I’m sure they did read the content in the links. The point they are making is exactly your final line. There’s this refrain of “Boomers are ruining everything!” but the reality is it’s a small number of people with a lot of money using that money to do what they please at everyone else’s expense.
When the last “boomer” dies, the problem will remain. If we collectively fail to address it, then it’s just going to change up to “Dang GenYs ruining everything!”
It remains to be seen if Gen Y is going to reverse a decades-long trend of increasing wealth inequality. What magical properties are there within a set of people born between two arbitrarily-set years? When Gen Y becomes the wealthiest generation in history, are they going to be any different?
I have heard boomers making the very same kinds of remarks about their parents/grandparents being selfish, not thinking about the future, “working for The Man”, etc. And yet, now “boomer” is shorthand NOT for the 60s generation that worked to make things better via activism, but now, instead, it’s shorthand for something much, much different. And now I hear echoes in Gen Y when they talk about the boomers. Just sayin’ - seems I’ve heard this song before…
I’m sure they did read the content in the links. The point they are making is exactly your final line. There’s this refrain of “Boomers are ruining everything!” but the reality is it’s a small number of people with a lot of money using that money to do what they please at everyone else’s expense.
When the last “boomer” dies, the problem will remain. If we collectively fail to address it, then it’s just going to change up to “Dang GenYs ruining everything!”
Yes, THIS. Thank you.
It remains to be seen if Gen Y is going to reverse a decades-long trend of increasing wealth inequality. What magical properties are there within a set of people born between two arbitrarily-set years? When Gen Y becomes the wealthiest generation in history, are they going to be any different?
I have heard boomers making the very same kinds of remarks about their parents/grandparents being selfish, not thinking about the future, “working for The Man”, etc. And yet, now “boomer” is shorthand NOT for the 60s generation that worked to make things better via activism, but now, instead, it’s shorthand for something much, much different. And now I hear echoes in Gen Y when they talk about the boomers. Just sayin’ - seems I’ve heard this song before…