rent apartments in those buildings and the house that has appreciated 500% that they live in might go down slightly. It's a big issue in San Francisco.
Boomers: The younger generations have no spine and are paper skinned cowards Younger generations: Ok boomer Boomers: * sudden violent anger over 2 words*
I love how he mentions that they had everything and they call us entitled for wanting basically life sustaining resources! Constantly baby boomers have called younger generations who will never be able to afford a house lazy when must of us work like 3 jobs! My grandparents had high paying office jobs out of high school and bought a house in their early 20s! Yet my grandma is breathing down my neck about me having like 4 roommates all like “ when I was your age we had our own! We were self sufficient!” I honestly can’t with her anymore.
@@Kaiyats it won't work. They won't listen no matter how much logic you apply to the situation because they don't respect you as a person. To them, their ideas are the only logical ideas. So unless they come to that conclusion on their own they will not care about what you have to say.
@@Kaiyats older people that breath down your neck, or judge that much, aren't ready to understand. They've made up their mind. All of your justification will sound like an excuse. There isn't a consequence to trying to reason though, other then humiliation and judgement.
@@Kaiyats Lol, they are saying this because they ignore those facts. They're not stupid. They're going to blame it on you not making enough money, living in the wrong place, or just screwing up the economy... if this isn't clear I'm not making this up, this is what I've been hearing for DECADES.
I don’t know if you’re aware, but something popular among millennials is buying their first home with friends. I know of people doing it, and i was offered to buy a home with a couple I know. That generation has no idea
They also actively campaign against policy and new infrastructure that would help lower the cost of housing and then complain about how expensive housing is. Like here in California last year a bill was on the ballot that would cap the cost of rent and mortgage. My parents voted against it, then they divorced and had to find new places to live and complain about how expensive it is and blame everyone else. They voted against their best interest and cried wolf.
@@jamesklark6562Back in my day, we didn't have to work as much for utilities and were able to afford things with factory jobs. Now you can work 2 jobs and barely have enough... that helps build character and you lazy youngins should be grateful to us for allowing you this experience.
They can't afford to. It's impossible for a lot of people to afford to move out of their parents place. They don't see a future for themselves, so why try to grow up? If you have no hope for the future, might as well sit in the comfortable present for as long as possible.
Nailed it. Giving anything back is not in the "trickle down" Boomers toolbox. It's a concept lost on them because they're so busy rigging "markets" and pulling the ladder up behind them
My parents were very strict with me growing up!!! The problem is that if I had kids, I would be LOOSE and let them do anything they want which would BACKFIRE BIG TIME when the grew up to become adults!!! THE Generational Curse cycle is BRUTAL!!!
I remember hearing an explanation about how they were raised by the generation that survived WW2. That generation prepared them for the worst world possible to ever exist, followed by them actually living the best world possible to ever exist, while simultaneously still believing their upbringing that it was the worst. That is the quintessential boomer experience.
To anyone wondering, Carlin was part of the Silent Generation (born c.1928 - c.1945). They were the generation directly before Boomers, but not quite the generation who RAISED boomers. So the modern day age-gap equivalent of this clip would basically be a Millennial comedian roasting Gen Z lol.
Crazy reminder that our current president is in the Silent Generation, too old to be a Boomer. The other guy screaming about age is only 4 years younger, and the FIRST year of the Boomer generation.
I tell off my neighbour's that abuse their kids with words like that and worse, fully call them out infront of their kids and say nothing to them, somehow the mums call me abusive......they yell swear words and say they hate their kids and somehow when I stick up for them I get called abusive
Boomers had cheap houses, cheap universities, great-paying jobs and then they pulled up the ladder behind them because they couldn't bare to see younger people having a good time.
My father condescending ,” I dont understand why you still have student loans, I paid mine off in ten years.” Me stressing, “I”ve paid over ten grand and owe more money now than when I started paying!” My father smug,” well your grandpa paid mine off”
I actually had a very similar conversation with a family member about a decade ago. Fortunately mine seems to have gone much better than yours as he seemed to recognize how different my situation was to his (no help from parents, close to full time job could barely pay living expenses much less loans, etc.) and hasn't brought it up since. But it's amazing how far the cognitive dissonance goes here for many people. Unable to recognize how the many burdens they didn't have to face gave them a huge advantage we simply don't have. And insulting us for in the process.
Try explaining Inflation to a baby boomer. It will take more than 8yrs, I actually don't know how long it will take because baby boomers are sooooo fcking joe Biden level dumb
My boomer parents own 2 homes and several vehicles. Neither one has a college degree and my dad didn't even graduate high school. They are the most ignorant, uneducated people I've ever met. My dad told me they adopted me so my mom would stop cheating on him. They then broke me down every single day saying I'm lazy and ungrateful. I left and am never going back.
I left my mother's house at age 19, with a few changes of clothes in a back pack, a blanket and 30 bucks in my pocket. No where to go. Now, I own my own home, have a Master's degree all paid for, and she hates me for not "needing her." She was never there for me, was cruel that's the whole reason why I left... They are blind to their selfishness.
And unless your parents stole all of that stuff I'm betting they worked pretty damn hard for everything they have. And if you're an only child and you start respecting your parents maybe all of their stuff will be yours someday. If you continue to hate them and they get the sense that you hate them they may give their entire estate to their favorite charity. You may find yourself standing out in the street with a tin cup in your hand.
@@zephead4835 You either had an easy childhood or you have children who say "ok boomer" to you all the time. Since you made some massive assumptions about my life, I simply returned the favor. Am I wrong about my assumptions? Maybe. How does it feel for a stranger to make judgements on you based on one little paragraph? You have no idea what I went through or the nightmare my childhood was. I would rather be poor and have zero percent of all of my families wealth and work hard myself than try and find something to do with mountains of cheap consumer goods and dumpy, run down homes.
Unfortunately, they didn't abort their young. I have never agreed with abortion until this whining crying weak generation. Yes, I wish they did eat "their young" talk about soft and entitled. The generation that needs a safe space because of hurtful words. Grow a pair.
@@JustSendMeLocationPlease Facts, and then they act like kids today have it so easy, when in reality because of them majority of kids today couldn’t even hope to buy a house or anything like that.
@@kevinw8276Almost like after a nationwide depression and going into a massive world war kickstarted the economy into gear for a boom that would last nearly 50 years. There was nothing special about the 50s-90s outside of the post-war economy growing from the Great Depression
Don't forget that these people complain about social security, but grew up in a time where normal retirement saving would have made them millionaires. Now we need IRAs and 401ks
That song’s message wasn’t really “education isn’t needed,” it was about how controlling and miserable the teachers were to the children and that they shouldn’t pick on kids to boost their own egos especially towars kids like Pink, the main character, who was a creative type and already had a tough enough home life (dead father, controlling fearful mother)
If The Wall isn't considered Boomer-centric, something is lacking in context. A 70's album (though it was on the cusp of the 80s) written as an allegory for the affects that World War II had on British society, by a British Boomer who was using it as an autobiographical work about the trauma of Post-war Austerity. Yes, the first wave of Gen Xers would have been hitting 14 and 15 at its release, but It's super Boomer-focused. It's just also happens to be a timeless masterpiece from an amazingly talented Prog Rock outfit that Gen X absolutely adored, and were able to connect with it in their own struggles.
@@willstar8095 No. A small of individuals would be like this in the past. However, these past three generations (generations X,Y & Z) are the ones collectively like this.
@Emmy Foder No, divorce being a mainstay was started by the boomers. The generations that came after them actually show lesser rates of divorce for what we have data for.
My grandfather bought a house for $14,000 when he was a young adult. I live in roughly the same area. House prices start at $2 million. The average yearly salary at the time was $15,000, so the average person could buy a house. The average salary now is $90,000, that's far from the $2 million.
14 grand "in tha Day" was just as onerous as 2 mil now if you have a shite job. Used to be , dad worked , one job, mum stayed home w/ the kids (Unless your family had a farm...) --- Now, mum AND dad work, 2-3 jobs , and STILL struggle financially, and we're not even talking about the effects on the kids of having to "self raise" ... Yeah , "Fuck the boomers!" , says the boomer...
My wife just summed this up today. She said, "They were told to listen to their elders and be subservient. Now that they are the elders. Boomers are disappointed they don't get their turn to be boss."
Literally my father. Had his first house bought for him by my grandparents at 18 but when I turned 18 he wanted me to move out no money no nothing and says it's 'his house'
Then have the fucking audacity to be like “you just gotta get out there and apply yourself” yeah easy for you to say as everything was literally handed to you or dirt cheap. There’s people in their 20s working twice as many hours as they did in their 20s and they can’t even pay their fucking bills.
@@americanman0824 the father gets fired a house at 18. Then acts all high and mighty when his son turns 18 and says he has to move out. The entitlement is with the father and his hipocrisy
They’re between the “greatest generation” that fought in WW2 and the Baby boomers. The kids who were born before 1945 but were too young to be drafted into WW2. Korean War vets in some cases.
George Carlin didn't say anything profound. Young people become old. Old people act differently from young people. Old people have been in the rat race for a long time so their attitudes change. They make mistakes, have regrets, gain wisdom, look out for their own interests, etc. Young people are rookies who have no clue how the real world works. Then they eventually become OLD, learn a few things, and the new young generation blames them. Circle of Life. Circle of Blame. Lol
@@overzone666 You're right that boomers were born in a great economy, but you're ignorant if you think economies aren't cyclical. There were always upturns and downturns, growth periods and recessions, even depressions. This has been true throughout all of U.S. (and everyone else's history). It cracks me up when people complain that they weren't born in THIS best period or THAT best period. Life is a grind, no matter how you look at it. Play the cards you were dealt and don't complain. And, yes, the younger generation always thinks the older generation is to blame. They always think they're also 'better people', until they grow up and do the same exact things as their parents. The young generation never fixes SH&T, they just make things worse - just like everyone else. If young people want to be closer to the Boomers, then they could always go fight and die in World War II, so that their children can have it good. Lol😆
A boomer could support a household, with a spouse and multiple kids and even multiple cars on a single income. Today, my wife and I work two full time gods to barely scrape by on our little apartment, no kids, and one 20 year old car between us.
I had to laugh at this...im the tail end of gen x and my mom was a gen boom...she was the hardest partier I ever knew but long about 35 she started talking about follow the rules and be good, but alas she forgot I watched her party and then partied w her when my granny past when I hit 21....I had been doing it for 5 yrs by then which she had no clue, but I flew low on the radar so plz enlighten us someone when does the light in the attic come on? Pushing 40somethin and i partied til about 3 yrs ago when covid hit us...my last child isn't thankfully rebellious... my mind says we still could party but my body isn't so sure lol
@@katrinarawls3632 I never understood partying if you were drinking, it wears you out and makes you sick. But also being around people you don't even know and don't click with is weird to me. I'm not a boomer, think people should do as they please as long as they dont hurt others, it just never made sense to me.
@@Democratsaretrash All they learned was to be hypocrites. Because they're fuck ups who didn't actually try or want to try in life. They think everyone's going to want to be like them and not do anything worthwhile or fix any issues like they didn't.
"I got a job out of high school, bought a house for $6,000, and retired at age 55 with a full pension." -Baby Boomer who doesn't understand why their kids and grandchildren struggle financially.
Gen X is just as bad from my experience. A Gen X guy was lecturing me as I was just trying to get help changing my brake lines. Bragging to me about buying some old fancy Mustang when he was only 16, and some other fancy car a few months later, and another a year later. With this hateful look in his eyes locked on mine. I was 21 and just trying to change my brakes on my first vehicle (an 05 Suburban with 300,000 miles on it lol).
@@piglice4585 - I'm a GenXer and I know how lucky I was. College was not only cheap for me, there were also a shit load of grants available. When I was 25 I considered buying a new Ford Ranger 4x4 for $17,000. With my down payment I would have been paying about $200 per month. My 2 bedroom apartment was $350 per month and I shared it with 2 other guys. Wages have not kept up with inflation. The Boomers got off much easier, but I know I have it better than the young people entering the workforce today. At least there is a high probability I'll be able to retire. But my college debt was easily manageable and the cost of my house 20 years ago was not ridiculous. I don't know how young people manage it today.
God my parents are boomers. They inherited everything. House is now worth a fortune now. They are both retired with pensions and ssn. They pull in about 8k a month for being retired. I am in my forties. Well educated. No college debt thank you USMC. But I cannot imagine having the life they do. I really expect them to live another 25-30 years. I try to explain to them how the world has changed and it is because “we don’t work hard enough!” Or “We don’t save enough!” So out of touch. And their thoughts on millennials and younger is just heartbreaking. Even though it means being closer to my maker, this planet sure will be better off when they are all gone.
I make more than my parents combined and I can't buy their house. They tell me it takes time. I'm like dude you purchased it when you were younger than me.
@@shadow6543The president could win approval really easily now that I think about it. If a housing reform gets blocked by Congress, he could just put the blame on Congress.
my father is a boomer. had everything handed to him, first job my g-father got for him, that job paid for his college. my grandparents every weekend or 2 when I was a kid would bring us groceries for the next week or 2. I could keep going Then when I was only 5 he told me I better get a scholarship cause he's not paying for it. He told me to go get a job when I asked him for 5 dollars at 11 years old. again, I could keep going..
It sounds to me like he was a hard working young man, he worked his way through school and paid for it with the job that your grandfather (gave) him. And I doubt that your grandparents would have been so eager to help him and your mom out if they didn’t feel the same way. My grandparents helped my parents when they could, my parents have helped me in the past, and my kids are reaching adulthood now and I know they are all gonna need help as well, which I will provide when I can. I told my kids the same thing about college, it was to try to get them to realise that if they want something out of this life, no matter what it is, they will be the ones to have to make it happen for themselves, because ultimately no one but you is responsible for making your goals and happiness a reality.
You mean there was a culture of taking care of eachother because they went thru the depression, the dust bowl, ww2, korean war, worked their ass off and knew their roles in society?
@@jefferywells6845I think you could be right about some of that. I also think you had good parents, and you want to be like them, and the way you’re teaching your kids about how to value and work toward the things they want (like college) is pretty spot on. Here’s where I think it differs for a lot of people: if your kids said “Dad I took your advice, but it looks like I made a bad bet on college, it’s not quite paying off, and I need some help…” you would probably help. If not with dollars, with some guidance. Myself and a lot of my peers didn’t see it modeled the same way. We were raised to feel shame if we didn’t attend college on our own dime, and we didn’t have a reliable enough parent (like 0 out of 2) to offer advice, much less assistance. More parents should have been like you and your parents, but a lot of them weren’t. This is especially prevalent amongst baby boomers, and that’s why it’s a common topic in popular culture.
Here we go, the boomers have found your comment. Watch them bend what you said to turn it in their favour. Watch them not take responsibility while spewing out bullshit on how easy it is to take control of your life. They have no idea. Born 40 years apart, they are dinosaurs in todays society. And good, they need to sizzle out because they are the ones holding humanity back with their ignorance and bigotry.
@@michaelbradley6004 they worked less than half the hours of millennials and GenZ on average. I mean almost half of their population was unemployed just because they were women! Then even the men only worked the traditional 9-5 which is nowadays a massive rarity with most people putting in overtime. So if your definition of "worked their asses off" is working less than half as much idk what you're thinking lol. The real problem was the outsourcing of manufacturing labour to cheeper countries and replacing it with far lower paid services jobs. Manufacturing always pays more, but there isn't any manufacturing anymore (comparatively). So the jobs there are now are all services based rather than production based.
Some boomers do acknowledge the fact that they had it easy and left the rest of us in the sh!t. My father is the only person I know who actually admits this and tries to understand what our generations are going through, but looking through this thread, I can see that there are others. It just shows how selfish a person can suddenly become with a big bank balance, an easy mortgage, a cushy corporate job and not give AF about anyone else. And then, when the bubble bursts (which it inevitably does, every time - the cyclical nature of capitalism), they blame the kids for drinking coffee and being lazy, even though it costs more to rent a house or flat than to pay for a mortgage, but the deposit needed to get a mortgage in the first place is out of the reach financially for most people who don't have rich relatives and you can't save on the wages they give, even in a decent paying job, unless you're willing to live in the rural backwoods and buy a cheap place. The work is in the city and the big towns, so you need a place that is close enough to the city and the towns, yet none of them are affordable due to the mortgage deposit. In the end, you are working to make someone else rich, all to pay the mortgage of some boomer who purchased an extra house as "an investment" and could sell up at any time and make you homeless. Game is rigged.
Thankfully I have boomer grandparents who never subscribed to any of their generation's bs. While others in their gen where being hippies, they worked for a pharmacist degree. And they helped my mom and her brothers go to college and when my mom needed financial help, they gave it to her. And they have set up a college fund for me, my sister, and my 2 younger cousins.
I agree with this. It’s not that drugs aren’t bad or sex isn’t potentially dangerous, but the fact that those people just crack down on everyone else doing it instead of acknowledging their own mistakes is very annoying
My boomer parents were also beaten with belts until they had scars.. I have to often remind myself the weird stuff they do is from 60 years of learned trauma
My dad told me he was wooped by his dad and uncles. Mom told me she was never told I love you by her parents. I didn't learn that till I was in my 40s. Made me sad but helped me learn alot.
Crazy, cuz I remember my boomer parents beating me with everything, locking me in closets, cutting me repeatedly with a tiny little knife while the other held me down; to discipline me at age 2+ :) When I became an teen they resorted to strangling me, and punching/kicking me since it was harder to hold me down. Ps. I am a young millenial, and I know many others who went through the similar/worse.
This is why the 1970s were full of turmoil- the hippies couldn't understand the new Karens and vice versa. Of course, now we've run out of hippies and Gen X have been brought up as Karens.
@@anonUKMillennials are new age Hippies, but quickly are going through the same narcissistic process as Boomers. They soon will be just another massive older generation aging quickly that wants to make life harder on the youth.
@@a.mp.m7340 Nah, boomers are aging out of kid having age. We shake off a few early gen x karens, and we can get rid of 'em. Us millenials never gave a shit about your trophies, we always knew they were worthless. Gen z? They don't care about sports. Good riddance, most of our sports are shit. Schools should bring back boxing and fencing.
@@billlupin8345 No way "Karens" are being "shaken off" you really think there's no Millennial Karens lol. They're not "my trophies" tf would I want my kid to have something they didn't truly earn. You're contradicting yourself it's either, get rid of sports or bring back certain ones. You wanna bring back fencing and say today's sports is "shit" lol okay.
Boomers: "I love George Carlin, he knows how to actually tell a joke and tell how it is. Not like so-called 'comedians' these days." George: "Fuck Baby Boomers!" Boomers: "George Carlin gone Woke! Comedy is dead!"😭
Same could be said about Millennials and Zers. _Carlin talks about boomers_ "Whooo! George Carlin's great he's so funny and right on! He's literally me!" _Carlin does his global warming bit_ "Oh my god! He's a science denying reactionary neoconservative! Cancel him!"
@@DarkMatterX1 Difference is, one is a life anecdote about a large age group, and the other is a scientific opinion by a non-scientist, made without the benefit of modern data. So we can look back and give his talk about the climate reasonable critique.
He didn't deny climate change. He said the planet will be fine, just the people are fucked (and a bunch of other species). I don't think you'll find many scientists who claim that global warming would eradicate all life on earth.
@@DarkMatterX1 I only see baby boomers getting mad at George Carlin though. 🤭 I'm in gen z myself, and even if I don't agree with everything he says, I am rational enough to understand context, and I still think he's great. Sorry. 🤷♀️
I have a boomer for grandmother she gets so mad whenever I point out that everything she had in her life was basically handed to her economically. That it was her generation that crashed the economy and fucked over people like me and my brother and even my mom her own daughter. You want the best story I have of Boomer entitlement my mom went to college had to take out a huge loans because my grandmother and grandfather wouldn't help her one bit. My mother was starving she had to spend her last bit of money on a medical emergency which she didn't have insurance for. She goes to my grandmother's house and she makes herself a sandwich like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with on one slice of bread folded over onto itself net cost for the 80s maybe 50 cents worth of ingredients. My grandmother lost her shit on my mom for eating a sandwich in her house and demanded my mom pay her full market value for every ingredient she used and then charged interest when my mom couldn't pay that second. But now she doesn't understand why my mother's got no contact with her why I've got no contact with her she thinks that we're just out to get her. In reality no she's just a bitch
You are preaching to the choir. They didn't want children at all; they wanted no responsibility, had no care for anyone but themselves. That's the bottom line.
Prime example of why some parents end up in nursing homes and being mad at their children. They simply do not understand that just because you raised someone doesn't mean you loved them. Or just because someone is your kid, doesn't mean they have to respect you, everyone have to earn respect.
Baby zoomer here: I grew up watching documentaries on civil rights and social justice and listening to folk music, and looking around wondering where these wise people went. I think it gets harder to care about others the more comfortable you get. "
I had a Boomer tell me to "Get a Job!".....at work. He was my co-worker....I had his exact job. It's just that instead of getting a house I got debt for my troubles.
There's a natural progression where each generation stands up and takes the reigns of power, then after a good 30-40 yrs, steps down and let's their children take over. Not the Boomers, and because of what they did, the consequences will be vast and far reaching.
We’ve had this epiphany at the agency, old people ruined modern society because they’ve been running the world the same way for 50 years. Government seriously needs an age/term limit. No one over 55 should hold any public office. 25-55 should be the age range, gives every generation equal representation.
@brooksiedoodle5087 And now millenials/gen z need to take the podium for our generations to get anywhere and prevent the population collapse that we'll see in 20-40 years (depending on immigration)
@@ATF-I think it should be a little older, like 30 till 65. At 25 many people's brains are just finished maturing, and most people are still sharp well into their 60s. It's disgraceful however that the main presidential candidates in the US at the moment are closer to 80. It's utterly ridiculous.
Everyone changes… Carlin went from a Clean Cut Suit Wearing Bible Thumper with a flat top to Angry (but lucid) Vietnam Vet Uncle who is sober against his will.
ruclips.net/video/BI0_q57zarg/видео.html One Thing Boomers Don't Get About How Younger Generations Vote
"This comment section is like a support group for kids of boomers."
Something for boomers to keep in mind while whining about how unfair it is some student debt is being forgiven. Remember how much college cost for you? And how you gutted funding for higher education after you already got yours and stuffed that money in your own pockets, saddling everyone who came after you with the bill? Thanks again, boomers. Enjoy complaining about yet another problem you created and refuse to take responsibility for.
Bruh wtf
Yea, he should have met the extremely entitled millennials and Gen Z. That'd put some hair on his ass.
Cool story when are you going to pay my car loan off since it's everyone else responsibility to pay for debts they didn't incure.
Didn't realize my dad, who'd served in the Army, and has worked his whole life gutted funding for higher education. All this time I thought it was because of all the grants and stuff being given out with schools raising tuition corresponding with those grants.
Naw, in reality, you're a sucker who got bedazzled into getting into debt when you would have done fine going to a Tech college and don't mind being used as a pawn for Democrats to buy votes.
You're an idiot if you think high tuition is caused by anything other than the government involvement in student loans and subsidizing of student loans.
The only generation that have it better than both their parents AND their children.
Sounds like they did a terrible job
@@korpen2858 or a great one in their opinion
Be careful they'll blame you for all your problems bc their "blue collar" people
"lets give them trophies for losing the tee ball game when they are tiny kids so that we have something to hold against them when they are in their 30's instead of holding ourselves accountable"
GenZ and MMillenials... the biggest bunch of entitled crybabies to walk the earth.
Wha! I don't have free college.
Wha! I don't have free healthcare.
Wha! The company I work for won't pay my 250k annually to make coffee.
Wha! I don't have 10 weeks of paid vacation every year.
Wha! I have to be responsible for myself.
Give me my pacifier and wipe my butt.
They went from "don't trust anyone over 30" to "listen to authority" real quick.
Yeah, because authority protects all the stuff they've accumulated
@@MH-nc5jd oh how unfortunate your misguidance
@@MH-nc5jd only until you step out of line.
@@burlyheads I think you both misunderstood his comment.
@@burlyheads its a solid point. Young people don't fear authority as much because we have less to lose
They complain about how the very people they were in charge of raising turned out. If thats not entitlement I don't know what is.
@BillowsPillow This had nothing to do with boomers not "physically," disciplining children. Physical discipline is the worst least affective most abusive form of discipline. What the boomers did was raise a generation of children in fatherless homes, filled with empty promises for the future and no guidance on how the world works.
Discipline is about keeping your own promises to your children, acting as an example and providing correction and dialogue where needed. Instead the boomer's philosophy was promiscuity, empty homes, abused and neglected children. Where step-fathers and single-mothers continued the abuse (single/step parents are more likely to abuse children).
@BillowsPillow You didn't need guidance, the world was your oyster and the economy was easy on you. Your wealth wasn't built because you were smart, it was because you got lucky.
Everyone's already taking your advice, and it's being put to the test; *it's failing.*
For the first time in history the new generations are not wealthier than their parents.
If this is not the result of your teachings, then you failed to teach us. You are not like the Greatest Generation, you are children who had it easy; few of you have ever seen beyond the dunning-kruger effect.
And now with your reckless behaviour, and continued pursuit of greed and wealth - this world is crumbling. Baby boomers will be looked back upon in history shamefully.
All these cliffs you speak of are your own design, you never built roads. They were already there and you trampled on them until they were dust.
@@doomakarn 😂🤣😂🤦♀️
You have no idea what entitlement means. 😂
@@doomakarn Hey mate want me to explain why todays generation has less than baby boomers?
Because most baby boomers worked from the age of 13, most baby boomers had a family at 20 they actually did shit with their life not just sat home watching RUclips complaining about how everything and everyone else is to blame for their own choices.
The generation that became homeowners in their 20s with high school diplomas and then shames college-educated millennials in their 30s for not being able to afford rent.
My boomer parents live in a commie block apartment. I wish I had rich boomer parents. At least there'd be something to inherit.
@@regi2475you’re parents hd so many chances to buy a house when they were dirt cheap.. nobody to blame but themselves if they still live in greedy capitalists apartments
@@regi2475 Boomers weren't rich per se, rather they were more easily allowed to rent, use, borrow things at much cheaper prices.
Their rent was cheaper, cars and insurances, homes, etc.
I thought many of the baby boomers seemed rich as if they just had a better start, but when i spoke to them and learned more about their financial history even till today, they actually just had so much good stuff from paying mortgages, rent-to-own houses, making payments on cars, basically they were making payments on things that many of them still never fully paid off and some went into debt.
So they actually don't own that stuff, and now days people aren't easily able to make such payments because many won't trust such young people, especially considering credit scores, that most have to just pay rent and more for most things in general than the boomers did.
They were basically just given better deals at lower prices/rates without even having life in general being as bad or difficult as it is today for most.
But some of those boomers sure set themselves up for their lives to come falling down like dominoes if they didn't maintain it well with how life drastically would change overtime.
@@regi2475they spent it all and leave you with huge inheritance taxes that you cant afford
*due to the money the boomers spent by printing it
They marched against the power, and then when they got the power they cracked down on the marching.
Bingo!
Literally!
This is gonna be the same for the future generations.
@@ioncekilledamanwithmyshoe naaa.. far as i know most my gen just wants to live and let live, and be left alone.
@@ioncekilledamanwithmyshoe this is like someone thinking slaves would never be free. or that the civil rights movement wouldnt change laws
Millennial here. I was 19 when I was first told the world was screwed up and it was all my fault. I thought, "Really? At 19 we're making this call? Maybe it's YOUUUU."
Hell I was 8 when I was told that by my baby boomer grandfather (I'm an 1997 zoomer btw)
Hi guys... welcome to the club lol
Damn you went that long? Lucky
Millennials deserve an apology. They were blamed for a lot that wasn't their fault.
@@dibberz-v1z yo! exact same here except it was my dad
My grandpa worked for standard oil and they forced him to retire at 55 with full pension and benefits. Meanwhile I’m 35 and know I’ll never retire.
Plus you can buy a big house with the pension money back in those days. Now breads 10 bucks in cali . Insane .
@Gee_Morty..of course not.
@Gee_Morty.. The second cheapest
Your grandpa is probably a lot smarter then. Folk in oil always ate good and still do
@@barrelsynapse no they don't. A bunch go into crippling debt whenever oil prices go down.
Boomers left us a bill from parties we never got to attend. And they wonder why we can't stand them.
😂😂😂😂😂
baby boomers: *don't teach their kids a specific skill*
also baby boomers: *make fun of those same kids for not having said skill*
Also: hand out trophies to every kid, then later blame the kid for taking the trophy.
Yeah they’ve done a god awful job parenting. If you had good parents who were born after the 50s, you’re really blessed
@@kelseyheidarian4721ohh they love the trophy argument.. Never mind the fact that it isn't millennials who started that
The stick shift is always a boomer favorite to demean younger generations. The part they leave out is that the younger generation never refused to learn nor were they ever offered to learn.
Well he's a deadbeat so that's spot on
Gotta love how they call us the participation trophy generation when they were the ones handing them out.
Yeah but point that out and they absolutely lose their sht 🙄🙄🙄
look up the history of participation trophies, its wild, for all the whining the WORLD WAR 2 MILITARY HANDED THEM OUT. you know, the racially segregated group we are to unquestioningly worship? they did it too. im gen x but the kicking down on mills and z's annoys me. and im mad when we do it too.
What's up with the participation trophy stereotype? That literally never happened to me or any millenials that I've know. Where are they getting that from? It sounds like it happened to a minute percentage of millenials and then got used as an excuse to hate us ever since idk...wtf is a participation trophy??
I can only provide you with my experience, but they we fairly pupils when I was in middle school through junior high. We'd play a game of basketball or soccer, and the losing team received an award for giving their best, or trying in some cases.
I've seen parents lose their shite because their kids didn't get any awards. It always felt to me that participation trophies were more for the parents, as a reward to justify the work of taking their kids to practice and the like. Of course, my family would later parade the idea of participation trophies as a negative against me for not embracing their right wing values, as if I had any say in the matter, and ignoring how they used to celebrate the award.
Just my experience, though.
@@Silicolnwow thanks for sharing that really interesting. I could see a participation trophy being given to the "family" as a whole especially for the parents to make spending money on the sport more worthwhile and keep them on board.
The generation that wants you to have 10 years of experience by the time your 18 but says no one wants to work
They want to pay you so little that you can't afford to live in the town where you work.
Your boomer boss.
Has a big house, fancy car, and corner office.
Yet doesn’t know how to modify a pdf
💯💯💯 it's baffling how baby boomer rhetoric or logical fallacies are even getting any attention and not ignored as b.s.
Produce 10 examples of those requirements cause i can't find fucking one.
@@jpkjnn6733 There's plenty when it comes to IT jobs. Lost count of how many instances I've seen of companies request ring 5 years experience with software that hasn't existed that long.
Even cases of denying people that helped develop programs because they don't have enough years of experience with it. If you haven't seen instances then good for you, just means your career path doesn't align with these issues.
Doesn't mean they don't exist fam.
And they refuse to understand how the world has changed. I remember my boomer aunt yelling at me to "go out and get a job" because she absolutely would not believe that I could job hunt on the internet.
I came back that evening and showed her the cards with web addresses to apply online that almost every place had given me instead of an application.
Your aunt must be living under a rock. lol absolutely NONE of the boomers I know are that ignorant.
Both of you must live in Bumfuh
@@branevans3705I'm in the middle of a city and it's the same here.
things are going even more in this direction. at some businesses if you would normally call ahead to see if they had a timeslot for whatever work you need done, now that call gets routed to a central office first.
Yep. Parents did that to me in the early 2000s. They refused to understand there was no one to speak to. Good riddance.
I hate seeing everybody brought up in the hood, trailer parks or actual homelessness be told they're so lazy for not putting it all together before age 23 and becoming a doctor. Especially when we're all out here working 40/hrs+ in a work environment that's more customer-convenience oriented than it's ever been before.
At least they have jobs that aren't an hour away while either having no vehicle or being forced into taking out a loan for one you can never pay off.
@@jamesklark6562 ??? I mean yeah that's some bullshit, just not sure what you're getting at.
@@jamesklark6562 Maybe they do? What are you making this statement for?
@@michaelhaydenbell if you've ever lived in rural America then you'd know there's hardly any work to go around for the youthful, most you'll find is crap that requires an education or work that isn't being offered to anyone but their own families, I'm literally trapped in a wasteland of zero opportunity having to travel hours out for any work that can hardly compensate the expenses it takes to get maintain my employment there.
Exactly, it's baffling how that mindset has even survived for so long
Yep. Must be nice to have worked 32 hours a week at a minimum wage job and be able to keep a family of 6 in the upper middle class bracket.
Must be nice to work at Taco Bell and think your labor is worth $15/hr when you can't even get people's most BASIC FUCKING ORDERS right half of the time. You're defending people who think their bare minimum is worth a cushy existence. It's not. A bare minimum of effort in your work is worth a bare minimum standard of living, simple as.
Tax and Spend is what happened.
This is a huge exaggeration lol
@@hugehappygrin yup. Every year they raise the taxes, and tax you extra with inflation
@@danielsmokesmids that’s not how inflation works
One of the few generations who did not want their children to do better than themselves and are upset when they do make accomplishments.
they were hippies & beatniks, LSD and free love, and then they wonder how fucked up their grandchildren are
Yep. Totally agree.
"Participation trophy generation! Participation trophy generation!" - Generation of people who were able to raise a household of 5 kids off of a single salesman's salary who got a college degree for $1,500 in an economy benefiting from dominating half the world back before all the people at the top figured out how to funnel 99.9% of the spoils to themselves. Yeah they just worked harder than us, that's what it is.
@@michaelhaydenbell the participation trophy shit kills me. THEY WERE THE ONES HANDING THEM OUT!! Never made sense to me...
Literally this. My mom was first in our family to get a college degree and she made certain that not one of my siblings or I were able to get a degree. I literally have a sixth grade education bc "education isn't important, hard work is".
they pulled the fucking ladder right up behind them.
My Boomer parents like to always castigate my wife and I saying "live within your means!".... this is coming from the same people that never lived within their means, bought multiple homes and properties their entire lives, caused the housing crisis, had banks take homes from them.... yet, they somehow still manage to have a new home near the ocean today.
Grilling out back, Margaritaville in the background with their Boomer friends... telling us we must have poor money management because we don't have a house yet (add in my wife is a cancer survivor and I'm a disabled Marine veteran, they gave us nothing ever).
They'll probably live to 100 out of spite
Pretty embarrassing they wouldn’t show much empathy towards you considering you’re their son and you’re a disable vet. Also thanks for your service bro!
They can't feel anything for you as they are jacked on Rx pill high to kingdom come LMAO
Empathy from the narcissistic generation 🤣.
@@ad34bballinThe last thing you said there is nuts
A generation that prospered off the backs of their parents, the post WW2 economy was an amazing boon that will never be repeated for the generations that need it.
What are you talking about? Tech produced more billionaires than any other time in history.
Green energy and AI is the next big wave.
Are you serious? There is more money to be made now than 50 years ago.
The generations that need it? How do you even quantify that, newer generations have had it easier than anyone has before.
@@wadehauff3320 can't tell if you're dense or just trolling
High birthrate means high competition with low rights. No grounds for discussion if your easy to replace
@@siffilus4461 Why do you think they will not secure the border.
Here's a dose of reality. If you are a boomer and complain about what this country has become and the new generations ... guess who's fault is it
I hate the fact that my mother married a army guy and brought me here in 1971 atbage eight,just to watch candy bars go from a nickel to 25 cents and then 75 and then a dollar,all in one year,1972! I would have been better off if she had left me with my grandmother,who was raising me since forever and I would have enjoyed the success of the reunification and rebuilding of my country and the welth created and all the family around me. Here,after her divorce,living in San Francisco in the seventies wasn’t exactly the best experience for someone like me. So don’t blame me because I came here unwillingly and I was always an outcast and the new kid so I didn’t get any favors from anybody. I used to be angry about a lost childhood but I guess that’s what made me strong enough to manage what I have without the help of anyone,because I didn’t have anyone,not even a mother.(she got rid of me to a catholic boarding school when she and her boyfriend decided that I was in the way).
@@grokster9ontheroads174write a book bro.lol
@@jonjones8613 lol right? I get carried away. You’re cool 😎
#NoTMyKiDs 🤪
@@grokster9ontheroads174 Many fellow GenXers grew up in bad situations in the '70's, so you aren't alone. Sure we had lost childhoods but it made us more resilient in a lot of ways.
I realized the other day what Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z all have in common. We are all being judged by the same generation who is still in power and refuse to pass the torch or get out of the way.
Good thing is boomers are slowly being phased out by time
Yup, and the silent generation ( the ones born before and during WW2) ppl now in their 80s. Don't forget them. Hell how many of em are still in politics.
We're told we have to gain skills to take over when they're gone, but they aren't willing to train anyone.
We're expected to just show up knowing everything.
Well, when they're gone, no one's going to know how to do shit.
Whatever. AI needs to either save us all or doom us all.
Hit the nail on the head with this one!
Gen X never even got a chance. Millennials are getting to their 40s and burning out. Maybe Gen Z will turn things around? 😅
They act like it should be normal to have a 50 hour work week when you know damn well none of them ever worked 50 hours in a week
And they could retire at 55!
Not true, my husband never worked less than a 52 hour work week. I'm an RN and work 40/wk.
@@Sandra-yx6ypok boomer
Bull. I worked 60 hour weeks. Now you think 4 day work weeks are outrageous. What boomers are guilty of is raising gen z and x.
@@Sandra-yx6yp "It applied to my circumstances, so clearly the OP can't be true"
Your subjective experiences don't matter.
My grandfather literally asked me for my dog because he can't find a we'll-behaved one at the shelter and my dog "had such a calm and pleasant demeanor".
Bruh. I did that. That's not a "demeanor". I trained him. It took years. I raised him since his birth and trained him EVERY DAY.
So I told him it was because I trained the dog. He thought I was being PRETENTIOUS, as if it was mostly the dog's "innate understanding" on what commands are.
Never. Never in my life have I seen someone so segregated from reality. An entire generation of people, totally ruined. Spoiled absolutely rotton to the core.
Yep and they got to make millions of their houses and never once questioned why the fuck their 60k house was now worth 700k.
@@NoFace-ke9pc My house was 82 grand and 1 dollar(auction lol)
Now it's 700k
I have the largest property on the street
.30 of an acre compared to the .10 people pay for 400 grand.
I wanna sell and find some place in the middle of no where and live off the land, but property for land IN THE MIDDLE OF BUMBLE FUCK is worth millions
Like I mean a 10 hour drive to town and you may or may not be in canada
I assume we'll be like China in ten years. Thousand floor welfare apartments and you can only have 2 kids.
At least some boomers can spell! 🌝
@@krokodyl1927 only some? Lol
How tf do you extrapolate from an anecdote regarding your grandpa to condemning billions of people?
I’m trying to save money while working and going to college so I don’t go out that often to clubs or bars and my dad got kind of mad saying “why aren’t you going out and having fun?” And when I explained that I have no money to go out every weekend he said “it’s not expensive to go out” and he gave me $20 to go out... I used it for gas so I can go to work and wasn’t even half a tank for a mazda3.
lol
Clubs are overpriced bullshit anyway. Go to a real pub or cafe. There you can actually hear others talk.
A lot of people in that situation. Keep working hard.
Twenty bucks 😂😂😂
Same man like "why dont you go out?" "Why you wasting your life on the pc?" "where your friends / girlfriend?" "When im i getting grandchildren?!" Like im about almost had it to shove my bank statement for the last 5 months in their fuckin mouth to show why i dont do anything because i P A Y them to cover the mortgage E V E R Y M O N T H
I’m genX. The baby boomers were like locusts, devouring everything in their path. Now we are paying the costs. While they are having a great retirement.
Yep...and you're paying their social security benefits by working like a slave.
You think you're gonna get that money back? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Boomer: [Buys house for 30k]
Also Boomer: [Tries to sell same house for 500k] "Why aren't millennials buying my house?? They must be buying too many avacados!"
Bro, most people have poor financial literacy. Inflation causes the cost and value of everything to go up. Homes will appreciate over time (provided the local economy is healthy). Are you surprised that people hold onto a house for forty years and it's worth much more? Would you sell your $500K house for just $30K? Make it make sense. Lol
@@sunnysied713Homes appreciate over time because the demand for them increases. The demand increase could be from a healthy local economy as you say, but it could also be caused by an unhealthy public economy. When everywhere else has no supply, guess who gets to ramp up their prices without increasing their supply. That's right. The boomers get to sit on their butts and benefit from the dismal conditions elsewhere else that they caused in the first place.
Them getting peeved at zoomers for buying food rather than their price gouged housing is perfect. Sure. I agree. It doesn't make sense for boomers to sell their houses for anything short of an arm and a leg. In what world would they free our tired limbs when they can have it all at our expense?
When we have a noble class starving and oppressing the poor again to keep hands stupid and obedient, we'll have our elderly landlords to thank for rekindling the tradition now with neurolink implanted ads. Better start saving stuff offline.
@@mostlysure1077 Homes will also appreciate over time due to inflation, home improvements, developments in the area that make the location more desirable, etc. Demand is also determined based on population growth and availability of land. People could've purchased homes in less populated, more remote areas, which could've been slowly developed over forty years periods. The United States has a huge areas of empty space where land and housing is cheaper, but everyone wants to live for cheap with all the creature comfort of civilization (which are also the overpopulated areas).
There have many periods of economic downturn, recession and depression. It's funny when young people cry, "Why didn't I get to live in the post-World War II industrial boom so that I could benefit?" But they never cry and say, "Dang, I wish I grew up during the Civil War, Great Depression, World War I, World War II, etc."
Every generation causes problems. Has there ever been a generation that doesn't cause problems. The young generation thinks they're superior, become old, and then their grandchildren blame them.
Neuralink? Lol. Human beings have always lived in a class-based system. It's never going to change.
@@sunnysied713 now talk about lack of supply
@@xerxes2044 Some of these people who are selling expensive homes, with high appreciation, did so after 30-40 years of ownership were living in the boonies. They settled in remote areas that were on the outskirts. When those areas developed, they reaped the rewards. If your area has lack of supply, then it's overpopulated. You gotta look elsewhere. Overpopulation is overpopulation. Stay away from crappy big cities and over-developed suburbs. The individual States and U.S. are huge. Gotta adapt and survive. It was no different for people back then.
They're the first ones to cry "young people have no respect and only care about themselves!!!" when that's literally them
Projection.
I mean, we've been doing that since people had the ability to whine and complain
@@solluxcaptor6823 you just murdered the poor man in hot-blood, instant obliteration
@@solluxcaptor6823 yeah the boomers are projecting
@@TonightTheMusicSeemsSoLoudd Extremely true.
The traitor generation
We all love our grandparents, but their generation is NOT going to be remembered fondly.
My grandparents were the Greatest Generation they created all the great things my parents generation the Boomers are hard at work at destroying. The Greatest Generation survived the depression, fought WW2 and Korea and built the greatest economy in the countries history just for their children to squander that gift. So they are remembered fondly and will continue to be remembered fondly. The Boomers on the other hand….
@@shadow6543 They fought and defeated fascism, welcomed and valued the contributions of immigrants, and believed everyone deserved the security of a home, an education, and food on the table. Only for their kids to become neo-cons and eventually MAGA. They tossed out everything that made America special and admirable and then complain that everyone else ruined the country.
@@shadow6543I had Silent Generation parents and Greatest Generation grandparents. The difference between them and boomers is like night & day.
Imagine having boomers for parents like we older millennials did. It was not a pleasant childhood
@@Ultrad321 They tried to hold the fact that they went through Vietnam and the culture wars over us. Then just within our early adult lives elder millennials had 20 years of war and the rise of political extremism. And this after 9/11, an event that shattered all of our expectations for what our future lives were going to be like. Now in the phase of life when they were generating shitloads of wealth (if they bothered to save for retirement as many didn't), we are experiencing rising wealth inequality, the eroding of the middle class, financial insecurity, a declining quality of life, and the general pessimism of wondering if and how this human race is going to make it (after the boomers ignored all of the warnings about carbon since the 70's btw).
I would say boomers had it easy economically, and that makes them think that we are being brats about money and work
They sit retired for the last 20 years being inept to working in today's economy trying to tell us how it's done when they got us into the shit situation we're in where everyone works like slaves and Joe Biden been sending all the money to Saudi Arabia and Iran through never ending wars everywhere but for the last 30 years. National debt we just make interest and they jack it up and Jack it up and then the ones who jacked it up talk about how if you keep voting for them they'll solve the problems. Another war in urkraine after Biden Obama finance the Taliban more than ever before sure yeah why not it's already hell on earth at it is
Yes they still think working a 40h job is enoth to build a house .
@@xythiera7255 No, smart financial decisions gets you a house
Crazy thing is they had it easy thanks to the unions and wage wars their parents literally fought and died for, before the boomers believed all the propaganda about how evil and destructive unions and communism was.
@@youtubesucks1499 what are you saying "no" to? That is not how conversation works my guy. They said here is what they think. You said no, followed by something unrelated
My dad is a boomer. Told me to get a job when I was 12 because he wasn’t paying for anything. Well, I did get a job and paid my own way from cars to college. During a conversation on finances, my dad tried pulling the “I paid for your college” card. Like, no the hell you didn’t - I moved out at 18 and got a scholarship and worked 3 jobs through college. Their collective memory doesn’t let them see reality - they can never own up to just how selfish they are.
@emro164 yea. I’m an older millennial. My daughter is finishing up kindergarten. My parents put zero effort into coming to my family a few states away when she was born - we always had to travel back. My final straw was when my dad would be on the adjacent couch while my mom was FaceTiming my kid - and he couldn’t be bothered to show his face or say hi to his granddaughter.
I told him he could step up and put in the work to build a relationship with her or he’d never get to see me or her again. You know the choice he made. I haven’t spoken with him in almost 4 years now.
@@hueco5002 you made the right decision. He wasn't going to be a good influence anyway. I know it's hard to do what you did but you're stronger for it. Parents are just "people you know" when you're an adult. You don't owe them or need to speak to them. The child parent relationship is only a result of how well the child was raised
Im a late boomer born 1963. The number of women, of my age, with children who have ZERO contact with their children and grandchildren. When you ask them why this is? They have no freaking idea! I guess thats the answer. They paid no attention and their children cut them off.
Boomers are also the generation who want to spend every last penny and leave nothing to their kids. How disfunctional is that kind of selfishness!
@@TheMan8452Isn't it ironic that the break up of the family started with the Boomers? That it's their kids who started the "no contact" thing? Isn't it ironic..doncha think?
@@hueco5002 That's incredibly savage and I admire you for it.
Boomers: I bought my house for 2 Cherry's and now it's worth 2.5 million dollars
I know the exact clip you got that joke from
@@AceAlbatros i was wondering if anybody would
11 raspberry’s
Depends on where you live. The house my parents lived in when I was born 44 years ago hasn't really increased in value that much. (It was in Little Rock, Arkansas). But I'm sure the house my dad grew up in, in Seattle, is worth a sh*t ton more than my grandparents paid for it.
This is literally what happened with my grandfather, he bought 3 houses and a condo.
That condo he bought in 1966 for $30,000. He just sold it for $3.8million.
His house in the bay he got in 1969 for $45,000? Now goes for $6.8million. He bought land in the 80s-90s up north and put a few properties on it for next to nothing, and I know that 2 of his 8 plots go for something like 5million each.
He was Army SF airborne for around 15 years then he worked for an oil company for like 50 years until he was made VP of sales.
Started on the oil fields and was given seniority as he got older.
Recently retired with a $56million dollar golden parachute and plenty of options in the energy and oil business. I think his net worth is now around $150million publicly. We haven't really checked yet what the real number is since he has money in Franks, as well as collections in gold.
None of us want his money, but his wonderful wife died, and now a gold-digger trailer trash woman has him hitched and worshipping trump.
My entire family has always been very liberal, my grandfather is the only one that did not go to college.
We are pretty worried that our family fortune is under siege by this woman.
Though it's hard to want to do anything about it since it is my grandfather's money and he should choose to use it for whatever reason.
But he does put the family at financial risk if something happens like this upcoming recession.
My grandfather was extremely progressive most of his life, mostly because he hung around really intelligent people at his job. None of which were beyond moderate politically.
Even though they heavily benefited from republican rule, and were involved with state politics, they all hated the ethics of the republican party.
Was so weird hearing my grandfather in the early days talking about gays having rights, weed being recreationally legal for all, and women being treated equal. The guy was in-tune with reality constantly, always sharp and witty.
But now he's a husk of his former self, pouring money into the trump campaign. Buying ridiculous lies from fox news and believing his town is a dirty hobo town going to shit becasue weed is legal in his sleepy rich town, lol.
When in reality, it's his rich neighbors and cancer patients that only ever use the dispensaries around him.
He even now has grown immensely racist towards black people. Something no one in the family has ever seen before, even when he was younger.
His father is a native american, so he saw what prejudice does, and was the one kid on the block that became friends with the one neighborhood black kid. They were best friends and my gradfather even fought for his friend's right to be at the same school as him during the jim crow era.
The republican party took my grandfather away. They injected his brain with poison and made him an angry hateful idiot that is constantly being robbed.
I fucking hate this country for allowing such a cancer to grow, and take away one of my most respected family members. Fuck you, GOP, I hope you all die.
George Carlin was the least silent part of the silent generation.
And Bukowski too
NOTHING SILENT ABOUT THIS BIG MOUTH.SOUNDS LIKE HE'S BEING A LITTLE BIT WHINY HIMSELF.
Well said, lol
he is a fraud
@@disposablehero1235 dolt
My grandfather (who was a baby boomer) always told me how disappointed he was with his generation and that they saddled the rest of us with their bullshit. He'd say that he watched these free-spirited, open-minded, caring, and loving people turn into selfish corporate dogs. He thought his generation were the revolutionaries, only for them to become all things they claimed to hate.
For me it is my mother who is the Boomer who openly stated that her generation screwed over the young people. My mother has listened to her Generation X niece and nephew and her own Millennial children converse about modern working life, economics, etc. so she's aware that it's not like it was when she and my dad grew up. I highly appreciate that she is self aware about her generation and critiquing them.
at least he was honest
I used to work with a guy who was a boomer and said that a lot of the problems in society was his generation's fault. I guess he would agree with your grandfather.
And so will Gen-X , Y and Z, probably.
Your grandpa was a wise man, and his legacy should be that his children can see clear in a time of lies and brainwashing
It's not sex, drugs, and rock n' roll they took. They took away affordable housing, affordable healthcare, affordable higher education, and jobs that pay a living wage.
Im a Boomer, but I’ve always been in favor of a strong social safety. That’s the reason I’ve always voted Democratic ( though the Democrats aren’t much different from the Republicans nowadays.) 😢
@@valerietaylor9615 it is really sad that we could have had a better society, but the elites of all ages won't let us.
affordable housing is the 1984 line. it used to be called low income housing. now its affordable. but affordable for who?
Biden part of the silent generation.
@@valerietaylor9615were slavery, Jim Crow, the federal reserve, and eugenics not enough convincing? Or precisely enough convincing for you?
Boomers hate it when you call them out for having everything handed to them too lol
Too?
The following generations didn't get everything handed to us.
Most of us will never own property, baby boomers could buy and own a house on minimum wage.
They always respond with an angry rant about how hard they had it and how hard they worked. Most of them wouldn't have survived a week if they had been transplanted to this time.
@@matthewatwood8641 They got handed everything from the Silent Generation, they're called that because many had families that were shattered after WW2.
The reason why things were so good; "You could go into a workplace and get a high paying job handed to you!" and all that crap was because 2/3rds of the labor forces were *CRIPPLED* after WW2. We needed anyone and anything that could run machines. That's why people stopped making fun of cripples so much because everyone knew someone that was missing a critical limb (leg or arm.) and many that died from complications from those limbs.
Boomers are all going to hell. They didn't care about what happened or why or whom; just that they could snort blow and then dodge Vietnam. The government hated them that badly that they wanted to ship them out to an idiotic war where the enemy slew us with tripwires and grenades; which didn't work as they came back even more upset.
TL:DR? A boomer wrote your history books, don't think they wouldn't leave out stuff they wouldn't like.
Too?
Unless you’re apart of the upper classes, then there ain’t shit handed to us.
@@dokidoki777 Ok Boomer.
Born in 70. So true. Spent my life 20 years behind them. There were given everything and bequeathed nothing! Like a plague of locusts!
@@jazzfan67Us Millennials had the best childhood of any generation. The American dream is still out there but you’ll have to leave NYC and LA to get it.
@@shadow6543 You know why it’s called the American DREAM? Cause you have to be asleep to actually believe in that bullshit.
@@shadow6543Yes because LA and NYC makeup the vast majority of the country’s population, riiiight. No, and the cost of living is out of control everywhere.
@@xJB1032x- George Carlin lived the American dream. By running it down. Along with many others. That's why both my parents hated him
The ‘born on third base and think they hit a homer’ generation
I remember I went to a restaurant with my mom and grandparents, and when we finished eating, I took a couple of seconds to stack the plates and glasses before we left, and my grandpa just looked at me and said "You don't have to do that, it's their job." And it's just like, excuse me for taking a few second to make their job a little easier grandpa.
He’s right though
@@deadheadwsp705 Okay boomer
@@rabidrabids5348
Not an argument
@@DarkMatterX1 There's no argument to be had, people shouldn't have to convince you that cleaning up after yourself a little in a restaurant is a thing people should do.
@@rabidrabids5348
Nor should tell someone else _they shouldn't_ if they choose to.
That said, "ok boomer" is an asinine internet colloquialism that makes little sense. You might as well just say "you're old."
It’s so satisfying seeing people older than boomers say the same thing about them those of us younger than them feel
They also don't want apartment buildings in their neighborhoods because it would ruin the peace they cherish so much of the home they inherited. The poor souls
It's crazy with the housing affordability disaster we find ourselves in that most cities in North America have the majority of their land zoned for single-family housing. Europe doesn't have a "missing middle" problem because they allow people to build four-story walk-ups. All we need to do is change zoning laws and housing could be affordable but god forbid these entitled Boomers can't control the land use of their neighbors. As long as the building isn't blocking light who cares if a midrise get's built? Imagine being so afraid of people that living next to a midrise makes you act like a whiney little brat.
@@jonathanwilkinson4299 I'll tell you why they don't want the midrise built. "the poors" are the ones that rent apartments in those buildings and the house that has appreciated 500% that they live in might go down slightly. It's a big issue in San Francisco.
Why would they dislike apartments when they are the landlords who own them lol
@@ashgonza92 Cause it lowers the value of their properties. Just like everything else...the more of it there is the less valuable it becomes.
@@jonathanwilkinson4299 well you see not everyone wants to be a city boy like you and have to drive in even worse traffic everyday.
Boomers: The younger generations have no spine and are paper skinned cowards
Younger generations: Ok boomer
Boomers: * sudden violent anger over 2 words*
Young progressives:words equal violence
lol
Fr lmao
I’m a Gen Z and I think today’s youth is absolutely wonderful. They know what is important!!
The older generations just get jealous...it's been happening since the beginning of time
I love how he mentions that they had everything and they call us entitled for wanting basically life sustaining resources! Constantly baby boomers have called younger generations who will never be able to afford a house lazy when must of us work like 3 jobs! My grandparents had high paying office jobs out of high school and bought a house in their early 20s! Yet my grandma is breathing down my neck about me having like 4 roommates all like “ when I was your age we had our own! We were self sufficient!” I honestly can’t with her anymore.
It’s not her fault perhaps if you show her how much rent is and how much you get paid she will realise how difficult it is
@@Kaiyats it won't work. They won't listen no matter how much logic you apply to the situation because they don't respect you as a person. To them, their ideas are the only logical ideas. So unless they come to that conclusion on their own they will not care about what you have to say.
@@Kaiyats older people that breath down your neck, or judge that much, aren't ready to understand. They've made up their mind. All of your justification will sound like an excuse. There isn't a consequence to trying to reason though, other then humiliation and judgement.
@@Kaiyats Lol, they are saying this because they ignore those facts. They're not stupid.
They're going to blame it on you not making enough money, living in the wrong place, or just screwing up the economy... if this isn't clear I'm not making this up, this is what I've been hearing for DECADES.
I don’t know if you’re aware, but something popular among millennials is buying their first home with friends. I know of people doing it, and i was offered to buy a home with a couple I know. That generation has no idea
Notice how every other generation said, "we will work harder so our kids can live a better life" you never heard, "kids have it to easy these days"
And then they jacked up house prices, cost of living..... everything and then go on about "Back in my day."
Back in my day we didn't even have housing prices, so you better be greatful!
They also actively campaign against policy and new infrastructure that would help lower the cost of housing and then complain about how expensive housing is. Like here in California last year a bill was on the ballot that would cap the cost of rent and mortgage. My parents voted against it, then they divorced and had to find new places to live and complain about how expensive it is and blame everyone else. They voted against their best interest and cried wolf.
Started the war on drugs, destroyed education and healthcare
@@jamesklark6562Back in my day, we didn't have to work as much for utilities and were able to afford things with factory jobs. Now you can work 2 jobs and barely have enough... that helps build character and you lazy youngins should be grateful to us for allowing you this experience.
And yet the boomers call younger generation’s entitled. The irony.
They are
@@masonwright7700 probably more
@@masonwright7700 We learned it from the OGs.
@@masonwright7700no that is you
@@Nick84525 cry more
Boomers: the generation that grew old without ever growing up.
I would say most don't grow up these days, and that's because they don't have to
They can't afford to. It's impossible for a lot of people to afford to move out of their parents place. They don't see a future for themselves, so why try to grow up? If you have no hope for the future, might as well sit in the comfortable present for as long as possible.
@@tapioca8574Plus AI coming to take away everything....
@@Iceman_Cool yeh no that's you.
hey dum dum boomers can afford whatever they want@@tapioca8574
The dictionary should be updated thusly:
*Baby Boomer: see Hypocrisy.*
*Hypocrisy: see Baby Boomer.*
So true. They took everything and didn't want give anything back. And now they hate on the younger generations who suffer because of them.
Cry baby.
Nailed it. Giving anything back is not in the "trickle down" Boomers toolbox. It's a concept lost on them because they're so busy rigging "markets" and pulling the ladder up behind them
@@castleanthrax1833You sound guilty😅.
@@jonjones8613 Of what?
@@castleanthrax1833when your so stupid your prove their point 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I remember finding out my friends very strict parents used to be drug taking weed smoking hippies. This is literally their description.
And I guarantee they don’t so much as tolerate the smell of a fucking cigarette on you.
Oh my God that’s exactly how my parents are
I swear my generation is so god damn emotionally stunted
My parents were very strict with me growing up!!! The problem is that if I had kids, I would be LOOSE and let them do anything they want which would BACKFIRE BIG TIME when the grew up to become adults!!! THE Generational Curse cycle is BRUTAL!!!
I remember hearing an explanation about how they were raised by the generation that survived WW2. That generation prepared them for the worst world possible to ever exist, followed by them actually living the best world possible to ever exist, while simultaneously still believing their upbringing that it was the worst. That is the quintessential boomer experience.
And that is why they hate whiny millennials. Reminds them of themselves.
Everyone also thought the world was gonna end because of the cold war, but obviously that didn't happen.
I'm a boomer. TOTALLY AGREE. most are horrible. Ignorant.and entitled.😊
❤
how did you manage to avoid the lead poisoning?
@@matthewatwood207LMFAO.... just lucky i guess
"They went from cocaine to Rogaine"
Mans bodied an entire generation with one phrase.
From marijuana to cocaine to Rogaine.
To anyone wondering, Carlin was part of the Silent Generation (born c.1928 - c.1945). They were the generation directly before Boomers, but not quite the generation who RAISED boomers. So the modern day age-gap equivalent of this clip would basically be a Millennial comedian roasting Gen Z lol.
Amd his generation was the actual grouo that fought the authority and started alt culture. Look at the people and birth years❤
@@LeoWhalen1933thanks for being punk in your twenties I guess
That does put this in a funny perspective haha
Sad you conformed before you got o be a little bad as an adult?@@noahbirthisel3285
Crazy reminder that our current president is in the Silent Generation, too old to be a Boomer. The other guy screaming about age is only 4 years younger, and the FIRST year of the Boomer generation.
My mother blamed a 4yr old me for her childhood problems and she is in her 60s
Is your mama named Brenda? B/c I could swear we were siblings 😂😂😂
I tell off my neighbour's that abuse their kids with words like that and worse, fully call them out infront of their kids and say nothing to them, somehow the mums call me abusive......they yell swear words and say they hate their kids and somehow when I stick up for them I get called abusive
Yikes on bikes.
Oh no girl we're siblings 💀@FollowPickMeekPodcast
Boomers will make fun of you for getting driven to school when they were the ones that drove you to school.
I heard this before, but being a millennial/Gen z is like getting the bill from a party you didn’t attend.
Getting the bill for a party you weren’t around for…. That’s a good one.
Welcome to America
AND they made you clean up
Algorithms working, yep
That’s the best comparison for Boomer to Millennial/Gen Z I think I’ve ever heard
Boomers had cheap houses, cheap universities, great-paying jobs and then they pulled up the ladder behind them because they couldn't bare to see younger people having a good time.
sour grapes from a generation that sat at home playing video games lol
@@dosmundos3830 And remind, who raised that generation? On top of all that I just mentioned, you were also lousy parents.
@@PatrickPierceBateman Society, the law came in and prevented proper discipline. spare the rod spoil the child as they say.
@@dosmundos3830 Corporal punishment is still legal in every state. You don't know what you're talking about.
@@PatrickPierceBateman I don't live in your "states", you don't know what you are talking about lol.
My father condescending ,” I dont understand why you still have student loans, I paid mine off in ten years.”
Me stressing, “I”ve paid over ten grand and owe more money now than when I started paying!”
My father smug,” well your grandpa paid mine off”
lol
Then ask why he hasn’t paid yours! Sounds like a failure of a father
Shame on him then 😕 🤣
Wtf lol 😂😂
I actually had a very similar conversation with a family member about a decade ago. Fortunately mine seems to have gone much better than yours as he seemed to recognize how different my situation was to his (no help from parents, close to full time job could barely pay living expenses much less loans, etc.) and hasn't brought it up since. But it's amazing how far the cognitive dissonance goes here for many people. Unable to recognize how the many burdens they didn't have to face gave them a huge advantage we simply don't have. And insulting us for in the process.
He just provided reasons why the phrase "ok boomer" became a thing. And boomers STILL won't get it. 😂 😂 😂
Try explaining Inflation to a baby boomer. It will take more than 8yrs, I actually don't know how long it will take because baby boomers are sooooo fcking joe Biden level dumb
My boomer parents own 2 homes and several vehicles. Neither one has a college degree and my dad didn't even graduate high school. They are the most ignorant, uneducated people I've ever met. My dad told me they adopted me so my mom would stop cheating on him. They then broke me down every single day saying I'm lazy and ungrateful. I left and am never going back.
I left my mother's house at age 19, with a few changes of clothes in a back pack, a blanket and 30 bucks in my pocket. No where to go. Now, I own my own home, have a Master's degree all paid for, and she hates me for not "needing her." She was never there for me, was cruel that's the whole reason why I left... They are blind to their selfishness.
It's animal nature. Like all other animals, we are selfish. No one gives a shit about anybody.
And unless your parents stole all of that stuff I'm betting they worked pretty damn hard for everything they have.
And if you're an only child and you start respecting your parents maybe all of their stuff will be yours someday.
If you continue to hate them and they get the sense that you hate them they may give their entire estate to their favorite charity.
You may find yourself standing out in the street with a tin cup in your hand.
@@zephead4835 You either had an easy childhood or you have children who say "ok boomer" to you all the time. Since you made some massive assumptions about my life, I simply returned the favor.
Am I wrong about my assumptions? Maybe.
How does it feel for a stranger to make judgements on you based on one little paragraph?
You have no idea what I went through or the nightmare my childhood was. I would rather be poor and have zero percent of all of my families wealth and work hard myself than try and find something to do with mountains of cheap consumer goods and dumpy, run down homes.
@@jennifers6560 ADVICE
I say this all the time. I love that I found video vindication.
Boomers are the "f u I got mine" generation to the bitter end.
Hmmm that's strange. You must know some f'd-up people. All the boomers I know are quite the opposite.
The spider generation… they have too many hands on too many things, and they eat their young.
Unfortunately, they didn't abort their young.
I have never agreed with abortion until this whining crying weak generation.
Yes, I wish they did eat "their young" talk about soft and entitled.
The generation that needs a safe space because of hurtful words.
Grow a pair.
Nailed it
The "trickle down" Boomers need to be called Spider generation they do eat their young then blame their young for being devoured
Oooh, that's a good one. Gotta remember that.
Boomer here...he's speaking truth. This generation is now leading our country and what a horrible job they're doing.
Bro baby boomers got more spoiled than anyone but will tell others they are lazy
They’re the only generation that had it easier than their kids and their parents.
@@JustSendMeLocationPlease
Facts, and then they act like kids today have it so easy, when in reality because of them majority of kids today couldn’t even hope to buy a house or anything like that.
Exactly
Affordable housing, affordable college, affordable health care, great paying jobs, and then voted for people who made sure that wouldn't happen again
@@kevinw8276Almost like after a nationwide depression and going into a massive world war kickstarted the economy into gear for a boom that would last nearly 50 years. There was nothing special about the 50s-90s outside of the post-war economy growing from the Great Depression
It's crazy how this is as relevant now as it was 20 years ago.
Ah, that explains why he refers to boomers as middle age.
I had people quote him before but I had no idea who he was.
"the more things change the more they stay the same."
@@jasperzanovich2504 George Carlin. Really great comedian from years back. RIP
I think now that we're all older it's even more relevant.
Even more as Boomers are holding the highest offices hostage 🤬
Don't forget that these people complain about social security, but grew up in a time where normal retirement saving would have made them millionaires. Now we need IRAs and 401ks
Thank you Regan administration
This aged way too well.
From "I don't need no education" to "You kids need to stay in school"
Is the Wall a boomer album or by that point was it a Gen X album? Certainly tracks with the cynical slacker generation.
@@mrengulfeddirector pink floyd was both but I'd say the wall was Gen x
That song’s message wasn’t really “education isn’t needed,” it was about how controlling and miserable the teachers were to the children and that they shouldn’t pick on kids to boost their own egos especially towars kids like Pink, the main character, who was a creative type and already had a tough enough home life (dead father, controlling fearful mother)
If The Wall isn't considered Boomer-centric, something is lacking in context.
A 70's album (though it was on the cusp of the 80s) written as an allegory for the affects that World War II had on British society, by a British Boomer who was using it as an autobiographical work about the trauma of Post-war Austerity.
Yes, the first wave of Gen Xers would have been hitting 14 and 15 at its release, but It's super Boomer-focused. It's just also happens to be a timeless masterpiece from an amazingly talented Prog Rock outfit that Gen X absolutely adored, and were able to connect with it in their own struggles.
Horrible example. And if you're trying to reference "Another Brick in the Wall" then you're completely misunderstanding the message lol.
They went from “I want to start a family” to “I need to leave my family so I can find myself.”
No, that's every generation. More so with the females now than it used to be.
@@willstar8095 No. A small of individuals would be like this in the past. However, these past three generations (generations X,Y & Z) are the ones collectively like this.
@@willstar8095 Any proof?
@@alexandrebelair4360 no
@Emmy Foder No, divorce being a mainstay was started by the boomers. The generations that came after them actually show lesser rates of divorce for what we have data for.
My grandfather bought a house for $14,000 when he was a young adult. I live in roughly the same area. House prices start at $2 million. The average yearly salary at the time was $15,000, so the average person could buy a house. The average salary now is $90,000, that's far from the $2 million.
And they wanna pretend they’re financial geniuses or something when they had it easier than literally every other fucking generation.
They don’t understand how expensive things are
14 grand "in tha Day" was just as onerous as 2 mil now if you have a shite job.
Used to be , dad worked , one job, mum stayed home w/ the kids (Unless your family had a farm...) ---
Now, mum AND dad work, 2-3 jobs , and STILL struggle financially, and we're not even talking about the effects on the kids of having to "self raise" ...
Yeah , "Fuck the boomers!" , says the boomer...
People listen to greedy bankers who are always telling them what a great mortgage they can get them.
Exactly yet they want to compare apples to oranges. If they lived in this era they would not be able to buy a home.
My wife just summed this up today. She said, "They were told to listen to their elders and be subservient. Now that they are the elders. Boomers are disappointed they don't get their turn to be boss."
Been told so many times “you’re young, have fun 😀😀” bro I can’t afford fun
I can't even afford "f".
We're still trying to pay off all the fun the boomers had.
Literally my father. Had his first house bought for him by my grandparents at 18 but when I turned 18 he wanted me to move out no money no nothing and says it's 'his house'
Then have the fucking audacity to be like “you just gotta get out there and apply yourself” yeah easy for you to say as everything was literally handed to you or dirt cheap. There’s people in their 20s working twice as many hours as they did in their 20s and they can’t even pay their fucking bills.
Literally my mother
My parents kicked me out at 18, my wife and I saved for two years and bought our first house at 20. No college degrees. Stop bitching
@@americanman0824 you missed the point
@@americanman0824 the father gets fired a house at 18. Then acts all high and mighty when his son turns 18 and says he has to move out. The entitlement is with the father and his hipocrisy
This is why I love the Silent Generation. As a Millennial, there’s nothing more entertaining than hearing them talk smack on Boomers. lol
Who were the parents of the Boomers?
You raise your child wrong and then you complain about him/her after?
His generation gave birth to all Boomers. 🙄
Ah nuts! Now I've lost count!! Is the Silent Generation gen-Z?
They’re between the “greatest generation” that fought in WW2 and the Baby boomers. The kids who were born before 1945 but were too young to be drafted into WW2. Korean War vets in some cases.
@@adamgreenspan4988 Yup, the silent war.
@@billolsen4360 1925-1945 is the Silent Generation. It’s also Trumps Generation
These few sentences should go in a loop in every TV, every public screens, should be written to all billboard everywhere.
George Carlin didn't say anything profound. Young people become old. Old people act differently from young people. Old people have been in the rat race for a long time so their attitudes change. They make mistakes, have regrets, gain wisdom, look out for their own interests, etc. Young people are rookies who have no clue how the real world works. Then they eventually become OLD, learn a few things, and the new young generation blames them. Circle of Life. Circle of Blame. Lol
@@sunnysied713no. boomers were given an economic blessing post-ww2. they had the greatest market the world has ever seen. thats just numbers lmfao
@@overzone666 You're right that boomers were born in a great economy, but you're ignorant if you think economies aren't cyclical. There were always upturns and downturns, growth periods and recessions, even depressions. This has been true throughout all of U.S. (and everyone else's history). It cracks me up when people complain that they weren't born in THIS best period or THAT best period. Life is a grind, no matter how you look at it. Play the cards you were dealt and don't complain.
And, yes, the younger generation always thinks the older generation is to blame. They always think they're also 'better people', until they grow up and do the same exact things as their parents. The young generation never fixes SH&T, they just make things worse - just like everyone else.
If young people want to be closer to the Boomers, then they could always go fight and die in World War II, so that their children can have it good. Lol😆
A boomer could support a household, with a spouse and multiple kids and even multiple cars on a single income.
Today, my wife and I work two full time gods to barely scrape by on our little apartment, no kids, and one 20 year old car between us.
"this lsd is great,so was that sex."
*25 years later*
"All these kids wanna do nowadays, is get high and have sex"
I had to laugh at this...im the tail end of gen x and my mom was a gen boom...she was the hardest partier I ever knew but long about 35 she started talking about follow the rules and be good, but alas she forgot I watched her party and then partied w her when my granny past when I hit 21....I had been doing it for 5 yrs by then which she had no clue, but I flew low on the radar so plz enlighten us someone when does the light in the attic come on? Pushing 40somethin and i partied til about 3 yrs ago when covid hit us...my last child isn't thankfully rebellious... my mind says we still could party but my body isn't so sure lol
@@katrinarawls3632 I never understood partying if you were drinking, it wears you out and makes you sick. But also being around people you don't even know and don't click with is weird to me. I'm not a boomer, think people should do as they please as long as they dont hurt others, it just never made sense to me.
You’re not wrong.
It's as if they learned something and trying to pass along knowledge.🙄
@@Democratsaretrash All they learned was to be hypocrites. Because they're fuck ups who didn't actually try or want to try in life. They think everyone's going to want to be like them and not do anything worthwhile or fix any issues like they didn't.
"I got a job out of high school, bought a house for $6,000, and retired at age 55 with a full pension."
-Baby Boomer who doesn't understand why their kids and grandchildren struggle financially.
Gen X is just as bad from my experience. A Gen X guy was lecturing me as I was just trying to get help changing my brake lines. Bragging to me about buying some old fancy Mustang when he was only 16, and some other fancy car a few months later, and another a year later. With this hateful look in his eyes locked on mine. I was 21 and just trying to change my brakes on my first vehicle (an 05 Suburban with 300,000 miles on it lol).
@@piglice4585 - I'm a GenXer and I know how lucky I was. College was not only cheap for me, there were also a shit load of grants available. When I was 25 I considered buying a new Ford Ranger 4x4 for $17,000. With my down payment I would have been paying about $200 per month. My 2 bedroom apartment was $350 per month and I shared it with 2 other guys.
Wages have not kept up with inflation.
The Boomers got off much easier, but I know I have it better than the young people entering the workforce today. At least there is a high probability I'll be able to retire. But my college debt was easily manageable and the cost of my house 20 years ago was not ridiculous.
I don't know how young people manage it today.
God my parents are boomers. They inherited everything. House is now worth a fortune now. They are both retired with pensions and ssn. They pull in about 8k a month for being retired. I am in my forties. Well educated. No college debt thank you USMC. But I cannot imagine having the life they do. I really expect them to live another 25-30 years. I try to explain to them how the world has changed and it is because “we don’t work hard enough!” Or “We don’t save enough!” So out of touch. And their thoughts on millennials and younger is just heartbreaking. Even though it means being closer to my maker, this planet sure will be better off when they are all gone.
I make more than my parents combined and I can't buy their house. They tell me it takes time. I'm like dude you purchased it when you were younger than me.
Thanks Joe Biden hope you didn’t vote for him
@@shadow6543The president could win approval really easily now that I think about it. If a housing reform gets blocked by Congress, he could just put the blame on Congress.
They mean till they die
@@shadow6543Biden?
More like Reagan
My father had bought and flipped 4 housed by the time he was 21, made money on all of them. Here I am a 22 with no prospects of ever owning a house.
my father is a boomer. had everything handed to him, first job my g-father got for him, that job paid for his college. my grandparents every weekend or 2 when I was a kid would bring us groceries for the next week or 2. I could keep going
Then when I was only 5 he told me I better get a scholarship cause he's not paying for it. He told me to go get a job when I asked him for 5 dollars at 11 years old. again, I could keep going..
It sounds to me like he was a hard working young man, he worked his way through school and paid for it with the job that your grandfather (gave) him. And I doubt that your grandparents would have been so eager to help him and your mom out if they didn’t feel the same way. My grandparents helped my parents when they could, my parents have helped me in the past, and my kids are reaching adulthood now and I know they are all gonna need help as well, which I will provide when I can. I told my kids the same thing about college, it was to try to get them to realise that if they want something out of this life, no matter what it is, they will be the ones to have to make it happen for themselves, because ultimately no one but you is responsible for making your goals and happiness a reality.
You mean there was a culture of taking care of eachother because they went thru the depression, the dust bowl, ww2, korean war, worked their ass off and knew their roles in society?
@@jefferywells6845I think you could be right about some of that.
I also think you had good parents, and you want to be like them, and the way you’re teaching your kids about how to value and work toward the things they want (like college) is pretty spot on.
Here’s where I think it differs for a lot of people: if your kids said “Dad I took your advice, but it looks like I made a bad bet on college, it’s not quite paying off, and I need some help…” you would probably help. If not with dollars, with some guidance.
Myself and a lot of my peers didn’t see it modeled the same way. We were raised to feel shame if we didn’t attend college on our own dime, and we didn’t have a reliable enough parent (like 0 out of 2) to offer advice, much less assistance.
More parents should have been like you and your parents, but a lot of them weren’t. This is especially prevalent amongst baby boomers, and that’s why it’s a common topic in popular culture.
Here we go, the boomers have found your comment.
Watch them bend what you said to turn it in their favour. Watch them not take responsibility while spewing out bullshit on how easy it is to take control of your life.
They have no idea. Born 40 years apart, they are dinosaurs in todays society. And good, they need to sizzle out because they are the ones holding humanity back with their ignorance and bigotry.
@@michaelbradley6004 they worked less than half the hours of millennials and GenZ on average. I mean almost half of their population was unemployed just because they were women! Then even the men only worked the traditional 9-5 which is nowadays a massive rarity with most people putting in overtime. So if your definition of "worked their asses off" is working less than half as much idk what you're thinking lol. The real problem was the outsourcing of manufacturing labour to cheeper countries and replacing it with far lower paid services jobs. Manufacturing always pays more, but there isn't any manufacturing anymore (comparatively). So the jobs there are now are all services based rather than production based.
“I won my house at a town square carnival from a toothless millionaire, then whine about how kids now a days can’t afford anything!”
Hilarious 😆
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I loved him!!! Thanks for adding him. He was one of the sanest people on the planet ❤
Some boomers do acknowledge the fact that they had it easy and left the rest of us in the sh!t. My father is the only person I know who actually admits this and tries to understand what our generations are going through, but looking through this thread, I can see that there are others. It just shows how selfish a person can suddenly become with a big bank balance, an easy mortgage, a cushy corporate job and not give AF about anyone else. And then, when the bubble bursts (which it inevitably does, every time - the cyclical nature of capitalism), they blame the kids for drinking coffee and being lazy, even though it costs more to rent a house or flat than to pay for a mortgage, but the deposit needed to get a mortgage in the first place is out of the reach financially for most people who don't have rich relatives and you can't save on the wages they give, even in a decent paying job, unless you're willing to live in the rural backwoods and buy a cheap place. The work is in the city and the big towns, so you need a place that is close enough to the city and the towns, yet none of them are affordable due to the mortgage deposit. In the end, you are working to make someone else rich, all to pay the mortgage of some boomer who purchased an extra house as "an investment" and could sell up at any time and make you homeless. Game is rigged.
The truth is, the game was rigged from the start
George Carlin was on the “Okay boomer” train before it had even left the station
bro, George carlin was the conductor of the “Okay, Boomer.” train dude. hell i’m sure if he was still around he’d be saying it left and right.
Sorry to burst your bubble. But his message aged well
He was born during the Silent Generation. Not a boomer.
Well, he was Mr. Conductor on Shining Time Station after all. (Source: I'm an elder millennial who watched STS daily as a child in the early 90s.)
@@accentplaya18Hell yeah. I used to have those episodes on VHS tapes. And the jukebox puppets!
I’m a millennial, was raised by a single boomer mom. So yeah, I raised myself.
ditto.
Thankfully I have boomer grandparents who never subscribed to any of their generation's bs. While others in their gen where being hippies, they worked for a pharmacist degree. And they helped my mom and her brothers go to college and when my mom needed financial help, they gave it to her. And they have set up a college fund for me, my sister, and my 2 younger cousins.
Lucky you had wise ancestors
I agree with this. It’s not that drugs aren’t bad or sex isn’t potentially dangerous, but the fact that those people just crack down on everyone else doing it instead of acknowledging their own mistakes is very annoying
Bought their first house with a handful of raspberries and a song.
Now an apartment with the roof falling in is 875 a month with no utilities.
HAHHAHA
My boomer parents were also beaten with belts until they had scars.. I have to often remind myself the weird stuff they do is from 60 years of learned trauma
Imagine if they had to deal with mass school shootings?
My dad told me he was wooped by his dad and uncles. Mom told me she was never told I love you by her parents. I didn't learn that till I was in my 40s. Made me sad but helped me learn alot.
@anthonypatterson8796 trauma isn't a competition. And you can choose to have empathy for others or not. I choose to.
Crazy, cuz I remember my boomer parents beating me with everything, locking me in closets, cutting me repeatedly with a tiny little knife while the other held me down; to discipline me at age 2+
:)
When I became an teen they resorted to strangling me, and punching/kicking me since it was harder to hold me down.
Ps. I am a young millenial, and I know many others who went through the similar/worse.
Their parents were probably beat but weren't absolutely pieces of shit, so no excuse
From hippies to karens with no stops in between😂
OMG! I LOVE THAT STATEMENT! I'M DYING WITH TEARS, JUST ROLLING!😂😂😂😂
This is why the 1970s were full of turmoil- the hippies couldn't understand the new Karens and vice versa.
Of course, now we've run out of hippies and Gen X have been brought up as Karens.
Most boomers were already karens. Hippies made up less then 1% of the population.
This is the most accurate description of a generation I’ve ever seen in my entire life 😂😂😂
@@anonUKMillennials are new age Hippies, but quickly are going through the same narcissistic process as Boomers. They soon will be just another massive older generation aging quickly that wants to make life harder on the youth.
Fun fact: the participation trophy was invented to stop boomers from whining about how their kid never brought home any trophies.
I can definitely see that lol
Lol well good thing it was made or people of today would've been whining about it now😆.
@@a.mp.m7340 Nah, boomers are aging out of kid having age. We shake off a few early gen x karens, and we can get rid of 'em. Us millenials never gave a shit about your trophies, we always knew they were worthless. Gen z? They don't care about sports. Good riddance, most of our sports are shit. Schools should bring back boxing and fencing.
@@billlupin8345 No way "Karens" are being "shaken off" you really think there's no Millennial Karens lol. They're not "my trophies" tf would I want my kid to have something they didn't truly earn. You're contradicting yourself it's either, get rid of sports or bring back certain ones. You wanna bring back fencing and say today's sports is "shit" lol okay.
@@a.mp.m7340 Someone's triggered.
That's not a contradiction. The sports of my youth were team based, and not very combative. In other words, no fun.
Couldn't agree more, now we need to get em out of office
Clinton, bush jr, and trump and Biden all boomers lol
@@moegreen5760 execute all of them
@@moegreen5760 literally all of Congress are boomers
@@twentysecondcenturywoman senate mainly
Covid tried, but failed.
But they swear George would be on their side.
Boomers: "I love George Carlin, he knows how to actually tell a joke and tell how it is. Not like so-called 'comedians' these days."
George: "Fuck Baby Boomers!"
Boomers: "George Carlin gone Woke! Comedy is dead!"😭
Same could be said about Millennials and Zers.
_Carlin talks about boomers_
"Whooo! George Carlin's great he's so funny and right on! He's literally me!"
_Carlin does his global warming bit_
"Oh my god! He's a science denying reactionary neoconservative! Cancel him!"
@@DarkMatterX1 Difference is, one is a life anecdote about a large age group, and the other is a scientific opinion by a non-scientist, made without the benefit of modern data. So we can look back and give his talk about the climate reasonable critique.
He didn't deny climate change. He said the planet will be fine, just the people are fucked (and a bunch of other species). I don't think you'll find many scientists who claim that global warming would eradicate all life on earth.
@@DarkMatterX1 I only see baby boomers getting mad at George Carlin though. 🤭 I'm in gen z myself, and even if I don't agree with everything he says, I am rational enough to understand context, and I still think he's great. Sorry. 🤷♀️
@@DarkMatterX1 nah, we still love Carlin lol. Only boomers mad
I have a boomer for grandmother she gets so mad whenever I point out that everything she had in her life was basically handed to her economically. That it was her generation that crashed the economy and fucked over people like me and my brother and even my mom her own daughter. You want the best story I have of Boomer entitlement my mom went to college had to take out a huge loans because my grandmother and grandfather wouldn't help her one bit. My mother was starving she had to spend her last bit of money on a medical emergency which she didn't have insurance for. She goes to my grandmother's house and she makes herself a sandwich like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with on one slice of bread folded over onto itself net cost for the 80s maybe 50 cents worth of ingredients. My grandmother lost her shit on my mom for eating a sandwich in her house and demanded my mom pay her full market value for every ingredient she used and then charged interest when my mom couldn't pay that second. But now she doesn't understand why my mother's got no contact with her why I've got no contact with her she thinks that we're just out to get her. In reality no she's just a bitch
Sounds like a heartless capitalist bitch. Hope she's happy dying with only that cold cash for company. Hope you're doing fine without her!
You are preaching to the choir. They didn't want children at all; they wanted no responsibility, had no care for anyone but themselves. That's the bottom line.
This whole comment is why I pray to Christ every day.
@@piglice4585 So does his bitch of a grandma.
Prime example of why some parents end up in nursing homes and being mad at their children. They simply do not understand that just because you raised someone doesn't mean you loved them. Or just because someone is your kid, doesn't mean they have to respect you, everyone have to earn respect.
Baby zoomer here: I grew up watching documentaries on civil rights and social justice and listening to folk music, and looking around wondering where these wise people went. I think it gets harder to care about others the more comfortable you get.
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I wonder if despondence didn't play a part, after the gov assassinated and/or incarcerated so many prominent civil rights leaders
I had a Boomer tell me to "Get a Job!".....at work.
He was my co-worker....I had his exact job.
It's just that instead of getting a house I got debt for my troubles.
Back when working at a gas station could put you through medical school haha
Now a 52 hour work week can’t even pay the fucking bills. And they have the nerve to call anybody lazy when they worked half of that at our age
That's the part of boomers that breaks my heart
Free love peace on Earth
And then in 80s they turned in to everything they hated
They learned, then tried to pass on the wisdom. Carlin was a cynical idiot.
They really didn't
At least the people they hated had community, morals and values
Not all boomers are like that. George Carlin was what they called the silent generation. He wasn't so silent was he lol
Democrats turned into everything they hated in 90s.
Youve got to stop believing this comic turned philosopher! Used to be so funny then turned into a political, lying bullshitter!
There's a natural progression where each generation stands up and takes the reigns of power, then after a good 30-40 yrs, steps down and let's their children take over. Not the Boomers, and because of what they did, the consequences will be vast and far reaching.
The average age of a us senator is 64. Both presidents for the past 8 years have been over 70.
We’ve had this epiphany at the agency, old people ruined modern society because they’ve been running the world the same way for 50 years. Government seriously needs an age/term limit. No one over 55 should hold any public office. 25-55 should be the age range, gives every generation equal representation.
Gen X's time is long overdue but we're still waiting for these selfish boomers to vacate the premises.
@brooksiedoodle5087 And now millenials/gen z need to take the podium for our generations to get anywhere and prevent the population collapse that we'll see in 20-40 years (depending on immigration)
@@ATF-I think it should be a little older, like 30 till 65. At 25 many people's brains are just finished maturing, and most people are still sharp well into their 60s. It's disgraceful however that the main presidential candidates in the US at the moment are closer to 80. It's utterly ridiculous.
Everyone changes… Carlin went from a Clean Cut Suit Wearing Bible Thumper with a flat top to Angry (but lucid) Vietnam Vet Uncle who is sober against his will.