I always hear the previous generation blaming me for the problems of this generation. They literally created the society we grew up in and blame us for it.
@Ehbfunbcc Whjfhbhjxf Nah, that's wrong. Boomers inherited the greatest economy in the history of the planet. And look what they've done with it. What you're talking about just isn't true when you look at minimum wage, housing prices, education prices, etc. They reaped the benefits, then pulled up the ladder. Then they doubled down by outsourcing all our manufacturing to China for slightly cheaper ipads.
@@f__kyoudegenerates Millenials are the absolute *worst*, the *worst*. Millenials ushered in 'influencers' and have blurred the lines of science of mythology, like for example millenials ushered in the belief that homosexuality is 'genetic' this belief is based on papers published by a handful of baby boomers. However the data has demonstrated that there is zERO sicentific evidence to support that claim. Today this same type of ignorant mythological thinking runs the cdc with their 'guidance' on wearing masks. Millenials are the absolute worst, worst worst, they want to do away with religion and replace it with mythology and call it 'science'. Horrible horrible generation, and most millenials have baby boomers for parents and baby boomers are probably worse than millenials. Baby boomers were given the world on a silver platter by their parents who fought in ww2, and what did baby boomers do? They pissed all over it trying to usher in socialism or other utopianistic nonsense. Just horrible.
@@charlesriston8972 no more than it is my fault for never qualifying for one. Single parent, not enough financial backup, etc, etc... Oh, the revolving economic recessions the elites (crosses all generations) like to pull as they sell the country out more and more.
My favorite is when Boomers try and tell me how spoiled and impatient our generation is, and yet the Boomers I deal with at work all day get angry and demand my manager when the coupons only kick in when you've bought two of an item or it's expired. They're the ones who feel the need to announce at every store, restaurant or business : "This is the worst service I've ever had, you just lost a customer" or tip their waitress >$2 on a $100 meal. #Boomers
The amount a server deserves as a tip has nothing to do with how expensive the meal was. One server can work a lot for a 25 dollar ticket and another server do next to nothing for a 100 dollar ticket. Why should the another server get a bigger tip just because the ticket was more?
In fairness to baby boomers, I've seen people older than the boomers and people younger than the boomers complain about bad service or leave a small tip for bad service. I don't think that particular behavior is unique to the boomers. But in fairness to you and your generation, generations older than the baby boomers always stereotyped the boomers as being spoiled (especially when the boomers were in their 20s and 30s), so it's ironic that now boomers tell you how spoiled you are. Then again, maybe someday you'll say the same thing to the people who are one or two generations younger than you. 🙂
@@YourChannel-r4v You probably know this, but a lot of younger people listen to music on vinyl, at least occasionally. My teenagers and their friends mostly listen to music on their phones, but they also collect vinyl records and listen to them from time to time. Vinyl is much more popular now than it was 25 to 30 years ago. In the 1990s, you could easily buy tons of vintage vinyl records for $1 each because no one wanted them. Many of those records would sell for a lot more today. And I'm probably older than you, but I'm younger than the boomers, and I don't see anything wrong with ordering carry-out food by phone at certain restaurants. I more often order online, but depending on the restaurant and depending on how I want to customize the order, sometimes there are advantages to ordering by phone.
As a Gen Z, I can say climate change isn’t my major concern. My concern is the absolutely abysmal economy we inherited. We can’t afford homes, health care, college, and increasingly even rent despite being more productive than boomers at our age.
@@Animorphster easy war Genocide Famines poverty etc are all worse which btw boomers lived threw all of that also some boomers were born under colonial rule to Europeans
I was told I was a “lazy and entitled” because I didn’t wanna throw my back out at a low end minimum wage dead end job… they literally were confused when I quit and got a job at another company that paid more, do people expect 110% efforts from jobs that don’t pay enough to life?
If anything, its the boomers that are lazy and entitled... Too lazy to train a new recruit they will screw over just like they did to you and so entitled that think they owe you and can treat you like a slave.
Tbh most of the problems with gen Z and Millennials against Boomers is that Boomers seem to think they had it hard despite living in one of the best times of the American economy (imagine being able to buy a house and go college on an unskilled job, at the same time), then proceed to call the younger generations lazy and entitled because we aren't excelling as much as they were (to which they consider it our fault over the fact the economy has had 3 recessions without any blooms now). It's nothing knew that Boomers live in a bubble since they had the benefits of the economic bloom when they were younger and now they are older, they have assets and experience (20-30 years work experience, and a house worth over 10 times its original price) to get them through the hard times of today, even during COVID they had a fraction of what everyone else had to witness during mass redundancies and trying to find work in a now flooded job market. Overall it's like a king sitting on his throne having a feast, then complaining to the peasants that they aren't working hard enough and that's the reason they are starving.
You are truly misinformed about what life was like for the vast majority of people born into the Boomer and GenX (that is me) generations. I sure wish that I had been handed all of the freebies that you think were being handed out. Absolutely nobody bought a house and attended college on an unskilled job that paid $2.85 per hour at the time. Not like today where every fast food place starts people at $15 per hour, and mortgage interest rates are only 2.5%. Imagine buying a house or car and paying a 12% or higher interest rate. Or trying to find a job after graduating college (with loans that had to be repaid) and being offered less than $8 per hour.
I am 43. You are spot on. Too many baby boomers assume that life fpr them was just regular old life but almost all of them have NO idea that they were extremely fortunate to have been born into the afterglow of WWII where the US (and Britain) literally destroyed the only two other global industrial powers (Germany and Japan). Consequently, they enjoyed 35+ plus years of the very best quality of life that mankind might have ever known. But then the good times started to dwindle so the Government took the US off the gold standard in 1971 to be able to spend into oblivion to keep the facade of good times going while many jobs slowly but surely got outsourced. When even that stopped producing enough of a "high", they financialized literally everything and used speculative bubbles in stocks and housing to keep the illusion of ecstacy going even longer. This was accomplished in large part due to artificially lowering interest rates for 40 years. All these financial games (executed by the Federal Reserve) benefitted the Boomers (who already owned many of the assets, due to them being affordable in their time) but ruined life for all the subsequent generations, not only because the price of everything has been inflated beyond belief, and not only because so many good jobs were outsourced overseas, but because the current and next generations will ALSO now have to deal with 30-40 years of RISING Interest rates...which will hurt just as much as it felt good for the boomers when they were on the way down. In other words, you are absolutely correct, but you probably don't even fully understand WHY you are correct, because young people are never taught how to connect the right dots.
@@billybeemus3929 As one Gen Xr to another, boomers were handed the world on a silver platter and pissed all over it with their hippy bull, and all their 'free love' nonsense. Jobs were *plentiful, and that is meaningful real jobs were plentiful. Back then you could pay off a house in 10 years and have a car. Inflation was not what it has been in the last 30+ years.
To the younger generations complaining that you've got to foot the bill for a party you never got to go to, I remember before you were born, most Boomers would essentially brag about this. Asked about the future the answer was almost always, "Well I'll be dead, that will be for our grandkids to figure out.".
@@user-wo5jo8sj9dI'm not a Boomer, just got to grow up listening to them. What they have is not audacity, it's complete cluelessness and no ability to care about anything other than themselves.
“No one is going to take care of me but me; I will not be called upon to account for anyone’s words and deeds but my own.” - can look an awful lot like “My happiness is all that matters…” to an observer with no knowledge of any other context other than the one they see before them. ‘This street runs both ways’ is what we Boomers often overlook.
Not many of us hate Boomers. We just don't hesitate to call Boomers out on their BS when they look down on us for getting participation trophies, even though their generation gave us those trophies.
Yes exactly. Boomers were taught not to question authority, spend their lives doing one boring office job and didn't have societal pressures to actually make something out of themselves and find a well-paying job. It's not our fault that we learnt to question authority, to strive for better and more interesting jobs and have higher expectations for what we'd like to accomplish in our lives. They should be happy we're changing the dynamics of the beaurocracy by questioning and adapting it to be more inclusive of different ideas and forming it around OUR life expectations (which is really what matters most). Instead, we get called lazy and entitled. It sounds like they're just jealous that we are attempting to do what every group of young people has always wanted to do but never accomplished. Sounds like a them problem to me...
@@tisbutascratch2045 Your first paragraph is only half right. Like most kids, we were taught not to question authority. The funny thing is that your entire post could have been written by a Boomer in the 60s or 70s. Many of them hated the fact that their parents, many of whom had had no chance to go to college, pushed them to do so. They wanted freedom too. They wanted to remold the world their way... and they did, to an extent. Just like their parents before them. The biggest difference was tech. Between the Silent Generation, the Boomers and GenX, the entire technical course of civilization jumped farther forward in less than 100 years than it had in centuries before. But people are still the same. Every generation is exactly the same as the one before. They want what they want... their hopes and dreams are what matter, and the last generation stands in their way... more an obstacle to be swept aside than mentors or respected elders whose experience and wisdom can be sought when necessary. The cycle is unending.
Boomers: Why do you have no money or assets? Me: why are you asking for $1500/month for an efficiency apt and only paying me $10/hr? Boomers: No it's because you're lazy, entitled and spend your money on avacado toast.
I just want to have a house man. Boomers get mad over reformating zoning laws, an get mad when more housing gets built. Cant wait untill these stupid mfs die out. Finally we can get back to treating housing as a commodity, and not an investment. Housing was an investment when the US was still growing, but not anymore.
@@honkhonk8009 please don’t tar us all with the same brush,we are not all wealthy,have our own homes and cars,I would imagine if you went out on the streets and spoke to people you’d find many are not like it’s portrayed,but I get what you mean about housing and it also needs to be affordable housing,not 7 bedroom mansions
@@honkhonk8009 for real sick of this shit man. Rent has increased my entire life, wages are stagnant asf and yet boomers continue to go on multiple vacations and buy up more properties to rent out. Im sick of working full time with tools, electrical and im in management and cant even afford my own studio apt.
As a recently 22-year-old person, I’ve essentially given up on ever owning my own home, getting married, or starting a family because I can’t see how I could afford it without having to spend my entire life working 90 hours a week into the ground.
I'm a boomer and I feel for you. I couldn't buy a house til I was 50. First look to buy a lot or small property out of town. Then build a shack, maybe with a special friend or spouse, and keep making it nicer. You young people need to put your phones down and design some affordable, groovy modular housing and give thanks always and trust God.
"handed a bill for a party I never attended... our leaders lie about everything... the financial system only exists to enrich fat cats at our expense." I'm a genX and that's exactly how I feel, too.
Gen X got bullied by the larger Boomer cohort and never had a chance to really express their political will. Boomers have over shadowd and over consumed 3 generations now...
I wonder if you KNOW that most 'affluent' Boomers are still in deep credit card debt after retirement? What seems like a rich lifestyle is actually crippling debt.
The reason the younger generation is angry is because of inflation. My mother's first job in the 70s was flipping burgers and she made $5 an hour. Today that would be equivalent to $21 an hour. History is the same in terms of crisis but the money isn't. Fix the money and you fix a lot of the anger.
@@PrettyGoodLookin Back to the 70s, you didn't necessarily make minimum wage for flipping burgers. Heck, I know of a McDonald's now that pays well above minimum wage for first time job.
@@PrettyGoodLookin So, there was not one place you could flip burgers anywhere for $5 an hour from 1970-79? I find that hard to believe. I'm not certain what unemployment was like but when there are worker shortages, wages increase.
They were and are just as bad, if not worse. They just didn't have social media back then. So many boomers/gen x are the biggest cry babies I know in my work.
It's interesting how different people have different perspectives. Obviously there are many families where boomers (the parents) raised millennials (their children). But in my case, my parents are boomers, I'm in Gen X, and my kids are Gen Z, with no millennials in sight anywhere. So when I watched this video, I had the mental image of younger people criticizing their grandparents rather than their parents, just based on how the generations line up in my family.
OP, you know that isn't true. THEIR parents raised us. Name me one person with a boomer parent that didnt spend copious amounts of time at grandma's house.
This missed A LOT of factors like how boomers inherited one of the best economies in our country’s history and sucked every bit of good out of it then passed it on and clung to their stuff. They brought us Reagan, unions died, pensions stiffened out, housing got more and more expensive, medical care got more expensive, literally existing got more expensive and wages just stopped and then they called us entitled for asking for the same opportunities they were handed.
Ummm do you have your generations right? I'm Boomer. Our parents were the folks born during the great depression, and lived through WWII. No one under 55 is a Boomer. We helped build the economy you're talking about. It wasn't handed to us. We wanted and supported Unions in general. We worked for decades to earn those pensions, and it was OUR generation that had employers turn around and cancel the pensions we had paid into, leaving many of us jobless with no pensions. I don't see why it's wrong to cling to what we earned... Our parents generation, who often had nothing at all, taught us not to waste anything. And as far as the economy... sure we had Reagan... we also had Carter. But it wasn't us who moved almost all of America's manufacturing overseas.
@@johnevans5782 - yes it literally was because Boomers are the largest voting block other than millennials. Gen X is puny in comparison. Boomers voted in politicians and allowed corporate law to make sure that shareholder value was more important than everything else because of all your retirement pensions and 401ks in the stock market. Most of everything that drives all of our politics is the stock market which Boomers undoubtedly have much of their retirement in. That’s why the jobs were all shipped overseas. To increase shareholder value.
The Boomers were handed EVERYTHING on a golden platter. The fact they really believe they "pulled themselves up by their bootstraps" is the most irritating thing about them.
@@dieterrosswag933 It actually was, they inherited a fragrant post war economy that the silent generation built during the 50s, and a huge part of them were hippies, commies, revolutionaries and all sorts of idealist who smoked pot and did nothing through their 20s. But those same hippies, and free thinking idealists are now square-minded and self rightgeous douchbags who call the younger generation entitled, while they had a free pass.
@@dieterrosswag933 There are some arguments in favor that boomers did grow up in a golden age, while millenials and gen Z were handed a declining (and highly sabotaged and sold out) empire. Looking at the median home price ratio to median individual income over time says it all. It takes extraordinary acts of genius and guts to live a relatively "middle class" life (owning a home, owning rentals, etc.). The average person is not crazy or smart enough to do what I did in the market, and even then, I had to retire before I did something irreparable. My adrenal system was hosed and I had to titrate off of 1600mg caffeine, or whatever I was pumping through that French press per day. Show me a boomer that used their mind that hard and didn't get a Noble Prize for it. All I got was a couple houses to start a business, something my dad could have gotten in a fraction of the time with much less stress if he didn't squander it all on Porsches and stereo stacks.
@@manictiger yes, probably ppl today have to know more on the average to earn the same today than ppl back then. Real states also are waaay more expensive, yes. I don't know how your US citizens boomers grew up but it was surely not a easy life when you have to feed and pay bills alone for your wife and kids at home. Now, something else, i you think about if you would sell today one single house that you own, this money would probably be enough to live (with the same boomer's life standards back then) one or more decades, (as long you dont have to pay rent, we are talking sbout owning more than a house). But the boomer could probably only survive few years if he sold a house back then. So, you pay more today but it has also a way higher value then it had back then.
@@dieterrosswag933 My dad could have been 8 or even 9 figures with the amount he pulled in, but he was mentally lazy because the world permitted him to be. I can't be like that, or I perish, homeless, like how I was at the start of the trading business. I will never be able to get the kinds of jobs he got, and therefore the kind of money potential he had. He squandered something that I will never get. And while I'm okay with this, it just is another metric to add to the massive pile. This is a declining empire. Our generation is likely going to be mired in war, or worse, dictatorship.
I am a boomer (b. 1957) and I agree with the insults hurled at the boomers. I feel I have been surrounded by soulless, amoral hypocrites my whole life. And the vampires continue on with this bizarre show. But that is only part of the story. Our society was and is controlled by a small group of the ultra wealthy that have been pushing down the living standard of all of us for decades, not to mention forcing us to engage in endless wars.
Amen. I'm a Millenial (1995), and your comment is so refreshing to read. This isn't as much about generations as it is about the few ultra-wealthy and powerful that you alluded to. They are really the ones who are to blame, and nothing pleases them more and perpetuates their agenda more than us fighting each other. We ought to realize this an unite under this truth if we want to really fight the problem at its root, and the root goes by many different names which I'd probably get censored for mentioning here, but essentially it is made up of the most wealthy and powerful bloodlines going back to the very root of evil in this world, who, you know it, worship satan. Ultimately, based on my research, I have concluded that the Bible is the truth and the Bible describes exactly what has happened and exactly what is happening and what will happen. So, my faith is in Jesus. We know how this world ends and it does end. And individually, so do we. So I encourage you and all if you haven't already placed your trust and faith in Jesus so while this world is being destroyed, we can endure with confidence that we have a better life ahead, thanks and praise to Jesus Christ who suffered and died for our sins (of which we all have), in place of our deserved wrath, out of His love and sacrifice. Accept Jesus today, you won't regret it. Salvation - the only thing that hasn't gone up with inflation. Its still a free gift, made accessible to us through Christ Jesus only. God bless you.
Certainly the later Baby Boomers (or Jones Generation) had a different set of circumstances than the early Baby Boomers which influenced a different world view. I worked at a major university and was exposed to younger generations and was very influenced by how difficult circumstances were/are for Gen. Z's and Millennials@@ZFabia2010
those ultra wealthy are the boomers. The ones in charge are the boomers. The ones in government are boomers. the ones that hog the resources are boomers. the multiple house ownership are the boomers. The constant increase in productivity and lack of training is the boomers. you are the problem. not our latte.
Except then they refused to die, shut down society for a few years to extend their lives, and refuse to leave their positions of political power while STILL running up that credit card bill to pay for their own healthcare and retirement while advising those of us they handed the bill to that "you won't be able to retire, you will have to work until you die :D". Like a whole generation of sociopaths.
I agree. I remember them as a child growing up - and even then I couldn't stand them: I remember them as being self righteous, miserable, entitled a**wipes with a major attitude problem. Growing up my attitude towards them has hardened even more.
@@jackspring7709 Gen X was the first to get handed the bill. Then when the 2000’s decade hit it went to the Millennials. Now we are passing that bill even higher to Zoomers, a generation having to work two jobs or more while paying that $10,000 - 40,000 college debt they’ve accumulated. All while both apartment and condo prices continue to rise while wages remain stagnant. It’s no wonder so many of them have mental health problems.
I believe you, because it's on the internet. Also, I disbelieve you, because it's on the internet. In other words, you're full of shit. Some of us have a brain. I might not be on social media 24/7 and so it takes me a bit longer to figure out what the hell "let's go brandon" is all about, but I do figure it out a day or two later than you.
@black rabbi for me it was a reference back in the 90s early 2000s. where boomers would tell their kids to not post anything on the internet. But now...ahah. but yes tv as well.
1969 Gen X here. Learned not to trust the Establishment although I didn't know to call it that at the time, way back in 80's when the TV lied to my parents that the Dungeons and Dragons I played was turning me into devil worshipper and Judas Priest and Ozzy were going to make me kill myself. "Read my lips no new taxes....I did not have sexual relations with that woman" on and on. We had racism on the ropes. We laughed at racist jokes but regarded racist people as fools stuck in the horrible past we were lucky to be born after. In the 90's if you were against racism it just meant you were a regular person. Anthrax and Public Enemy on stage collab is all the proof I needed. Too much togetherness isn't good for the ones sticking it to us so Division became the game once again. Don't let the tablet, TV, or phone make you hate your neighbor.
Indeed: and we tore down the Berlin wall when it became annoying. Other Generations have nothing on us. Boomers deserve every såpeck of their hate tho, because boomers created the hell we currently live in, the "it's forbidden to forbid" generation became closet tyrants with all the "war on..." arbitrary laws.
Indeed. We had racism under control. Then the wokey millenials and zoomers came along and made sure to forget the meaning of parody. They might want to watch Blazing Saddles a few times, and some Pryor and Wilder buddy films.
As a service worker who deals with boomers on a daily basis, I learned accusations towards my generation and Gen Z of being “entitled and spoiled” are pure projection. Their generation is the most privileged, out of touch generation and a lot of them are basically spoiled children who never had to grow out of that because of their privilege. I’ve met some really cool boomers, but the entitled ones make themselves very easy to identify and they’re proud of how entitled they are. I honestly think a lot of them are bitter toward younger people because even with all their privilege, they can’t buy what we have and that’s youth. I also found the happier you are, the more miserable they are so they think they can talk down to you to try to put you down to make themselves feel good. Fortunately, time isn’t on their side and hopefully the world will be a better place when the “I went to Woodstock but then became a yuppie parasite” generation is gone
I am 67 and was a teen in the 1970's - a wonderful time to grow up. Now happily semi-retired. And I do feel sorry for this young generation because of the way the world is now. Prices of housing unaffordable, high interest rates, inflation and a difficult political climate. Too many other issues I won't even bother to bring up. Technology getting on ones nerves constantly and making the world out of touch with a human. We too experienced high inflation in the 70's. Life is a challenge on all of the generations. But todays young people do have it harder. And when we keep letting more illegal people walk across the border we tax payers have to pay for them. -they also have to live some place -where are they going to live? Are they taking up the housing that could be for our young US citizens?
@sandponics Yeah you also had FREEDOM. You could literally drive 7 states away walk in get a job that would pay for an apartment and spending cash no questions asked. Try that today as a fresh 20yo. Credit check on the apartment along with a background check. A denial of the job you were looking at because "entry level" jobs now need 3 years of prior experience.
@emi エミ Your statement doesn't make any sense. Boomers are already 'left behind'. We're all at least 55. What exactly is there that we could possibly try to keep up on? Or are you simply saying that we need to keep up so we won't be an inconvenience?
Boomers raised their children to be children and not adults. Likewise, their children raised their children to be children and not adults. This is a vicious cycle that needs to stop NOW.
and when we do act like adults they're gonna say "omg act your age" "stop being grown" "you're being fast" "i feel bad for your parents" etc like HELLO?! this is from the same generation that gave birth in their teenage years, smoking and drinking in their teenage years, dressing grown too..which is ironic 🥴
Imagine if you were virtually guaranteed a secure job straight out of high school that paid around $65k plus benefits. Then imagine that housing was also about half the price it is now and far less competitive, college was about a tenth the price, and straight As with a couple Bs was good enough to get you into a top university. This was the situation for boomers when they came of age. It's the same dynamic as a spoiled child, blown up to a generational level.
@@KratostheThird A bachelors degree is certainly enough depending on the subject. Its the pointless degrees, like arts and philosphy or gender studies, that lead to low paying jobs. Many degrees are a complete waste of time now, trades often pay more without those useless "receipts" you get from your university.
@@central3425I’m sorry but no. Those degrees are not useless. College and university is not supposed to be a factory of white collar drones, it’s an institution of learning how to think and analyze important aspects of society. Philosophy is taught in high schools in Europe and it shows with how informed and more mature the population there is compared to the US where all that matters is marketability and whether you can sit in an office and do work without question. Stuff like philosophy, history, and the arts are a part of society that make it worthwhile and help drive progress. The reason why it’s harder with those degrees now is that boomers want those institutions that they used to protest and burn bras at to become factories of happy little thoughtless drones they can exploit in the workplace and in politics. A dumb population is easier to control after all. And it shows.
Baby Boomers: Everyone needs to commute to the office Younger generations: I can work from home and get the same amount of work done without wasting my time sitting in traffic and burning gas. Baby Boomers: Come to the office or you'll be fired Younger generations stand their ground and refuse to come back to the office when **Gas is pushing $5 a gallon in most areas of the country** Baby Boomers: No one wants to work
Lol boomers just wanna be able to complain and find an excuse for everything to make us miserable thank God our generation is stepping up and making changes towards society and this world.
Why is that? Because boomers created all this wonderful technology that links everything together and has sped up science. Thanks to the boomers and GenX for much of the technology we have today, because it wasn’t millennials or GenZ that created it. Millennials and Zoomers are just using the technology and science the boomers and GenX have created.
@@Alan_One1 Elon Musk is a Gen X but even if your statement were true, Gen X deeply supports capitalism which contribute to these inventions. Milliennials and Gen z think capitalism is evil
TLDR: Gen Z doesn't hate capitalism, we just wanna recognize the flaws it has and work on improving it. @@NoDak888 that is where you are wrong, i'm gen z, and trust me buddy, i don't think capitalism is evil, and i don't have a problem with it. the problem i, and a lot of others, have is the fact that if we so much as think of criticizing it, we are immediately bombarded with anger and rage. simply because how DARE we try to point out flaws in something that totally perfect? But that there is the very problem. our very nature, and everything that is a product of it, is flawed no matter what. why do you think the us constitution was made on not only a compromise, but also with the ability to amend it later on? It's because again, anything we make is inherently flawed, for we are flawed. The United States was built on not just the foundation of freedom, but on another idea that is far too overlooked. the idea that we will never be perfect, and that there is always room to improve. and that's why we have to be able to openly criticize our own system and government. not to destroy it, but rather grind out and polish as many flaws as we can. sure, it will never be perfect, but that was never the goal, the goal is on the improvement itself. Nature herself teaches this with everything she made on the simple premise: Adapt Or Die.
The CIA and the DoD was going to kill Americans and blame it on Cuba just to start a war.. But Kennedy wouldn't sign off on it.. That year he was assassinated . People dont think our government had nothing to do with 9/11.. Yet it was ready to murder it's own citizens to start a war.. What happened after 9/11? We started non-winnable wars..
Boomers: "You're spoiled!" Gen Y: "Uhh, you bought your first house at 22 years old with a 9-5 job you got with a high school diploma and could afford a stay at home wife and three kids."
@nemzi8969 Stop paying other adults to drive you around and bring you your food, while you sit In your childhood bedroom still playing video games then.
I think a little of it is accurate like a sliver of it. But they need to really think it through. Yeah Global warming absolutely terrifying. But its not the major reason why a lot of us don't want to marry or have kids. They should do some research as to why a movement called. Men going their own way. Happened.
Im a young gen xer so I witnessed the excess of the 80’s and 90’s and the rewards the boomers reaped from their parents. They have failed their children and grandchildren if you ask me.
I'm sn older Xer and a person of my age could perceive the world get enormously worse each year as the great generation, boomers parents, began to die out. Are boomers the worst? I don't know, but I do know they make horrible old people. I will say, Boomer's weren't raised on fear, like the millennials were. That makes Boomers much more open to people who are different than them. Millennials run in schools, like rainbow fish, all the same, each with one shiny scale.
@@thegreatwhiteshark1266 my dad is a boomer and always acting like an immature Dipshit when he wasn’t yelling at me or my sisters and hitting and threatening me.
I sure love being told by boomers that I'm spoiled and lazy after getting out of bed at 5 in the morning to lift heavy things and clean up a bird shit covered bathroom in hot weather for 12 euros an hour. Yeah, love it.
Boomers are like a King who instead of teaching his son how to be the next king has him executed for fear of being usurped by his own heir and is too busy clutching pearls to realize the kingdom falls after he is dead now.
Gen Y is not to be grouped with Gen Z. Gen Y is not angry we are mature adults. Gen Y is dealing with problems while Gen Z cries. Give Gen Z 10 more years and they will be dealing with problems. This is how generations work and why they are a thing. I hope Gen Z grows out of this disgusting hatred of their elders. The hatred they have is the same hatred Gen X has for their elders. No real mystery as to why Gen Z feels this way as they have been raised by Gen X. When someone starts to insult boomers I see them insulting my mother who is almost 70yrs old and a sweet compassionate woman. Gen Z and Gen X are both pretty damn retarded and blame issues caused by capitalistic control on the baby boomer generation.. when in reality the issue is capitalism and how it is slowly dominating society through debt enslavement. You know having a 140iq like mine essentially opens your eyes to the world for what it is. I could not imagine having a 90-115 average IQ or limited my intellectual capacity would be. Imagine not being able to analyze and comprehend complex social issues... I bet you get frustrated and just start to blame previous generations instead of analyzing the main factors of our society which is our economy and government type both of which are not related in any way shape or form to generations. One think I will say when someone types out a single sentence on a subject it really shows that they are not intelligent and essentially to be viewed as a worthless NPC in society.
@@SamStone1964Yeah by not taking the vax. Thanks boomers for shutting down the world economy so you can squeeze out a few more years to pamper yourselves further.
Dealing with boomers while working in customer service jobs is like trying to get a crazy person to take their pills while having both of your hands tied behind your back.
ahh i just served them as customers near the end the old ladys can get a lil crazy or emotional but seem to calm down if you stay calm the venegence of the gen x entiltelment im going to ruin your life is impressive maybe when they had more spry they put up a better fight@@lincolnshirepoacher9390
@@lincolnshirepoacher9390 No, boomer men/ Gen x men are also terrible and mean customers. Just straight rotten. The older generations look at you like your a robot if you work customer service.
Boomer: Crashes their car into me, totaling my car. Sues me and presses criminal charges against me and I'm falsely charged with a felony. Now I have to magically have 20k for a lawyer. Cops side with boomer because they are old.
And now they're handicapped-parking queens. Let's just call it what it really is, VIP parking for old people (not trying to diss anybody that is legit, and I think it sucks that old people take up all your spots just by virtue of being old!). The stick figure in a wheelchair should be replaced with an old guy with a cane, hat, and round glasses.
Lol I'm pretty sure that Gen X isn't mentioned because nowadays everyone over 50 is called a boomer, just proving that all these titles are meaninglessness
Graut it’s a BS term used to define or insult a person you disagree with when you can’t argue facts. Like the new uses for racist, sexist, fascist.........etc
Gen Xer here, I feel really fortunate we grew up with the best movies and music. I do hope another John Hughes comes along. Then again, never thought I'd see 30, figured I was going to eat a nuke along with everyone else.
yeah, and im getting tired of being called a boomer. i never "dropped out" in the 60s. i never listened to easy listening and enjoyed the free love of the 70s. i wasnt a yuppie in the 80s.
The reason they’re so bitter, narcissistic and resentful is because these people had everything handed to them and chose to be bitter because of no actual struggle in their lives. Boomers would rather act nasty towards their kids instead of help their literal children
Oh no, our Boomer parents had STORIES. Vietnam live on TV, seeing people blow up, nuclear bomb drills, Pear Harbor-that was their childhood-constant fear of Russian nukes.
@@choreomaniac Which is funny when you compare what Gen-X and even Millenials have contributed to the world VS Baby Boomers... Baby Boomers were handed the money and prosperity from their parents, squandered it all on ridiculous lifestyles and proceeded to blame their own children for it. Absolutely love it.
@@vtheman1850 well, they “earned” it but mainly because literally the rest of the world was destroyed by WWII. Detroit had no competition from 1945-1970. Same with lots of other manufacturing and science. It took decades for the EU and Japan to recover. Boomers had it on easy mode.
@@natchitoches6702 I like it when they teach them that biological sex doesn't exist and that the white kids are oppressing the black kids by simply existing and thus propagating the white hegenomy/supremacy/systematically racist system.
I'd take it a step further and say here's another idea:...... Don't get pregnant or impregnate someone until you are married and ready to BE a parent who is WILLING to pay for your child's education WITHOUT the assistance of the taxpayers!
Wait, 30 year olds today are doing better than their parents?? 🤔 I seem to remember people who came of age in the 60s, 70s, 80s were in a whole lot better position. Chances are you could afford a house, an education and middle class lifestyle working on a waiter’s or factory worker’s salary without getting into too much debt. Oh, wait… greedy boomers sent all those jobs out to other countries and then had the nerve to devalue the currency causing inflation overtime . I mean the current demented boomer in the White House is continuing that tradition 😪 How many now in their 30s or 40s can say the same thing 🤷🏽♂️
Politicians. Bought and paid for politicians did that. I’m not a boomer. I just recognize that it was only boomers to the extent that they didn’t bother to put an end to the wholly corrupt system we’ve had since at least WWI. But hey, us gen x-ers and millennials are also not doing anything to end this corrupt system and most are super eager to cast their “vote” for the next psychopathic tyrants-that-be. The psychopaths’ divide and conquer tactics sure are working _beautifully_ for the psychopaths.
Yep! Was shopping for a house over 2 years ago, but my boomer parents basically told me to keep look for something cheaper, because to them a 3 bedroom home for 160k was considered too expensive. Fast forward to today, well.... 😤 I should have never listened to their advice.
You do know what happens to a nation when you open the immigration flood doors right? The reason our standard of living has dropped so much is because we flooded the country with people which essentially caused massive inflation as well as driving up the cost of living. This is common sense and why since the 70s its been downhill and its directly related to the increase in immigration. I am 35 with an iq in the 140 range.... You can literally go look at immigration statistics and inflation statistics and see the direct connection. Who would have thought increasing a population drastically would lower the overall baseline for the standard of living. I live in Canada and we have more people immigrating here yearly than are born domestically... The hilarious thing is if you mention this you are labeled as a racist or something by absolute retards. I am not racist I just understand that poorly regulated immigration can cause issue. Look at Canada and America now compared to the 70s for standard of living. Imgaine if we had a lot less immigration in Canada and America.. our dollar would be stronger and our standard of living would be higher. but hey.. lets be retards and just blame previous generations..... You do understand our immigration policies are not changing and we are doing absolutely nothing to stop our nations from getting worse. Atleast here in Canada they stopped non citizens from buying residential property finally.. imagine.. allowing non citizens to manipulate your domestic housing market... Sorry but in todays world saying I dont want non citizens to buy residential property.. is probably seen as racist...
@@brettbuck7362 As a Gen Z, I can say climate change isn’t my major concern. My concern is the absolutely abysmal economy we inherited. We can’t afford homes, health care, college, and increasingly even rent despite being more productive than boomers at our age.
@@nathanbronx6199 But, by rejecting all the ideas that made it that way in the first place (family values, hard work, the nuclear family), you are in the process of wrecking the economy you were handed and destroying the work of centuries to get it that way. It was destroyed by leftist/socialist ideas, you don't even know you are doing it because you don't question it. We have been telling you and your predecessors for decades what the problem is, and how to solve it, but you treated that advice like stupid crazy stuff from a senile grampa. Now, you own it, it is your doing, get off your dead butts and fix it.
This message brought to you by people who are not a millennial or gen Z. We are not doing better than our parents. They didn't have college debt at 30. They owned a house. They could raise a family off one income doing manual labor. The main reason my generation is not having children is because it is insanely expensive. Sure not wanting them to be born into this dumpster fire is one reason too.
Agreed my parents were married and had a 2 story house by 30. My mother 2 year degree and my dad a 4 year. Me, same thing 4 year degree and working on a masters. I havr a job but no way could I afford the house they did when I was there age? Rent and everything is so expensive I have a roommate to cut the costs so I don't have to be in debt or live in a bad area. Younger generations aren't perfect but when you realize that most of them got into the work force after 2008 where the economy wasn't recovered it was tough. It wasn't the economic boom that boomers got to enjoy. Our generation works hard but doesn't get the same benefits their generation did. At times our generation works harder, working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. Its frustrating how hard some generation work only to be called lazy and entitled. Oh don't go to college to be in debt that's your fault? No its the older generation wanting college degrees. College degree has thr same weight their hs diplomas had. They want employees with degrees, oh blue collar jobs? Good luck half of them were outsourced by boomers. Not to sound rude but boomers were given a society on a silver platter and messed it all up. Younger generations are just trying to get the same things only its not as easy. Oh don't have a house by 30? You're lazy. But they ignore the fact some people work 80 hours a week on 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet something boomers never had to worry about.
Very weak and superficial take. Ignores the fact that millenials have a lower percentage of relative total wealth that boomers had at the same time, or that GenZ has.
@@franknuzzo2576 you are right, but absolute income mobility has decreased over the years(basically chances of people making more than their parents). In 1940, people had a 90% chance to make more than their parents, by 1980, it went down to 50%, and also the middle class has been shrinking and social security may collapse as more people become old and younger generation has to carry that weight. Though one thing that might happen though is that younger generation can inherit baby boomers wealth!
You’re not the problem then, your age isn’t what makes you inherently bad. It’s the common behaviour of those who happen to be a similar age as you but doesn’t mean you will automatically be that way.
As a millenial myself : • active duty for 8 yrs to escape homelessness/poverty • skipped predatory college scam as you can't go bankrupt/govt owns majority of the debt/doesn't guarantee employment • refuse to make the financial mistake of having kids ( I have a vasectomy which is WAY CHEAPER than affording kids) • went straight into the workforce after my EAS • and the only debt I have is my house(only able to purchase by VA loan) • I invest in the stock market. Yet I can't guarantee my retirement, can't pay off my house, can't afford to support my wife and never going to happen kid off my pay alone, we don't live in the city. So yes. Boomers had it easy; and as a vet they can shove it as idgaf about the draft. Not everyone went to war and going to college was actually affordable compared to how a lot of us enlist because we were born poor. I hate boomers.
Baby Boomers dodged the Vietnam draft..... While calling Millennials "selfish" for not having children. Baby Boomers spat on war vets returning home, while calling Millennials "disrespectful towards police" during a protest.
As a Boomer I would seriously dispute that we had anything easy. I had to enlist to get off the farm that my family didn't own. I worked my butt off on my own for decades. I didn't even have a GI Bill. I was too busy working to even be able to consider College until I was in my mid 40s and was able to go with my wife's help. I bought a house using my VA Loan, but the mortgage company played with the paperwork, offered me a special repayment option and when that backfired, foreclosed. My wife and I have, for 20 years, lived paycheck to paycheck. We don't have any guaranteed retirement. My Son is in college, but he had to earn scholarships because I can't do it for him. What exactly did we Boomers do that you hate us again?
@@johnevans5782 Blamed Millennials for all the problems YOU CREATED, while chastizing us for everything we did because you needed a human-punching bag to take-out all your insecurities on. You made us waste our lives away chasing study & jobs, leaving us at 40+ years of age & baron; because we were always "too young to get married" or "not financially able to have a family" & sabotaged our relationships & micromanaged our lives like you owned us. Oh & all the fun you Boomers had, you banned it & got it outlawed, so now you have something to yell at Millennials for "having nothing to do" like it's all their fault.
1996 here. I say it Depends on the boomer. My dad (1960) grew up in poverty in the middle of nowhere, spent 20 years in the military, and made giant personal sacrifices for me and my sister (and my mother). He does NOT embody the reasons I dislike the boomer generation. My boss is a boomer; he gave me a raise literally for not being a shitbag. He is not the eternal boomer. However, Boomers who grew up in wealth and had everything handed to them, and then turn around and call us entitled for wanting to be able to buy land or a house, make me want to go full Robespierre.
Plenty of boomers grow up poor yet still become extremely selfish. It’s just a mindset that each generation has members of. It just happens that for boomers they’re much more prevelant and obvious because they somehow continue to influence our society. The boomers I know who grew up poor are worse because it just shows that despite knowing poverty, they’re still willing to throw other people into it for their own selfishness sake. Imagine, having kids after being pooor and then wishing poverty and failure on everyone who comes after you just because you grew up poor. Yup, this is a boomer phenotype rarely addressed, but there’s thousands of them out there.
@@ibnuts2831well said. I was born in that same timeframe and don’t recall being handed anything. Every generation has their own opportunities and challenges. Millennials are simply cherry picking data. They do have their own challenges for sure.
This is the BS that boomers do. your father made you believe that he "made giant personal sacrifices"... its that exact reverse psychology BS they all do. No bro. He didnt make personal sacrifices for you. He simply cared for you and did what was needed at the time to look after his family. What else did you expect from somebody who decided to get married and create children. To not GAF and leave you on the side of the street hungry and dying or beat you with a stick? Dont give me that crock of horse twaddle. at your age are you living in your own house with a wife and 2 kids without any real worries except for just arriving at work? The answer is categorically no. Boomers dont need to get a pat on the back (a participation trophy if you must) for doing what is the minimum expectation to raise a family. let alone try and title it as a "giant personal sacrifice". He could have easily just left and had a great life without you. But he didnt because it wasnt the right thing to do. That isnt surprising nor impressive.
Better off than our parents? did they do any research about that? if you look at the data, including inflation, we are way worse off than our parents, in all areas. We are hitting lifetime goals such as having children, getting married, and buying houses at much later times in our lives. We have significant more debt than our parents at our age and prices for common goods (factoring in inflation) is higher. How is that better than off than our parents?
It's almost certainly due to calculations like "the average computer speed in 1970 was 1 billionth that of computers today therefore the average computer buyer today is 1 billion times better off..." Every single boomer I know bought the house they raised a family in off a couple years pay at an average job. Some of Gen X had the same privilege, practically no one afterwards though.
@@shalyfemusic to play devil's advocate: why are they so emotional? what is the root of their complaints? you are still avoiding the elephant in the room, that someone is attempting to shepherd into its correct place and is getting frustrated at the people pretending this action shouldnt occur... this isnt a simple "cry less, work more" type problem. if you are unaware of psychological warfare that has occurred since the 1920's, you arent quite prepared for this discussion. lucky for you the information is widely available on the cia's website and google.
Think about it, the silent generation and the greatest generation (the boomers parents and grandparents) created a world of unprecedented opportunity for them, then stack on that (in North America) the huge advances post WWII, all the knowledge brought from operation paper clip and that North America was helping Europe take care of itself and rebuild from the war. They could have created a strong ongoing prosperity that was self supporting but instead were greedy, wasteful and entitled screwing every generation after them, no wonder they are loathed. They ignore the fact that they engineered a world where two incomes are insufficient to buy a home and raise a family on but they want every benefit and luxury they can think of no matter the cost to their descendants or the world.
It's kind of like this: Imagine a restaurant that's been in your town for generations that was well known for it's excellent cuisine. Every time you mention it around your parents, they get that wistful look in their eyes and reminisce fondly of the meals they had and the good times they shared. About the owner and what a great guy he was and how everybody knew his name. But... That was literally decades ago. That owner retired and sold the business to his kid, who is letting HIS kid run it. Things ain't so good no more. Some of it was the kid's fault. He's young and not so wise. Not only did he not have to build the business, he didn't have the luxury of watching his father build it like his father did. But some of it is society's fault. Things are more expensive now. People don't appreciate and value what they used to anymore. Times are tough, so corners get cut. Traditions get shelved because nobody knows why or how to do it right. The food loses quality, but costs more. Now, that restaurant isn't so good anymore, but if you ask around the neighborhood, everybody still sings its praises. They lament that nobody appreciates quality food anymore, not realizing that the food there isn't quality and hasn't been for a generation. That's the disconnect. The world the Boomers lived in doesn't exist anymore. It was sold for parts when we were in diapers. But nobody wants to shake up the system because they're afraid. Or rather, there are a few at the top that profit very much from a broken world. So they maintain the system at all costs.
In the 1950s, a single man working a blue collar job could have his own home, support his wife who didn't work, have children, all without a college degree and little debt. Another way to put it was that it was much easier for a hard working man with courage and determination to "make something" of himself. Today, you could work just hard and have lots ambition and courage, but your efforts won't go as far. It's harder to level up, almost like gaining levels has been nerfed to keep you down! Previous players exploited the game, changed the rules and the current generations are suffering for it. Level the playing field, make social security voluntary, reduce taxes, regulations, reduce government and embrace free markets.
@@god-of-war-fan Today, only applies to heavily skilled or people in the upper management roles with degrees and experience in a white collar profession. However, even those would struggle a bit to achieve those dreams. Today's single blue collar worker would be struggling between paying rent or buying food.
F facts like the whole Game system's changed Inflation is in an all time high, Wages are Kept the same, Harder to save money, Hard to afford Groceries, Gas is expensive, Rent oh boi the list goes on.
I'm GenZ I don't care about climate change, what I care about is seeing footage of the 60s and before that showed a country I was never given the opportunity to inherit, because the old people today ruined it all before I was born.
yeah well you let the school system teach you. thats why. you aren't even using lawful money as currency then wonder why you're poor. Boomers got in on the money thing before the federal reserve could print currency which causes inflation. thats how they got wealthy. the inflation of the fake money is why you're poor. demand lawful money for your labor or you will face poverty
Imagine being able to work one 40h week job and being able to afford a majority of your expenses and then shitting on the next generation for doing the same and not being able to achieve the same. The hypocrisy.
Oh, and 18 year olds are? They are too stupid to even live life and rely on their phone for everything. Try having a conversation with most people under 40, they are utterly unable to string two words together... "like, ya know, like whatever."
@@YanPagh We also gave the world the internet the way it is today. We wrestled control away from the boomers and off the main frame and put it on the pc and eventually server farms.
@@YanPagh I was joking. I'm a Gen X myself. And it does actually often seem like we don't exist, as it's all about Boomers, Millennials and Gen Z all the time.
Its not just targeted at the kids. The TSA agent at US airports yelling out orders and the compliance everyone MUST follow to these barked out commands is really depressing and its obviously done to create a conditioned and compliant population. If you go to other nations, you don't see this. I only see this in the US.
TSA is pretty tight security, but the worst I've seen was in Ukraine definitely worse than the TSA. Maybe they don't bark out orders but they'll have you "throw out" items that aren't explicitly prohibited. Mexico security is the strictest I've seen by far TSA is lenient in comparison.
As a gen x, I am sorry your generation experienced the narratives that you have experienced. The adults haven't been adulting very well for a very long time, but from what I have seen of your generation, the kids are going to be just fine.
As a Gen X'er I don't understand why we get called boomers and get all the hate. We were, and still are, in the same boat you are in. Our parents are the literal boomers that stopped protesting and sold out harder than any generation before or since. My parents were hippies when I was really young, listening to the Beatles. Then they voted for Ronald Regan and praised him while drug abuse, crime, and poverty skyrocketed. You think you grew up scared of school shootings? The 80's had actual crime rates that were worse than today's crime and violence rates. We also grew up with the looming threat of nuclear annihilation from the Soviet Union. Racism didn't start with George Floyd. We had Rodney King. It's been around since day one of America's life. We got labeled Gen X because we were the nothing generation. The X was just because there wasn't really anything better to say about us. We grew up knowing the world was fucked just like you guys are learning. Gen X'ers may be the same age as the people you see ruining the world, but those people are ruining our world too. It's really about the rich 1 percent having too much power and greed with no consequences that's the problem. I wish the younger generation understood this. Zoomers are just as fucked as we are.
@@Davivd2 You got it about half right. The 1960s counterculture was a Moscow directed Marxist subversion scheme, the New Left was sort of a reaction to 1950s anti-communism. The Soviet Union could not defeat the US on the battlefields of Korea & Vietnam, so they took the fight to the streets of America.
@Shinshocks That not true. The odds are the avenge human is doing better no. Of course some are doing worse and some better but on average the standard of living world wide and in the US is higher today that is was forty years ago.
@Shinshocks It is simply not true that the average American is poorer today than they were 50 years ago. Real wages have increased. A married couple with at least one having a degree or certification is more likely to afford a home and be able to have children.
@@glennwatson3313 In 3rd world countries? absolutely! no doubt. In 1st world countries? Its going backwards. Older generation has more wealth in the form of a house than any later generation
The wealthiest generation to ever exist has been burning the ladders and bridges they used to get there. Now they call everyone else lazy and entitled....
@@klarity1111 I don't hate them, my uncle used to be a millionaire in the 90s after his parents passed, 17 years later he was dirt poor. He should have managed his inherited money better.
Spot on. There are a significant amount of us in the Boomer generation that got sh*tted on by society, and the "trickle down" economy since the early 80's. And we're the geriatric poor and homeless you see today who worked low wage jobs with no benefits, and lived paycheck to paycheck for decades. And who can't afford to retire, so we'll work until we're too ill or infirm to, or until we die. We're the forgotten part of our generation. The ones who watched the ladder being pulled up before we could grab a rung. And we're just as angry, and disgusted as the generations who came after us.....
Perfectly summarized. This is exactly what I (age 28) feel and experienced. My parents still try to put fear into me every chance the get, that's why I stopped visiting. I'm just done being told to get home before dark and not to trust others because they will do whatever to me. I've told them again and again what this does to me and they just laughed it off as me "being too sensitive" and kept on trying to put fear into me. A lot of my friends experienced the exact same thing. Should I ever decide to bring children into this world, I will teach them to take care of themselves and others, so they don't have to live in constant fear.
At some point in my life I just decided fuck it they harm me so be it. Maybe they will take me out put me out of my misery perhaps ill take them with me. This world sucks. I recently gave my manager the middle finger demanding time off wasn't expecting it to work apparently you have to threaten to quit for them to take a request seriously but then they play the victim when you do in their response. "I didn't appreciate being threatened with a resignation. But Ill take your request into consideration." Like dude I have asked multiple times and been ignored your not the victim I am.
@@mortis3732 Yea they say these things yet their generation didn’t have GMO food, shit food in general, public water rife with drugs and contaminants, acid rain falling on their heads. that’s just scratching the surface in the department of health alone.
My parents sort of, thinking working a soul crushing 9-5 job because of “health insurance” not giving a shit that it’s taken a toll on my mental health……..
The silent generation growed up through: The great depression Mccarthism WW2 And they were one of the best people you could have encoutered. Not the spoiled, "ME ME ME", narcisssitic, self entitled attitude that the boomers are known and regarded (and will be remembered) for. The boomers were born through one of the most stable and prosperous (economic wise, at least) periods a nation had in HISTORY and instead of thanking their parents, created entire philosophies to justify their s*itty attitude of "party drugs and rock and roll" and throwing a middle finger to authority while disrespecting anything they could encounter in their way. I say they will be regarded in the future as an example of what NOT to be and be put in their appropiate place in history, the dustbin.
Exactly that! So whenever people say "respect your elders" I hope they mean the silent generation who fought in WW2. Boomers don't do shit other than screw the world over for the younger generations. It's sadly fitting that mostly boomers don't care about climate change
Ironically, the first generation of rock musicians were all born before the baby boom including all of the Beatles. That generation did not discover sex or drugs - look how Judy Garland and Billie Holiday died - but they act like they did.
They are easy to scam too. I'd tell them over and over to not let other people look in their cellphone (messages, and email), and to not let other people take a photo of their ID, but they won't listen. And when I raise my voice just to shut them up because they won't hear any good reasoning, they'd tell me I've got no respect, and I am a bully. Later on they would succumb to self-pity, and by the end of the day, everything would be my fault.
Gen-X here. I remember being told that my generation was listless, undisciplined, lazy, uncreative, disloyal to our employers, we'd likely to be the first generation to live a lower standard of living than the previous generation (boomers) and that social security would "run out" before we could retire. This was told to us by peeps that protested the Viet Nam war, created the EPA, pushed for voting and women's rights, and then turned around in the 80s and charged headlong into rampant consumerism, Wall Street gambling addiction, divorce, child abandonment, and religious fanaticism. I seem to remember going "meh." We figured out how to use the internet, played video games, cut back on consumption, stopped littering, aren't afraid to switch jobs when treated poorly by employers, change careers as we evolved, began recycling in a big way, and continuing education is a thing. We're aware that both media and "the church" lie like a rug, but still find comfort in the words of both the rational news anchor and practical preacher. Sometimes. Just stay out of our bedrooms and our pants. Generally, we're kind, and frankly think the current political rancor is unAmerican on both/all sides. Personally, I'm a little tired of the boomer v millennial or gen whatever discussion and would like rather to focus on what brings us together and how we can best put our heads together to solve some things like money in politics, the health of our nation (we weren't so obese or lazy), breaking monopoly, income disparity, and - well - the weather and if animals will have a place to live in 20 years. I'm still hopeful that'll happen. We're pretty smart when we're healthy, happy, and united, and we don't need another war to employ the tools we have as a nation to come together.
I think focusing on what brings us together may be a big trait of gen X. You where still young enough to embrace the internet and new technology to not completely hate it (while still using it) like boomers do. You’re like the generation of transition because let’s not play games here - the internet is one of those milestone inventions that’s changed the human race forever. Kudos to gen X and tbh I think that’s why no one’s talking about gen X. At least millennials and younger aren’t y’all have done nothing to cause a fight. I have a hope that gen X and their ability to embrace substantial change will mean older generations will not be so hateful in the future. Gen alpha will come of age in the next 5-10 years. Fingers crossed millennials are as cool to gen alpha as gen X is with zoomers 🤞🏻
But browsing the internet and playing video games is very much a part of “rampant” consumerism. For starters, at the most basic level, you have to buy expensive technology to afford either one, unless you go to the library to use the internet and Walmart to play games. But on a deeper level, they both are “activities” that involve consuming the content and creations of others at the expense of having that time to be individually creative and productive for ourselves. To say nothing about how every computer or smart phone or gaming system is designed with _planned obsolescence_ so that you must by a new computer/phone/gaming system every 1-3 years. How’s that not buying into rampant consumerism? Don’t hate. Look, I’m on the internet, too. But when my dog dies, I’m leaving all this ridiculousness behind. It’s as bad and detrimental as TV. Just something to keep us in a zombie state so that we never recognize that we don’t need psychopaths to rule over us, and we all have within us the power to create and be self-accountable.
@@sunshineeddy6849 Browsing the internet was the 90’s and early 2000’s. Playing video games, um hello, did you completely forget that Gen Xers were the ones who played those old arcade games at Pizza Hut back in the 80’s and 90’s? Gen Xers got around to video games before Millennials did. You guys already established yourselves on the internet in the late 90’s. We had to wait until MySpace got big before we really got to use the internet regularly. Which brings to another problem: social media. My generation loves it. Your generation has more hatred to it.
Boomers have always been the ones who seemed hateful. As a younger gen Xer who has been reading their hit pieces since '97, I didnt think it was possible for them to actually get worse than when I was young. They certainly are though.🙄
They are the new old people at this point and it scares them, so they lash out at everybody younger than themselves for problems they and they alone created. I liked the old old people better.
@@Attmay The Greatest Generation is almost completely gone, save for some old people who managed to live over 95 years. The Silent Generation is leaving us too.
They indeed messed things up, especially here in Toronto Canada. No jobs, expensive housing, and very little opportunity. Yet we’re called “lazy” and “entitled”, meanwhile all we want it the same milk and honey they graciously got for doing nothing. We currently own 3% of the wealth in the world. When boomers were at the current age millennials are at, they owned 29% of wealth. We listened to the bullshit advice boomers gave us like going to school for a meaningless piece of paper, working to death for the same stagnant wage, and taking it up the ass while pretending to enjoy it. All it did was put a whole generation who is the most educated than previous, the most in debt, with zero hope of actually making it into the world.
Was it the boomers or was it a mix of the feminist movement with technology advancement and globalisation , double the work force made the price of homes double or triple this should have doubled the amount of businesses but due to technology allowing for globalisation you ended up with one or two mega corporations on the other end you had technology turn skilled workers into factory slaves pushing buttons on a conveyer belt lowering their wages , the fetish for university and globalisation resulted in a group of people who wanted businesses where they could move sideways into rather than working your way up ,you also have travel fetish with over tourism turning people who live in an area 2nd class citizens to the rich outsider the list can go on and on about the mess ups that have happened but it's not a generation problem but the fact we haven't got anyone balancing the system, gamers understand the importance of having someone behind the scene balancing it so it doesn't become a broken unplayable mess at the moment feels like the game of life is being managed by players who are making the rules up as they go along
Yep i wasted like 5 years of my life "working my way up" from the bottom pulling 12 hour plus shifts and 7 day work weeks only to get fucked over by boomer middle management when it comes time to actually pay me a real wage or promotion, instead they find petty reasons to fire you. They can all burn.
I think the Boomers just like to shit on others to make themselves feel better. Next time a Boomer gives you shit, say something like: "Yes sir, I can only hope to become a fraction of the man you turned out to be. Since we're so lazy and incompetent, you'll obviously step in and show us how a real man gets the job done, right?"
From 1946 to 1964. Boomers, were the children raised by war-heroes that wanted to give their children the best lives they could. They spoiled them beyond rotten, and let them roam free. When the Cold War started in the mid-late 50s, it gave these, now semi-adults, an excuse to riot and waste their lives fighting the government. They grew up in a time, when houses were still dirt cheap, rent was dirt cheap, and cars were dirt cheap. When jobs paid more than their fair share in most industries, and money cost nearly ten times than what it does now. Everything the boomers accuse the younger generations of, is nothing but projection, of an issue they started. Yes, SOME of them did have to fight in the cold war, In Korea, Vietnam, and other such. But, for most of them, and most of their lives, their only real threat, were the Russian Nukes. They demanded to be pamper by the US government, with bigger college loans, to more pristine universities, and double the worker population within a single generation. Gen Z and Millennials, and soon Gen Alpha, will be growing up, in the HORRENDUS FALLOUT, of the selfish generation, and, while I don't blame people like my parents, born in the early 1960s, I do 100% blame the boomers 70 and older for every financial, societal, and otherwise struggle that I have to live through... ONTOP OF NUKES, ON TOP OF MASS VIOLENCE BECOMING A BIGGER ISSUE, on top of so many stresses. Why do the younger generations want to off themselves, hurt people, and give up on building life? Cause the world is at the cusp of oblivion financially, and soon we're going to be living in some dystopian autocracy, like cyberpunk or the goddamned matrix!
The war started in 1946. Americans were kept quiet about it until a certain senator named McCarthy brought out ‘McCarthyism’ and the Hollywood blacklist became known. Then there’s of course the 1960s/early 1970s. Then you had Gen X still being told to conduct nuclear drills at school, while the Soviets were beginning to crumble. The union collapses in 1991 and America becomes the lone superpower.
I can say the same as a Gen Xer. I thought I wouldn't live much past 30 because of threats like nuclear war, the population bomb, and impending ice age.
Here I am, someone born at the tail end of what qualifies me as a millennial, believing I probably won't pass 30 because of world-population decimating bioweapons and total economic collapse with perhaps a little dash of threat from nuclear war with China (unless they want to use the bioweapons like they and the elites have basically said they want to do) because that's basically what we're actually facing right now. Hey, at least "climate change will end the world" is complete nonsense...
If you want to reverse the bad fortunes of Millennials, you're gonna have to vote for Millennial candidates who will stick up for the working class. If they are old and rich, I guarantee they won't really care what happens to you or your family, no matter what they say.
The psychopaths that want to be politicians and rule over others are the actual problem, but I’m sure voting will work _this_ time. This boomers vs millennials BS is just more of the tyrants-that-be creating division amongst the real people so that we don’t band together and take them out of power. Congratulations on doing exactly what the ones who truly hate you want you to do.
Also, I am NOT a boomer. I’m at the very tail end of gen x and in my experience, ALL generations are a majority self-entitled, infantile narcissists. Who can’t imagine _not_ being ruled over by psychopaths and crave it more than anything.
The game is rigged. The mainstream parties only want people who are older and have wealth. The working class doesn’t count and those who campaign for the worker class usually get stamped out.
Lol - yeah, subsequent generations never got improved health care, removal of military drafts, better participation for women in the workforce, reduced child mortality, the benefit of mandatory superannuation, the removal of health risks like Polio, safer vehicles, safer roads, an established social security system. But you can keep crying in your soy juice 😂
Gen X; As a Zoomer I’ll say this you guys did so much with so little. You are under appreciated and overlooked. I feel like your potential was squandered and crushed. I have no resentment or hostility towards you and I respect you guys, but I can’t say the same for boomers.
Yeah!! 1969 Gen X here. Learned not to trust way back when the TV lied to my parents that the Dungeons and Dragons I played was turning me into devil worshipper and Judas Priest and Ozzy were going to make me kill myself. "Read my lips no new taxes....I did not have sexual relations with that woman" on and on. We had racism on the ropes. We laughed at racist jokes but regarded racist people as fools stuck in the horrible past we were lucky to be born after. In the 90's if you were against racism it just meant you were a regular person. Anthrax and Public Enemy on stage collab is all the proof I needed. Too much togetherness isn't good for the ones sticking it to us so Division became the game once again. Don't let the tablet, TV, or phone make you hate your neighbor.
What a lovely sentiment that I just read allowed to my fellow Gen X wife. Thank you for the kind words. We younger members of the ‘glue generation’, born from ~78’ to the first half of the 80s have been just as let down and frustrated by Boomers. Generally speaking, they really have earned it as a failed generation with no business lecturing anyone on anything. Edit: A little harsh? Maybe. But, if Boomers want to play the whole, “it’s time to take your medicine”, routine… OK fine, and it all needs to start with them.
@@curzurithedreamer Yes, it is incredibly arrogant that boomers would see it fit to talk down to people. When they ruined the future prospects of Gen X and by virtue Millennials and Gen Z. And even worst see it fit to blame their parents when they were the one who actually pulled the trigger. They will not be remembered fondly, If I have kids I will tell them about Boomers and how not to be like them. If I have kids.
If you look back it was the idiots that fought the revolutionary war for Masons, demon-crazy and a Con job.. All they needed to do was kill all the rich and set up simple government.
Peter Theil said it best about us. The Boomers told us to work the system and climb the ladder, like they had, but they changed the system, and pulled the ladders up behind them. Our answer was what was forced on us, but many of us said "fine... we choose this then." The answer was Do It Yourself. Live with Less. Make our own fun. Take their garbage, repair it, polish it, and own it.
I hate them because they call me and my husband failures since we didn't go to college, yet make enough to raise 3 kids, and they put themselves into our raising style; even if they're not family.
boomers took the worlds greatest country and somehow ran it to the ground despite the amazing headstart god gave it after WW2. America became the worlds only industrial nation after everyone got bombed the fuck out of. Boomers were raised into an era of limitless economic growth, and fucked it all up. Cant wait untill boomers die out. They want to keep suburbs as suburbs, even when their houses skyrocket 50x their original price. old fucks want to keep everyone else poor, by restricting the development of new houses so they can keep getting rich. The housing crisis wasnt caused by the government, or by big banks, they were caused by dumbfuck boomers who thought housing should be an investment, and not a commodity, and restricted the demand and manipulated the market, so they can keep getting richer while dodging their taxes and living off SS.
how about the fact that boomers got all the good stuff: cheap, affordable houses, social security, medicaid, medicare, CHIP, WIC, subsidized college and investments. now, for millennials and younger, they have to pay for all that crap. if that isn't intergenerational slavery, i don't know what is.
The Boomer generation funded all of the benefits you mentioned during their working years. Their taxes funded the schools you attended. You are doing nothing new. You are now just old enough that you are paying instead of receiving. When you get old, the young people then will be paying for you.
@@alextrebek5237 - Boomers were not the FIRST to get SS. SS was created in 1936. The first Boomers were not born until 1946. The Boomers paid taxes their entire working life. They did not start drawing SS in large numbers until sometime around 2010.
@@billybeemus3929 SS is compulsory and can't be opted out; it's also borrowed against HEAVILY by the govt to fund different initiatives and replaced with the equivalent of IOUs. FOCUS. said initiatives benefitted the boomers, and the younger generations are paying for it now.
@@alextrebek5237 - The Boomers paid for (are still paying) those that came before them. GenX is paying for those that came before them. Millennials are paying for those that came before them. Future generations? The same. Not sure why you are whining about it. Your kids will complain about how easy you had it and how hard it is for them. History repeating itself.
The boomers were the first to throw away old traditions. You can trace all of their failures back to this. At least try to make informed decisions about your life.
Boomers failed when they turned the "it's forbnidden to forbid" into "war on..." and their drugs sex and rock'n'roll into fellony (so they could arrest the GenXers, envious of their youth) THAT'S when things went bad, when boomers became conservatives. Sure, don't be a socialist because they are stupid, but you don't need to be an impotent con either. Be yourself. (take it from a Gen Xer)
Boomer liberals are more restrictive than liberal, and boomer conservatives are more exploitative than conservative. They fail to exhort their own essential virtues. Instead they're the worst of both worlds.
@@YanPagh They were never forbidden or forbid; they were always 'me me me'. Socialism was literally a punchline 30 years ago. But they've been so ineffective that people are ready to throw liberal democracy to the dogs. If you're an older gen x'r you might remember the USSR's collapse was characterised by a gerontocracy and the intelligence community literally running the government... and now our society is doing the same thing.
Boomers post memes and cry about how men don't wear suits and fedoras for everyday wear. They only have themselves to blame since they did away with that.
agree, baby boomers were the first spoiled generation to ever exit in the history of mankind, you can't really blame them. boomers were the first ever children to have been directly targets of advertisements from corporations as well
Exactly, Recker's World! I am from Generation Jones, and thought I would never have as much as my "Boomer" sisters. Turns out I made more money than all of them put together.
hey leave the teachers out of this. Most of my teachers were cool. Except for the boomers one. The boomer classes usually just makes us look down at a book and take notes. We didn't talk about anything, just read through a book and write it down.
@@dieterrosswag933we are not the ones that made it all but legally binding to have to be constantly online for school work state services and whatever have you
I'm an older generation X'er. I caught the tail end of all the prosperity, freedom, and relative saftey. I now witness the beginning of disaster and dispair.
I'm an late boomer (57 yr old) and here ya. I graduated college in '87, just before the stock market crash. We get all of the blame for everything wrong with the economy and environment but the later half of boomers didn't see the benefits of a booming economy.
I am the same age as you. I see things being much better than they were when I was young. Life was much, MUCH harder in the 80s. Businesses were not begging people to come work for them for $15 per hour. There were lines 20 people deep to apply for a job washing dishes for less than $3 per hour.
@@billybeemus3929 Cost of living and college was also much lower than nowadays. Those 20 people in line for the dishwasher job just put their applications online now since many businesses don't even take applications in person anymore. People see entire generations worth of this toxic work culture and only destruction to show for it. Whether it be physical health, mental health, their families, the environment, etc; the outcomes of this "grind" and "hustle" culture have been observed, documented, and now experienced by younger people. I'm glad these toxic actions are being addressed nowadays.
@@billybeemus3929 in some ways they were harder, I agree. The cost of tuition (which has outpaced inflation 2X since the 80s) is a burden and barrier for younger people. I saw many young people applying for very few min wage jobs in the town I where attended collage, esp at the beginning of the semester. It was a small town, so it was just supply and demand in that particular town. I didn't see that during the summer when I moved back to the city where my parents lived.
@@ggstatertots my dad and my aunt could go to Stanford for $2000 a semester in the 70s and get an actual education. Now, you will be flipping burgers the rest of your life to pay for the student loan debt you got in a bullshit field like “g-nd-r studies.”
I've had so many frustrating conversations with dumb baby boomer managers in the workplace who have no idea that they are treating their employees like servants. They are oblivious to how overworked, underpaid, and burnt out they are because they are forcing them to jump through hoops out of sheer laziness.
I couldn't imagine working under baby boomer managers when they were younger say in their 40-50's. Yes they treat everyone like their subjects - they are the Leo generation afterall.
"...they are treating their employees like servants." I'm not quite sure what this means, since servants could be treated very well or very badly. But how should junior employees be treated by senior managers? Should they be treated as experts who have it all figured out?
"Why do the younguns hate us so much?" Milennials and Gen Z are blamed for problems that existed decades before we did. We're mocked when we say "please stop with the insults and the blame shifting. Clearly... none of it is helping". Oh and straight out of the womb we're expected to fix problems so numerous, simple day to day activities make all of them worse. Problems so big and so serious that their mere existence breeds new problems every second of everyday *(trust me, yes they all do, and more than you think at a time).*
@@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488 It makes sense that you're joking about the situation since you're closer to death then I am in terms of sheer age and don't have to deal with a slowly dying ecosystem like gen z does. Since boomers and gen x tend to see themselves as smarter and wiser millennials and gen z, you'd think they'd have the mindset to preserve the planet best they can so at the very least they're blameless. Instead they use their knowledge to make the problems worse, to the point where it seems impossible to solve said problems. But no... let tide pods be the focus here. Clearly more important than drinkable water and breathable air. "Oh but to fix the problems, we got to leave the comfortable life style behind and put in the work to rebuild it all. What about the countless families and children that will be affected by that drastic change?" First, the children the ones also aware of the situation and are actively helping with it. Second, it's that drastic change or the only planet we're able to breathe on. I won't condemn you if you choose that comfortable lifestyle over the planet, but beware of those who don't have the same train of thought.
@@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488 bish 3 kids out of entire generation, that the best you got? God how miserable you must be to find 1 reason to validate hating an entire generation.
Gen Y does not hate boomers. Gen Y did the occupy wallstreet movement and grew up as a generation. Grouping Gen Y with Gen Z is hilarious as Gen Y hates Gen Z. You will not catch a 30yr old millennial in any way shape or form associating with Gen Z or their ideologies. I know you are Gen Z.. do not speak for your elders please.
I'm a millennial. I care absolutely zero percent about climate change and don't put my kids in government schools, so they will have zero fear of school shootings, just a healthy distrust of taxes and government mandates.
Every time this generational argument starts all I can ask is who raised us and who abandoned us to figure this s*** out on our own? For a critical mass of us the generational trauma is immense. Until that's remedied we are doomed.
I don't talk to people generally, because: A: they don't listen. They want to talk and have you listen, and if you don't fit into the conversation organically that they are trying to have, then you don't get to speak. B: Most of them have little to no knowledge of what they are speaking about, and refuse to acknowledge or value the research that I try to bring to the discussion. c: There's no clear definitions for words anymore. Words are allowed to be their own antonym, and that makes communication frustrating unless I consume the same media influences which I typically don't.
Gen X and boomers overlap a lot politically but Gen X'r are more into counter culture, less religious and have a more blackpilled view of the world. that's what i've noticed as a millennial with young gen X'r parents and young boomer grandparents
"Handed the bill for a party they didn't get to attend" is spot on.
I always hear the previous generation blaming me for the problems of this generation. They literally created the society we grew up in and blame us for it.
My generation was also handed the bill for a party we didn't attend. Forget about that, you can't change the past. Change the future.
@Ehbfunbcc Whjfhbhjxf Nah, that's wrong. Boomers inherited the greatest economy in the history of the planet. And look what they've done with it.
What you're talking about just isn't true when you look at minimum wage, housing prices, education prices, etc.
They reaped the benefits, then pulled up the ladder. Then they doubled down by outsourcing all our manufacturing to China for slightly cheaper ipads.
@@f__kyoudegenerates Millenials are the absolute *worst*, the *worst*.
Millenials ushered in 'influencers' and have blurred the lines of science of mythology, like for example millenials ushered in the belief that homosexuality is 'genetic' this belief is based on papers published by a handful of baby boomers. However the data has demonstrated that there is zERO sicentific evidence to support that claim.
Today this same type of ignorant mythological thinking runs the cdc with their 'guidance' on wearing masks.
Millenials are the absolute worst, worst worst, they want to do away with religion and replace it with mythology and call it 'science'.
Horrible horrible generation, and most millenials have baby boomers for parents and baby boomers are probably worse than millenials.
Baby boomers were given the world on a silver platter by their parents who fought in ww2, and what did baby boomers do? They pissed all over it trying to usher in socialism or other utopianistic nonsense. Just horrible.
@Ehbfunbcc Whjfhbhjxf Baby boomers were handed the world on a platter and pissed all over it.
We hate them because they covered up solid hardwood floors with laminate.... and then say we're dumb
I never understood that either. But newer homeowners are painting over brick, so it may be a wash.
No, proof of laziness... I love hardwood floors
I CAN'T afford a house..... Is it my fault?????
@@pokegogeezer7676 in 20 years there will be a video asking why Generation Alpha hates millenials, that will be why
@@charlesriston8972 no more than it is my fault for never qualifying for one.
Single parent, not enough financial backup, etc, etc... Oh, the revolving economic recessions the elites (crosses all generations) like to pull as they sell the country out more and more.
My favorite is when Boomers try and tell me how spoiled and impatient our generation is, and yet the Boomers I deal with at work all day get angry and demand my manager when the coupons only kick in when you've bought two of an item or it's expired. They're the ones who feel the need to announce at every store, restaurant or business : "This is the worst service I've ever had, you just lost a customer" or tip their waitress >$2 on a $100 meal. #Boomers
Dad is that you?
@@angry-white-men He never came back?
The amount a server deserves as a tip has nothing to do with how expensive the meal was. One server can work a lot for a 25 dollar ticket and another server do next to nothing for a 100 dollar ticket. Why should the another server get a bigger tip just because the ticket was more?
In fairness to baby boomers, I've seen people older than the boomers and people younger than the boomers complain about bad service or leave a small tip for bad service. I don't think that particular behavior is unique to the boomers.
But in fairness to you and your generation, generations older than the baby boomers always stereotyped the boomers as being spoiled (especially when the boomers were in their 20s and 30s), so it's ironic that now boomers tell you how spoiled you are. Then again, maybe someday you'll say the same thing to the people who are one or two generations younger than you. 🙂
@@YourChannel-r4v You probably know this, but a lot of younger people listen to music on vinyl, at least occasionally. My teenagers and their friends mostly listen to music on their phones, but they also collect vinyl records and listen to them from time to time. Vinyl is much more popular now than it was 25 to 30 years ago. In the 1990s, you could easily buy tons of vintage vinyl records for $1 each because no one wanted them. Many of those records would sell for a lot more today.
And I'm probably older than you, but I'm younger than the boomers, and I don't see anything wrong with ordering carry-out food by phone at certain restaurants. I more often order online, but depending on the restaurant and depending on how I want to customize the order, sometimes there are advantages to ordering by phone.
Reminds me of the scene from Gladiator:
"Your faults as a son are my failures as a father."
W quote❤
Boomers: "My failures as a father are your fault as my son."
As a Gen Z, I can say climate change isn’t my major concern. My concern is the absolutely abysmal economy we inherited. We can’t afford homes, health care, college, and increasingly even rent despite being more productive than boomers at our age.
"Climate change", while to some extent real, has mostly been leveraged for political reasons.
It definitely should not be our primary concern.
We don’t own anything makes us one step closer to burning it all down. It’s not for us, burn it, build it back better. Build it for the future.
None of that is the worst
@@The_king567 what is the worst then? How old are you? I need to know you’ve experienced this to take you’d seriously
@@Animorphster easy war Genocide Famines poverty etc are all worse which btw boomers lived threw all of that also some boomers were born under colonial rule to Europeans
I was told I was a “lazy and entitled” because I didn’t wanna throw my back out at a low end minimum wage dead end job… they literally were confused when I quit and got a job at another company that paid more, do people expect 110% efforts from jobs that don’t pay enough to life?
If anything, its the boomers that are lazy and entitled... Too lazy to train a new recruit they will screw over just like they did to you and so entitled that think they owe you and can treat you like a slave.
The replay is missing.
Baby boomers always lie, gaslight, and project. Everyone should stand in solidarity against boomers.
'they? You mean EMPLOYERS.
Time for all workers in this country to make a living wage and have mandatory paid vacations
Tbh most of the problems with gen Z and Millennials against Boomers is that Boomers seem to think they had it hard despite living in one of the best times of the American economy (imagine being able to buy a house and go college on an unskilled job, at the same time), then proceed to call the younger generations lazy and entitled because we aren't excelling as much as they were (to which they consider it our fault over the fact the economy has had 3 recessions without any blooms now).
It's nothing knew that Boomers live in a bubble since they had the benefits of the economic bloom when they were younger and now they are older, they have assets and experience (20-30 years work experience, and a house worth over 10 times its original price) to get them through the hard times of today, even during COVID they had a fraction of what everyone else had to witness during mass redundancies and trying to find work in a now flooded job market.
Overall it's like a king sitting on his throne having a feast, then complaining to the peasants that they aren't working hard enough and that's the reason they are starving.
You are truly misinformed about what life was like for the vast majority of people born into the Boomer and GenX (that is me) generations. I sure wish that I had been handed all of the freebies that you think were being handed out. Absolutely nobody bought a house and attended college on an unskilled job that paid $2.85 per hour at the time. Not like today where every fast food place starts people at $15 per hour, and mortgage interest rates are only 2.5%. Imagine buying a house or car and paying a 12% or higher interest rate. Or trying to find a job after graduating college (with loans that had to be repaid) and being offered less than $8 per hour.
I am 43. You are spot on. Too many baby boomers assume that life fpr them was just regular old life but almost all of them have NO idea that they were extremely fortunate to have been born into the afterglow of WWII where the US (and Britain) literally destroyed the only two other global industrial powers (Germany and Japan). Consequently, they enjoyed 35+ plus years of the very best quality of life that mankind might have ever known. But then the good times started to dwindle so the Government took the US off the gold standard in 1971 to be able to spend into oblivion to keep the facade of good times going while many jobs slowly but surely got outsourced. When even that stopped producing enough of a "high", they financialized literally everything and used speculative bubbles in stocks and housing to keep the illusion of ecstacy going even longer. This was accomplished in large part due to artificially lowering interest rates for 40 years. All these financial games (executed by the Federal Reserve) benefitted the Boomers (who already owned many of the assets, due to them being affordable in their time) but ruined life for all the subsequent generations, not only because the price of everything has been inflated beyond belief, and not only because so many good jobs were outsourced overseas, but because the current and next generations will ALSO now have to deal with 30-40 years of RISING Interest rates...which will hurt just as much as it felt good for the boomers when they were on the way down. In other words, you are absolutely correct, but you probably don't even fully understand WHY you are correct, because young people are never taught how to connect the right dots.
@@billybeemus3929 As one Gen Xr to another, boomers were handed the world on a silver platter and pissed all over it with their hippy bull, and all their 'free love' nonsense. Jobs were *plentiful, and that is meaningful real jobs were plentiful.
Back then you could pay off a house in 10 years and have a car.
Inflation was not what it has been in the last 30+ years.
@@CaptainCaveman1170 And as a result we got left wing government because of the baby boomers entitlement.
Dont call them 'millenials', they are Gen -Y.
To the younger generations complaining that you've got to foot the bill for a party you never got to go to, I remember before you were born, most Boomers would essentially brag about this. Asked about the future the answer was almost always, "Well I'll be dead, that will be for our grandkids to figure out.".
@@user-wo5jo8sj9dI'm not a Boomer, just got to grow up listening to them. What they have is not audacity, it's complete cluelessness and no ability to care about anything other than themselves.
“No one is going to take care of me but me; I will not be called upon to account for anyone’s words and deeds but my own.” - can look an awful lot like “My happiness is all that matters…” to an observer with no knowledge of any other context other than the one they see before them. ‘This street runs both ways’ is what we Boomers often overlook.
My Boomer mom told me and my brother "I had to work hard. So do you!"
Liberal Democrat Boomers yes.
Nawww us millennials are definitely gonna die before boomers. 😂
Not many of us hate Boomers. We just don't hesitate to call Boomers out on their BS when they look down on us for getting participation trophies, even though their generation gave us those trophies.
Well said.
I just am sick of them bogarting every position of power, and Every job. Boomers are entitled to the fullest.
Yes exactly. Boomers were taught not to question authority, spend their lives doing one boring office job and didn't have societal pressures to actually make something out of themselves and find a well-paying job.
It's not our fault that we learnt to question authority, to strive for better and more interesting jobs and have higher expectations for what we'd like to accomplish in our lives. They should be happy we're changing the dynamics of the beaurocracy by questioning and adapting it to be more inclusive of different ideas and forming it around OUR life expectations (which is really what matters most). Instead, we get called lazy and entitled. It sounds like they're just jealous that we are attempting to do what every group of young people has always wanted to do but never accomplished.
Sounds like a them problem to me...
@@tisbutascratch2045 Your first paragraph is only half right. Like most kids, we were taught not to question authority. The funny thing is that your entire post could have been written by a Boomer in the 60s or 70s.
Many of them hated the fact that their parents, many of whom had had no chance to go to college, pushed them to do so. They wanted freedom too. They wanted to remold the world their way... and they did, to an extent. Just like their parents before them. The biggest difference was tech.
Between the Silent Generation, the Boomers and GenX, the entire technical course of civilization jumped farther forward in less than 100 years than it had in centuries before. But people are still the same.
Every generation is exactly the same as the one before. They want what they want... their hopes and dreams are what matter, and the last generation stands in their way... more an obstacle to be swept aside than mentors or respected elders whose experience and wisdom can be sought when necessary.
The cycle is unending.
@@Skeletoncross and boomers dried out SSI
Boomers: Why do you have no money or assets?
Me: why are you asking for $1500/month for an efficiency apt and only paying me $10/hr?
Boomers: No it's because you're lazy, entitled and spend your money on avacado toast.
I just want to have a house man. Boomers get mad over reformating zoning laws, an get mad when more housing gets built.
Cant wait untill these stupid mfs die out. Finally we can get back to treating housing as a commodity, and not an investment. Housing was an investment when the US was still growing, but not anymore.
@@honkhonk8009 please don’t tar us all with the same brush,we are not all wealthy,have our own homes and cars,I would imagine if you went out on the streets and spoke to people you’d find many are not like it’s portrayed,but I get what you mean about housing and it also needs to be affordable housing,not 7 bedroom mansions
@@honkhonk8009 for real sick of this shit man. Rent has increased my entire life, wages are stagnant asf and yet boomers continue to go on multiple vacations and buy up more properties to rent out. Im sick of working full time with tools, electrical and im in management and cant even afford my own studio apt.
Avocado toast is delicious though
@@Wolf_3125 ugh no! Advocato and guacamole look like baby sh it.
As a recently 22-year-old person, I’ve essentially given up on ever owning my own home, getting married, or starting a family because I can’t see how I could afford it without having to spend my entire life working 90 hours a week into the ground.
In the same boat as you.
You're not alone there I'm afraid.
Somtimes I feel exactly like this, and I'm 22.
I'm Broke don't got a Job yet can't even Forget about the house I can't even afford a F car payment right now...
I'm a boomer and I feel for you. I couldn't buy a house til I was 50. First look to buy a lot or small property out of town. Then build a shack, maybe with a special friend or spouse, and keep making it nicer. You young people need to put your phones down and design some affordable, groovy modular housing and give thanks always and trust God.
The hippie generation calling any other generation, lazy, spoiled, or selfish is downright insane.
"handed a bill for a party I never attended... our leaders lie about everything... the financial system only exists to enrich fat cats at our expense." I'm a genX and that's exactly how I feel, too.
Yes. Just as I was coming of age, ready to exploit the openings of the Boomer-led sexual revolution, along came AIDS.
i just hope gen z dont become the same as boomers
You should invest in crypto to be rich
Gen X got bullied by the larger Boomer cohort and never had a chance to really express their political will. Boomers have over shadowd and over consumed 3 generations now...
I wonder if you KNOW that most 'affluent' Boomers are still in deep credit card debt after retirement?
What seems like a rich lifestyle is actually crippling debt.
The reason the younger generation is angry is because of inflation. My mother's first job in the 70s was flipping burgers and she made $5 an hour. Today that would be equivalent to $21 an hour. History is the same in terms of crisis but the money isn't. Fix the money and you fix a lot of the anger.
Lol. Minimum wage was less than $3.25 in the 70's. She did not make $5 flipping burgers.
@@PrettyGoodLookin
Back to the 70s, you didn't necessarily make minimum wage for flipping burgers. Heck, I know of a McDonald's now that pays well above minimum wage for first time job.
@@badmanskill1112 Back in the 70's the manager made $5 an hour.
@@PrettyGoodLookin
So, there was not one place you could flip burgers anywhere for $5 an hour from 1970-79? I find that hard to believe. I'm not certain what unemployment was like but when there are worker shortages, wages increase.
@@badmanskill1112 In 1985 minimum wage was $3.35 an hour.
Imagine saying “selfish” and “entitled” about the generation YOU raised. lmao
There the reason for it
They were and are just as bad, if not worse. They just didn't have social media back then. So many boomers/gen x are the biggest cry babies I know in my work.
It's interesting how different people have different perspectives. Obviously there are many families where boomers (the parents) raised millennials (their children). But in my case, my parents are boomers, I'm in Gen X, and my kids are Gen Z, with no millennials in sight anywhere. So when I watched this video, I had the mental image of younger people criticizing their grandparents rather than their parents, just based on how the generations line up in my family.
@@Paul71H Gen x is almost just as bad.
OP, you know that isn't true. THEIR parents raised us. Name me one person with a boomer parent that didnt spend copious amounts of time at grandma's house.
People died during the war so boomers could live a happy life and tell their kids how "tough" they were.
No they screwed us up look at what demons raised us it aint all us wither
This missed A LOT of factors like how boomers inherited one of the best economies in our country’s history and sucked every bit of good out of it then passed it on and clung to their stuff. They brought us Reagan, unions died, pensions stiffened out, housing got more and more expensive, medical care got more expensive, literally existing got more expensive and wages just stopped and then they called us entitled for asking for the same opportunities they were handed.
Everything you listed is by design by bankers and Wall Street brokers.
Ummm do you have your generations right? I'm Boomer. Our parents were the folks born during the great depression, and lived through WWII. No one under 55 is a Boomer.
We helped build the economy you're talking about. It wasn't handed to us. We wanted and supported Unions in general. We worked for decades to earn those pensions, and it was OUR generation that had employers turn around and cancel the pensions we had paid into, leaving many of us jobless with no pensions.
I don't see why it's wrong to cling to what we earned... Our parents generation, who often had nothing at all, taught us not to waste anything.
And as far as the economy... sure we had Reagan... we also had Carter. But it wasn't us who moved almost all of America's manufacturing overseas.
@@johnevans5782 but you satan boomers are destroying the environment for current and future generations
They literally believe that printing money is not an issue. 🤦♀️
@@johnevans5782 - yes it literally was because Boomers are the largest voting block other than millennials. Gen X is puny in comparison. Boomers voted in politicians and allowed corporate law to make sure that shareholder value was more important than everything else because of all your retirement pensions and 401ks in the stock market. Most of everything that drives all of our politics is the stock market which Boomers undoubtedly have much of their retirement in. That’s why the jobs were all shipped overseas. To increase shareholder value.
The Boomers were handed EVERYTHING on a golden platter. The fact they really believe they "pulled themselves up by their bootstraps" is the most irritating thing about them.
Sure Bro. Everything was there. Everything was build through magic
@@dieterrosswag933 It actually was, they inherited a fragrant post war economy that the silent generation built during the 50s, and a huge part of them were hippies, commies, revolutionaries and all sorts of idealist who smoked pot and did nothing through their 20s. But those same hippies, and free thinking idealists are now square-minded and self rightgeous douchbags who call the younger generation entitled, while they had a free pass.
@@dieterrosswag933
There are some arguments in favor that boomers did grow up in a golden age, while millenials and gen Z were handed a declining (and highly sabotaged and sold out) empire. Looking at the median home price ratio to median individual income over time says it all.
It takes extraordinary acts of genius and guts to live a relatively "middle class" life (owning a home, owning rentals, etc.). The average person is not crazy or smart enough to do what I did in the market, and even then, I had to retire before I did something irreparable. My adrenal system was hosed and I had to titrate off of 1600mg caffeine, or whatever I was pumping through that French press per day.
Show me a boomer that used their mind that hard and didn't get a Noble Prize for it. All I got was a couple houses to start a business, something my dad could have gotten in a fraction of the time with much less stress if he didn't squander it all on Porsches and stereo stacks.
@@manictiger yes, probably ppl today have to know more on the average to earn the same today than ppl back then. Real states also are waaay more expensive, yes.
I don't know how your US citizens boomers grew up but it was surely not a easy life when you have to feed and pay bills alone for your wife and kids at home.
Now, something else, i you think about if you would sell today one single house that you own, this money would probably be enough to live (with the same boomer's life standards back then) one or more decades, (as long you dont have to pay rent, we are talking sbout owning more than a house). But the boomer could probably only survive few years if he sold a house back then.
So, you pay more today but it has also a way higher value then it had back then.
@@dieterrosswag933
My dad could have been 8 or even 9 figures with the amount he pulled in, but he was mentally lazy because the world permitted him to be.
I can't be like that, or I perish, homeless, like how I was at the start of the trading business. I will never be able to get the kinds of jobs he got, and therefore the kind of money potential he had.
He squandered something that I will never get. And while I'm okay with this, it just is another metric to add to the massive pile. This is a declining empire. Our generation is likely going to be mired in war, or worse, dictatorship.
I am a boomer (b. 1957) and I agree with the insults hurled at the boomers. I feel I have been surrounded by soulless, amoral hypocrites my whole life. And the vampires continue on with this bizarre show. But that is only part of the story. Our society was and is controlled by a small group of the ultra wealthy that have been pushing down the living standard of all of us for decades, not to mention forcing us to engage in endless wars.
Amen. I'm a Millenial (1995), and your comment is so refreshing to read. This isn't as much about generations as it is about the few ultra-wealthy and powerful that you alluded to. They are really the ones who are to blame, and nothing pleases them more and perpetuates their agenda more than us fighting each other. We ought to realize this an unite under this truth if we want to really fight the problem at its root, and the root goes by many different names which I'd probably get censored for mentioning here, but essentially it is made up of the most wealthy and powerful bloodlines going back to the very root of evil in this world, who, you know it, worship satan. Ultimately, based on my research, I have concluded that the Bible is the truth and the Bible describes exactly what has happened and exactly what is happening and what will happen. So, my faith is in Jesus. We know how this world ends and it does end. And individually, so do we. So I encourage you and all if you haven't already placed your trust and faith in Jesus so while this world is being destroyed, we can endure with confidence that we have a better life ahead, thanks and praise to Jesus Christ who suffered and died for our sins (of which we all have), in place of our deserved wrath, out of His love and sacrifice. Accept Jesus today, you won't regret it. Salvation - the only thing that hasn't gone up with inflation. Its still a free gift, made accessible to us through Christ Jesus only. God bless you.
You are actually in the
Jones Generation
That is Why you feel this way
And not in the Boomer mindset.
Certainly the later Baby Boomers (or Jones Generation) had a different set of circumstances than the early Baby Boomers which influenced a different world view. I worked at a major university and was exposed to younger generations and was very influenced by how difficult circumstances were/are for Gen. Z's and
Millennials@@ZFabia2010
The Jews haven't been raping & butchering the entire world for 1400 years, the MUSLIMS have.@TheGuyBroNintySix
those ultra wealthy are the boomers. The ones in charge are the boomers. The ones in government are boomers. the ones that hog the resources are boomers. the multiple house ownership are the boomers. The constant increase in productivity and lack of training is the boomers. you are the problem. not our latte.
Boomer generation basically ran up the credit card during their generation then said, "Here's the bill" before dying.
After many of their parents died on beaches during WW2...
@@stiop52it’s this kind of comments that make people hate boomers even more!
Except then they refused to die, shut down society for a few years to extend their lives, and refuse to leave their positions of political power while STILL running up that credit card bill to pay for their own healthcare and retirement while advising those of us they handed the bill to that "you won't be able to retire, you will have to work until you die :D".
Like a whole generation of sociopaths.
So that your type could waste it on getting p*ssed up every weekend.
Not the boomers I know.
I am a baby buster, the generation after boomers. Boomers are the most pampered, entitled, and narcissistic generation ever born.
Never heard that one before. I've heard of it referred to as Gen X.
Lol at baby buster 🤭.
I agree. I remember them as a child growing up - and even then I couldn't stand them: I remember them as being self righteous, miserable, entitled a**wipes with a major attitude problem. Growing up my attitude towards them has hardened even more.
@@jackspring7709 Gen X was the first to get handed the bill. Then when the 2000’s decade hit it went to the Millennials.
Now we are passing that bill even higher to Zoomers, a generation having to work two jobs or more while paying that $10,000 - 40,000 college debt they’ve accumulated.
All while both apartment and condo prices continue to rise while wages remain stagnant.
It’s no wonder so many of them have mental health problems.
lmao, I dream of making as much money at the end of my career as they did on an entry level job when adjusted to inflation
BOOMERS: do not believe everything you see on the internet.
BOOMERS believe everything they see on the internet.
Why would glowing screen lie to me, whether it’s the TV or internet? 🤔
I believe you, because it's on the internet. Also, I disbelieve you, because it's on the internet. In other words, you're full of shit. Some of us have a brain. I might not be on social media 24/7 and so it takes me a bit longer to figure out what the hell "let's go brandon" is all about, but I do figure it out a day or two later than you.
@@eventhisidistaken Troll face. 200 word essay.
@@martinithechobit thank you sir may I have another.
@black rabbi for me it was a reference back in the 90s early 2000s. where boomers would tell their kids to not post anything on the internet. But now...ahah. but yes tv as well.
1969 Gen X here. Learned not to trust the Establishment although I didn't know to call it that at the time, way back in 80's when the TV lied to my parents that the Dungeons and Dragons I played was turning me into devil worshipper and Judas Priest and Ozzy were going to make me kill myself. "Read my lips no new taxes....I did not have sexual relations with that woman" on and on.
We had racism on the ropes. We laughed at racist jokes but regarded racist people as fools stuck in the horrible past we were lucky to be born after. In the 90's if you were against racism it just meant you were a regular person.
Anthrax and Public Enemy on stage collab is all the proof I needed.
Too much togetherness isn't good for the ones sticking it to us so Division became the game once again.
Don't let the tablet, TV, or phone make you hate your neighbor.
WELL SAID! I unliked this so I could like it again.
👍👍👍
Indeed: and we tore down the Berlin wall when it became annoying. Other Generations have nothing on us. Boomers deserve every såpeck of their hate tho, because boomers created the hell we currently live in, the "it's forbidden to forbid" generation became closet tyrants with all the "war on..." arbitrary laws.
Perfectly put
Indeed.
We had racism under control.
Then the wokey millenials and zoomers came along and made sure to forget the meaning of parody.
They might want to watch Blazing Saddles a few times, and some Pryor and Wilder buddy films.
As a service worker who deals with boomers on a daily basis, I learned accusations towards my generation and Gen Z of being “entitled and spoiled” are pure projection. Their generation is the most privileged, out of touch generation and a lot of them are basically spoiled children who never had to grow out of that because of their privilege. I’ve met some really cool boomers, but the entitled ones make themselves very easy to identify and they’re proud of how entitled they are. I honestly think a lot of them are bitter toward younger people because even with all their privilege, they can’t buy what we have and that’s youth. I also found the happier you are, the more miserable they are so they think they can talk down to you to try to put you down to make themselves feel good. Fortunately, time isn’t on their side and hopefully the world will be a better place when the “I went to Woodstock but then became a yuppie parasite” generation is gone
Boomers were already causing damage back then, hence the 1960s to 1980s transition “I went to Woodstock but then became a yuppie parasite”.
You are clueless.
I am 67 and was a teen in the 1970's - a wonderful time to grow up. Now happily semi-retired. And I do feel sorry for this young generation because of the way the world is now. Prices of housing unaffordable, high interest rates, inflation and a difficult political climate. Too many other issues I won't even bother to bring up. Technology getting on ones nerves constantly and making the world out of touch with a human. We too experienced high inflation in the 70's. Life is a challenge on all of the generations. But todays young people do have it harder. And when we keep letting more illegal people walk across the border we tax payers have to pay for them. -they also have to live some place -where are they going to live? Are they taking up the housing that could be for our young US citizens?
@sandponics Yeah you also had FREEDOM. You could literally drive 7 states away walk in get a job that would pay for an apartment and spending cash no questions asked.
Try that today as a fresh 20yo. Credit check on the apartment along with a background check. A denial of the job you were looking at because "entry level" jobs now need 3 years of prior experience.
You’re projecting mate 😂
I have had to train boomers for their inability to use computers my whole life but am told I am not applying myself when the job markets tank.
I can't tell you how many times I've had to help my grandma send an email
My 60 year old father just got his first smart phone the other day. PLEASE KILL ME.
@@666kingdrummer genuinely good luck my guy
Want to see how stupid these people are Ask them to use a Apple TV and Input their email.
@emi エミ Your statement doesn't make any sense. Boomers are already 'left behind'. We're all at least 55. What exactly is there that we could possibly try to keep up on? Or are you simply saying that we need to keep up so we won't be an inconvenience?
I feel like older people expect young adults or children to behave like adults. But have you seen how adults behave? Lmao
Boomers hold others to DOUBLE STANDARDS they aren't willing to hold themselves to.
Boomer ladies are peak Karen energy so you're right
Boomers raised their children to be children and not adults. Likewise, their children raised their children to be children and not adults. This is a vicious cycle that needs to stop NOW.
and when we do act like adults they're gonna say "omg act your age" "stop being grown" "you're being fast" "i feel bad for your parents" etc like HELLO?! this is from the same generation that gave birth in their teenage years, smoking and drinking in their teenage years, dressing grown too..which is ironic 🥴
@@OOOO0OOOO0001___ I agree they did all the things they tell us not to do 💀
Imagine if you were virtually guaranteed a secure job straight out of high school that paid around $65k plus benefits. Then imagine that housing was also about half the price it is now and far less competitive, college was about a tenth the price, and straight As with a couple Bs was good enough to get you into a top university. This was the situation for boomers when they came of age. It's the same dynamic as a spoiled child, blown up to a generational level.
All opportunities that we Millennials could not get. A Bachelors Degree isn't enough to land you a decent job anymore.
Adjust that to 100k to account for inflation
@@KratostheThird A bachelors degree is certainly enough depending on the subject. Its the pointless degrees, like arts and philosphy or gender studies, that lead to low paying jobs.
Many degrees are a complete waste of time now, trades often pay more without those useless "receipts" you get from your university.
@@central3425I’m sorry but no. Those degrees are not useless. College and university is not supposed to be a factory of white collar drones, it’s an institution of learning how to think and analyze important aspects of society. Philosophy is taught in high schools in Europe and it shows with how informed and more mature the population there is compared to the US where all that matters is marketability and whether you can sit in an office and do work without question. Stuff like philosophy, history, and the arts are a part of society that make it worthwhile and help drive progress. The reason why it’s harder with those degrees now is that boomers want those institutions that they used to protest and burn bras at to become factories of happy little thoughtless drones they can exploit in the workplace and in politics. A dumb population is easier to control after all. And it shows.
@@spregged7231 blame it on the boomers huh? Sounds like your education was useless too.
I'll be asking you for my Starbucks drink today
Baby Boomers: Everyone needs to commute to the office
Younger generations: I can work from home and get the same amount of work done without wasting my time sitting in traffic and burning gas.
Baby Boomers: Come to the office or you'll be fired
Younger generations stand their ground and refuse to come back to the office when **Gas is pushing $5 a gallon in most areas of the country**
Baby Boomers: No one wants to work
This conversation happens all the time.
BOOMERS are also FREAKING OLD!!!
@@rollingdudes8859 No shit Sherlock.
Lol boomers just wanna be able to complain and find an excuse for everything to make us miserable thank God our generation is stepping up and making changes towards society and this world.
exactly, who wants to work? if they're happy going to their jobs then something is very wrong with those jobs
Except we get to deal with Boomers for 20 more years than they dealt with their previous generations...
Yup, bc the funds duddies they hated took lead out of gasoline
Why is that? Because boomers created all this wonderful technology that links everything together and has sped up science. Thanks to the boomers and GenX for much of the technology we have today, because it wasn’t millennials or GenZ that created it. Millennials and Zoomers are just using the technology and science the boomers and GenX have created.
@@jesse_- No one past Gen X has invented anything? Interesting.
@@Alan_One1 Elon Musk is a Gen X but even if your statement were true, Gen X deeply supports capitalism which contribute to these inventions. Milliennials and Gen z think capitalism is evil
TLDR: Gen Z doesn't hate capitalism, we just wanna recognize the flaws it has and work on improving it.
@@NoDak888 that is where you are wrong, i'm gen z, and trust me buddy, i don't think capitalism is evil, and i don't have a problem with it. the problem i, and a lot of others, have is the fact that if we so much as think of criticizing it, we are immediately bombarded with anger and rage. simply because how DARE we try to point out flaws in something that totally perfect? But that there is the very problem. our very nature, and everything that is a product of it, is flawed no matter what. why do you think the us constitution was made on not only a compromise, but also with the ability to amend it later on? It's because again, anything we make is inherently flawed, for we are flawed. The United States was built on not just the foundation of freedom, but on another idea that is far too overlooked. the idea that we will never be perfect, and that there is always room to improve. and that's why we have to be able to openly criticize our own system and government. not to destroy it, but rather grind out and polish as many flaws as we can. sure, it will never be perfect, but that was never the goal, the goal is on the improvement itself. Nature herself teaches this with everything she made on the simple premise: Adapt Or Die.
Fearful people are easier to control. That's why there will always be a new and existential boogeyman created for every generation.
red scare! :D
That's how the US military controlled the rogue societies they confronted, through fear propaganda. They've decided to bring it home recently.
Boomers dropped the “population bomb” scare in the 70s.
It is the classic tale young against the old. But these youngsters are out of control.
The CIA and the DoD was going to kill Americans and blame it on Cuba just to start a war..
But Kennedy wouldn't sign off on it..
That year he was assassinated .
People dont think our government had nothing to do with 9/11..
Yet it was ready to murder it's own citizens to start a war..
What happened after 9/11?
We started non-winnable wars..
Boomers: "You're spoiled!"
Gen Y: "Uhh, you bought your first house at 22 years old with a 9-5 job you got with a high school diploma and could afford a stay at home wife and three kids."
Exactly... I hate boomers
You we have to get at least university degree if everything goes right we might afford house at 35 and start a family
@@nemzi8969 University degrees are largely a scam, unless you go in with a planned career path, preferably with a mentor.
@nemzi8969 Stop paying other adults to drive you around and bring you your food, while you sit In your childhood bedroom still playing video games then.
Don't know anyone who had a house at 22, LOL.
Boomers explaining inaccurately why we hate them to other boomers. The irony.
I think a little of it is accurate like a sliver of it. But they need to really think it through. Yeah Global warming absolutely terrifying. But its not the major reason why a lot of us don't want to marry or have kids. They should do some research as to why a movement called. Men going their own way. Happened.
Good one!
and they have the audacity to end the video with the "both side" bull
I wish I could thumb this up a thousand times. We don't want their "respect" anymore, we're past that. We want their money and their political power.
Even boomers hate boomers.
Im a young gen xer so I witnessed the excess of the 80’s and 90’s and the rewards the boomers reaped from their parents. They have failed their children and grandchildren if you ask me.
They have my mom a gen x and my dad a boomer and he is annoying failure
I'm sn older Xer and a person of my age could perceive the world get enormously worse each year as the great generation, boomers parents, began to die out. Are boomers the worst? I don't know, but I do know they make horrible old people. I will say, Boomer's weren't raised on fear, like the millennials were. That makes Boomers much more open to people who are different than them. Millennials run in schools, like rainbow fish, all the same, each with one shiny scale.
As a young Gen Xer, I agree wholeheartedly.
They failed their parents, too.
@@thegreatwhiteshark1266 my dad is a boomer and always acting like an immature Dipshit when he wasn’t yelling at me or my sisters and hitting and threatening me.
I sure love being told by boomers that I'm spoiled and lazy after getting out of bed at 5 in the morning to lift heavy things and clean up a bird shit covered bathroom in hot weather for 12 euros an hour.
Yeah, love it.
Don't do it. Problem solved.
Boomers are like a King who instead of teaching his son how to be the next king has him executed for fear of being usurped by his own heir and is too busy clutching pearls to realize the kingdom falls after he is dead now.
That is a fantastic description. It's so true!! 😄👏👏
Boomer: "Why do younguns hate us?"
Me: "Why are you asking me to pay $300+ for a Mosin?"
That's probably a good price, these days.
Get a man to pay for police protection get nothing for forever and a day.
Teach a man how to Mosin and have protection for life.
I like the Mas a French rifle sold mine and all the ammo. Buy at auction I got pennies on the dollar.
Eww a mosin. My I recommend an svt-40. Or sks. Or the cult classic fn fal.
@@hunters36forgingwoodworkin73 good luck finding an SVD in the states for a good price.
Millenials and gen z have a reason to be angry.
Everyone has a reason to be appreciative that they're alive.
Thank you.
Gen Y is not to be grouped with Gen Z.
Gen Y is not angry we are mature adults. Gen Y is dealing with problems while Gen Z cries.
Give Gen Z 10 more years and they will be dealing with problems. This is how generations work and why they are a thing.
I hope Gen Z grows out of this disgusting hatred of their elders. The hatred they have is the same hatred Gen X has for their elders.
No real mystery as to why Gen Z feels this way as they have been raised by Gen X.
When someone starts to insult boomers I see them insulting my mother who is almost 70yrs old and a sweet compassionate woman.
Gen Z and Gen X are both pretty damn retarded and blame issues caused by capitalistic control on the baby boomer generation.. when in reality the issue is capitalism and how it is slowly dominating society through debt enslavement.
You know having a 140iq like mine essentially opens your eyes to the world for what it is. I could not imagine having a 90-115 average IQ or limited my intellectual capacity would be.
Imagine not being able to analyze and comprehend complex social issues... I bet you get frustrated and just start to blame previous generations instead of analyzing the main factors of our society which is our economy and government type both of which are not related in any way shape or form to generations.
One think I will say when someone types out a single sentence on a subject it really shows that they are not intelligent and essentially to be viewed as a worthless NPC in society.
Good learning experience.
@@SamStone1964Yeah by not taking the vax. Thanks boomers for shutting down the world economy so you can squeeze out a few more years to pamper yourselves further.
"70% of American 30 years olds are doing better than their parents at the same age?" This aged like milk.
Sounds like bs regardless
Yep. And it goes the way of every other prediction made by boomers.
Yeah no. This is some bullshit.
Yeah what a dumb statement
And my question to boomers is who actually cares lol
Dealing with boomers while working in customer service jobs is like trying to get a crazy person to take their pills while having both of your hands tied behind your back.
@@user-wo5jo8sj9d yea gen x women are where Karen originated
@@grayc636 That has been a thing for longer than Gen X. Boomer women are generally as bad or worse than Gen X.
ahh i just served them as customers near the end the old ladys can get a lil crazy or emotional but seem to calm down if you stay calm the venegence of the gen x entiltelment im going to ruin your life is impressive maybe when they had more spry they put up a better fight@@lincolnshirepoacher9390
After they ask you to help them take their pills.
@@lincolnshirepoacher9390 No, boomer men/ Gen x men are also terrible and mean customers. Just straight rotten. The older generations look at you like your a robot if you work customer service.
Ouch. Pretty much tried to invalidate every concern of millenials. Thanks Boomer.
Typical boomer
Boomer: Crashes their car into me, totaling my car. Sues me and presses criminal charges against me and I'm falsely charged with a felony. Now I have to magically have 20k for a lawyer. Cops side with boomer because they are old.
If a car crashes into you and totals it wouldn’t be obvious if they’re at fault?
Sounds like me too
And now they're handicapped-parking queens. Let's just call it what it really is, VIP parking for old people (not trying to diss anybody that is legit, and I think it sucks that old people take up all your spots just by virtue of being old!). The stick figure in a wheelchair should be replaced with an old guy with a cane, hat, and round glasses.
@@Skank_and_Gutterboyhow is handicap parking YOURS?
@@jh-mp8so
Did I say it was mine? NO.
Lol I'm pretty sure that Gen X isn't mentioned because nowadays everyone over 50 is called a boomer, just proving that all these titles are meaninglessness
Boomer isn't just a generational marker, but a mindset
Graut it’s a BS term used to define or insult a person you disagree with when you can’t argue facts. Like the new uses for racist, sexist, fascist.........etc
@@flatbusted4980 Pff, boomer.
Lmao.
Gen Xer here, I feel really fortunate we grew up with the best movies and music. I do hope another John Hughes comes along. Then again, never thought I'd see 30, figured I was going to eat a nuke along with everyone else.
yeah, and im getting tired of being called a boomer. i never "dropped out" in the 60s. i never listened to easy listening and enjoyed the free love of the 70s. i wasnt a yuppie in the 80s.
The reason they’re so bitter, narcissistic and resentful is because these people had everything handed to them and chose to be bitter because of no actual struggle in their lives. Boomers would rather act nasty towards their kids instead of help their literal children
The reason The Greatest Generation was so innovative was because they had actual struggle. Completely different scenario from the one Boomers had.
Bitter much??
If you were my kid I’d get a great deal of pleasure watching yous struggle to wipe your own arse.
@@KratostheThird lolz
Oh no, our Boomer parents had STORIES. Vietnam live on TV, seeing people blow up, nuclear bomb drills, Pear Harbor-that was their childhood-constant fear of Russian nukes.
Everything negative said about millenials was first said about Gen-x, by the same people. The generation that just won’t die.
Yep. We were “slackers”. Clueless. Directionless.
@@choreomaniac Which is funny when you compare what Gen-X and even Millenials have contributed to the world VS Baby Boomers... Baby Boomers were handed the money and prosperity from their parents, squandered it all on ridiculous lifestyles and proceeded to blame their own children for it. Absolutely love it.
@@vtheman1850 well, they “earned” it but mainly because literally the rest of the world was destroyed by WWII. Detroit had no competition from 1945-1970. Same with lots of other manufacturing and science. It took decades for the EU and Japan to recover. Boomers had it on easy mode.
Gen x didn't cry about it.
@@ih1183 Lol, ok. Explains all the grunge music and heroin. Maybe you’re thinking of another generation?
Here's an idea: STOP LETTING THE STATE EDUCATE YOUR CHILD
Nooo, f the system! Also, let the system raise your kids because science.
Never were words more truly spoken (except for Jesus, etc.)
@@natchitoches6702 I like it when they teach them that biological sex doesn't exist and that the white kids are oppressing the black kids by simply existing and thus propagating the white hegenomy/supremacy/systematically racist system.
I'd take it a step further and say here's another idea:...... Don't get pregnant or impregnate someone until you are married and ready to BE a parent who is WILLING to pay for your child's education WITHOUT the assistance of the taxpayers!
@@natchitoches6702 because school is the only place on planet Earth where children can meet people different from them!
#Stupid!
Wait, 30 year olds today are doing better than their parents?? 🤔
I seem to remember people who came of age in the 60s, 70s, 80s were in a whole lot better position. Chances are you could afford a house, an education and middle class lifestyle working on a waiter’s or factory worker’s salary without getting into too much debt. Oh, wait… greedy boomers sent all those jobs out to other countries and then had the nerve to devalue the currency causing inflation overtime . I mean the current demented boomer in the White House is continuing that tradition 😪
How many now in their 30s or 40s can say the same thing 🤷🏽♂️
Joe Biden missed the cut off date by being born three years too soon. But he’s basically boomer adjacent.
Politicians. Bought and paid for politicians did that. I’m not a boomer. I just recognize that it was only boomers to the extent that they didn’t bother to put an end to the wholly corrupt system we’ve had since at least WWI. But hey, us gen x-ers and millennials are also not doing anything to end this corrupt system and most are super eager to cast their “vote” for the next psychopathic tyrants-that-be.
The psychopaths’ divide and conquer tactics sure are working _beautifully_ for the psychopaths.
Yep! Was shopping for a house over 2 years ago, but my boomer parents basically told me to keep look for something cheaper, because to them a 3 bedroom home for 160k was considered too expensive. Fast forward to today, well.... 😤 I should have never listened to their advice.
You do know what happens to a nation when you open the immigration flood doors right?
The reason our standard of living has dropped so much is because we flooded the country with people which essentially caused massive inflation as well as driving up the cost of living.
This is common sense and why since the 70s its been downhill and its directly related to the increase in immigration.
I am 35 with an iq in the 140 range.... You can literally go look at immigration statistics and inflation statistics and see the direct connection.
Who would have thought increasing a population drastically would lower the overall baseline for the standard of living.
I live in Canada and we have more people immigrating here yearly than are born domestically...
The hilarious thing is if you mention this you are labeled as a racist or something by absolute retards.
I am not racist I just understand that poorly regulated immigration can cause issue. Look at Canada and America now compared to the 70s for standard of living.
Imgaine if we had a lot less immigration in Canada and America.. our dollar would be stronger and our standard of living would be higher.
but hey.. lets be retards and just blame previous generations.....
You do understand our immigration policies are not changing and we are doing absolutely nothing to stop our nations from getting worse.
Atleast here in Canada they stopped non citizens from buying residential property finally.. imagine.. allowing non citizens to manipulate your domestic housing market...
Sorry but in todays world saying I dont want non citizens to buy residential property.. is probably seen as racist...
Joe Biden is technically a greatest generation guy but I agree with you for the most part.
Some greatest generation people are to blame for shit too.
Boomers are the generation that had it easy, gen z is gen that has life in hard mode
How so? You were handed the world on a silver platter, and now you are whining about how hard you have it? That's your fault, not anyone else's.
@@brettbuck7362 As a Gen Z, I can say climate change isn’t my major concern. My concern is the absolutely abysmal economy we inherited. We can’t afford homes, health care, college, and increasingly even rent despite being more productive than boomers at our age.
@@nathanbronx6199 You can’t own a home either. They’re also making it where we won’t be able to own cars as well.
You have no idea - just sooking over your toasted avocado
@@nathanbronx6199 But, by rejecting all the ideas that made it that way in the first place (family values, hard work, the nuclear family), you are in the process of wrecking the economy you were handed and destroying the work of centuries to get it that way. It was destroyed by leftist/socialist ideas, you don't even know you are doing it because you don't question it. We have been telling you and your predecessors for decades what the problem is, and how to solve it, but you treated that advice like stupid crazy stuff from a senile grampa. Now, you own it, it is your doing, get off your dead butts and fix it.
This message brought to you by people who are not a millennial or gen Z. We are not doing better than our parents. They didn't have college debt at 30. They owned a house. They could raise a family off one income doing manual labor. The main reason my generation is not having children is because it is insanely expensive. Sure not wanting them to be born into this dumpster fire is one reason too.
Agreed my parents were married and had a 2 story house by 30. My mother 2 year degree and my dad a 4 year. Me, same thing 4 year degree and working on a masters. I havr a job but no way could I afford the house they did when I was there age? Rent and everything is so expensive I have a roommate to cut the costs so I don't have to be in debt or live in a bad area. Younger generations aren't perfect but when you realize that most of them got into the work force after 2008 where the economy wasn't recovered it was tough. It wasn't the economic boom that boomers got to enjoy. Our generation works hard but doesn't get the same benefits their generation did. At times our generation works harder, working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. Its frustrating how hard some generation work only to be called lazy and entitled. Oh don't go to college to be in debt that's your fault? No its the older generation wanting college degrees. College degree has thr same weight their hs diplomas had. They want employees with degrees, oh blue collar jobs? Good luck half of them were outsourced by boomers.
Not to sound rude but boomers were given a society on a silver platter and messed it all up. Younger generations are just trying to get the same things only its not as easy. Oh don't have a house by 30? You're lazy. But they ignore the fact some people work 80 hours a week on 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet something boomers never had to worry about.
@@lifeinjersey9846 Exactly this, but Boomers want to pretend its our avocado toast ruining us lol.
@@lifeinjersey9846 Exactly.
I like how we forget gen X. Well they were consider the edgy leave me alone I leave you alone generation.
@@nationalsocialist6590 Gen X needs to just pick a side lol
Very weak and superficial take. Ignores the fact that millenials have a lower percentage of relative total wealth that boomers had at the same time, or that GenZ has.
Older generations have more wealth because they have a lifetime to accumulate wealth.
@@franknuzzo2576 you are right, but absolute income mobility has decreased over the years(basically chances of people making more than their parents). In 1940, people had a 90% chance to make more than their parents, by 1980, it went down to 50%, and also the middle class has been shrinking and social security may collapse as more people become old and younger generation has to carry that weight. Though one thing that might happen though is that younger generation can inherit baby boomers wealth!
@black rabbi Stealing it is the only way that you have a chance to not be poor.
@@franknuzzo2576 but he said at the same age
@@sib9769 It’s way easier to get rich now. We have the internet.
I’m a boomer (last year before gen x) . I went back to school and I love these young people. They work hard and they included me in everything.
maybe you just wanted to breed with young guys, very smart.
sell your house to kawaii phase at the price you payed for it then
You’re not the problem then, your age isn’t what makes you inherently bad. It’s the common behaviour of those who happen to be a similar age as you but doesn’t mean you will automatically be that way.
@@MrUnder30seconds bruh ?
They have no choice but to work hard after you and your generation deprived us of a future.
I’m a 35 year old millennial who watched Captain Planet at 5 years old and I thought the world would be over in 12 years… I feel lied to…
As a millenial myself : • active duty for 8 yrs to escape homelessness/poverty • skipped predatory college scam as you can't go bankrupt/govt owns majority of the debt/doesn't guarantee employment • refuse to make the financial mistake of having kids ( I have a vasectomy which is WAY CHEAPER than affording kids) • went straight into the workforce after my EAS • and the only debt I have is my house(only able to purchase by VA loan) • I invest in the stock market.
Yet I can't guarantee my retirement, can't pay off my house, can't afford to support my wife and never going to happen kid off my pay alone, we don't live in the city. So yes. Boomers had it easy; and as a vet they can shove it as idgaf about the draft. Not everyone went to war and going to college was actually affordable compared to how a lot of us enlist because we were born poor. I hate boomers.
Baby Boomers dodged the Vietnam draft..... While calling Millennials "selfish" for not having children. Baby Boomers spat on war vets returning home, while calling Millennials "disrespectful towards police" during a protest.
But you will never pass on your seed. Beta male.
@@mrbillhilly343 yeah, they are also the ones who pushed project 100k. Sending in mentaly ill people to war
As a Boomer I would seriously dispute that we had anything easy. I had to enlist to get off the farm that my family didn't own.
I worked my butt off on my own for decades. I didn't even have a GI Bill. I was too busy working to even be able to consider College until I was in my mid 40s and was able to go with my wife's help.
I bought a house using my VA Loan, but the mortgage company played with the paperwork, offered me a special repayment option and when that backfired, foreclosed.
My wife and I have, for 20 years, lived paycheck to paycheck. We don't have any guaranteed retirement.
My Son is in college, but he had to earn scholarships because I can't do it for him.
What exactly did we Boomers do that you hate us again?
@@johnevans5782 Blamed Millennials for all the problems YOU CREATED, while chastizing us for everything we did because you needed a human-punching bag to take-out all your insecurities on. You made us waste our lives away chasing study & jobs, leaving us at 40+ years of age & baron; because we were always "too young to get married" or "not financially able to have a family" & sabotaged our relationships & micromanaged our lives like you owned us. Oh & all the fun you Boomers had, you banned it & got it outlawed, so now you have something to yell at Millennials for "having nothing to do" like it's all their fault.
1996 here. I say it Depends on the boomer. My dad (1960) grew up in poverty in the middle of nowhere, spent 20 years in the military, and made giant personal sacrifices for me and my sister (and my mother). He does NOT embody the reasons I dislike the boomer generation. My boss is a boomer; he gave me a raise literally for not being a shitbag. He is not the eternal boomer. However, Boomers who grew up in wealth and had everything handed to them, and then turn around and call us entitled for wanting to be able to buy land or a house, make me want to go full Robespierre.
Plenty of boomers grow up poor yet still become extremely selfish. It’s just a mindset that each generation has members of. It just happens that for boomers they’re much more prevelant and obvious because they somehow continue to influence our society. The boomers I know who grew up poor are worse because it just shows that despite knowing poverty, they’re still willing to throw other people into it for their own selfishness sake. Imagine, having kids after being pooor and then wishing poverty and failure on everyone who comes after you just because you grew up poor. Yup, this is a boomer phenotype rarely addressed, but there’s thousands of them out there.
I actually understand that. You turned out to be very good. Keep it up.
@@ibnuts2831well said. I was born in that same timeframe and don’t recall being handed anything. Every generation has their own opportunities and challenges. Millennials are simply cherry picking data. They do have their own challenges for sure.
@@ibnuts2831well said
This is the BS that boomers do. your father made you believe that he "made giant personal sacrifices"... its that exact reverse psychology BS they all do. No bro. He didnt make personal sacrifices for you. He simply cared for you and did what was needed at the time to look after his family. What else did you expect from somebody who decided to get married and create children. To not GAF and leave you on the side of the street hungry and dying or beat you with a stick? Dont give me that crock of horse twaddle. at your age are you living in your own house with a wife and 2 kids without any real worries except for just arriving at work? The answer is categorically no. Boomers dont need to get a pat on the back (a participation trophy if you must) for doing what is the minimum expectation to raise a family. let alone try and title it as a "giant personal sacrifice". He could have easily just left and had a great life without you. But he didnt because it wasnt the right thing to do. That isnt surprising nor impressive.
Better off than our parents? did they do any research about that? if you look at the data, including inflation, we are way worse off than our parents, in all areas. We are hitting lifetime goals such as having children, getting married, and buying houses at much later times in our lives. We have significant more debt than our parents at our age and prices for common goods (factoring in inflation) is higher. How is that better than off than our parents?
It's not
It's almost certainly due to calculations like "the average computer speed in 1970 was 1 billionth that of computers today therefore the average computer buyer today is 1 billion times better off..." Every single boomer I know bought the house they raised a family in off a couple years pay at an average job. Some of Gen X had the same privilege, practically no one afterwards though.
Coming from a Gen Z myself, I think the biggest problem with Gen Z and Millineums is a huge emphasis on emotions rather than logic
@@shalyfemusic to play devil's advocate: why are they so emotional? what is the root of their complaints?
you are still avoiding the elephant in the room, that someone is attempting to shepherd into its correct place and is getting frustrated at the people pretending this action shouldnt occur...
this isnt a simple "cry less, work more" type problem. if you are unaware of psychological warfare that has occurred since the 1920's, you arent quite prepared for this discussion. lucky for you the information is widely available on the cia's website and google.
@@spacecowboy776 😂👌
Think about it, the silent generation and the greatest generation (the boomers parents and grandparents) created a world of unprecedented opportunity for them, then stack on that (in North America) the huge advances post WWII, all the knowledge brought from operation paper clip and that North America was helping Europe take care of itself and rebuild from the war. They could have created a strong ongoing prosperity that was self supporting but instead were greedy, wasteful and entitled screwing every generation after them, no wonder they are loathed. They ignore the fact that they engineered a world where two incomes are insufficient to buy a home and raise a family on but they want every benefit and luxury they can think of no matter the cost to their descendants or the world.
It's kind of like this:
Imagine a restaurant that's been in your town for generations that was well known for it's excellent cuisine. Every time you mention it around your parents, they get that wistful look in their eyes and reminisce fondly of the meals they had and the good times they shared. About the owner and what a great guy he was and how everybody knew his name.
But...
That was literally decades ago. That owner retired and sold the business to his kid, who is letting HIS kid run it.
Things ain't so good no more.
Some of it was the kid's fault. He's young and not so wise. Not only did he not have to build the business, he didn't have the luxury of watching his father build it like his father did.
But some of it is society's fault. Things are more expensive now. People don't appreciate and value what they used to anymore.
Times are tough, so corners get cut. Traditions get shelved because nobody knows why or how to do it right. The food loses quality, but costs more.
Now, that restaurant isn't so good anymore, but if you ask around the neighborhood, everybody still sings its praises. They lament that nobody appreciates quality food anymore, not realizing that the food there isn't quality and hasn't been for a generation.
That's the disconnect.
The world the Boomers lived in doesn't exist anymore. It was sold for parts when we were in diapers.
But nobody wants to shake up the system because they're afraid.
Or rather, there are a few at the top that profit very much from a broken world. So they maintain the system at all costs.
This is law. Best comment I've seen
Perhaps it's time for violence?
We just have to burn everything to the ground and rebuild it all.
Perfectly stated
@@Skydive20991 I literally live for that day. I can't wait.
In the 1950s, a single man working a blue collar job could have his own home, support his wife who didn't work, have children, all without a college degree and little debt. Another way to put it was that it was much easier for a hard working man with courage and determination to "make something" of himself. Today, you could work just hard and have lots ambition and courage, but your efforts won't go as far. It's harder to level up, almost like gaining levels has been nerfed to keep you down! Previous players exploited the game, changed the rules and the current generations are suffering for it. Level the playing field, make social security voluntary, reduce taxes, regulations, reduce government and embrace free markets.
idk which world you live in, but that still applies rn.
@@god-of-war-fan Today, only applies to heavily skilled or people in the upper management roles with degrees and experience in a white collar profession. However, even those would struggle a bit to achieve those dreams.
Today's single blue collar worker would be struggling between paying rent or buying food.
@@chrischoy9 hmm you know what, in retrospect, you’re right. I was clearly wrong cuz I didn’t realize that most blue collar workers earn like 60k max
F facts like the whole Game system's changed Inflation is in an all time high, Wages are Kept the same, Harder to save money, Hard to afford Groceries, Gas is expensive, Rent oh boi the list goes on.
@@god-of-war-fan 60k is high experience , it’s more like 25k-40k for low and mid experience .
Because the media said we should. I've yet to meet a Boomer that has actually said any of this shit. Only the media telling they are.
I work with about 6 of them, you can have one of mine
It's called psychological warfare. Divide conquer then control.
Exactly don't underestimate boomers
I've met A TON of Boomers that say this shit. As in most of them.
Fear sells, the media and politicians wants fearful viewers and servants. Fear is a powerful tool against the working class.
I'm GenZ I don't care about climate change, what I care about is seeing footage of the 60s and before that showed a country I was never given the opportunity to inherit, because the old people today ruined it all before I was born.
yeah well you let the school system teach you. thats why. you aren't even using lawful money as currency then wonder why you're poor. Boomers got in on the money thing before the federal reserve could print currency which causes inflation. thats how they got wealthy. the inflation of the fake money is why you're poor. demand lawful money for your labor or you will face poverty
Imagine being able to work one 40h week job and being able to afford a majority of your expenses and then shitting on the next generation for doing the same and not being able to achieve the same. The hypocrisy.
More like 60 hours a week and barely making ends meet in order to put food on the table and have clothes and books for their kids to learn.
"To parents, I guess I would say really listen to them." Boomers are not listeners I'm afraid.
They are bullies and gas lighters. They will tell you what to do and then accuse you of abuse for calling out their abusive behavior.
@@Attmay Exactly.
They're all talk...
Oh, and 18 year olds are? They are too stupid to even live life and rely on their phone for everything. Try having a conversation with most people under 40, they are utterly unable to string two words together... "like, ya know, like whatever."
They aren't
"I'm Gen-X. I just sit on the sidelines and watch the world burn."
because videogaming, our 80's music and coffee are that good - we made it so.
@@YanPagh We also gave the world the internet the way it is today.
We wrestled control away from the boomers and off the main frame and put it on the pc and eventually server farms.
Gen X doesn't exist.
@@tumarfa Oh hi there millennial, how is your quest for relevance through whining doing?
@@YanPagh I was joking. I'm a Gen X myself. And it does actually often seem like we don't exist, as it's all about Boomers, Millennials and Gen Z all the time.
Its not just targeted at the kids. The TSA agent at US airports yelling out orders and the compliance everyone MUST follow to these barked out commands is really depressing and its obviously done to create a conditioned and compliant population. If you go to other nations, you don't see this. I only see this in the US.
TSA is pretty tight security, but the worst I've seen was in Ukraine definitely worse than the TSA. Maybe they don't bark out orders but they'll have you "throw out" items that aren't explicitly prohibited. Mexico security is the strictest I've seen by far TSA is lenient in comparison.
Yes when I went through TSA in Mexico it was so easy
As a gen z kid watching this I can totally relate
As a gen x, I am sorry your generation experienced the narratives that you have experienced. The adults haven't been adulting very well for a very long time, but from what I have seen of your generation, the kids are going to be just fine.
We boomers had to wait for the WWII generation to get out of the way. Heck, Bob Dole ran as late as 1996.
As a Gen X'er I don't understand why we get called boomers and get all the hate. We were, and still are, in the same boat you are in. Our parents are the literal boomers that stopped protesting and sold out harder than any generation before or since. My parents were hippies when I was really young, listening to the Beatles. Then they voted for Ronald Regan and praised him while drug abuse, crime, and poverty skyrocketed. You think you grew up scared of school shootings? The 80's had actual crime rates that were worse than today's crime and violence rates. We also grew up with the looming threat of nuclear annihilation from the Soviet Union. Racism didn't start with George Floyd. We had Rodney King. It's been around since day one of America's life. We got labeled Gen X because we were the nothing generation. The X was just because there wasn't really anything better to say about us. We grew up knowing the world was fucked just like you guys are learning. Gen X'ers may be the same age as the people you see ruining the world, but those people are ruining our world too. It's really about the rich 1 percent having too much power and greed with no consequences that's the problem. I wish the younger generation understood this. Zoomers are just as fucked as we are.
@@Davivd2 You got it about half right. The 1960s counterculture was a Moscow directed Marxist subversion scheme, the New Left was sort of a reaction to 1950s anti-communism. The Soviet Union could not defeat the US on the battlefields of Korea & Vietnam, so they took the fight to the streets of America.
@@Davivd2 gen x don't really get hate tho they get ignored
I highly, HIGHLY doubt that conclusion that we-at age 30-are doing better than our parents at age 30.
No way.
On average you are.
@Shinshocks That not true. The odds are the avenge human is doing better no. Of course some are doing worse and some better but on average the standard of living world wide and in the US is higher today that is was forty years ago.
@Shinshocks It is simply not true that the average American is poorer today than they were 50 years ago. Real wages have increased. A married couple with at least one having a degree or certification is more likely to afford a home and be able to have children.
@@glennwatson3313 Ok boomer
@@glennwatson3313 In 3rd world countries? absolutely! no doubt. In 1st world countries? Its going backwards. Older generation has more wealth in the form of a house than any later generation
The wealthiest generation to ever exist has been burning the ladders and bridges they used to get there. Now they call everyone else lazy and entitled....
The boomers i know are either super rich or almost dirt poor, i dont know any average boomers. Either a millionaire or they live paycheck to paycheck.
Spot on.
Due to physical disability, I am one of the dirt poor boomers. I feel the same disgust towards the spoiled, entitled, super rich boomers that you do.
@@klarity1111 I don't hate them, my uncle used to be a millionaire in the 90s after his parents passed, 17 years later he was dirt poor. He should have managed his inherited money better.
Spot on. There are a significant amount of us in the Boomer generation that got sh*tted on by society, and the "trickle down" economy since the early 80's. And we're the geriatric poor and homeless you see today who worked low wage jobs with no benefits, and lived paycheck to paycheck for decades. And who can't afford to retire, so we'll work until we're too ill or infirm to, or until we die. We're the forgotten part of our generation. The ones who watched the ladder being pulled up before we could grab a rung. And we're just as angry, and disgusted as the generations who came after us.....
Boomers have ruined my life. That's not a generic accusation: they literally took my livelihood from me.
If it's ok to ask what happened?
@@CacowninjaUnequal economy.
I know how to crush em I am a 1995
Oh you poor baby. Maybe mommy can bring you some milk and cookies to assuage your hatred for hundreds of millions of people. Victim, much?
Didn't think I'd find an Anglican priest here
Perfectly summarized. This is exactly what I (age 28) feel and experienced. My parents still try to put fear into me every chance the get, that's why I stopped visiting. I'm just done being told to get home before dark and not to trust others because they will do whatever to me. I've told them again and again what this does to me and they just laughed it off as me "being too sensitive" and kept on trying to put fear into me. A lot of my friends experienced the exact same thing. Should I ever decide to bring children into this world, I will teach them to take care of themselves and others, so they don't have to live in constant fear.
My parents in a nutshell. "We had it worse than you, stop being a lazy crybaby". I hate them so much.
At some point in my life I just decided fuck it they harm me so be it. Maybe they will take me out put me out of my misery perhaps ill take them with me. This world sucks. I recently gave my manager the middle finger demanding time off wasn't expecting it to work apparently you have to threaten to quit for them to take a request seriously but then they play the victim when you do in their response. "I didn't appreciate being threatened with a resignation. But Ill take your request into consideration." Like dude I have asked multiple times and been ignored your not the victim I am.
@Marina you're doing the right thing. If they won't bother to see they're hurting you, fuck 'em.
@@mortis3732 Yea they say these things yet their generation didn’t have GMO food, shit food in general, public water rife with drugs and contaminants, acid rain falling on their heads. that’s just scratching the surface in the department of health alone.
My parents sort of, thinking working a soul crushing 9-5 job because of “health insurance” not giving a shit that it’s taken a toll on my mental health……..
The silent generation growed up through:
The great depression
Mccarthism
WW2
And they were one of the best people you could have encoutered. Not the spoiled, "ME ME ME", narcisssitic, self entitled attitude that the boomers are known and regarded (and will be remembered) for. The boomers were born through one of the most stable and prosperous (economic wise, at least) periods a nation had in HISTORY and instead of thanking their parents, created entire philosophies to justify their s*itty attitude of "party drugs and rock and roll" and throwing a middle finger to authority while disrespecting anything they could encounter in their way. I say they will be regarded in the future as an example of what NOT to be and be put in their appropiate place in history, the dustbin.
Only bad thing that happen to them was Vietnam . . . . and some even dodge the draft and started doing LSD or something .
Exactly that! So whenever people say "respect your elders" I hope they mean the silent generation who fought in WW2. Boomers don't do shit other than screw the world over for the younger generations. It's sadly fitting that mostly boomers don't care about climate change
Ironically, the first generation of rock musicians were all born before the baby boom including all of the Beatles. That generation did not discover sex or drugs - look how Judy Garland and Billie Holiday died - but they act like they did.
@@MajinMist603 And now Canada is paying the price for taking in all of those draft dodgers.
they were incredibly bigoted and lyched poc dude, they were just as bad
They are easy to scam too. I'd tell them over and over to not let other people look in their cellphone (messages, and email), and to not let other people take a photo of their ID, but they won't listen. And when I raise my voice just to shut them up because they won't hear any good reasoning, they'd tell me I've got no respect, and I am a bully. Later on they would succumb to self-pity, and by the end of the day, everything would be my fault.
You sound delightful.
Gen-X here.
I remember being told that my generation was listless, undisciplined, lazy, uncreative, disloyal to our employers, we'd likely to be the first generation to live a lower standard of living than the previous generation (boomers) and that social security would "run out" before we could retire.
This was told to us by peeps that protested the Viet Nam war, created the EPA, pushed for voting and women's rights, and then turned around in the 80s and charged headlong into rampant consumerism, Wall Street gambling addiction, divorce, child abandonment, and religious fanaticism.
I seem to remember going "meh."
We figured out how to use the internet, played video games, cut back on consumption, stopped littering, aren't afraid to switch jobs when treated poorly by employers, change careers as we evolved, began recycling in a big way, and continuing education is a thing.
We're aware that both media and "the church" lie like a rug, but still find comfort in the words of both the rational news anchor and practical preacher.
Sometimes.
Just stay out of our bedrooms and our pants.
Generally, we're kind, and frankly think the current political rancor is unAmerican on both/all sides.
Personally, I'm a little tired of the boomer v millennial or gen whatever discussion and would like rather to focus on what brings us together and how we can best put our heads together to solve some things like money in politics, the health of our nation (we weren't so obese or lazy), breaking monopoly, income disparity, and - well - the weather and if animals will have a place to live in 20 years.
I'm still hopeful that'll happen. We're pretty smart when we're healthy, happy, and united, and we don't need another war to employ the tools we have as a nation to come together.
I think focusing on what brings us together may be a big trait of gen X. You where still young enough to embrace the internet and new technology to not completely hate it (while still using it) like boomers do.
You’re like the generation of transition because let’s not play games here - the internet is one of those milestone inventions that’s changed the human race forever. Kudos to gen X and tbh I think that’s why no one’s talking about gen X. At least millennials and younger aren’t y’all have done nothing to cause a fight. I have a hope that gen X and their ability to embrace substantial change will mean older generations will not be so hateful in the future.
Gen alpha will come of age in the next 5-10 years. Fingers crossed millennials are as cool to gen alpha as gen X is with zoomers 🤞🏻
Im a millineal and indeed believe the govt is corrupt and we need do something
But browsing the internet and playing video games is very much a part of “rampant” consumerism. For starters, at the most basic level, you have to buy expensive technology to afford either one, unless you go to the library to use the internet and Walmart to play games. But on a deeper level, they both are “activities” that involve consuming the content and creations of others at the expense of having that time to be individually creative and productive for ourselves.
To say nothing about how every computer or smart phone or gaming system is designed with _planned obsolescence_ so that you must by a new computer/phone/gaming system every 1-3 years. How’s that not buying into rampant consumerism?
Don’t hate. Look, I’m on the internet, too. But when my dog dies, I’m leaving all this ridiculousness behind. It’s as bad and detrimental as TV. Just something to keep us in a zombie state so that we never recognize that we don’t need psychopaths to rule over us, and we all have within us the power to create and be self-accountable.
Late gen x-er myself.
@@sunshineeddy6849 Browsing the internet was the 90’s and early 2000’s. Playing video games, um hello, did you completely forget that Gen Xers were the ones who played those old arcade games at Pizza Hut back in the 80’s and 90’s?
Gen Xers got around to video games before Millennials did. You guys already established yourselves on the internet in the late 90’s. We had to wait until MySpace got big before we really got to use the internet regularly.
Which brings to another problem: social media. My generation loves it. Your generation has more hatred to it.
Boomers are upset about the kids aren't raised correctly AND WHO'S THE REASON WHY THIS IS THE CASE???
Exactly!
Boomers have always been the ones who seemed hateful. As a younger gen Xer who has been reading their hit pieces since '97, I didnt think it was possible for them to actually get worse than when I was young. They certainly are though.🙄
They are the new old people at this point and it scares them, so they lash out at everybody younger than themselves for problems they and they alone created.
I liked the old old people better.
@@Attmay The Greatest Generation is almost completely gone, save for some old people who managed to live over 95 years. The Silent Generation is leaving us too.
They were literally the hippies that became yuppies. Hippies have always garnered a culture of nasty entitlement
That is funny and they say gen z is bad 😔
They indeed messed things up, especially here in Toronto Canada.
No jobs, expensive housing, and very little opportunity. Yet we’re called “lazy” and “entitled”, meanwhile all we want it the same milk and honey they graciously got for doing nothing.
We currently own 3% of the wealth in the world. When boomers were at the current age millennials are at, they owned 29% of wealth. We listened to the bullshit advice boomers gave us like going to school for a meaningless piece of paper, working to death for the same stagnant wage, and taking it up the ass while pretending to enjoy it. All it did was put a whole generation who is the most educated than previous, the most in debt, with zero hope of actually making it into the world.
Was it the boomers or was it a mix of the feminist movement with technology advancement and globalisation
, double the work force made the price of homes double or triple this should have doubled the amount of businesses but due to technology allowing for globalisation you ended up with one or two mega corporations on the other end you had technology turn skilled workers into factory slaves pushing buttons on a conveyer belt lowering their wages , the fetish for university and globalisation resulted in a group of people who wanted businesses where they could move sideways into rather than working your way up ,you also have travel fetish with over tourism turning people who live in an area 2nd class citizens to the rich outsider the list can go on and on about the mess ups that have happened
but it's not a generation problem but the fact we haven't got anyone balancing the system, gamers understand the importance of having someone behind the scene balancing it so it doesn't become a broken unplayable mess at the moment feels like the game of life is being managed by players who are making the rules up as they go along
BUCK THE FOOMERS!!!
Yep i wasted like 5 years of my life "working my way up" from the bottom pulling 12 hour plus shifts and 7 day work weeks only to get fucked over by boomer middle management when it comes time to actually pay me a real wage or promotion, instead they find petty reasons to fire you. They can all burn.
I think the Boomers just like to shit on others to make themselves feel better. Next time a Boomer gives you shit, say something like: "Yes sir, I can only hope to become a fraction of the man you turned out to be. Since we're so lazy and incompetent, you'll obviously step in and show us how a real man gets the job done, right?"
@@xenolit3027 Same especially because the school system is straight out @$
From 1946 to 1964. Boomers, were the children raised by war-heroes that wanted to give their children the best lives they could. They spoiled them beyond rotten, and let them roam free. When the Cold War started in the mid-late 50s, it gave these, now semi-adults, an excuse to riot and waste their lives fighting the government. They grew up in a time, when houses were still dirt cheap, rent was dirt cheap, and cars were dirt cheap. When jobs paid more than their fair share in most industries, and money cost nearly ten times than what it does now.
Everything the boomers accuse the younger generations of, is nothing but projection, of an issue they started.
Yes, SOME of them did have to fight in the cold war, In Korea, Vietnam, and other such. But, for most of them, and most of their lives, their only real threat, were the Russian Nukes.
They demanded to be pamper by the US government, with bigger college loans, to more pristine universities, and double the worker population within a single generation.
Gen Z and Millennials, and soon Gen Alpha, will be growing up, in the HORRENDUS FALLOUT, of the selfish generation, and, while I don't blame people like my parents, born in the early 1960s, I do 100% blame the boomers 70 and older for every financial, societal, and otherwise struggle that I have to live through... ONTOP OF NUKES, ON TOP OF MASS VIOLENCE BECOMING A BIGGER ISSUE, on top of so many stresses.
Why do the younger generations want to off themselves, hurt people, and give up on building life?
Cause the world is at the cusp of oblivion financially, and soon we're going to be living in some dystopian autocracy, like cyberpunk or the goddamned matrix!
The war started in 1946. Americans were kept quiet about it until a certain senator named McCarthy brought out ‘McCarthyism’ and the Hollywood blacklist became known.
Then there’s of course the 1960s/early 1970s. Then you had Gen X still being told to conduct nuclear drills at school, while the Soviets were beginning to crumble. The union collapses in 1991 and America becomes the lone superpower.
Oh poor snookums. You talk rubbish
I can say the same as a Gen Xer. I thought I wouldn't live much past 30 because of threats like nuclear war, the population bomb, and impending ice age.
Don’t forget acid rain.
@@cgarcia4487 ...and the O zone layer.
Those nuke dreams were real.
I'm old enough to remember when DDT, cyclamates, DMSO, phosphates, and a new Ice Age were our certain doom...
Here I am, someone born at the tail end of what qualifies me as a millennial, believing I probably won't pass 30 because of world-population decimating bioweapons and total economic collapse with perhaps a little dash of threat from nuclear war with China (unless they want to use the bioweapons like they and the elites have basically said they want to do) because that's basically what we're actually facing right now. Hey, at least "climate change will end the world" is complete nonsense...
If you want to reverse the bad fortunes of Millennials, you're gonna have to vote for Millennial candidates who will stick up for the working class. If they are old and rich, I guarantee they won't really care what happens to you or your family, no matter what they say.
The psychopaths that want to be politicians and rule over others are the actual problem, but I’m sure voting will work _this_ time.
This boomers vs millennials BS is just more of the tyrants-that-be creating division amongst the real people so that we don’t band together and take them out of power.
Congratulations on doing exactly what the ones who truly hate you want you to do.
Also, I am NOT a boomer. I’m at the very tail end of gen x and in my experience, ALL generations are a majority self-entitled, infantile narcissists. Who can’t imagine _not_ being ruled over by psychopaths and crave it more than anything.
Mark Twain, "if voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it."
The game is rigged. The mainstream parties only want people who are older and have wealth.
The working class doesn’t count and those who campaign for the worker class usually get stamped out.
@@Recuper8, already true with respect to primary elections.
I'm 21 and I just hate generational arrogance In general no matter how old you are
Boomers, the generation that pulled up the ladder from behind them.
And Gen Xers, Millennials and Zoomers all had to suffer as a result.
Lol - yeah, subsequent generations never got improved health care, removal of military drafts, better participation for women in the workforce, reduced child mortality, the benefit of mandatory superannuation, the removal of health risks like Polio, safer vehicles, safer roads, an established social security system. But you can keep crying in your soy juice 😂
Gen X; As a Zoomer I’ll say this you guys did so much with so little. You are under appreciated and overlooked. I feel like your potential was squandered and crushed. I have no resentment or hostility towards you and I respect you guys, but I can’t say the same for boomers.
Yeah!! 1969 Gen X here. Learned not to trust way back when the TV lied to my parents that the Dungeons and Dragons I played was turning me into devil worshipper and Judas Priest and Ozzy were going to make me kill myself. "Read my lips no new taxes....I did not have sexual relations with that woman" on and on.
We had racism on the ropes. We laughed at racist jokes but regarded racist people as fools stuck in the horrible past we were lucky to be born after. In the 90's if you were against racism it just meant you were a regular person.
Anthrax and Public Enemy on stage collab is all the proof I needed.
Too much togetherness isn't good for the ones sticking it to us so Division became the game once again.
Don't let the tablet, TV, or phone make you hate your neighbor.
What a lovely sentiment that I just read allowed to my fellow Gen X wife. Thank you for the kind words. We younger members of the ‘glue generation’, born from ~78’ to the first half of the 80s have been just as let down and frustrated by Boomers. Generally speaking, they really have earned it as a failed generation with no business lecturing anyone on anything. Edit: A little harsh? Maybe. But, if Boomers want to play the whole, “it’s time to take your medicine”, routine… OK fine, and it all needs to start with them.
@@curzurithedreamer Yes, it is incredibly arrogant that boomers would see it fit to talk down to people. When they ruined the future prospects of Gen X and by virtue Millennials and Gen Z. And even worst see it fit to blame their parents when they were the one who actually pulled the trigger.
They will not be remembered fondly, If I have kids I will tell them about Boomers and how not to be like them. If I have kids.
If you look back it was the idiots that fought the revolutionary war for Masons, demon-crazy and a Con job.. All they needed to do was kill all the rich and set up simple government.
Peter Theil said it best about us. The Boomers told us to work the system and climb the ladder, like they had, but they changed the system, and pulled the ladders up behind them.
Our answer was what was forced on us, but many of us said "fine... we choose this then."
The answer was Do It Yourself. Live with Less. Make our own fun. Take their garbage, repair it, polish it, and own it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...
R.E.M. Out Of Time. Great song, great album.
I 1st heard this song in the movie Independence Day
You must be Gen X
Nah it's just called the fourth turning. look into it, it's quite fascinating
I hate them because they call me and my husband failures since we didn't go to college, yet make enough to raise 3 kids, and they put themselves into our raising style; even if they're not family.
boomers took the worlds greatest country and somehow ran it to the ground despite the amazing headstart god gave it after WW2.
America became the worlds only industrial nation after everyone got bombed the fuck out of. Boomers were raised into an era of limitless economic growth, and fucked it all up.
Cant wait untill boomers die out.
They want to keep suburbs as suburbs, even when their houses skyrocket 50x their original price.
old fucks want to keep everyone else poor, by restricting the development of new houses so they can keep getting rich.
The housing crisis wasnt caused by the government, or by big banks, they were caused by dumbfuck boomers who thought housing should be an investment, and not a commodity, and restricted the demand and manipulated the market, so they can keep getting richer while dodging their taxes and living off SS.
It's just so frustrating how so many boo.ers are unable to empathize with younger generations despite us going through some similar things.
how about the fact that boomers got all the good stuff: cheap, affordable houses, social security, medicaid, medicare, CHIP, WIC, subsidized college and investments. now, for millennials and younger, they have to pay for all that crap. if that isn't intergenerational slavery, i don't know what is.
The Boomer generation funded all of the benefits you mentioned during their working years. Their taxes funded the schools you attended. You are doing nothing new. You are now just old enough that you are paying instead of receiving. When you get old, the young people then will be paying for you.
@@billybeemus3929 no, the social security payouts from the FIRST people who used it weren't fully funded by them. do some math, we'll wait.
@@alextrebek5237 - Boomers were not the FIRST to get SS. SS was created in 1936. The first Boomers were not born until 1946. The Boomers paid taxes their entire working life. They did not start drawing SS in large numbers until sometime around 2010.
@@billybeemus3929 SS is compulsory and can't be opted out; it's also borrowed against HEAVILY by the govt to fund different initiatives and replaced with the equivalent of IOUs. FOCUS. said initiatives benefitted the boomers, and the younger generations are paying for it now.
@@alextrebek5237 - The Boomers paid for (are still paying) those that came before them. GenX is paying for those that came before them. Millennials are paying for those that came before them. Future generations? The same. Not sure why you are whining about it. Your kids will complain about how easy you had it and how hard it is for them. History repeating itself.
The boomers were the first to throw away old traditions. You can trace all of their failures back to this. At least try to make informed decisions about your life.
Boomers failed when they turned the "it's forbnidden to forbid" into "war on..." and their drugs sex and rock'n'roll into fellony (so they could arrest the GenXers, envious of their youth) THAT'S when things went bad, when boomers became conservatives. Sure, don't be a socialist because they are stupid, but you don't need to be an impotent con either. Be yourself. (take it from a Gen Xer)
Boomer liberals are more restrictive than liberal, and boomer conservatives are more exploitative than conservative. They fail to exhort their own essential virtues. Instead they're the worst of both worlds.
@@YanPagh They were never forbidden or forbid; they were always 'me me me'.
Socialism was literally a punchline 30 years ago. But they've been so ineffective that people are ready to throw liberal democracy to the dogs.
If you're an older gen x'r you might remember the USSR's collapse was characterised by a gerontocracy and the intelligence community literally running the government... and now our society is doing the same thing.
Boomers post memes and cry about how men don't wear suits and fedoras for everyday wear. They only have themselves to blame since they did away with that.
agree, baby boomers were the first spoiled generation to ever exit in the history of mankind, you can't really blame them. boomers were the first ever children to have been directly targets of advertisements from corporations as well
It's the parents and the teachers paranoia which makes kids this way. Same as always was and always will be.
Exactly, Recker's World! I am from Generation Jones, and thought I would never have as much as my "Boomer" sisters. Turns out I made more money than all of them put together.
Let's call it what it is.... CHILD ABUSE!
That's why they resent them so much
hey leave the teachers out of this. Most of my teachers were cool. Except for the boomers one. The boomer classes usually just makes us look down at a book and take notes. We didn't talk about anything, just read through a book and write it down.
This is why Gen Z will never succeed or accomplish anything. All they do is complain, and blame others for their own failures.
Boomers often project their own guilt
if they had felt any guilt they would atleast stop global warming by letting experts handle it instead of those who profit from it
That is certainly true of my parents.
boomers watch more tv than anybody ever thats the problem.
While new generations browse through their your phone 24/7
@@dieterrosswag933we are not the ones that made it all but legally binding to have to be constantly online for school work state services and whatever have you
@@rusi6219 that's the wok* democrats that wanted so, supported by the naive youth
I'm an older generation X'er. I caught the tail end of all the prosperity, freedom, and relative saftey. I now witness the beginning of disaster and dispair.
I'm an late boomer (57 yr old) and here ya. I graduated college in '87, just before the stock market crash. We get all of the blame for everything wrong with the economy and environment but the later half of boomers didn't see the benefits of a booming economy.
I am the same age as you. I see things being much better than they were when I was young. Life was much, MUCH harder in the 80s. Businesses were not begging people to come work for them for $15 per hour. There were lines 20 people deep to apply for a job washing dishes for less than $3 per hour.
@@billybeemus3929 Cost of living and college was also much lower than nowadays. Those 20 people in line for the dishwasher job just put their applications online now since many businesses don't even take applications in person anymore. People see entire generations worth of this toxic work culture and only destruction to show for it. Whether it be physical health, mental health, their families, the environment, etc; the outcomes of this "grind" and "hustle" culture have been observed, documented, and now experienced by younger people. I'm glad these toxic actions are being addressed nowadays.
@@billybeemus3929 in some ways they were harder, I agree. The cost of tuition (which has outpaced inflation 2X since the 80s) is a burden and barrier for younger people. I saw many young people applying for very few min wage jobs in the town I where attended collage, esp at the beginning of the semester. It was a small town, so it was just supply and demand in that particular town. I didn't see that during the summer when I moved back to the city where my parents lived.
@@ggstatertots my dad and my aunt could go to Stanford for $2000 a semester in the 70s and get an actual education. Now, you will be flipping burgers the rest of your life to pay for the student loan debt you got in a bullshit field like “g-nd-r studies.”
"When I was young, no one died of allergies."
"No. They just died suddenly and mysteriously and no one bothered to find out why."
I've had so many frustrating conversations with dumb baby boomer managers in the workplace who have no idea that they are treating their employees like servants. They are oblivious to how overworked, underpaid, and burnt out they are because they are forcing them to jump through hoops out of sheer laziness.
Screw boomers they don't care if people get overworked to death screw them
I couldn't imagine working under baby boomer managers when they were younger say in their 40-50's. Yes they treat everyone like their subjects - they are the Leo generation afterall.
that the way they were treated. I am pretty sure Dumb isn't the word. They didn't make it this far in life by being dumb.
"...they are treating their employees like servants." I'm not quite sure what this means, since servants could be treated very well or very badly. But how should junior employees be treated by senior managers? Should they be treated as experts who have it all figured out?
"Why do the younguns hate us so much?"
Milennials and Gen Z are blamed for problems that existed decades before we did. We're mocked when we say "please stop with the insults and the blame shifting. Clearly... none of it is helping". Oh and straight out of the womb we're expected to fix problems so numerous, simple day to day activities make all of them worse. Problems so big and so serious that their mere existence breeds new problems every second of everyday *(trust me, yes they all do, and more than you think at a time).*
You guys eat tide pods. Nuff said.
@@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488 It makes sense that you're joking about the situation since you're closer to death then I am in terms of sheer age and don't have to deal with a slowly dying ecosystem like gen z does.
Since boomers and gen x tend to see themselves as smarter and wiser millennials and gen z, you'd think they'd have the mindset to preserve the planet best they can so at the very least they're blameless.
Instead they use their knowledge to make the problems worse, to the point where it seems impossible to solve said problems.
But no... let tide pods be the focus here. Clearly more important than drinkable water and breathable air.
"Oh but to fix the problems, we got to leave the comfortable life style behind and put in the work to rebuild it all. What about the countless families and children that will be affected by that drastic change?"
First, the children the ones also aware of the situation and are actively helping with it. Second, it's that drastic change or the only planet we're able to breathe on. I won't condemn you if you choose that comfortable lifestyle over the planet, but beware of those who don't have the same train of thought.
@@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488 bish 3 kids out of entire generation, that the best you got? God how miserable you must be to find 1 reason to validate hating an entire generation.
Gen Y does not hate boomers.
Gen Y did the occupy wallstreet movement and grew up as a generation.
Grouping Gen Y with Gen Z is hilarious as Gen Y hates Gen Z.
You will not catch a 30yr old millennial in any way shape or form associating with Gen Z or their ideologies.
I know you are Gen Z.. do not speak for your elders please.
keep in mind there is a class of people out there that keeps gaslighting segments of society
I'm a millennial. I care absolutely zero percent about climate change and don't put my kids in government schools, so they will have zero fear of school shootings, just a healthy distrust of taxes and government mandates.
this is cringe :|
Every time this generational argument starts all I can ask is who raised us and who abandoned us to figure this s*** out on our own? For a critical mass of us the generational trauma is immense. Until that's remedied we are doomed.
I like gen X more than boomers. My parents are Gen X
gen xers are less brain dead and more capable of critical and logical thinking and silent generations werent brain dead and fully capable
I don't talk to people generally, because:
A: they don't listen. They want to talk and have you listen, and if you don't fit into the conversation organically that they are trying to have, then you don't get to speak.
B: Most of them have little to no knowledge of what they are speaking about, and refuse to acknowledge or value the research that I try to bring to the discussion.
c: There's no clear definitions for words anymore. Words are allowed to be their own antonym, and that makes communication frustrating unless I consume the same media influences which I typically don't.
Huge emphasis on C. That's the one I run into the most by far
Your comment is so refreshing and I wanna thank ya.
True their the same fools that came up with ignorance is bliss
@J Kim I don't care for racism. You have no acceptance from me.
Again Gen X is viewed as irrelevant.
It's like they don't even exist.
As a Gen-Xer. That’s a good thing. Leave us out of this silly nonsense.
What-everrr.
I’m a Gen X’r and I’m totally fine not “existing” 😆
Gen X and boomers overlap a lot politically but Gen X'r are more into counter culture, less religious and have a more blackpilled view of the world. that's what i've noticed as a millennial with young gen X'r parents and young boomer grandparents
yes becouse you arent ending world, if world wasnt ending and this terrible, maybe we would had more time to learn abaut you
Not only Millenials and gen Z.....Gen X hate them to death.