The White Baby Boomers Had So Much Money
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My Dad was a little too old to be a boomer, but wasn't that far off in age. He went to UC Berkeley and was able to pay his tuition as he went to school working a part time job as a waiter. He said it cost $66/semester back then.
I've spoken to several older folks who estimated their college tuition (not books and fees) at " a hundred or so dollars a quarter/semester"...at top tier public universities. What's happened to the university system in terms of cost and debt is a harbinger of doom if ever there was one - we're "building the second story with bricks from the first"
a teacher i had went to Berkeley, they said their was a student walkout over tuition increases from 25 to 30 dollars.
I did research on my fathers tuition bills, im looking at the pdf file on the colleges website of all the tuition rate increases. My dad still believes its all exactly the same as 50 yrs ago.
Sounds like your dad and mine may know each other.
And finally, boomers eventually took over the schools and substantially raised the costs to benefit themselves.
Truth is black Baby Boomers had millions of great paying union jobs. It is never talked about, but Detroit and most northern cities were full of very well off middle class black families. Unions are the great leveler.
Yes indeed. My father was in the navy during the Korean War and got a house as soon as he came hike. He was the 1st black person in that neighborhood. He was Philadelphia's 1st black public transportation manager in the 60s. We had both parents in the home with a car and garage. We traveled every summer and went to academic plus schools. My parents both had college degrees, as did my their parents and all of their siblings.
The fall of the black middle class happened after the civil rights movement and the fall of the unions during the Reagan years.
@@Camie.in.Philly Love your story.
Unions are the answer, nothing else really compares. It changes everything. Suddenly, life opens up.
@@Camie.in.Philly Republicans killed off the advances of blacks and poor whites. It was terrible timing for blacks. Republicans gained power as blacks were getting on their feet.
🎯That's why they got rid of the powerful unions.
@@happygrandma4ruthP No, they got rid of unions to make more profit. Race had nothing to do with it.
I think that’s what really gets me about so many Baby Boomers, not that they generally had it easier than those before and after them. But their refusal to realize and admit it.
If you listen to this clown talking he's talking about those idiots that went to college that's where they got screwed up at. 1940 5.5% of the US population had a four year degree by 1970 only 14.1% of them had a college degree. That means 86% of the Boomers were not down with those College idiots and how they thought. Remember this the parents of the boomers are the ones that lived through the Great Depression and many of the parents were very frugal had a very good work ethic and instilled that into their children this guy has a very narrow picture. America was booming after World War II because of the destruction in Europe and other countries we actually held 75% of the world's manufacturing capability. And the world was trying to rebuild itself. Not only that at the end of World War II America had 50% of the world's gold. This man is intellectually dishonest and has painted a far too large of a brush stroke about the ideas and attitudes of the Boomers. I was born in 1962 I understand perfectly what both sides of my parents went through what both sides my grandparents went through my grandparents would have been the people that produced the Boomers. As for economic and environmental issues nobody even heard of those things they were never discussed. The generalities that he is making about the Baby Boomers actually occur at the beginning of Generation X and they get all you can get attitude that started in the late seventies and went on through the 80s. Who are the parents of the Millennials Generation Z who in turn are the parents of Generation Z.
It depends on which level of the social spectrum you were born into . Many boomers grew up in less then affluent environments and found their way through hard work and initiative. Some fell by the way . Some were born with a silver spoon in their mouth and did whatever they did and some of them fell by the way . Just like now .
@@daisydukes8252 interest rates that peaked in the 80’s and have been relatively low ever since. College wasn’t astronomical and you didn’t need a degree for entry level jobs. Quit acting like baby boomers had it worse than other generations
Me too. If they just admitted how easy it was for them an acknowledged how much harder it is now and stopped calling us lazy, workshy etc I would be okay with it.
@Daisy dukes interest rates on houses are 4/5 times higher now
These interviews from the 90's have become an incredibly invaluable resource and insight into what's led up to the current generational clash.
boomer Clinton signing permanent trade with China is what sent all manufacturing overseas. never forget that.
I am a very early gen x, but I love young people, think many have great attributes, and feel sad for them.
Yo! Skorpyo? Based on a moron's perspective of sound bytes, proves you must be one , too.
@@MsMollah we do appreciate being heard.
Gen X loves the younger generations, and we are listening.
It's nice to hear someone say this. Boomers tend to be so defensive about working harder and longer than anyone else, when all figures say younger people have it much tougher.
I can't even imagine living in a world where anyone who works 40 hours per week gets to own property, raise a family, start a business, and retire. Millennial get to pick one if theyre lucky.
geezusispan oh I'm absolutely fine with blaming capitalism. but electing Nixon and Reagan was egregious by any standard. Setting the stage for every following president to be a war criminal and rent seeker
Hey us Xers had the same shit sammich shoved at us too.
I've worked 40 hours in the past 5 days alone, and it's still not enough to keep my head above water.
I've turned to flipping cars on the side, or the occasional odd job to pay for food once the bills are paid.
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"Well I used to walk 15 miles into town, with old worn out tennis shoes, just to be able to go to school."
Well, good for you gramps, I work my fingers to bone and have very little to show for it, and if I get sick, I might lose my house. So... that 15 mile trek doesn't seem so terrible anymore.
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*edit* Oh, if your looking to blame someone for how far we've fallen as a country.
Look into the banking cartels that control the supply of money throughout the world, throughout history.
Dont blame the plebs for doing what they were guided into doing. Blame the people funding the guidance.
WeThePeopleAreFucked dont hate the player hate the game
Getting work that provides 40 hours for many is one of the choices to pick from itself.
Late to the game Boomer here. Born right at the tail end. Graduated HS just in the middle of high-inflation and the death of the American manufacturing sector. Was told all through school that I could start out in the mailroom of a large company (no degree required), and if I worked hard enough I could someday become vice-president of the company the way my uncle did after WWII.
What pisses me off about those who preceded me by 5 or 10 years was hypocritical nature of the social protest moments. Those involved were all for championing the rights of others and pointing out social injustice until the Vietnam War ended and the draft was abolished. Then everyone went dancing. Now we find ourselves dealing with the same exact issues as we did in 1971
Well, maybe you're not a late Boomer but an early Xer?
Some say the Baby Boom ended in 1960, others say it was 65. Along as I do not have to listen and like '80s hair band music, I'm cool with either designation
@Brian Mino 1963 here. My sister was '65.
I was also born at 4:21 AM, so not only did I miss out on the Boomer gravy-train, but I was minute late for 420
@@DavidRexGlenn Sure thing. I was never into the hairbands either, always preferring the heavier, slower and bluesier sound of hard rock when it came to metal music, and then I spent my entire adolescence in the eighties. But if you as an early sixties specimen has a thing for the Synth-Punk-New Wave-New Romantics complex it does add tremendously to your Xer credentials.
Boomer: When i was your age I was working already.
Also boomer: Sorry but you need experience to work here
MrRafaelBCK so true hahah
I'm a boomer and was told the exact same thing. This guy has a romanticized vision of history.
@@williameason1194 Same here, starting in the 1970s.
most boomers are dying out now.
How true it is
The boomers, my parents, are STILL like this and they're 78. Still. I'm an old gen-xer and my siblings and I are still waiting for them to grow up. I'll die waiting.
The oldest boomer is 73.
You are messed up . You should be happy to have parents and you probably still live in their home.
ainsworth501 That’s not really true. My Dad is a baby boomer and he’s 78. There is a bit of overlap. I’m GenX, my Grandparents were Greatest Generation, so naturally my parents were Boomers.
It’s not down to a single year whether you are a boomer or not. Generations are more descriptive of people of an era. Technicalities miss the point.
It's a Existence
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I don’t know why I watch stuff like this, it makes me so mad and solves absolutely nothing.
You're right Roddy. I'm starting to feel the same way and I'm starting to think that maybe it's time to ease back from watching these videos - or at least ease back from reading the comments section.
same. i am trapped.
What in particular about these videos upsets you, if you don't mind my asking?
I am watching this cause I am in between jobs, bored no weed and parents driving me crazy. When I get the first two back I will listen to music instead.
Mrjmaxted0291 The fact that a generation could live such a privileged life. At the core it’s plain ol jealousy because people evolve so damn slowly.
The sooner we can establish, factually, that the cost of living has gone up, and the world has gotten smaller, the sooner we can move on.
Excuse me? Go read up on it. The facts are all around you. Joker.
I love these interviews David. Really.
Thank you so much.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
Once our Baby Boomer relatives gave us younger ones a talk about how slack and soft the new generations are. Several noted that when they wanted to go to college back in 1965-72 era they worked their way through! They were no softies! The aunt explained she worked evening shifts waitressing on the weekend to pay her way through and an uncle noted he 'paid his way through college' by giving tennis lessons on the weekends.
They seemed to have zero awareness how they were describing a comical fantasy world of luxury and ease to any 20-something listening.
We later found out what they meant by "Paid their way through college" was that, in fact, like this man in the vid, they actually went to college for free. Free. nothing, zero. Then they worked 8 hours a weekend to pay for their beer, the new clothes they liked and paid for their own gas and tickets to visit Woodstock or whatever the hell dreamy fun stuff they did.
I totally agree with this guy, what you were seeing was actually 'spoiled rich kids' who were in such affluence that they could indeed quit college and 'drop out' of life to tune out for years and did NOT WORRY about it because, in fact, they'd always land back on some easier streets, find a job somewhere, have enough family help, take up with 100 other opportunities later. They had that incredible luxury.
Thank you for sharing this. It’s HILARIOUS!
Did you ever confront them about the truth?
You are 100% right. Great comment, cause it's so true. You could still halfway do that till about 2000. I know, because I had 5 jobs at one time in college ( back when you could actually pay it without a loan). Even some of my generation x don't get it🤷🏻♀️. I feel so bad for gen z, they got nothing but they still try. I will stick up for boomers on 1 thing. They were rebelling because of authoritarian style parenting. They never got a chance to emotionally mature and develop as children, and got real childish when they could. Their parents were the worst parents of all time.
Btw, my mom worked a mafia restaurant a couple hours a week to pay college. Like 10 hours. And would get $20 and $100 dollar(70's money) tips for getting the mafia guys cigarettes. 🤣 What a struggle!
@@jc.1191 A Boomer recently recalled having to pay.. brace for this: $400 a year for college. Yes, that was 1970 but even if you do the inflation math it makes you laugh out loud. I've also heard another make sure to emphasize it was no easy life because they had to get by with roommates as if that isn't normal life for middle-aged people now in that same city.
People used to study Boomers. Now everybody just hates them.
What is SCREWING everyone is INFLATION and offshoring of jobs and industries. NOBODY of ANY generation has been vigilant on that one. People should DEMAND the Government and the Fed STOP creating "money" out of thin air and THROWING it at the Wall Street Banks and the Stuck Market. But there are just too many football games on TV.
A correction is coming soon though, watch out for THAT. *As Milton Friedman said, "Inflation is the cruelest Tax of all"* BB
Here here
@@bobburnitt1411 Well said Bob! Unfortunately very few will listen to you.
"People used to study Boomers. Now everybody just hates them". Oh really? You've never met but you hate me anyway? Try to put your hate into action if you meet me someday and see what happens to you. Be careful of people who have nothing to lose anymore.
@@Thulesmann Watcha gonna do
They didn't grow up with "expectation," but "entitlement." That is, entitlement to everything. Everything for ourselves, and nothing for anyone else.
What are you, born in the 30s?
Yes, exactly and in old age, they've gotten more dependent and expect everyone to take care of them when they didn't want to do shit for the next generations.
@@HomeBummingit No, in the last 25 years. With student debt ballooning; banks, speculators and private equity pricing the housing market out of reach; crony capitalism robbing the Treasury blind; offshoring and stock buybacks running rampant; and wages suppressed to maximize shareholder profits (despite workers yielding record productivity), millenials are screwed. When the next bubble bursts, the bankers and hedge funds are in for a big shock if they think they can socialize their debt and privatize their profits. How long can you keep the masses stupid enough to accept a system that robs them blind?
@@robgoren8628 94, That was a good year for me. I lived on my sister's couch, was going Jr College, practiced martial arts, worked part time in the Audio Visual department, it was 16hr days of fun. You don't live like that your entire life. Growing old is not for the weak.
@@HomeBummingit I'm missing your point.
I'm a millennial working 80 hours a week, and yet to most boomers, I'm still considered lazy.
Not to me. you are really putting in those hours.
David Hoffman Filmmaker
I've been working my management job since my early 20's (10+ years) and also work a part time valet job. I make almost as much money doing the valet i'm not giving it up lol.
You guys could tell them that you work 168 hours a week and they'll still say it's not enough. Lol
The big problem with Boomers also was they weren't really good parents. Letting there kids stay up till 3:00am on school nights, seeing there children constantly depressed or stressed and ignoring it instead of giving advice like go to the gym or learn a instrument, never giving them time limit on T.V, Videogames or anything electronic. Letting them have drinking problems. Giving children no discipline or never teaching your kid because it's hard is a horrible way to parent. Showing that as long as you have money you can act as awful as possible is also bad. It's showing a kid you don't need any morals in life. This is all horrible parenting.
You are doing what you can. Fuck them.
It's interesting that the generation who pioneered against the status quo and wanted independence to live their lives the way THEY wanted to became the antithesis of what they claimed they stood for. It's either that or those who didn't rebel became the ones in power today, which is what I'm becoming increasingly inclined to believe.
Caleb M Yeah, I think it’s the latter. Hippies were prominent as a social force, but they were far from the majority. My parents are boomers, and they told me they didn’t really identify with the hippie thing-it felt like something only rich kids could afford to do.
Yes agreed. Probably, those who rebel get suppressed by gov/society/tptb, so those who arselick their way up, will end up having some form of "human society power". They have no personal power though often and underdeveloped personalities.. You will find that all things behave like this. You too develop into your opposite. If your gen X, you develop from powerlessness to immanence. Gen Y develops from ego-death to transcendence.. Gen Z started out with fear (911, the mindcontrol of the postmilennial times which is pure fear porn) and they will attain fearlessness! Maybe even a form of deathlessness, who knows. These polar opposites are always one thing. Time shows them from different aspects ;^)
@John Carosi Agreed, without the hippies we would have much less selfreflection. A lot opened up which was good.. Cultural influences from india and other inputs, often occult, changed culture forever.. The hippies, existentialism and (consensual) sex! I am greatful that the cultural paradigm finally shifted away from the xtian background. Now a third of all women in the west do yoga.. Better than sitting like hens in the church haha! There are issues i have with the boomers, but if it werent for the hippies, the only indian influence on the west from there would have come from ppl like shopenhauer and the Ludendorffs, haha! And i am also greatful for really good california sunshine i once had..
My uncle was drafted into vietnam, my dad a bit later. But he dodged the draft and escaped to switzerland after he was at woodstock, and now i live! YAY! So while economically i dont think the boomers have been a healthy influence lately, culturally the hippies were needed. All things turn into their opposites over time, haha.. The real question then becomes what kinda flavours u like. The altright part of the gen Y is kinda like a backflash from the cold war era.. Gen Y can attain transcendence, but they dont, because they are obsessed now with looksmaxing, fake beards, gluing ratpelts on their bald heads, and think the west needs again more xtianity.. They wont look inside, so they remain poor inside.. And angry.. And society acts as if it wouldnt know why there are so many angry white men... Its not just because of 3rd wave feminism, its also because of materialism. The issue of my gen, is to find the why.. Those who dont look inside, fail..
I would love to have seen the sixties.. Sex drugs and rock`n`roll! The postmodern is grey and cold.. maybe even pathetic.
I think it's the latter. I don't most people in that generation that supported the liberal movements of that time suddenly did a 180° in the 80s by becoming conservative. Just like with every generation, you have some people who did and still do want things to be better (the environment, money, LGBTQ rights, racial equality, feminism, etc.) for not only themselves, but for future generations too, and then you had people who are/were the opposite. Not all baby boomers are the same.
The young people in the hippie movement in the 60s probably have the same views today.
Boomers literally had $10 000 a year more than millennials at the SAME AGE and yes its adjusted for inflation!
From Leo: In the 1970's it was expected to show up and work your but off every day AND work mandatory overtime. Four millennials trainees were hired last week and three didn't even show up all of the first 5 days, and the forth went home early on Friday and did not show up Monday morning. That could explain how boomers made $10K more annually when the minimum wage was $2.10 than millennials when the minimum wage is $7.25. btw; entry level training pay for the four new hire trainees was $10.50
@@barbmelle3136 $10 000 accounted for inflation. Do you boomers really not get how backwards our economy has become?
@@barbmelle3136 $10.50 an hour is a joke though you cant survive on that unless you are still living with your parents. Even if you worked 60 hours a week at that wage once you add up the cost of basic things a normal functioning person should have like food, small apartment (shelter), car insurance, health insurance, ect... it just doesn't cover it. You cant expect to have reliable healthy respectable reliable employees that show up to work clean everyday if they are living like homeless people out of a car or struggling to keep their head above water.
@@GnarshredProductions Entry level jobs NEVER paid comfortable living wages, ever. That is the job you take because you do not have any marketable skills to generate wealth. Entry level jobs allow you to eat while you are gaining live experience and a skill set. No generation ever showed up and made a good wage when first entering the market. BTW I in fact DID live in a car at 17, worked my way into an apartment where rent was split 6 ways, developed skills and work ethic, paid my way into school starting one class at a time, wearing clothes from the goodwill store. Often walked or rode the bus, used a payphone. No $7 lattes, no concert tickets. Worked two jobs for many years. Never quit applying myself to be better. Retired making 6 figures. I have proven it can be done, you have a list of excuses.
@@shesh2265 What are you trying to say? Your comment does not address your subject or my answer. BTW 1976-1980 was double digit inflation AND double digit unemployment, we watched our earning shrink on a weekly basis. I assure you boomers understand inflation.
I’m GenX and have hated Boomers since the early 90s when they referred to my generation as “slackers”. Glad Boomer hate has had a bigger resurgence this time around. Worst generation ever!
Phart Gen Xers were there since the 80s.
I haven't thought about it too much but I remember boomers as slackers. You know, smoking grass and groovin'. I wonder what changed it. Maybe it got boring. I like drifting and seeing what's around the next corner. It never gets as boring as security gets to me.
Hector Roman - Yes they were there in the 80s as kids and teens not as people making decisions for the country
Seriously deranged people blaming boomers on every note. If all the good ideas have been hatched you are all doomed. Please get a brain. Know there is time for change still. Bunch of damn haters. I’m Gen x and what a spoiled lot they are! Whining about Boomers...
@@ownedbymykitty270 not really there are older than that a person born in 1965 which is Gen X was already 18 in 1983 and mostly in there 20s during the second half of the decade not all the boomer cohort identified as boomers those born in the tail end had more in common with Gen X than Boomers. Mainly the older hippie cohort are the guilty ones and even younger boomers dont like them. People are getting more stupid to the day . Gen X is alot older and influencial before Nirvana entered. You are a late Gen Xer because many heard music before the 90s started I think late 90s were more influencial for millennials than Gen Xers. And the 90s there was more greed and income inequality than in the 80s just that 80s was starting that trend. Bill Clinton a boomer became President of the U.S many rich people and corporates became wealthier than entire countries while mainly the poor & middle class lived in the same conditions.
RUclips doing good work for putting this into the Recommended list
Baby Boomers have been the most lenient, spoiled upbringing.
I have no respect for people who condemn without judging with love. That includes those boomers close to me.
Matthias Schwalbach I guess you would actually know because you were there?
Matthias Schwalbach I guess you would actually know because you were there?
Get lost
Matthias Schwalbach nope
How do you know this?So, you think everyone that grew up, 1946-1964, is spoiled needy littlesnot shits that got everything and parade around as if there was a struggle?A struggle to get drugs, to get concert tickets, to get laid, to drop out of society and then drop back in and get to hand pick a fantastic future?Is that what you think?Seems to me YOU'RE living large, you look large. I hardly think your current existence has been one of hardship, of lack of comfort. I'm a boomer and I don't respect each and everyone one of my generation. Yes, there are a lota bad boomer that got everything they've ever wanted through default.But that's not every boomer.
Wow. Just wow. @3:03 is something I've always suspected about that era. Imagine trying "dropping out" today. Fantastic analysis that holds up today.
Yes many people drop out of society today simply because they cannot find a job. Only the wealthy can afford to drop out because they have a bank account to take with them.
For my Boomer parents it was opposite sides, but in the end they both came out on top. My dad was born outside of Philly and his dad worked in the factory while my grandmother worked in the bank downtown. His dad was never there for him and they never really had much money. My dad worked and paid for his braces, his college, and masters in business. Had very low interest rate loans so debt wasn't crushing him. My mom was born in rural hill country of Texas, central Texas outside Austin. Grandfather grew up poor and worked for the highway department and grandmother was a 1st grade teacher starting in 1966. My grandparents counted every penny and even though they never earned more than 50,000 adjusted for inflation, they were able to send my mom off to college and masters program and my uncle to college and medical school. They were able to retire at 50 in 1982 for my grandfather and 1984 for my grandmother. Eventually for my parents, my dad found his job at the FDIC in 1989 and worked there until he retired in 2018. My mother was a special education teacher and then diagnostician testing children who qualify for special education. She retired in 2018 too. They are set financially for the rest of their lives. My dad has his federal pension and 401K. The first thing he did was cash out his vacation days and bought himself a 2019 Camry hybrid. He's not taking Social Security until he hits 70 which includes an extra 40% due to him not taking it at 65. My mother has her pension. So my Boomer parents are fine. They saved their money and were wise with it so they never ever have to touch their nest egg. My dad always jokes but he's right that the younger generations like me are going to work until they die. He's right because 60% of Americans have less than $2000 in savings. Most of them are living paycheck to paycheck. Just like the Boomers, their parents vote so they can enjoy their Medicare and Social Security. If you want to change that then vote because my parents are going to vote and continue to do so until they die.
I love this.
Vote. OK. Vote for who? Vote for what?
this man just described my parents 🤣. its definitely narcissism that boomers seem to have
idk bro a lot of boomers are like that, but you're probably just some edgy kid lookin to raionalize his teenage hatred of his parents. your parents are actually gen x if you're younger than 20
idk bro a lot of boomers are like that, but you're probably just some edgy kid lookin to raionalize his teenage hatred of his parents. your parents are actually gen x if you're younger than 20
@@paccawacca4069 Make that 25 to 30,if Gen X means born 1965 or after.
Narcissism, entitlement, immaturity, laziness.............
Elena Pietrafesa Well,I've met people of all ages with traits like those you mention but let's see now. I don't think I'm narcissistic and I'm paying my mortgage (nearly completed now) and other obligations out of my own earnings so how am I entitled? I've no desire to act like some old fogey to fit my age's stereotypes but I run my own show and take care of my own affairs - do you? There have been plenty of times when I've had to forgo rushing out and buying the latest gear and doing the things I want for the longer-term picture. And I'm working full time (including Saturday and Sunday shifts this weekend) in a job that requires a bit of physical exertion despite having a broken toe which the doctor told me to stay at home and rest,so in my case I call BS on your claim of laziness,too. I was born in late 1964 by the way,so I'm just the boomer side of Gen Xer. A lot of people my age seem to have suddenly forgotten what the were like in their own youths and start criticising younger generations in the same way that their elders criticised them. But,hey,keep believing what you believe if it makes you feel better about yourself. At a younger age probably not far from yours I saw in the hangups of others older than me the negative in going through life carrying bitterness around,so I refused to do so. Instead I'll carry on ploughing my own furrow,without any need to wish ill upon others,as I look for that pot of gold at the end of my rainbow.
Baby boomers were just doing what was allowed. Things should have never changed! We should ALL be able to have affordable housing, medical insurance, retire with a pension, and everything else they have. There are plenty of people to take over the boomers spots when they retire. There are only a few boomers to blame, and it's those in our govt, banks; and big businesses.
“I went to college for free”...
And they wonder why we hate them...
Just to be clear with you about that statement. The federal government, under the Eisenhower administration in the late 1950s, created a huge program to support students going to college largely to study the sciences. This was a reaction to the Russians launching Sputnik and the fear that created in America. I am a student who went to school on a scholarship created by those programs in 1959. The programs were not created by baby boomers but they were the beneficiaries if they studied certain subjects which the government felt America needed in order to compete with the Soviet Union.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
I know that the GI bill also helped people go to college, but that was after WWII.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker thank you for setting the record straight. Science was revered then but today seems to be under attack. I only remember various State Universities being tuition free upon acceptance but I personally had GI Bill. I don't consider that free either as putting your life on the line is earned.
@Johnny Tramain neither do I as nothing is free.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker And? You benefited from a system that was kept in place due to the Cold War; incredibly lucky.
So....They really Did absolutely Squander and Destroy EVERYTHING.
I don't think so
Yes
Pretty much
YES THEY DID!!!🤬‼️
@@Junior_Rockyit’s the fiat banking system. This anti boomer stuff is a Psyop to get people to turn against their own flesh and blood. The Federal reserve was created in 1913….
So eloquent and well said. Presents a complex view. Love your stuff David! Thanks for your work!
thank you for the comment. Indeed he is presenting a complex point of view. When I interviewed him, I found his analyses interesting and unusual.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
Wish i grew up in the boomer generation lmao, i would have saved up and bought so much property and got a job with high pay and awesome pension... now i either have to find a government job or make millions if i want to retire...
Boomers should be defined differently. I was born in 1959, am called a Boomer by demographers, but my experience is radically different than these people in your videos.
Yes we boomers had money for sure
I have friends who saved and invested
They are both millionaires now
I in turn spent my money on fast cars and ex-wives
Boy did I learn a lesson
Save your money and learn to be happy with what you have
The most boomer statement I’ve ever heard
Save what money?
@@spencerweedman2790 for real haha
Don Dressel sounds like you lived the more happy life sir
Its possible to do both you jus dumb
The spoiled boomers' affluent and permissive culture so prevalent among suburbia did not as a rule include or represent rural America's farm-raised youth.
Sure, but the Boomers were the first generation to be heavily raised in the suburbs. In other words, older generations were far more likely to have had a rural upbringing.
Nor did it represent 70% of boomers in Europe, but they get lumped in with a certain group of the North American upper middle class.
@@ryanjacobson2508 The greatest generation sold off family farms and went into suburbia and worked for corporations instead of on family farms, so in a way they sold out their heritage and put the boomers on the bad road ahead.
I agree with everything that you've stated in this video, except for one qualifying comment. This was not at all true for women. Women did not have these opportunities in the 40s and 50s. Some went to college, not many. They were only able to choose from a few professions. Women were sort of a long four for the ride in terms of getting married and having children and being expected to be on board with that and that that was their happiness. It wasn't until the 1960s and 1970s that these things began to be questioned by women by women. I remember the 1970s being fraught with conflict over women's roles. How they were changing and the upsets surrounding that. So everything you're saying during this time period was certainly true for men and almost completely untrue for women.
"We went to college for free, we got good jobs without a H.S diploma, partied and had fun and lived life". Well, "we" had to change standards to secure our own interests for the better.
Yuppie greed...
they crashed wall street in 1987 and lead us into a recession 20 years later.
The perspectives of the past are so fascinating to me. Found one of your videos and just cant seem to stop watching these videos lol. Great work here keeping small parts of the changing times on your channel. Very interesting videos of times even before me.
Thank you Alex.
David Hoffman filmmaker
I love how baby boomers will often talk about how much harder stuff was back then, how it was tough for them growing up. And then a minute later they say it was such a great time to grow up, how things were so much better then. Its like, choose one, bozo. Or just say it was both good and bad. Or just shut up, thats always an option lol.
Really depends, like it was way harder being a women/minority in the 60's than it is now but with the economy it was a pretty smooth ride
@@cyber-bully5063how was it harder being a woman? One wage could take care of a family and most women could stay home. Now the vast majority of women HAVE to work to make ends meet even if they have a man that works.
I’m gen x and for 25 years I’ve been following behind these boomers wondering: why do you need to consume sooooooo much? McMansions, bmws, haagen Dazs, jet skis, vacation homes, fancy juicers, treadmills… my god, how much crap do you boomers need????
A 'society that would catch you and sustain you', rather than discard you and blame you. How novel.
Cannot wait for the rest... thank you!
They had their parents to fall back on. They're parents paid for their college, bought them cars, gave them or put money towards a house for them. They became entitled and that attitude has carried on into their senior years. I will say this, the baby boomers that became adults in the 60s were way different than the ones who became adults in the 70s. The ones that became adults in the 60s are the ones who have that "entitled" attitude and believe me I know, I worked and lived around them. As employees, they are lazy as hell and are extremely dependent. All you hear are stories of how "We had fun" and "We fucked our brains out". Of course, you had fun because you didn't have to work much. The previous generations built the economy from the ground up to where there were jobs and stability all over. Today many collect Social Security that they didn't even put anything into. When they became teachers in our public schools they started teaching Socialism. A baby boomers attitude towards their kids is "You're on your own" and that attitude had created separations in families. You would think that a generation that was for equal rights, peace, and was anti-war would make good leaders in government. No, it didn't happen.
"this" makes some sense
Today if you suggest kids work you get called a socialist or a trumptard. In some small I way I envy them and hope for the best, because it would have been awesome to fuck our brains out and have fun. In some small way we worked really hard to provide that for them.
But sorry bucko, you're on your own, and clean your fucking room. Goddamn millennials. Im so fucking sorry that half a million of our parents went and died defeating the Nazis and keeping Communism in check, and another 4 million lost limbs or came up unable to work, opening up highly industrialized factories that were funded for the war effort to women and a huge generation of well paid workers, so that they could give us a life of freedom and liberty, that we spent working our goddamn asses off so we could sit around and watch everything we ever wanted to watch on television.
Get a fucking job.
I think you are pissed off because you can't get any P***Y. BB
@@bobburnitt1411 nice
@@bobburnitt1411 Thats what Tinder is for. You're welcome.
In the 50's and 60's, public meant free: museums, parks, sports, school, etc; which is the way it should be in a democracy; then Reagan came along and privatized the public sector.
How did he do that?
Because it costs taxpayer money. You want low taxes you have low spending. You want good public services you have to pay for it one way or the other.
He never said they had so much money. He said affluence. Largely he is correct, pockets of the population experienced this. I did.
Affluence means just upper middle class really
My Mom (Boomer) squandered all her inheritance (7 digits) from my Grandpa (Greatest) and left me nothing but some old photos. (X).
Sounds about right. Live high and leave nothing but a dumpster fire of debt in their wake. A disgusting percent of Boomers who are going to leave money behind are actively planning their estates to leave the money to animal shelters etc instead of their kids and grandkids. What a selfish, disgusting, horrible group.
Us spoiled GenXer's are in no way going to have the comforts of our middle class childhoods without being multi-millionaires. The size of the houses of a middle class home were very big, lower working class people had bigger houses than the middle class of today.
Go try to rent a cheap 1 bedroom apartment in Little Italy where we saw Robert Deniro's Corleone live in the Godfather. Or try to live in a 4 bedroom Victorian house in Boulder, Colorado or a funky 2 bedroom adobe house in Santa Fe, New Mexico. These were where lower middle class people lived when I was a kid in the 70s and 80's. Yeah the houses needed work but they still do now!
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The problems run more deep than blaming it on liberals, but acknowledging that might rock the hierarchy so I understand if you're too scared to go there.
This is the condominium problem: paying the price of a house for an apartment: too much!
My father bought a house, went to school for near nothing, had a well paying job, never needed to learn to use a computer. Me? No house, college costs a lifetime to pay off, no well paying jobs available, practically need to become a computer genius by parent's standards. We're the most FUCKED GENERATION EVER.
and the sad thing is that you probably won't even inherit that house.
And your father’s peers had to go to a technology school to learn computer science. Today it’s standard equipment in everyone’s pocket.
That was my mom and dad. We were middle class and you never talked about selling and moving up. They worked really hard their entire lives putting in at least 25 years. Of-course they hated their jobs.
I can't remember either of them calling out sick.
They were raised from The Great Generation era that endured 2 world wars and The Great Depression.
There were morals and value.
Everyone smoked and thought they were Humphrey Bogart.
Regular Americans could actually get ahead.
I never heard of someone being laid off growing up.
We never went to the doctors.
I wish we had that kind of stability today.
Wow! That’s all I can say. The recently posted “short” led me here. This is quite interesting, and it validates some things I’ve been thinking all along about the Baby Boomers. Thanks for introducing me to Dr. Roszak!!! You never cease to amaze or disappoint!
A lot of people in that generation bring up the fact that they had to work for a car or for college etc. well obviously ALL generations work. But the differences is that all other generations , especially the ones following aren’t seeing ANY payout for their work.
And on top of that the boomer generation has been guiding and shaping the policies that have pulled all the resources into their specific age group.
everyone seems really good at blaming others these days.
wro4582 but EVERY generation blames the boomers
It's classic divide and rule.
Jeremy,you're spitting your dummy out a bit here.
As far as I grew up in 50's and 60's he lived on a different planet. My life was nothing as he describes. My parents were never permissive and can not imagine being wasteful and not working with and with in the family. But we had what we needed and enough to give to others. We were taught to budget, not be wasteful. . Do your best. Honor your Mother and Father. Love your country, Obey your teachers. Be polite and be thoughtful of others. Work for what you want learn to save.
Farm raised probably, larger family than average, poorer also… not the average 2.5 kids suburban American he’s talking about. Still, how many of your brothers/sisters stayed with their parents ? At what age did you become a homeowner? How much did it cost ? College ? See those two thing is already half a million at best in debt, you could never make that money today, compare it to your days… same with the wages but the opposite way.
This is an insane amount of knowledge crammed into 6 minutes.
He's really talking about the attitudes of the professional/middleclass. My background was working class and the sky was not the limit.
Not necessarily. Depending on where you lived, you could get a good job with just a HS diploma. You could get a little 🏠 with a min. wage job. Rent was cheap as well. You could get a very good used 🚘, as they generally lasted 30 yrs., unlike today’s 10 at the most on avg.
Dude you could go to school with McDonald's money back then. Even the milkman could afford to buy a house. The sky didn't have to be the limit, but you could at least live the american dream. Now that only applies to rich kids growing up today. Your generation sold us out to China for a few extra bucks.
Reminds me of Richard Feynman! I'm only 10 seconds in.. Somebody run out of props for my life?
Folks are painting with way too broad of a brush here. If you grew up on a challenged family farm in the Midwest or the South and went to night school after work for college, it was a very different life. I had never known anyone who attended college before I started. The idea of moving to a college town to attend a four year college full time was beyond our expectations, and our wildest dreams. We had no expectation of our parents or anyone else paying for it. I felt lucky to get to go nights, but I had family members who resented it.
I am a late model boomer and I struggled to put myself through college in the 1980s and 1990s. I then struggled to find meaningful employment through the late 1990s and in the 2000s. My parents, both born in the late 1930s, didn’t always have it easy.
Pure gold. Thank you for this very interesting clip.
This guy needs to replace his generational analysis with a class analysis
This was 1990; there wasn't enough mainstream proof that this was part of a larger class-based whole instead of a generational thing. Fringe theories noticed this, but they were considered tinfoil-hat fantasies.
@@joekim3307 Right, but it's Marx; people tended to disregard everything he said reflexively from at least the mid-20th century on, and Captains of Industry tried to discredit him since before he even died.
The Affluent Society was a book by economist John Kenneth Galbraith, where he advocated creating a "public investment economy" by sending everyone to college and spending on professors, teachers, social workers, etc... Published in 1958, it served as a sort of rough blueprint for the Great Society, and was written in a time of sharply declining rates of poverty, increasing wages, decreasing public debt, and a solid industrial base. The money is gone now. The future will be much more austere than it was for the Boomer generation - huge public debt, tighter government budgets, no spare money for anything beyond entitlements and debt service, and college graduates with huge debts stuck in low-paid jobs. We took a gamble that education was a better insurance policy against uncertain economic trends than thrift. I think we lost.
I do have an interview with Galbraith in my video clips on my RUclips channel if you search his name.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
Was this recorded on a Betacam SP tape? The reason I ask is because I have severe green artifacting when I playback my Betacam SP recordings and I can't really seem to get them to go away, I am wondering if it's my playback machine (which shows poor channel condition/tracking upon playback), the recorder, or the tapes themselves (which have been recorded over at least once by now). I don't know if I'll find the issue soon.
Roosevelts new deal created these jobs that created the middle class. The boomers were offered union jobs with no education. They flourished. Then the boomers were brainwashed to vote against those same policies that gave them those opportunities. They didn’t care because they were headed for retirement with a pension anyway so they bought into the political bs that saw the end of Detroit and the fall of made in America. Our parents voted our jobs away. And many of them were in the union themselves! Now we have no pensions, no factory jobs and they wonder why we haven’t succeeded on the same level they did. It’s pathetic. Each generation should move onward and upward. We got the shaft.
its easy to see now that the population that had the luxury to go their own way and voice their concerns were blinded by their assumptions that everyone has the same access and securities. these people do need to listen to the groups that dont have but also useful listen to their to position and enjoy the gains to improve norms for all (even if it wasnt intentional) . its like hating on someone only cos they have what you want. come on, if you could magically get all privileges you wanted, any bet you would think the same and quietly accept the benefits
Some are dealt good hands, some not so good. I think, though, that men and women of character tend to move forward with what they have and try to make it better instead of things that don't serve any purpose like blaming others and coveting.
I don't think you are talking about middle class, unless it was the upper middle class. We considered ourselves low to middle, middle class back then; most Americans were considered middle class back in late 40's, 50's & early 60's but we considered ourselves middle, middle class & struggled to make ends meet, & so did most others. We grew & preserved our own vegetables, mushroom hunted, fished for perch in the big lake, smaller pan fish in the smaller lakes & at the cob plant for carp & bullhead. We ate rabbit, kept, killed, plucked & ate our own chickens, their eggs, bought beef tongue, pork chops, pigs knuckles sausage, bacon...we never knew what it was to have beef steak, or shrimp, clam or lobster, nor go to a concert, have a phonograph with records even; we never ate in a restaurant, nor had free college available. We just didn't have the money. We got a new pair of shoes & two new outfits for school in September, another one with new underware on Christmas morning. We never saw a movie in a threatre as a family, just a few times with friends as teens, but we went once a month to the drive-in, a dollar for the entire car full on summer-Tuesday family night. Birthday parties happened at 7, 13, 16 or 21 & it was usually siblings & Mom & Dad & one friend.
Only "upper middle class" had more; they're the ones who got easily bored got spoiled & lost their respect for real truth & common sense, morality & values. Being liberal to us meant being free to make our own decisions according to 'righteousness'... not being free to do anything, like the opposite & to forget about boundaries & limits. Protests in the 60's became the adult child's way to have a fit or temper tantrum & many of their ideas for being liberated crossed a line, a wise, safe line in which many "went to far". """I didn't get a trophy , so give me a freebie one for just being here"""
Since then they continue to deal poorly with consequences bandaid everything, & cling to denial that they "went to far".
A great interview, David!
Thank you Shari.
David Hoffman
I'm a 2nd generation Boomer and this may be true for some but my parents were immigrants who fought the NAZIS. My mom was under Mussoulini and was sick from lack of food. My dad lost everything and only had his clothes. I didn't get spoiled. I worked as a young kid and had a paper route. I didn't get toys, I got a pair of paints and a shirt with maybe an inexpensive bag of plastic toy Soldiers on Christmas and never complained about it. . I had to volunteer for the military to get ahead in life. I worked in the Steel Mills for two years after the service which was a lite duty because I was a Disabled American Veteran, but a very dirty job sweeping up coal dust in the Coke plant. Black fluid would come out my nostrils and I knew that would kill me. I earned my benefits after 41 operations and trying to finish college between surgeries. Wow is this off the mark. Maybe some Boomers were spoiled but when you generalize and put an entire generation in one lump then you are doing an injustice to history.
Ok boomer
@@benjaminmendezz ok little boy .
Yo Benji boy, You are so jealous of Boomer's u want to be one. All your RUclips videos are about lessons from Boomer's on making money. How is the stock market today little boy? Get advise from the Boomer on You Tube . It is about time you move out of mommy 😂😂 and Daddy's house.
Get out in the world and do something with yourself instead of blaming others for your failures
Ok 👌 little boy, Benjamin Martinez, a disrespectful punk. If you were a man and tried to insult me in person I'd knock you out Cold little boy. CAV trained little boy. Stop hiding behind your keyboard punk.
@@benjaminmendezz failure
@@blackhorse11thACR ok boomer
... and then came neoliberalism
Wow, I'm an old Boomer (76) and grew up poor in so cal, first in my family (including aunts & uncles) to graduate HS. We didn't have a life like this interviewer depicts, rather hard work starting at an early age at my dad's gas station.
Your father owned a gas station?
You sir, are brilliant.Thank you for making my day ❤.Greetings from Indonesia
What pisses me off the most even though I got up to a high career position its still not good enough. Never have both my parents said they were proud of my. They lack empathy and refuse to listen. Never had emotional support either. When I prove them wrong or point out their flaws alls they do is yell and ignore me. Not joke like little kid stuff. My father makes 80k and can barely use a computer. I had to help him pay his mortage online. Yet we don't work hard enough. They thought that buying us shit like clothes or materislistic stuff their great parents. Never could talk to them about personal issues. Basically was alone raising myself. Till this day they still act like this. Never take responsibility for anything. Selfish is a kind word. I honestly wont be by their bedside when they die. Thanks for the no guidance or family talks about what you will expect in the future. Figure it out yourself is how it is.
I'm not mad at boomers for hitting the financial jackpot by being born in a prosperous era and going into adulthood during another prosperous era. I know that it's not like they chose to be luckier than other generations (financially I mean specifically), and you shouldn't get mad at people for things like that. Plus, just because you grew up during a better time doesn't mean you'll grow up to become a bad and/or tone deaf person. Some baby boomers are decent people.
However, I do get annoyed when some of these people in that generation (and maybe some of other generations too) pretend that it's easy today to get a job or make/save a lot of money, and they laugh at those who struggle financially or haven't hit certain milestones that they should be hitting at a certain age because they're not privileged enough to. To do that to anyone, regardless of how the economy is, is just a jerk move.
With technology taking over certain jobs that were once for humans and employers becoming pickier and pickier when it comes to job requirements, getting hired is harder than it once was. College is more expensive now, yet more and more jobs are requiring higher degrees. The cost of living is also higher than it once was.
The parallels with American society & politics today is so interesting. It’s like gazing through the looking glass. Well done Mr Hoffman.
Perhaps that affluence is true for some.
However my family moved to the suburban area from the farm when I was six.
When I was nine I asked my Dad for an allowance because some of my friends received a stipend.
He told me no, and allowed me to use his mower to make money mowing lawns.
When I was eleven I showed my Dad a hot rod magazine and the car I wanted when I turned sixteen. He told me I better get a job now, so I threw papers and sacked and stocked groceries at the local supermarket until I was able to pay cash for my 454 Chevelle SS. I worked full time from the time I was thirteen, graduated from high school a year early went into the service and used the GI Bill for my higher education.
I was blessed in many ways and have never felt entitled to anything I haven't earned.
Ok boomer. Literally from Oklahoma, I love that phrase.
You had rough times. You seem to have done well. You seem proud of what you have done. Deservedly so. You do not represent the majority of suburban kids at least as I remember them and as I studied them for this television series.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
By the way. My parents were in the low blue-collar class in Levittown and I had to work for my Boy Scout uniform and my 1st bicycle. But I wasn't in the majority of kids my community in doing so.
David Hoffman
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker I do confess to what I now consider some unjustified envy. But what I remember best in my family there was always plenty because above and beyond finance there was a bounty of love.
Still I never missed an opportunity to go hang out at Raymond Santilli's house with pool and two really cute sisters.
I'm one, Class of 51. I was taught to show up and make a difference, no matter what it was you were doing. School, military, career field , etc..
Thanks. I don't know any better. I'm 70 next month and still working. :-)
I believe that many generation demographers are also guilty with this generational divide because they mainly put birth dates mainly based on historical period not based on characteristics and experiences. My dad was born in 1962, my neighbor was born in 1957 and they dont behave like that stereotypical boomer nor they have nothing to do with hippies, a person as early as 1956 was only 13 years old when woodstock happened how the hell they should be blamed. First of all a person born in 1964 shouldnt be lumped in and get blamed for things people born in 1946 did. So I think these generational demographers are a piece of crap because there are the ones who creates this blame on an entire 20 years of birth dates as all of them are the same because they are not representing them well. Its unfair to shame people born from 1946 to 1964 entirely for what early boomers did.
Great interview!
I like watching vids that show the difference in generations, we SHOULD all really listen and learn how we have changed.
I’m just sad for our country right now. The baby boomers were AMAZING!!
Work hard, family and values meant so much. What’s happening?
We have a new generation of well-off crybabies.
Not only whiners but the miseducation and entitlement they display is repulsive.
Thank you for the video. ❤
God bless you, sir ♥️🙏🏻
I’m in so much debt from college. And I had a partial gi bill from the reserves. Want to go to graduate school, but I don’t really want more debt. It’s like my generation has to pay to play. They won’t let us have a career license unless we take this course pay for that test. And then make us compete for jobs. It’s like the hunger games
The fall of Rome comes to mind, though thay seems too dramatic a comparison
My parents own their (very large) house outright, as well as their motor vehicles. I don’t remember them ever having a mortgage on anything. They have credit cards, but only for convenience as they always pay them off in full. They were born right after WW2, and benefited from the USA having nearly 50% of the world’s GDP in the 50s and into the 60s. THAT’S what normal is to them.
Then I come along in 1972 and the country is fighting in Vietnam, Nixon’s in the White House, racial tensions are high, and it’s not long before Carter will get us into stagflation and OPEC will triple the price of oil. Yet somehow I’m supposed to shrug it off and work hard and make my own (comfortable) living. I got straight As, I went to one of the top ten universities in the country: And yet, for some reason, it hasn’t quite worked out the same for me. Hmm 🤔
Happy 52nd birthday in 2024
Gee I wonder where all the money went? Record profits for corporate America, slave wages for Main Street.
Easy life? Yes, there was a segment of the population that had it compared to earlier generations. For most of us it certainly wasn't easy. I wish I had this easy life he's talking about.
It wasn't like that for probably most of us. Even white and middle class. I understand that there were families like that though. I knew some, although the kids were a little older than me.
Growing up an Armybrat was not an easy upbringing. When my father retired from the Army he was able to get us into a home just north of San Francisco with money he made in the stock market. Yes, there were many rich kids in my high school but certainly not all of us.
I went on to sail engineer in the Merchant Marine, just barely avoiding the draft. My brother and both best friends were all in the Army. With over 30 years of busting my ass down in those engine rooms with all the heat, soot, dirt and asbestos I still never found the easy life. Retired now with bad lungs and general health getting worse I look at these hateful and ignorant comments and wonder what they are talking about. What did us boomers do to deserve it?
Did you have to leverage your wealth for the rest of your life to pay off student loans? Did you look at the possibility of buying a decent home in a safe neighborhood as something harder to accomplish than scaling Everest naked? Were you stripped of your 2% pay raise so management could have another 7-figure bonus? Did you have your food poisoned to save producers a few bucks? Did you ever work for an employer that paid you so much less than the living wage that you had to apply for food stamps to eat? Did the military send you into a foreign country to protect third-party corporate assets? I just hope it doesn't get even harder for the generations that are to come, because then they may mistakenly think that my generation was the problem that started all of this instead of yours.
Baby Boomers - The worst generation ever.. Change my mind
Bull, I was a Baby Boomer we was poor. And happy especiallyIt being a child, it was great.
YES YES YES. I am A tail end babyboomer (born 1962) and I have lived through the beginning of the fall.
While attending college in the 1980s Federal Stduent Aid was reduced due to all those front end babyboomers deadbeating on their payments.
Only in 1976 did the Congress enact Bankrupotcy laws disallowing dismissing of Student Loans pursuant to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing. But the ripples of those older babyboomers who deadbetaed on their Student Loans has been felt by us younger babybomers and the generations to which we babybomers have given birth.
We really did ruin it for the rest.
Overshoot is our legacy.
As an Outsider I see America as a big mental health institution... don't let the beautiful buildings, roads, parks, lifestyle, etc amaze you outsiders... there's a lot of craziness behind those things
White hairs squandering everything.driving new cars.buying new condos.
geezusispan he won’t. He’s upset about not getting his participation trophy
CLUTCH THE PEARLS GIRL‼️ Let me find my glasses. I thought that was SAM WATERSTON‼️
Absolutely fascinating perspective on those times.
I've had my share of reversals in life, but I became an expert at stepping off of a sinking ship in the evening, and be high and dry with another job by sunrise the next morning. I told my wife after the last one, I have no more rabbits to pull out of my hat. It takes a toll on you. To be utterly calm in the face of adversity and show no signs of defeat , or panic, then bring it on home to a safe conclusion. Sometimes making that leap is like bailing out of a burning plane on a dark night, not knowing if you are over land , water, or what even awaits you once you land.
I worked at the Airlines and 9/11 took it's toll on our industry. Like slow falling dominoes it eventually caught up with us. We operated regional aircraft for a major airline. To show the Gov they were making efforts at stream lining their operations and cutting costs, they threw the smaller operations they owned under the bus, or combined them with others of the same category. We found out at about 8:00 pm on a Wed evening that we were history in 2 weeks. I sucked up that blow and kept a stiff upper lip and went home at the end of our night shift. I got home and had to tell my wife what happened. She started to cry of course. She was getting ready for work and that news ruined her day. I got cleaned up and headed for a military base some 50 miles away. I applied with a contracting company doing aircraft maintenance and interviewed and hired on the spot. Someone had walked out on them on Tues and filled his spot a precisely 8:40 AM on Thurs morning. I rode there on my 250,00 mile BMW motorcycle in the rain without a rain suit. I went to the interview soaking wet. They talked about that for years afterwards. The trick was, when I got home, I parked my motorcycle in the same spot it was in when she left for work. In the afternoon, when I heard her pull up, I jumped in my recliner and turned on the cartoon channel. My 22lb cat made himself at home draped across my chest when she walked in. She took one look at that TV set and the cat and she started started to cry like a hand cranked WW2 air raid siren . I had to explain to her that I had a job since since 8:40 in the morning. I couldn't resist it. I'm not one for practical jokes, but that was worth it. That was 18 years ago. I still work at the same place, and yes I'm still married, but that was my last rabbit. :-)
I grew up in rural poverty. I went to university four times and passed once. A very different world, or so we thought. I did become a questioner and a protestor- in a rural context. I have stuff I would like to pass on to the future generations- including inheritance. Working for a better world.
All I want is the same job opportunities you had. If you want to make a change all you have to do his hire us, for the same jobs you did AT THE SAME PAY accounting for REAL inflation. Not the bs inflation rate that's calculated by specifically excluding school, medical and housing cost changes.
So, where is my 55 dollar per hour factory job with benefits and pension?
Pass it onto me , i would greatly appreciate it as I am a father of 2 young boys, work 50+ hours a week as an Industrial Painter and we live paycheck to paycheck. The place im renting is a 2.bedroom 1.5 bathroom and rent has gone up $300.00 in the last 3 years and my pay has went up 1.50 an hour . On average just food for the month for us is about $800.00 I only work to keep a roof over our heads and our stomachs full. I wish i had more time tp spend with my little ones , especially now that theyre small and my youngest starts school this year and I worry for them how things have become and where they're going.
splendid analysis.
I was born in 1968 and loved living in the 60s. The 60s rocked! My much younger sibling was born in Feb of 1970 and has no idea what I’m talking about because he grew up in the latter half of the 70s and much of the 80s. He remember Reagan like I remember Nixon.
How can you remember the 60s if you were born in 1968?
Hey David Hoffman, could you put up any videos you have talking with native american rights activists during this time? Maybe footage about residential schools and the struggle of indian people during this time
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Thank you
This is so complicated. The more comments I read, the more confused I am. There are so many individual variables. The boomers had a better economy and more opportunity probably but everybody is blaming everybody else. I think it's more about bad choices that parents and people themselves make. I don't exclude myself.
The way I see it, Boomers still hold power in politics, in wealth, and in academic spaces. They control the media, they .. do they control the algorithims yet? They probably do :\
It's all us against the boomers. Fuck em
Boomers got lucky from growing up in best economy in history, and having the ability to buy a hosue for the price of a potato.
It's not fair.
What an admittance. Very direct and frank.
Another one, Mr. Hoffman. Thanks 😊 🫂 🙏🏽
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Im in the UK where two doctors cant afford homes and live in poverty compared to the 60 year old shopkeeper. Literally all of the amazing careers that we were encouraged to pursue have led us to poverty. Lawers, doctors, nurses, teachers, policeman, military officers etc. The only thing that pays the bills these days is onlyfans, crime or starting a business and ruthlessly exploiting your workers and avoiding tax
Mainly, his comments address the early boomers. The people in the middle got to pick over the scraps while competing with a gigantic number of peers. The late boomers pretty much got screwed. Sweeping generalizations about boomers are almost always gross generalizations and simplification. From my prospective as a peak year boomer is that we had to bust our butts for everything we got.
All Boomers had it made 90s babies are more educated harder working yet poorer than them.
non yobussiness You May want to believe that, but I’m telling you, I was there, and it’s simply not true. People lumping baby boomers together are way over generalizing and suffering from low level thinking. You had to be there as manufacturers were heading South and into Mexico. I felt lucky that I was able to finance my first home at 11% when others got stuck at 15 or even 18%. There are plenty more examples, and I’ll go nose to nose with anyone on that.
Good speaker. I have the feeling that his words are carefully masking a conservative disdain for the attitude of the new generation. There were a few things that converged in America at that time, that includes what the speaker mentions here. There was the effect of science and the questioning of religious authority. The discarding of the Christian religion and the soul searching that resulted in a combination of drug use and interest in 'eastern' religions as well as the ongoing expansion of the global market. The 60's in America was a very influential time in modern history.
I grew up in a white boomer community. My father punched a time clock and my mother stayed home to raise me and my brother. We had a little extra money to go on a summer road trip in the station wagon for a few days most years. Life was good and the way it should be. Armed police at the highschool football game? Unthinkable!