Discontent Towards Boomers

[zekko]

Another legitimate point of criticism for Boomers is the absolute terrible job they did parenting Millennials.

Speaking as a Boomer, a lot of this thread is just hate. But the above point is the Boomers' biggest and most legitimate failure. They didn't do enough to pass the Christian faith on to the next generations. We were part of the generation that abandoned churches, so that was a big part of it. That robbed the younger people of traditional morals and values, including a good work ethic. I guarantee you I didn't have things handed to me, I had to fail and restart several times before I finally found my niche. My family was poor and I had to learn to depend on myself.

It's interesting how Boomers are hated for being conservative, because one of their biggest failures is the way they embraced leftism when they were younger, and allowed feminism and hedonism to take control. But they say if you aren't liberal when you're young, you have no heart. And if you aren't conservative when you're older, you have no brain.

The inflation stinks today, but you can earn insane salaries now compared to what we had. But most of what I hear from the younger generations is how they want a four day work week, want to work from home, and think things should be handed to them.

We were also betrayed by the politicians. Social Security was to be its own fund, but they were the ones who raided it to pay for the rest of the bloated government. That's why Social Security is in jeopardy, not because Boomers want it all for themselves. You can blame us for the politicians, but I didn't vote for that policy, I've spent my life fighting that kind of thinking. For all the good it's done.

 

[Fruitbat]

Speaking as a Boomer, a lot of this thread is just hate. But the above point is the Boomers' biggest and most legitimate failure. They didn't do enough to pass the Christian faith on to the next generations. We were part of the generation that abandoned churches, so that was a big part of it. That robbed the younger people of traditional morals and values, including a good work ethic. I guarantee you I didn't have things handed to me, I had to fail and restart several times before I finally found my niche. My family was poor and I had to learn to depend on myself.

It's interesting how Boomers are hated for being conservative, because one of their biggest failures is the way they embraced leftism when they were younger, and allowed feminism and hedonism to take control. But they say if you aren't liberal when you're young, you have no heart. And if you aren't conservative when you're older, you have no brain.

The inflation stinks today, but you can earn insane salaries now compared to what we had. But most of what I hear from the younger generations is how they want a four day work week, want to work from home, and think things should be handed to them.

We were also betrayed by the politicians. Social Security was to be its own fund, but they were the ones who raided it to pay for the rest of the bloated government. That's why Social Security is in jeopardy, not because Boomers want it all for themselves. You can blame us for the politicians, but I didn't vote for that policy, I've spent my life fighting that kind of thinking. For all the good it's done.

Im a millennial and I agree with everything apart from Christianity - not going to go into why as I don’t think we should turn this into a debate on religion.

I personally think my own generation is amongst the worst we’ve produced. I’m an old millienal so close to Gen Z and I think Boomers didn’t have this world of milk and honey. Life was a LOT harder for my parents when I was a kid. In Britain the class system was still quite strong in the 80s. That’s changed. You couldn’t go abroad easily, it was very expensive. Workplace rights were non existent. There was the Cold War, Vietnam etc.

Housing is more expensive now that’s for sure, but that wealth will pass down. Mlenials are so self absorbed they don’t see that they can’t compare to people who are much older - they always have more money.

Boomers had decent education. Millennials didn’t, the left entirely took it over. You have the strange dissonance with Millenials that they Moan about being poor yet are generally very keen on climate action that keeps them poor and pro migration which makes property more expensive.

When boomers die off we will be in charge and good luck to everyone when that happens. We will be a mess of socialist ideas while we are overtaken by the east. They will happily hand away everything and destroy ideas like nuclear family. Millennials will leave our nations poorer.

If you raise a generation to believe that everyone deserves a prize this is what happens. And that’s an error on boomers part.

 

[BoomToTheMoonAlice]

its because Gen Z is mentally retarded.

I've never seen so many stupid, scared, spoiled and shy people in one place as when I go to the local Uni and look around. I can't tell the difference between half the men and women; they are terrified of EVERYTHING. We have a young GenZ renter downstairs, we found a mouse, and he has locked himself in his room and barricaded the door. My wife says the Gen Z's cry when they have to show up to work on time or stay for a 4 hour shift. I showed a Gen Z'r a game in VR and he literally had a panic attack. A lot of late Millennials are cowards and losers but Gen Z takes it to another level.


Yesterday, I saw one of the little bastards laying on a sidewalk checking his phone. The grounds workers were waiting for him to get up. He seemed to find it entertaining and I imagine the little idiot pad he was staring into was filled with a bunch of retards just like him. These stupid phones have ruined an entire generation.

 

[ThisIsSparta]

its because Gen Z is mentally retarded.

They really are.... i see it at my workplace every day.

They went through a fvcked up education system that just produces halfwits.

Getting through school is just a matter of sitting it out and getting the participation trophy at the end of the school year.

They all think the world owes them something, demanding work/life balance.

They are used to all the "luxury" and infrastructure better generations created, meanwhile they dont want to contribute with their workforce to keep all the comfort of a 1st world country up.

Fvcking Greta is the rolemodel of this generation, entitled, (kept) stupid and in general unfit to pull their own weight in life.

Once this generation is not going to be sponsored by their parents (gen X) and grandparents(boomers) anymore, they will hit concrete along with society as a whole.


I dread the day when gen. X leaves the workforce and boomers will be gone.

 

[All_Kindz_Of_Gainz]

There should be a law stating that if you're 65 and you're not financially well and in good mental & physical shape, there should mandatory euthanasia. Less burden for younger generation.

Why is there so much discontent towards baby boomers? I am not one but I see it's fairly common amongst 20 something 's. I guess my generation was raised to respect your elders. We had relationships with our grandparents, uncles, aunts, old people, etc. They had a lot of solid lessons to share.

You have a son right? How old is he in his 20s? Good luck to him owning his own house until his early 30s without your help. When in the younger generations they could leave their parents house at 18 and getting their own.



*The average income for a family in 1970 was $9,870*
*In 1970, the median sales price of a home was $23,000.*

Join the armed forces

To do what? Fight for other countries in wars that they create cause of higher interests? That's why the military is low in recruitment cause young people know what's up

 

[BoomToTheMoonAlice]

I don’t know about you guys but all i see is “immigrants” meaning Hispanics working hard all day and into the night and on the weekends. They pick up any hustle they can get. They don’t buy the 105” HDTV, they save it. They’re always working. Period. They posess a work ethic Americans lost a long time ago.

You want to be a millionaire by 40? Work your fackin ass off like Jesus does. He’s the one standing on the corner at 4am to carpool to dig the ditches you’re too good to.

That's because the immigrants aren't stupid enough to hang out here hoping that one day if they just HOPE hard enough, a woman will fall into their lap. I know guys down south that have lay counts in the 100's, no cash, and pathetic guys up here who are pushing 40, make in an hour what they make in a day, and still have yet to even speak to a girl [and have read the entire DJ bible]. A few years back I offered a kid here who was making minimum packing groceries, a $40/hr job. He turned it down because it sounded boring and he'd have to 'travel'. I have another friend who consistently bitches about the money he makes but when I suggested a CDL, he starts ranting about not wanting to work 80 hours because he won't be able to 'smoke weed?' and watch netflix, he lives on hot dogs. The guy has an excuse for everything, no responsibility or accountability. The majority of the Millennials and Gen-Z are p a t h e t i c. There is a SERIOUS lack of work ethic/effort today from people who do nothing but moan and it bleeds into everything they do, even picking up women.

The red pill has also morphed into something fit for this generation. Woman are the root of all evil apparently and its a waste of time to even talk to them. I've heard this line from a couple people now who purport to be 'red pill' but haven't spoken to a woman in the last 10 years. They are all about 'fresh and fit', 'looks maxxing' and 'self-improvement' but have yet to do 1 approach. One guy I speak to prefers wacking off 24/7 and insists that I'm weird because I told him to STOP and GO OUTSIDE.

The times are changing. Boomer hate stems from jealousy.

There used to be PUA's EVERYWHERE... everyone was going out on a Saturday night, and even AFCs were TRYING. This new human is something different entirely and they make my skin crawl.

 

[DROPTOP_GTA]

As a genX who is perceived as a boomer by you young whipper snappers.
I say stay off my lawn and get a real job you lazy bums.

The masters in power play the long game.

quoting M Manson…

The worms will live in every host
It's hard to pick which one they eat the most
The horrible people, the horrible people
It's as anatomic as the size of your steeple
Capitalism has made it this way
Old-fashioned fascism will take it away

 

[stringpuller]

There's always been multiple generations pissed off at them, both older and younger, at any given time. Their elders called them the "Me Generation". Here's what George Carlin had to say about the Booms:

This is what having distant, trauma-shocked parents (the Silents), winning a world war that enabled hs-diploma home ownership, leaded gasoline poisoning and the introduction of mass consumption will do to one's sense of empathy. Namely, stunt it.

Unfortunately most of the old people who were worth a damn have passed now.

Thats faf. Haha
Wasnt Carlin a boomer too?
My Dad is I think hes pretty cool. Some of this applies but way harder workers then these fcking brats are today

 

[stringpuller]

They're the only generation to have it better than both their parents and children, and managed to f*ck it up by letting women run wild and free.

Boy this is true but it started even before the boomer's parents. You can thank England for that BS.
My boomer dad was a hard worker but bpilled af with the ladies

 

[stringpuller]

I’m solid gen-x. I inherited nothing from the boomers except my bad attitude

Same here and excellent post. Fcking true.
The whining in this generation is off the charts

 

[CAPSLOCK BANDIT]

Nope just having fun at your expense Bocephus.

I’ll leave you to your previously scheduled whining.

You had nothing to add and just derailed the thread from actual conversion, good riddance, imagine entering an intellectual pursuit talking about its participants whining, you are the definition of an oaf.

 

[CAPSLOCK BANDIT]

Baby Boomers tend to be conservative minded, maybe thats the main core issue creating so much discontent with younger generations that lean more left?

After you get past the "Boomers are BAD" language, here is what was said:

-pass down the equity
- he took his pension early and is retired, not even 65, many people later on are looking at a life completely devoid of any retirement at all. I'm downright infuriated!
-you shouldn't have to hustle to make it.
- it is about the psychopathy of getting yours and telling people after you to pound sand.
- don't get rid of the teachers union and dont defund the transit system.
- is he trying make sure no else has the same “opportunity?”
-worried about healthcare for fat azzes that gorge them self on a diet of fast food.
-construction is a sh!t job.

Those are very liberal/leftist mindsets.

The other side disagrees because they believe in taking risks, individualism, figure it out on your own, self-made, hard work gets rewarded, self-improvement, get off your a$$, start at the bottom, work your way to the top, self-responsibility. Very much Boomer/conservative thoughts.

@Kotaix & @SargeMaximus called it. Its all identity politics.

Thank you to those who participated. It all makes sense now.

Im as conservative as it gets, the point most people make against the boomers is simple to understand: We are more intelligent, better qualified, younger, stronger with more advantages than boomers ever had yet we will never be paid like you guys were, all we would like is for you to recognize your privileged existence as opposed to complaining about how privileged everyone else's existence is.

I have wealth myself, not from my parents but from my grand parents who chose to skip over my parents and give it to the grand children instead, because they realized how disenfranchised each generation is becoming compared to the last, as a result my parents resent me for it because I won't pay their bills. I'm a privileged individual myself, but I don't just speak for myself.

You calling this identity politics is the height of ignorance when you likely don't even know what identity politics is to begin with outside of being a word you've heard being used. I'll educate you. Identity politics has to do with a lack of culture that the first world creates, it refers to an alternate route from the melting pot of the states where everyone is an individual in the rat race... Notice how people of ethnic cultures don't have purple hair and and whatever other signals you'd associate with the buzz word of identity politics, because they have a culture.

To say hustle culture is identity politics is incredibly ignorant since you yourself are also a part of hustle culture, yet you think you are not? If it wasn't for yours or my privileged existence we'd be out here hustling with everyone else, the difference is I have the character to recognize mine and not just point the finger at everyone else. You lead a privileged life. There are people in your generation who literally won't retire ever, but there are many many more in the future generations who won't retire, yet you have the gall to call them lazy? Are you facing down a life of just working? Try walking a mile in their shoes before you come out with your ignorant theories is all I ask.

 

[SW15]

Another legitimate point of criticism for Boomers is the absolute terrible job they did parenting Millennials.

the above point is the Boomers' biggest and most legitimate failure. They didn't do enough to pass the Christian faith on to the next generations. We were part of the generation that abandoned churches, so that was a big part of it. That robbed the younger people of traditional morals and values, including a good work ethic. I guarantee you I didn't have things handed to me, I had to fail and restart several times before I finally found my niche. My family was poor and I had to learn to depend on myself.

The Boomers were raised to have strong Christian faiths typically by the GI Generation (1910s - early 1920s births) or the early part of the Silent Generation (late 1920s-1945). Some Boomers did continue to practice Christianity throughout the lives, some fell away, and some practiced a form of Christianity that ignored the inconvenient parts of the dogma (no pre-marital sex, etc.).

In most of the Judeo-Christian churches in 2023 in the USA, most of the attendees now are 55+. Those are mainly Boomers, some Silent Generation remnants, and early Gen X.

While many Millennials were raised in a Judeo-Christian religion, many of them also left their faiths upon entering adulthood. There's a valid criticism here that Boomers didn't raise them to have strong enough faiths to withstand that. Whereas Boomers might have practiced a form of Christianity that ignored the inconvenient parts (no pre-marital sex), the Millennials didn't really want to the bothered at all.

It's interesting how Boomers are hated for being conservative, because one of their biggest failures is the way they embraced leftism when they were younger, and allowed feminism and hedonism to take control. But they say if you aren't liberal when you're young, you have no heart. And if you aren't conservative when you're older, you have no brain.

Second wave feminism got big in the 1960s-1970s. One of the big leaders then was Gloria Steinem (b. 1934 - Silent Generation). 1970s feminism owes some of its success to young Boomers' enthusiasm for the ideas in their young adulthoods.

The inflation stinks today, but you can earn insane salaries now compared to what we had. But most of what I hear from the younger generations is how they want a four day work week, want to work from home, and think things should be handed to them.

Entitled Millennial behavior from bad Boomer parenting. The wild thing is that the Millennials are rapidly hitting middle age now. The oldest Millennials are 42 in 2023 and the youngest ones are 27. The newest crop of workers is now Gen Z (1997-2012 births). The oldest part of Gen Z has been entering the workforce in recent years.

 

[EyeBRollin]

Then the constant lectures from them about kids these days are just lazy pieces of shvt that don’t deserve two pennies.

As a genX who is perceived as a boomer by you young whipper snappers.
I say stay off my lawn and get a real job you lazy bums.

Men, I swear I did not pay him to post this.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

Why is there so much discontent towards baby boomers? I am not one but I see it's fairly common amongst 20 something 's. I guess my generation was raised to respect your elders. We had relationships with our grandparents, uncles, aunts, old people, etc. They had a lot of solid lessons to share.

Because like usual, the younger generations need to find someone to blame for their failures...they take no responsibility for themselves or their own actions in their failures.

It's always someone else's fault...their parents didn't love them enough...the government screwed them over...their job fired them for no reason because they called off constantly due to being "sick"...

And on and on. It never ends.

 

[CAPSLOCK BANDIT]

Because like usual, the younger generations need to find someone to blame for their failures...they take no responsibility for themselves or their own actions in their failures.

It's always someone else's fault...their parents didn't love them enough...the government screwed them over...their job fired them for no reason because they called off constantly due to being "sick"...

And on and on. It never ends.

Literally nobody in this thread said any of this, amazing that rather than interacting with the points being made you've chosen to just make up your own and then provide answers for your own points.

How about keeping the thread on track instead of trying to derail?

 

[Money & Muscle]

My boomer dad was a hard worker but bpilled af with the ladies

Same. My dad taught me to be a good little plowhorsie.

I didn't get laid until 21 and his BP mental models nearly ruined my marriage. Still unpacking that garbage.

"Just be yourself"

 

[The Duke]

I actually remember seeing some articles not that long ago where they surveyed boomers and a good percentage of them mentioned they had no plans of leaving any inheritance for their children.

Sounds like an article generated to manufacture more hate towards Boomers.

Actually the greatest wealth transfer in history is happening right now. $53 Trillion is being passed down to children of boomers. In 2025, the government will reduce the amount that one can gift tax free to their heirs by 50%. Basically the govt will end up getting 20-40% more than they would have, leaving anyone set up to inherit something 20-40% less.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

Literally nobody in this thread said any of this, amazing that rather than interacting with the points being made you've chosen to just make up your own and then provide answers for your own points.

How about keeping the thread on track instead of trying to derail?

I'm saying why they don't like Boomers. They blame them for their situation. It's a lot easier than looking in the mirror and blaming that person tho.

And it's pretty much accurate.

 

[LTG71]

Why is there so much discontent towards baby boomers? I am not one but I see it's fairly common amongst 20 something 's. I guess my generation was raised to respect your elders. We had relationships with our grandparents, uncles, aunts, old people, etc. They had a lot of solid lessons to share.

Because it’s hip to make fun of older generations. I agree that it seems like there was more respect for parents and elders in the past. The decline in family values is very apparent. There is also a lack of respect for what others had to endure. Foolish not to learn from and respect past generations. When the current generation reaches their “Boomer” age, they will be laughed at and criticized too.

Let’s take a glimpse at today, people are confused about what gender they are, society is slowing turning communistic, inflation is through the roof, women are getting educated but being encouraged to be a hoe, men are hated for being men, we have the most technological advanced society with the world literally at our finger tips, apparently everyone is gay, we have everything from electric cars to AI. Many say times are too easy given all the frivolous complaints. Punks today cry about their pronouns while the older generations were in a fox hole dodging real bullets.

Everything is evolving, some for the better and some for the worse. Someday in the future they will be complaining about the Gen Z fvckers that depleated the planet of cobalt and now Wall-E has to deal with the stockpile of trash. This generation is also all about being victims and not taking personal responsibility, which sounds very feminine now that I think about it. Don’t worry, they‘ll get their turn.