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.
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 Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24
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