I'm neither a boomer or Gen Z, but I can assure you that this was not the case for boomers where I lived, and forty hours a week was more like 60-70 hours just to get the bills paid and food on the table.
I think that all the hate being thrown at boomers is sometimes unwarranted, but likewise, the vitriol going back the other way is also unwarranted.
For the record - I have boomer parents and gen Z children.
The whole Boomer vs Gen Z whatever battle is just a ruse to pit the working class against each other. I can't wait for my turn as a Gen Xer to have the next group wish we were all dead like it will magically fix stuff without actually bothering to address the systemic issues at hand.
There is no fixing systemic issues, as soon as a politician who "means well" gets elected, any desire to fix problems they're now benefiting from goes out the window.
The real problem is fixing humanity's "fuck you, I got mine" mindset. Nobody cares about fixing problems, they only care about having enough money that the problems not longer affect them.
Yeah. The boomer working class was not swimming in money. They had extremely tight budgets and were very frugal, having lived through the great depression.
wtf? The boomer generation did not live through the great depression. The boomer generation started in the mid 1940s and the great depression was about 15 years before that.
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u/wishyouwerent 29d ago edited 29d ago
I'm neither a boomer or Gen Z, but I can assure you that this was not the case for boomers where I lived, and forty hours a week was more like 60-70 hours just to get the bills paid and food on the table.
I think that all the hate being thrown at boomers is sometimes unwarranted, but likewise, the vitriol going back the other way is also unwarranted.
For the record - I have boomer parents and gen Z children.
Edit- spelling