Comments by "Im Caj" (@KratostheThird) on "ReasonTV" channel.

  1. All opportunities that we Millennials could not get. A Bachelors Degree isn't enough to land you a decent job anymore.
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  2.  @Paul71H  Boomers were literally born in the lap of luxury. There’s a stark difference in the attitude between the Greatest/Silent generations and the Boomers. The Greatest Generation is best associated for their role in World War II. Before that, they struggled with the Great Depression. That helped mold them into tough, responsible human beings who valued their possessions. Even entertainers like Jimmy Stewart were crafted and molded during this era. Baby Boomers were already born with stuff handed to them by their parents. They became the Hippies during the 60s/70s, and the younger ones became the Yuppies of the 80s. Completely different attitude in contrast to the Greatest Generation. Then they gained control of the economy in the 90s/2000s and helped lead it into the mess it is today. I find many Boomers intolerable. They lack the down to earth values their parents had, and they come off as narcissistic which is probably why so many Millennials and Zoomers come off as narcissistic. Before Millennials and Zoomers get egg on their faces, look at who raised them.
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  3.  @Paul71H  Being forced to work two jobs while barely paying the apartment rent is what a lot of Zoomers are dealing with right now. Baby Boomers on the other hand were largely already given the resources necessary to start a family. Before Ronald Reagan threw in Reaganomics and started shipping jobs overseas, it was possible for the average person to work a factory job straight out of high school and earn good benefits. Many of the jobs were union, something that today’s corporations desperately want to demolish completely. NAFTA helped send jobs overseas and thus manufacturing jobs are largely a thing of the past. Baby Boomers also did not face mountains of college debt that Millennials did and now Zoomers. I struggled with a number of jobs and many of us still cannot afford homes. I’m in my late 30s now, and seeing young Zoomers struggle like this is not something I want to see moving forward.
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  4. The reason The Greatest Generation was so innovative was because they had actual struggle. Completely different scenario from the one Boomers had.
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  5.  @Attmay  The Greatest Generation is almost completely gone, save for some old people who managed to live over 95 years. The Silent Generation is leaving us too.
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  6.  @Paul71H  1972 was just after the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. Your Boomers were addressing concerns about the Vietnam War, while advocating for Peace. A number of them were not civil about it, there were race riots and the violence and cultural upheaval of the 1960s was still fresh in their minds. Yet throughout the 1970s and 1980s they inherited an economy that the Greatest Generation and Silent Generation molded, and then turned around and inherited the resources and economy for themselves. Generation X was the first to get sidelined, then came the Millennials and now the Zoomers are the target. Several Zoomers I know are barely getting by with their jobs, barely able to afford their place and they're paying expensive college tuition on top of that. In 1972 Baby Boomers were living under a healthier economy and ecosystem. My 70 year old father was able to land managerial positions at various manufacturing jobs after he had finished two years of community college. With his income he was able to have a proper family with myself included as the child. At 36 years old my peers are just now beginning to get somewhere with actually owning a home, and many of us still can't do that. Inflation has gone thru the roof these past couple years and our wages are not keeping up with the costs. What happened back in the 1970s to early 1980s can't be compared with the COVID-19 pandemic and the upcoming economic recession that we have been dealt with.
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  7.  @Paul71H  I don’t agree with this. I read a lot of history. Yes, the US economy was on a downward spiral, and there was a 1987 recession that hit a lot of families hard. I’m not just speaking about the economy, I’m also speaking about our culture. Our culture in this current paradigm we’re living through is a joke. It’s a culture war between the Far Left and the Far Right. The youth in their teens and 20s are being pushed to either political side. Our corporate culture values quickness and efficiency at the cost of forcing people to work two jobs to keep their home. In the 70’s and 80’s, you could be a regular member of society able to have a spouse and two children. Today many of us in our 30’s have decided we can’t have kids, because we cannot afford child care. It’s no wonder birth rates have plummeted. Unfortunately, the average college student will be paying tens of thousands in tuition before their education is complete. A summer job while studying as a full time student doesn’t cut it anymore. Baby Boomers were able to do this with far less stress. NAFTA has done much to damage our job infrastructure by sending jobs overseas because of cheaper labor. Kids are now expected to go beyond Bachelors Degrees because they are a dime a dozen and if you got too much experience and education, the hiring staff will say “you’re overqualified”. This is a system that is destined to crash sooner or later.
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  8.  @Buckshot99 University used to be strictly for people who pursued higher academia for limited professions that required a degree. Most people before 1970 - 1980 did not have a degree. They worked straight out of highschool, doing manufacturing, factory or office job work which all enabled them to start families. No degree was needed. The system requiring kids to have formal education for entry level jobs was a drastic mistake. You are paying over $100,000 for a Bachelor’s and you will be broke while searching in the job market.
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  9. The daily lives of Boomers in the modern era.
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  10.  @rollingdudes8859  No shit Sherlock.
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  11.  @BoyGeorge84  I’m guessing you’re American, or at least live in western society like most all of us. Face it. Boomers had it easy. The days of buying a home with wife and two kids off a highschool education are long gone. We have guys with Master Degrees who are barely pulling through. In the Seattle area a good house is at least $1 million if not more. A shabby apartment or condo is going to cost good money. Nothing is cheap.
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  12.  @manictiger  He’s not going to listen to you. I’ve spoken to him already and he basically comes off as a crusty Boomer who doesn’t care regardless. So there’s no point trying to tell him anything. As a Millennial in his mid 30s, we still cannot afford any decent home. I’ve accepted the fact that I’ve been forced to live with friends and some family because living paycheck to paycheck is a stressful life. And I have a university degree to top it off. If I want to finish graduate school that’s more money I have to pay that I can’t afford. Student loans are a complete joke, systematically cultivated by the government. You can no longer file for bankruptcy from student loans. I’ve worked since I was 16, and my work life is now over half my lifetime. And the Boomers who were able to have perfectly happy families back in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s are still putting their foot down on us. I didn’t ask for this crap. I didn’t ask for diversity hires to talk crap to me because I don’t agree with the status quo. Striving for something greater is basically pointless.
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  13. This conversation happens all the time.
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  14.  @yadevk8025  I feel you, and I have the same opinion. We’d be breaking champagne bottles and dancing down the streets if we could afford homes the way the Boomers did back in the 1970’s - 1990’s. Instead, I’ve had to work two different jobs to keep myself from getting kicked out because I can’t afford to always pay bills.
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  15.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  They’re out of touch with reality.
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  16.  @Attmay  Exactly.
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  17.  @nathanbronx6199  You can’t own a home either. They’re also making it where we won’t be able to own cars as well.
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  18.  @myfavoriteplanet3247  Trust me, Boomers still hold the same arrogant attitudes about themselves and others as they did back in the 1990’s. That hasn’t changed. The times and the technology in contrast have changed. If Millennials seem intent on giving their 5-year-old kids participation medals, the Boomers instilled that into them. Gen Xers from what I’ve observed and have talked to were raised by the Silent Generation. While they did not experience the suffering and triumph of the Greatest Generation, they still had a decent set of morals. Just like with the Greatest Generation 20 - 30 years ago, the Silent Generation is rapidly dwindling due to old age and I’m sure most if not all are disgusted with the world of today. The Boomers in contrast still control our government, our corporations and our daily businesses. And they’re not sharing any of that with the younger generations. That is why the ‘OK Boomer’ meme is as prevalent as it is. You got 35 year old Millennials moving back in with friends and parents. You got 20 year old Zoomers who are already miserable and fed up, barely scrapping by with the insane inflation going on right now. Things aren’t looking good for western society, especially Anglo countries like the United States.
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  19.  @yadevk8025  I believe some places don’t allow children to go a certain distance without a cell phone or whatever. I don’t know exactly, but it’s a stupid law regardless. Older Millennials and Gen Xers back in the 90’s could hike and bike several miles from home. No cellphones, just as long as you got home before dark. You try anything like that today, and the cops will likely come looking for you hours before sundown. It’s a sad reality.
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  20.  @palette_1563  He just made that to get a reaction out of you.
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  21.  @MajinMist603  Most people don’t earn 60K a year. Many of us earning 25 - 40K are still struggling to pay bills.
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  22.  @kiana3091  If you are the younger sibling, chances are the parents will chastise and treat you as a child, regardless of how old you are as an adult. My uncle turns 70 years old this year. Back in the 1990s he was a nice uncle, or at least, was. Because I was just a little kid back then, he probably didn’t want to get cast out of the family for mistreating a child. Fast forward to 2015. I’m the same age as you are now. Visiting him with some family while on a trip to a national park. He was cold, mean and narcissistic. He was born in 1952, so he fits right along the Boomer and his attitude perfectly reflects what this video was saying. Started work at the US Post Office in 1975. Worked there until 2010 when he retired. Still has retirement income coming to him from deals he made long ago. Despite living alone and having good retirement, he was mean, rude and angry towards me. Blames me for problems I may or may not have caused when I was at his home for family. Turns out he hated me for far longer than I realized. I wasn’t aware of it until my mom told me about it around a decade ago. We used to visit him once a year, and I realize he already didn’t like me 20 years ago, based on complaints my uncle told my mother when I wasn’t around. In 2016 I completely cut him out of my life. Haven’t heard from him or seen him in six years. The lesson here is family is often not as wonderful or grand as people make it out to be. Like you, I had abusive older people in my life. The best and only thing you can do is cut them out of your life. You cannot let them drag you down.
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  23.  @jiminycricket6428  Never trust anyone over 30 was their motto.
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  24.  @wolfman_jagermeistro8445  Working 60 hour work weeks for over two years doing hard physical labor was enough for me. Yet management let me go because I clocked in late by 5 minutes three times in one week. Absolutely stupid. I hate them just as much as you do.
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  25.  @dem8568  The generation before the Boomers hated them too, but they’re almost all dead. I have been listening to Thomas Sowell lately. Just started reading one of his books. Almost finished reading Douglas Murray’s The War on the West. People can whine about the WW2 and Silent generations all they want, but they were overall just better. Boomers took all the good stuff and ruined it. Divorces are off the charts. Kids are now entering highschool in constant panic mode. Social media makes sure we’re all miserable because cancel culture is king. I work a full time job where I help Gen Z people move forward in life. Most of them are miserable, angry, lost, confused, depressed and frustrated. That’s a fact.
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  26.  @YoungSantasGroupie  Biden is weak. I’ve said it from the moment we heard he was going to run for president. And while I hate Trump and have always hated him, I am not anti Trump to the degree that I’m obsessed with that. Too many progressives flew into a panic once Trump won the 2016 US Elections. The guy you were arguing with is more than likely stuck in the past. What happened in the 1960s was a long time ago and nothing from that era is relevant. I live in a leftist state and I can tell you from experience that Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon have both turned into hellscapes. Vancouver, Canada is another dystopia. Young people cannot afford anything decent. Condo prices there are beyond ridiculous. Drug usage is through the roof.
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  27.  @86Corvus  Ok Boomer
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  28.  @YoungSantasGroupie  A few things here. Boomers were not only the last generation to believe world peace would last forever, they were the last generation to fully reap the rewards. You can argue that the Greatest Generation didn’t fully reap the rewards because a good chunk of their life was tragedy. After World War II, came the Post War Era. The Greatest Generation ushered that in. Since Gen X, things have progressively gotten worse. You may think it’s Boomers vs Millennials. But people forget Gen Xers were bullied by Boomers, which is now in the past because this was back in the 80s - 90s. Millennials make up a larger demographic which is probably why these debates still go on. “Coddling” and “Helicopter Parenting” may have been a thing by the 1950s but I don’t think those went into full force until the 1980s and 1990s. The 1980s marked an era of hyper awareness for children. Hollywood suddenly had an interest for child and teen stars like Corey Haim. Missing children were listed on milk cartons. Ronald Reagan’s ‘Just Say No to Drugs’ was in full effect. Boomers, Gen X and Millennials were all raised on Hollywood and flashy entertainment. You had sitcoms like Family Matters and Roseanne that taught people that no matter how bad things may get, it will all turn out good in the end. If that isn’t coddling the American public, then I don’t know what is. You think Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan weren’t coddled as celebrities? Celebrities get all the breaks, which is another big problem. Boomers are stuck in the 1970s - 1990s and it shows with their mindset. The Dot Com Boom was the Boomers final great accomplishment, done by the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and other tech pioneers of their generation. Millennials were coddled in the 1980s and 1990s and had the rug pulled out from under them in the 2000s. “Helicopter parenting” and “coddling” have created a generation of narcissists. Just look at Miley Cyrus, her father was the one who put the actual work and effort in. The good times are over.
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  29.  @milestoitaly  Part of learning is making some mistakes here and there. Why should that be different for anybody else? I’ve met stupid, ignorant people with Master Degrees. And on the other side of the coin, I’ve met some bright kids in college who don’t have a degree. We all make mistakes. I made plenty of stupid mistakes when I was 18 - 20 years old, because I didn’t know anything about the real world. As someone who has been out for 15 years, struggled, moved back in with parents and moved back out, you gain experience and a little wisdom. Teach the kids good values, so won’t repeat their mistakes. Just calling them lazy and self entitled isn’t going to help.
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  30. Because the grew up watching the TV.
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  31.  @johnevans5782  Ok Boomer
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  32.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  Engineering is a difficult field. I gave up on it early, just didn’t have the passion for it.
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  33.  @3el1o0 The 1970s was known as the “Me” decade.
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  34.  @bveracka  I'm in the same age group so I completely relate to this. Millennials were driven by MySpace, the first social media platform we could get our hands on. Many of us were still impressionable kids and teenagers, so you can see the societal impact social media left on us. Suddenly we had fear instilled into us, and now I see 10 year old kids who are practically on a leash almost. They are being raised with fear in mind, something that we inherited and normalized which is why we will never have another Muhammad Ali or Clint Eastwood.
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  35.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  Gen Xers were the first to be given the slip. Then it was the Millennials, now it’s the Zoomers. The Boomer work ethic acts like we’re still in the 80’s - 90’s, and I’m sick of it. I’ve had more arguments with Boomers on the internet and in person than I have with any other generation.
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  36.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  The nice crap is nostalgia. What the Boomers had were career ladders. We don’t have those. Unless you have high credentials then you’re basically stuck in the job you applied for. That’s why we switch jobs so often now. If someone treats us badly, you just get another job somewhere else.
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  37.  @sunshineeddy6849  Browsing the internet was the 90’s and early 2000’s. Playing video games, um hello, did you completely forget that Gen Xers were the ones who played those old arcade games at Pizza Hut back in the 80’s and 90’s? Gen Xers got around to video games before Millennials did. You guys already established yourselves on the internet in the late 90’s. We had to wait until MySpace got big before we really got to use the internet regularly. Which brings to another problem: social media. My generation loves it. Your generation has more hatred to it.
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  38.  @BoyGeorge84  Vancouver BC is a dystopian city. Rent is too high. A home is literally impossible to get. Many young people on drugs, can’t get anywhere, etc. I went there a year ago and it was truly depressing.
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  39.  @jeremywoodfin2885 I’m a Millennial and I’ve worked hard at every job I’ve held. Because I value hard work and honesty. But just because I fall under a certain age range, I’m told I’m lazy and entitled by Boomers who are the very things they are complaining about. Gen Z has every right to be upset at this point.
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  40.  @jeremywoodfin2885 You have better ideas than our entire government does.
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  41.  @jeremywoodfin2885  Part of this problem is Boomer parents are still lecturing their adult Millennial kids. This stifles their opportunities to be independent and pursue their own lives. The debt from college (on average, it costs around $100,000 to graduate with a Bachelor's Degree) keeps them crippled for years until that debt is paid. Loans do nothing, because that is just borrowing money to pay for a tuition cost that younger people have to pay off anyway. My grandparents are dead. Their generation may have started the decline, but the Boomers have definitely accelerated it. Stay safe and strong my friend. It's rough out there.
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  42.  @rmcgraw7943  Yes to all you said. Gen X hates them too. My older brother remembers his friends that were latchkey kids. They got no help, no assistance, no guidance, nothing. In the 1980’s, Christian Boomers who loved Reagan talked at you, not to you. This was apparent in various 1980’s talk shows, where a class of Boomers would go on and make various points. Being a Gen Xer was tough.
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  43.  @rollingdudes8859  Well said, and I agree.
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  44.  @asturiasceltic3183  Educate yourself, then come back to us.
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  45. Blaming others never does anything. It’s one generation passing the reins to another. That’s what life is.
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  46. I agree entirely.
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  47. Obviously yes, living conditions are overall better than they were over a century ago. But compared to the 80’s and 90’s. No. Kids have far less options for fun now than they did back then. Skating rinks are just one of many things that have been replaced by brutalist concrete/glass style architecture.
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  48.  @bluebird5173  They look at Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and claim all the credit for themselves.
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  49.  @Attmay  If there are such videos on YouTube, I’d like to see them.
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  50.  @YoungSantasGroupie  Don’t listen to Gibbons. He’s probably an old salty Boomer who still thinks Millennials can pick themselves up by the bootstraps. What happened back in his day is completely irrelevant now.
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  51.  @YoungSantasGroupie  NYC/LA/SF are all hellscapes. Also, a lot of people in these cities are hyper sensitive, unable to cope with slight criticism. Most likely due to progressive politics. I live 20 minutes away from Portland, Oregon and it is a real hell scape. Endless tents of homeless people with no hope or will. Extremist leftist groups like Antifa who are driving away a lot of business. I look at San Francisco and find that “Oh, there’s a lot of the same bleak outlook going on there”. Things are not boding well for the West.
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  52.  @HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle  Exactly.
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  53.  @JC-sj2pd  What happened back in the 1930s and what is happening in the modern world are entirely different things. Millennials were brought up a certain way and that world they were being prepped for no longer exists. Many still cannot afford homes. I’m 36 years old and I know this all too well. Having to move back in with family and friends is not a sign that our society is moving forward in a good way.
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  54. Boomers were already causing damage back then, hence the 1960s to 1980s transition “I went to Woodstock but then became a yuppie parasite”.
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  55.  @osman1345  Because it’s not sustainable. I blame things like Human Resources because they are part of the reason why applying for work is such a circus. You already jumped thru hoops just to earn your Bachelors Degree and obtain those years of work experience. Now they’re forcing you to jump through more hoops. Baby Boomers were lucky simply for being at the right place at the right time. As a Millennial, I was told to work to the bone and earn a Bachelors Degree, which I did a decade ago. Then the people looking at applicants had the audacity to still reject several people who were qualified. America will collapse from within. It’s only a matter of when.
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  56.  @chrischoy9  I blame the corporate elites and the government.
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  57. Such gated communities normally hold expensive houses or very fancy apartments. There’s probably a list of guidelines to even enter these gated communities. But it’s a classic example of old people living in their ivory towers, angry at those under them. The irony is they themselves created a lot of problems, dating back to the 80’s and 90’s.
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  58.  @Davivd2  Makes sense now why Kurt Cobain and Tupac Shakur felt the way they did. The same people who were/are negative about Millennials said the same garbage about 2Pac and his Gen X peers. Ronald Reagan also in a way brought up the subcultures of gangster rap and grunge rock as a response to what fundamental christians and neo conservatives were doing.
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  59.  @penny4thought168  I’m glad to hear I’m far from the only one who gets it.
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  60. I'm 40 and I'm renting a home. Think about that. The housing market is bust.
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  61.  @johnevans5782  Is that anything new? Being able to afford living in New York City has not been a possibility for the average person in decades.
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  62. Millennials did this too. Your generation isn’t unique. We had just as many slackers as your generation does.
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  63. You're the minority here Liam. You're utterly delusional. Put yourself in the shoes of others from time to time before you start talking crap about how younger people are brats and they are angry with the way things are.
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  64. It's those who were put into power that put us into this mess after all.
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  65.  @Brandon-n1w7w  At this point I’m far more sympathetic towards Gen X than I am for Boomers. Say what you will on Millennials and Zoomers, but they are victims of this hyper inflation going on. Boomers are sucking Social Security dry and are making younger generations work more for less. It’s why my generation has gotten far more into crypto currency.
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  66.  @dannygreen7473  Couldn’t of said this better myself.
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  67. Two people who looked good on the surface, but did their share of damage to the USA and the UK respectively.
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  68.  @WisdomPrevails369  You live in Detroit, Michigan or Chicago, Illinois, this is your every day reality.
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  69. If you had any inkling of old time black and white shows like Ozzie & Harriet and Leave it To Beaver, it was those Greatest Generation parents pampering their kids with fun and splendor. Who were those kids? Boomers. Boomers went from privileged children in the 1950s to turning around in the late 1960s and becoming the 'don't trust anyone over 30' generation. That did not form in a vacuum, that was the result of cultural changes that they helped cultivate. We now have Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z who all have their share of mental health problems. It's far too late to fix things. It's best to let society collapse and have the survivors rebuild.
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  70. We’re still paying from the Great Recession. It affected the Boomers, Gen X and elder Millennials. Our national debt is crippling our economy, gas is too high, housing is unaffordable, our products are made in other countries to save labor costs. We have made progress in eliminating most cigarette consumption, passed bills to have more clean air and cars, but it’s like you said, we have a long way to go.
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  71.  @johnevans5782  You never heard of the band Nirvana? Kurt Cobain was their head guy before he committed suicide in 1994.
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  72.  @johnevans5782  Elvis was and is regarded by many to be the King. It’s sad that our society can no longer produce legendary talents like Elvis and Michael Jackson.
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  73. A Gen Xer gave me some words of wisdom at work not too long ago. He remembers back in the 80's when Boomers started taking control of national TV talk shows. He hold me they were about 'tough love' and 'punishment'. I look at Howard Stern as the poster boy of Baby Boomer talk show hosts. Rude, condescending, not sympathetic, treating fellow staff like dirt, the list goes on. Perhaps this was how your generation ended up with guys like Tupac Shakur and Kurt Cobain, both of whom seemed sadistic and unwilling. A portion of you guys probably sniffed glue and did crack and cocaine in the 80's and 90's. But you guys had a justifiable reason for hating Boomers.
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  74.  @penny4thought168  His solution is “pull yourself by the bootstraps” which is a line I’ve heard from over 100 Silent/Boomer age college professors and teachers. I have no sympathy for people who misinterpret what has gone on for over a decade, screwing over two generations of young people who could benefit from actual guidance moving forward. I sure as hell didn’t spend tens of thousands of dollars at a university only to want to be told my degree is useless. I have a second degree which has been more useful, but we can’t change the past, therefore we have to accept that we were too naive and young to see that a portion of college degrees are nothing more than fancy pieces of paper. Universities are no longer creating Tim Berners Lee and other smart pioneers in computer tech. They are generating a generation of kids who are woefully ignorant, have woke ideologies, and seek to shut down anybody who is different than them.
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  75. I disagree. Boomers rebelled against their WW2 parents for being too square and orderly.
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  76. Gen X Independence.
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  77.  @joshuadavid1804  That’s not exactly a rare occurrence. We just had one in Madison.
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  78.  @Animorphster Not surprisingly to see who leads the percentage of wealth.
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  79.  @JamesWilson-sb9iq At least you have videos on your channel, unlike most who come in here whining who have no content at all.
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  80.  @TinnCup  Those can’t be compared with the participation trophies Millennials got back in the 90’s/2000’s. I saw it happen from experience because I was there.
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  81.  @f1champ551  Since Generation X, people in general here in the United States haven’t been given a purpose.
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  82.  @f1champ551  I’ve read books written by World War II veterans who saw what was happening back then. And I can’t help but admire and respect them. The ‘Greatest Generation’ in my view had the best qualities (born circa 1902 to 1926). Tough as nails, determined, passionate and compelled with a purpose. My father had a Korean War veteran as a teacher during his freshman year in highschool (1960s). Didn’t take crap from nobody. Very disciplined and stoic according to what my dad told me. Our schools are now filled with narcissistic Millennial teachers who don’t have a real purpose. They’re handing participation awards to the kids, which is no different than what their Boomer parents did to them. I hate this Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok generation of adult children. 30 year olds today act like the 16 - 18 year olds from decades ago.
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  83. The ones who actually did were the WW2 generation. They’re dead from old age.
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  84. As a Gen Xer your generation was the first to get fucked over.
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  85.  @jesusisdead The Draft was demolished in 1972 - 1974ish. Elder Boomers were sent overseas to fight in Asia during the late 1960’s. However, a portion of the US military was Silent Generation soldiers. Many of whom are now dead. Boomers were the low ranking ones due to their young ages. Middle to late Boomers for the most part have never served in the military. So their opinions on actually serving and picking yourself by the bootstraps are garbage.
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  86.  @eneyi2153  Gen Xers were mistreated by Boomers back in the 80's. Many Boomers, particularly Christian Conservatives, were condescending, and talked down to you, not with you.
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  87. Any Boomer who watches MSNBC 24/7 shouldn't be taken seriously. My advice is limit your interactions with your mother, or simply cut your relations with her.
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  88. And the economy was this way since the 1980’s. Gen X saw this coming 30 years ago.
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  89.  @MajinMist603  Everything that has a beginning has an end. For America, we’re currently experiencing the beginning of the end.
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  90.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  I’m sort of envious that you only had that to pay. When I finished my degree I had to pay a lot more in debt. It’s all thanks to tuition rising and the wages not being able to afford the costs. Why Zoomers are working two jobs to make ends meet.
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  91. Boomers suck. Gen X at least can admit the wrongs in the world.
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  92. Same here. I’m sick of the Boomers telling me crap when they can’t even to understand the situations us Millennials will be facing in the near future.
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  93.  @Attmay  In a sense. Both the Greatest Generation and SIlent Generations struggled to an extent. The Great Depression and WW2 defined the Greatest Generation, whereas 1950s/1960s Segregation and issues like nuclear threats (Cuban Missile Crisis) and the Vietnam War were moreso the Silent Generation. Older Boomers were the Hippies of the 60's. Younger Boomers were the Yuppies of the 80's. Both of them, to a degree, have done a lot to damage America. Most Boomers I know voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 respectively, who did away with mental homes and raised taxes several times. They also approved of NAFTA and a good number of mega corporations are controller by Boomers. They are cold, narcissistic and selfish. This wasn't so much the case with their parents, who had to learn to preserve and value during the Great Depression and WW2. Even the Silent Generation who were too young to experience those events seem much more down to earth and fair.
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  94.  @penny4thought168  Well said.
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  95.  @bdog1323  Seeing that Atari logo was almost a giveaway you are a Gen Xer.
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  96.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  The nice crap is nostalgia. What the Boomers had were career ladders. We don’t have those. Unless you have high credentials then you’re basically stuck in the job you applied for. That’s why we switch jobs so often now. If someone treats us badly, you just get another job somewhere else.
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  97. If the 71 represents the year you were born (1971), then your dislike was justified. My Gen X friends tell me they were treated as latchkey keys. This meant they had to discover things on their own and mature faster, which likely explains why your peers seemed older despite only being 20 - 25 years old. Millennials in contrast were sheltered, grew up on anime and sappy 90’s cartoons, and are more immature in comparison.
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  98.  @jamkat7785  Gen X created Grunge and Gangsta Rap. Kurt Cobain and Tupac Shakur were the faces of those music genres, as they were Gen Xers themselves.
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  99. It’s the same with mine. You look like a reasonable man. Best of luck moving forward.
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  100. It's good that your dad in his 80s is still trying to contact you. But he likely won't be around to see things get worse in the coming years and decades. I'm concerned for Millennials under 40 and the Zoomers more than anything. Right now things are looking pretty bleak for them.
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  101. I just remember latchkey kids. Boomers put career and caring about themselves above their children. That’s why Gen X hates them, and they won’t pass the torch.
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  102.  @Killswitch1411  Many young people have already died in this current financial climate. The Fentanyl outbreak. Death by despair. No hope for a better future. No option for a decent wife and kids. Those are just some of the things young people are dying from.
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  103.  @EMKABMART  Whatever Boomers had to struggle with, their parents struggled even more. Read up about the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression and WW2 before you start running your mouth. Unlike you, I want Gen Z to succeed. But as long as people like you continue to put their foot down on young people, nothing gets accomplished.
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  104.  @EMKABMART  From what? Hollywood? Are you assuming that people here think life resembled that of movie stars Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant and Judy Garland? My grandparents both came up poor in that era. They didn’t have radios for entertainment. They both grew up in simple homes, and raised my parents through hard work. Life in the 1950’s and 1960’s, even without indoor plumbing for a number of houses, was still much easier than it was during the Great Depression.
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  105.  @seasonalocelot  The Hippie movement shaped this man. That’s why he’s a rambling lunatic.
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  106.  @larkies916  The early Boomers got lucky. They embraced the 1960's 'Love' while they listened to Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles, then turned into Hippies when John Lennon and company grew their hair long. Then they turned around and voted for Reagan decades later, and younger generations are blamed for crap that already started before their time. I'm just waiting for the Boomers to die off. It sounds harsh and cruel, but the kids have already suffered enough. Things need to change for the better if American and the rest of western society wants to sustain itself for more than 5 - 15 years.
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  107. Gen X gets ignored as always.
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  108.  @jeremywoodfin2885  I also want to add that I’ll be turning 38 in a couple months. Still fairly young by modern standards, but I’m definitely not college aged. I had to move back in with my folks a few years back because I couldn’t afford to pay the rent for my own place. Moved back in, did some studying of my own, attended job interviews, worked a couple years, cut back on all luxuries until I was finally able to live alone again.
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  109. Most of them are dead. It’s just the few left with seats of power who are completely detached from reality. If you’re 80 or older and still hold a seat of power in the government, you need to retire.
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  110.  @thomaspaine7098  Neo-conservatives helped ruin America.
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  111. Your childhood was 3 billion people. Today we are well over 8 billion people. You want to discuss why we’re getting more forest fires in America, why we’re getting more scorching heat? The population increase has a lot to do with this.
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  112.  @johnevans5782  Sounds like the Leave It To Beaver television show.
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  113.  @gjm2669  Ok Boomer.
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  114.  @ernie4795  I have a useless Bachelors Degree to show for it.
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  115. Nobody cares about your shit opinion.
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  116.  @herknorth  Older Millennials are people born in 1981 - 1986 or so. Those who came after are Young Millennials, which is distinguish due to changes in computer tech, particularly the internet.
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  117. The 80's had AIDS. The 90's had the Rodney King beating and riots that followed, along with a list of other tragedies. There is so such thing as an ideal time. It was just that back then, in your heyday, you didn't have fearful news constantly being beaten into people like it is now, thanks to 24/7 news media and internet social media. You could live a life ignorant of most of the bad events due to lack of technology. Now in order to do that, you will have to live "off the grid" and become a homesteader.
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  118. Their parents were better, but they raised the monsters we’re seeing today.
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  119. Look at what Gates and the Clintons are doing.
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  120. In short, Reaganomics. Prior to the 1980’s, small towns and smaller cities relied on local businesses and services. Since Reaganomics, there has been an effort to punish the average person, whereas the rich continue to get richer.
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  121.  @eccehomer8182  Boomers brought the prosperity that was the 90’s generation economy, including the Dot Com Boom that gave people opportunities. However, they constantly told Millennials to respect authority while at the same time mollycoddling them by telling them what they can and can’t do. Even when the Millennials became young adults. This has resulted in an entire generation of beta males who can’t think for themselves and have to have older people or authority to make decisions for them. A societal collapse is pretty much on the horizon. The system we have now isn’t working, and we are seeing the consequences of that in the media and elsewhere.
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  122.  @Paul71H  Because Boomers inherited America from their parents and drove it into the ground. Why do you think our opinion of the government is so negative? Why are we constantly griping about working two jobs while barely able to afford the apartment rent we pay? Boomers did have not to go through these hardships. In 1972 they were guaranteed a career complete with a good home, family and kids. Hearing these 70 - 75 year old farts still say we’re soft and overly fragile boils my blood to no end.
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  123.  @acegikm  Boomers are still in Congress. Until they die off, the torch won’t be passed on to the younger generations.
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  124. If you don’t live in Japan, your statement means nothing.
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  125. Letters community = Alphabet Mafia
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  126. You’re leaving Hollywood out of the equation. Andy Griffith? All in the Family? MASH? Any of that sound familiar to you? What Gen Z is facing today is an evolution that TV and later computers/social media were doing.
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  127.  @psikeyhackr6914  You didn't get my point did you? Whereas Gen Z is praising social media influencers, you older guys were praising celebrities on television. It's all superficiality and the tube was for decades a great propaganda machine.
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  128.  @psikeyhackr6914  Only fools go for psychology at this point. I’ve worked warehousing, retail and other physical labor for over 20 years.
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  129. The war started in 1946. Americans were kept quiet about it until a certain senator named McCarthy brought out ‘McCarthyism’ and the Hollywood blacklist became known. Then there’s of course the 1960s/early 1970s. Then you had Gen X still being told to conduct nuclear drills at school, while the Soviets were beginning to crumble. The union collapses in 1991 and America becomes the lone superpower.
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  130. From $5 trillion to over $30 trillion.
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  131.  @Slickmickyoyo97 They were the “Don’t trust anyone over 30”.
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  132.  @manictiger  You can add Ronald Reagan to that list as well. One of the worst presidents America produced. NAFTA is another problem, sending jobs overseas for cheaper labor. The future isn’t looking good.
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  133.  @kmeades346  I put Gen X above Millennials and Zoomers.
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  134.  @ThunderAppeal  I feel this is wrong. People I knew from the Silent Generation spoke more eloquently and had a stronger sense of frugality, since their parents had to endure the Great Depression. Baby Boomers were spoon fed during the 1950s - 1970s and were highly influenced by Reaganomics in the 1980s. By the 1990s they were already borrowing more money than they can pay back, and helped drastically increase the US National Debt. But people will still throw Millennials and Zoomers under the bus because both generations are young.
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  135.  @jesse_-  Or be like Muhammad Ali or Ted Nugent who both deliberately tried to avoid the Vietnam War and were punished for it.
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  136.  @HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle  Saying America is the “Greatest Country in the World” couldn’t be more delusional. I laugh when these idiots think of America like Leave It To Beaver. That old vintage 50s show, with a caring man and housewife with two kids. Middle class home with white picket fence. America stopped being that a long time ago. It continues to decline in education and healthcare. Countries like Switzerland and Norway have taken what was the old American values and improved upon them. Old White Americans are stuck in the 1950s - 1970s. Complete with racial prejudice and that attitude of “strap yourself by the boots”. It’s no wonder America is falling.
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  137.  @HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle  Just say ‘trainwreck’. That term describes modern day America in a nutshell.
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  138.  @HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle  Just look at Los Angeles. Horrible traffic. Their train system is ineffective.
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  139.  @walkerlocker6126  I’m praying that Gen Z will turn things around as they age and get older.
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  140.  @jesse_-  You’re just spouting ageism BS. Go lock the doors and hide in your castle. Younger generations do not want nor favor your biased viewpoint.
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  141.  @jesse_-  Millennials are pushing 35 - 40 years old. How can you sit there and say everything bad about them is their fault?
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  142.  @ThaiThom  And a number of them still haven’t paid it off.
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  143.  @jesse_-  What a typical ‘Boomer’ comment. Millennials are the product of the times they were brought up in. Meanwhile, they’re being forced to work multiple jobs to keep the roof on their heads. The older ones pushing 40 and older are just now securing homes, but they’re not going to pay them off any time soon. Not even close. Both the Boomers and the older portion of Gen Xers were able to land jobs straight out of high school and college. Now Millennials and Zoomers are forced to apply online and pass a stupid IQ test just for basic duties like floor sweeping. There is no denying that older generations starting with the Silent Generation (1928/1929 - 1945) had a better quality of life. It was possible to apply and work for a union job that paid your family expenses, cars and home. Not a house, a home with wife and children. This is no longer possible. So while Generation Z (Zoomers) (1997 - 2012) struggles daily to even complete college and obtain a fairly decent job, continue to call Millennials weak, entitled, spoiled and rotten. I suppose you watched those MTV reality shows from the 2000’s and 2010’s and figured this is how the Millennials acted in day to day life. Giving the younger generations crap makes you just as entitled as a lot Boomers are themselves.
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  144.  @gjm2669  Let them pass on.
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  145.  @gjm2669  Isn’t that what you’re doing here on YT? You’re no better than anyone else making comments here.
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  146.  @milestoitaly  Ok boomer
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  147. ⁠ @colleenporter1119 Computers didn’t enter the home until the early 1980’s. Cell phones didn’t exist until the 1970’s, and they weren’t practical until the 1990’s. iPad of course was the creation of Steve Jobs. All this to say, your generation created these things, but these were not things you grew up with.
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  148.  @map3384 Your contemporaries served during the Persian Gulf War (1991).
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  149.  @map3384 Mainstream magazines and media covered the despair of Gen X in the 1990’s.
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  150.  @andoriannationalist3738  You were cheated before you were even born.
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  151.  @Gomba13  I worked retail with them. I did both Target and Walmart. Gen Z had a difficult time processing the duties they were told. Much of the work they did was subpar. When I worked at Lowes before the pandemic, some of them didn’t know the types of lumber older people asked were available. Length, width and how much wood was needed for the customer was also lost on them. So we are screwed.
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  152.  @Gomba13  Lots of Gen Z are socialist in their thinking. Some of them even claim they are such on their social media profiles.
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  153. Vietnam, Philippines, Romania, all of them are doing much better than the United States, as well as vastly improve their quality of life and infrastructure over the past few decades.
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  154.  @manictiger  You can either move to Scandinavia, Central/South America, or Japan. The United States, Canada, Australia and the UK are all a hellscape now. Collapse is necessary for society to rebuild, which is another way of saying a phoenix will rise from the ashes.
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  155.  @wordforger  The Baby Boomers brought participation medals to the schools, which I see many Millennials in their mid - late 30s starting to do with their young children. I’m old enough and I was around back in the 90s to see this happen firsthand. We still brag and boast on social media, despite being well in our 30s. If we want responsibility, we need to cut off Twitter, Instagram and TikTok and actually learn to accept patience. Millennials didn’t have a smooth transition, but the Baby Boomers did next to nothing to teach that responsibility. Now we find ourselves in the same boat as the Zoomers, while the Boomers are relaxing at home with their retirement funds while they’re sucking away Social Security.
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  156. You could sense these traits in that generation of soldiers who served their country. Even old fashioned Hollywood entertainers like Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Red Skelton. All members of the Greatest Generation. Loved and admired by millions. All of whom valued family life, hard work and selflessness. What we have now is utterly pathetic and demoralizing. Our young soldiers are experiencing mental breakdowns, on top of being forced with gender ideology nonsense.
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  157.  @brandonking5111  If you’re saying that they ushered in the Baby Boomers and had Ronald Reagan usher in crap that we’re still paying for, then yes, they are responsible. But here’s the difference. They’re practically all dead and gone. Baby Boomers in contrast still control Congress and a majority of global corporations. Globalization didn’t start taking effect until the 80’s - 2000’s, by which point the WW2 generation was either long retired or dead. I’ve spoken with young soldiers, including those who served their time and are disabled veterans. There is no sense of patriotism within them. And it’s not their fault. We’re treating some Iraq War veterans like dirt. The war that George W Bush helped start 20 years ago along with the media propaganda machine putting out the ‘War on Terror’. The Greatest Generation didn’t mentor their kids all too well either. But what I’m saying is there’s more going on that we’re just now beginning to understand.
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  158. Just look at who’s running Blackrock.
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  159.  @Attmay  Too much. That's why people are leaving California.
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  160. Blackrock already controls 401ks and our housing market. Younger generations literally have next to no chance of getting a comfortable home.
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  161.  @GenerationX1984  There’s a bunch of guidelines you have to follow and it turns me off. Even regular apartments now have more guidelines than they did just 20 years ago. All while the rent continues to increase.
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  162.  @johnbattle7518 Okay Boomer.
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  163. The media gets paid if they say their name, which is wrong, but that’s the truth.
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  164. Nobody cares.
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  165. They were pampered by their WW2 generation parents. That's what happened in the Post War Era. The Vietnam War, war on politics, the Hippie Movement, the Civil Rights Movement that all occurred in the 1960s didn't just happen in a vacuum.
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  166. They will ALWAYS be entitled. The Greatest Generation faced serious adversity. Look at the men who stood their ground in the UK in the 1940’s. Paul Blair, like many of his American colleagues, ruined the UK. Now it’s basically a totalitarian state where native people are arrested for voicing their opinions.
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  167. It's been there before Gen Xers even existed. The system is the problem. As much hate Baby Boomers get these days, many of them did not commit the problems we're facing.
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  168. Boomers suck.
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  169. Gen X were left to fend for themselves on their own.
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  170. Never trust those over 55 - 80 years of age in political power to give any actual advice to the younger generations.
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  171.  @aeonsbeyond  I’m far past college aged pal. I think it’s time you guys acknowledge the problems mounting in the USA.
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  172.  @trippytigertony5520 Somebody likes Hotline Miami.
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  173. We need to understand that it was the Boomers with a lot of influence and power who started the identity politics nonsense.
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  174. Conservative > Left
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  175. The problem, the Greatest Generation is practically all dead. Some are pushing 100, others like former president Jimmy Carter have already reached that milestone. But they are no longer relevant to society. With all that stacked against them, it's no wonder they had strong men and women. You're also leaving out the Roaring Twenties, an era that also presented more than its fair share of problems.
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  176. Archie Bunker from All in the Family comes to mind.
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  177.  @Alan_One1  He destroyed his argument right then and there.
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  178. The great generation sacrificed things for a better life.
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  179.  @blackcorp0001 Ok Boomer
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  180. You’re not wrong, but understand that it’s not just Millennials that hate Boomers. Gen X and Gen Z doesn’t like them either.
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  181. And Gen Xers, Millennials and Zoomers all had to suffer as a result.
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  182.  @briangallagher1704  This guy is Gen X dude. You’re all suffering from the same system us Xennials are going through. You are being toyed with to create a further divide.
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  183.  @wordforger  I have seen this situation play out in person, and it is horrifying.
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  184. Gen Xers are small in contrast to either Boomers or Millennials.
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  185. Been this way for 30 - 40 years. No point in living a long life past 80 if people are just going to suffer and be miserable.
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  186. Gen Xers did nuclear drills too.
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  187. Gen X has a very longstanding hatred of them. I'm an early 80's born Millennial, and while I have ascended to now being a trainer and watchman for younger employees at the workplace, it's been hectic. Something has to give.
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  188.  @liamsandal6360  You're misinterpreting what I'm saying here. I never said all Boomers are bad, in fact I have some Boomers in my life who are good people. And I'm not referring to the 35 - 40 year old dude acting like a Boomer, which is where the 'Ok Boomer' thing gets thrown about. I'm talking about the generation born between 1946 and 1964, who inherited from their Greatest Generation/Silent Generation parents and squandered the wealth for themselves. Again, I'm not trying to blanket Boomers by saying all of them were bad. That was the doing of generations of wealth and power being corrupt and without decent morals. My Millennial brethren is forced to work harder and for longer to obtain the same assets the Boomers did when they were my age. That's a fact of life and we fully understand that life is not fair. The least that older people, especially the guys before Gen Xers, can and probably should do is acknowledge that they're sorry that they put younger people into this mess. You have a good niece and nephew. So do I, but that's not the point I'm trying to make. The ruling elites will always take what they want for themselves. The Baby Boomers who were a part of them have done much to damage America, and we are heading towards another economic recession. Because the COVID-19 pandemic apparently wasn't enough.
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  189.  @liamsandal6360  You're speaking of the top 1 percent in terms of wealth. They are a large part of the reason why we currently live in a polarized society. United We Stand, Divided We Fall. You already know which one of these two we're in right now.
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  190. Bob Dylan coined that phrase.
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  191. California is beyond saving.
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  192. I'm assuming the 84 in your name represents the year you were born. 1984. Sounds fitting, because we're practically living in George Orwell's novel at this point. A good portion of us were raised by White Boomers. There's no denying this. Now they sit at home with white and grey hair under retirement, collecting their pay while we grind out two jobs. At 36 I never felt more resentment towards the Boomers than now. The fact of life is the world we were brought up for no longer exists. The New Deal society that their parents built was done away with decades ago, before we even existed. Now we face tough times as my wages aren't even enough to pay for the tiny place I live in. While I eat on Top Ramen and other cheap foods to save money.
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  193.  @johnevans5782  Ok Boomer
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  194. Just look at the people running our government. The vast majority of them, over 65 - 70 years old.
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  195. The game is rigged. The mainstream parties only want people who are older and have wealth. The working class doesn’t count and those who campaign for the worker class usually get stamped out.
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  196. I was in my twenties a decade ago. We already had few opportunities. Now we are passing that bill even higher to Gen Zs, who might as well be all nihilistic and demoralized with how bad things have got. The Greatest Generation set up the system for peace and prosperity. The Silent Generation added and contributed to that system. The Baby Boomers took what both the World War 2 and SIlent Generations gave and squandered it. The bill was first handed to Gen Xers, then to Millennials 10 - 20 years later. Now the bill is on Gen Zs, and I can tell you right now, it's not looking good with them at this point. Millennials and Gen Zs have a right to be angry. Gen X in contrast has mostly sat on the sidelines watching the chaos ensue, wondering if they should jump in or just walk away from it all.
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  197. The purchasing power of the average 30 year old doesn’t come close to the Boomers. Whoever got these statistics pulled them out of thin air.
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  198. A lot of Boomers took drugs in the 60's and 70's. Also, some of the peers in your grandparents generation didn't live that long either.
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  199. Suburban houses are a product of Post War America. Boomers just happened to grow up in them.
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  200. Greatest Generation >> Boomers
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  201.  @blackcorp0001  Ok Boomer
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  202. Boomers aren’t going to be loved at the nursing homes, I will tell you that much.
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  203. Yes they did. Then they robbed their children’s futures, now they’re in retirement homes still complaining despite getting money.
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  204. All Millennials and Zoomers need to read this comment.
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  205. Online forums are generally hiveminds anyway. They are basically cults, to put this bluntly.
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  206. What do you freaking expect when these young people can barely afford a crummy apartment with their poor wages they get and the student debt they've accumulated? Children are too expensive for them. It's not like they decided they weren't going to have children as part of their long term plan. These teens and 20 something year olds won't inherit much of anything anyway. Not with where things have gone.
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  207.  @walkerlocker6126  And they’re stuck in the 1950s - 1970s.
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  208.  @johnevans5782  You we’re probably born the same year that Kurt Cobain was. Him like others in his generation didn’t think like Robin Williams and other Boomer entertainers. Far from it. Your age group was responsible for creating grunge after you celebrated the hair metal of the 80’s, which was a Boomer product.
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  209.  @ultravioletpisces3666 Always been this way. A Boomer told me when he was a kid, they used to call the WW2 people “squares”, because they were tough and boring and lacked personality. Then the late 1960’s happened, and the rest is history.
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  210.  @johnevans5782 Part of the problem with your philosophy is people will use that to take advantage of you. If you are a Boomer who was raised a Christian in 1950’s and 1960’s America, this makes sense. However, someone raised in a bad neighborhood in Los Angeles or Detroit will be overly cautious of people until they earn his or her trust.
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  211. ⁠​⁠ @Melodyofthesea78 Your story sounds like the one Mike Tyson had. Cultish Far Right - Conservative Christians/Neo-Cons. Gained prominence during the Reagan years. Cultish Far Left - Many LGB communities. Got its start in the 1960’s and 1970’s, but lost power during the 1980’s.
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  212. ⁠ @E4Sierra A better comparison is the Greatest generation values versus the Boomer values. The former (Greatest) was seen as empathetic, due to experiencing strife and trauma in their younger years. The latter (Boomers) was and is still seen as narcissistic. Comparing the two generations is literal night and day. But the Greatest is no longer relevant, therefore comparing Boomers with Gen X makes more sense in these trying times. Gen X, by and large, hate not only Boomers but also the younger generations (Millennial and Gen Z). They are generally outcasts.
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  213. Carter brought in the Dept of Education. Schools have been fast on the decline ever since.
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  214. 1973 was also the year when Nixon took the US Dollar off the Gold Standard.
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  215. One of the best comments I read in a very long time. You sir, get my utmost respect.
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  216. Gen X will tell you otherwise. And they are in the mid 40s to 50s now.
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  217.  @vladtheemailer3223 The hate is justified.
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  218. And their parents simply refused to talk to their Boomer kids about the war, or the depression.
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  219.  @milestoitaly  I’m in my mid 30s and a couple Millennials I knew back in high school and college committed suicide. They wasted years on a Bachelors only to be told it was useless, after the same chuckleheads pressured them to study those fields after high school. Fuck this society. We need to make a change and we need to make it now. These Gen Z kids I see these days taking about suicide and practicing nihilism does not give me hope for future children. We along with those before us have failed in providing mentorship. Think about that when you look at a leftist hellscape like San Francisco, California and you see tons of homeless desperate people with no chance of getting a shot at a better life.
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  220.  @joshuadavid1804  I feel you. I’m in my 40’s now and things aren’t looking so bright.
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  221. When you had an abusive parent, you shouldn't shed a tear anyway.
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  222. Look what they did. They took what the Greatest/Silent generations worked hard at to obtain and the Boomers ruined it. They are also responsible for this crummy economy we have today.
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  223. Those two guys were cutoff Millennials.
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  224. You’re leaving out Reagan.
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  225.  @Sabrina-oh5op Earlier. The late 80’s and 90’s was the era of Coke. Some kids got it really young.
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  226. Agree, and I’m likely younger than you. These old people need to go.
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  227.  @theoreticalphysics3644 Mexico City is a prime example.
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  228.  @EMKABMART If you want an actual look at how some people were living back then, go look up an old documentary from the 1960’s that showcased people living in the Appalachian Mountains. People just watched Leave it to Beaver, Perry Mason, Beverly Hillbillies and other sugarcoated Hollywood shows of that era thinking that was how American people lived. Only a very select few lived those lifestyles, and they were all rich.
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  229.  @easternrebel1061 Why do you have Russian text in your bio?
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  230.  @Steve-gx9ot When your WW2 parents had to live thru the 1920’s, the Great Depression and the War, they had to face adversity.
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  231.  @Animorphster Try living in San Francisco working a tech job. You still can’t afford a house. Not that I’d live in those homes anyway. They’re small, overpriced, aging, and there’s a good chance a homeless person is living nearby.
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  232.  @Animorphster They got factory jobs while being stupid and ignorant. These days a Gen Z can get a Masters and a PhD. Be very knowledgeable in general, but still live paycheck to paycheck.
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  233.  @Animorphster Ukraine shouldn’t be a place for Americans to fight and serve. No war like that deserves innocent Anericans to die there. This Steve guy is completely delusional.
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  234.  @Not_a_Manager A lot of WW2 parents spoiled the Boomers.
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  235.  @malumnexus7919 Not everyone will survive.
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  236. ⁠ @ejtattersall156 A lot of Americans moved outward in the 1970’s. The Energy Crisis forced a lot of people to conserve. Also, cities like NYC and Detroit were becoming undesirable places. A Boomer told me he recalls seeing bulletproof glass in many places in Detroit during the late 1970’s.
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  237.  @JamesK7911 He’s a fool. Keyboard warriors always wanting the upper hand.
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  238.  @ejtattersall156  There is speculation that Kurt Cobain was set up, but as we know, he shot himself in April 1994. He made a splash in the music scene, then he was gone.
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  239.  @ejtattersall156  The difference between the 1930’s and now is people back then were tougher. They faced adversity. Gen Z likes to cry in a corner. They are the poster boy generation of the 2020’s, the worst decade of my existence. I agree with most of what you said, but a big reason for that is Boomers were practically handed the reins. Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z all got shafted. Don’t forget that TIME labeled you Gen Xers lost and confused back in the 1990’s. The reason you’re forgotten is because it’s far more profitable and trendy to lump the issues on Gen Z, just like what happened to Millennials in the 2000’s and early 2010’s.
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  240.  @ejtattersall156  If I had the option to ask Mike Tyson what made him so tough, I’d ask him. Hint: It wasn’t training. It was the terrible childhood he had. 2Pac told people the same thing. No father figure, left to fend for himself, was constantly in trouble with the law.
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  241.  @ejtattersall156  Your recession - late 1980’s to early 1990’s. I was reading that 1987 was a particularly bad year.
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  242.  @EMKABMART  True. Also important vaccines were coming out, like polio. The early 20th Century was full of despair, tragedy, suffering, death and misery. If older generations seemed tougher and more resilient, it’s because they had to be. The average life expectancy in America in the year 1900 was only 40 - 45.
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  243.  @eh1702  All of this which has led to suicides among Gen Z, and increased drug usage. Can you blame them if they’re working 80 hours a week to keep their crummy apartments? All of this is by design. And it’s part of the reason why nostalgia for the 1950’s to the 1990’s is so strong in America. The corporations at some point have declared war. If you are part of the 99 percent demographic, you are being shafted.
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  244. They are all these things. Boomers are awful.
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  245.  @MajinMist603  Most of us will be lucky to see retirement at age 70. Let's face it. Both the Boomers and the elites who run America are purposely making it more difficult for young people to have opportunities in the future.
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  246.  @MarkSmithhhh  That they were.
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  247.  @milestoitaly  You just described soccer moms of the 1990’s who drove big SUVs.
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  248. @yay Good
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  249. Ok Boomer
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  250.  @biker6070  As someone who has been around people who used heavy medication, it often makes them worse, not better. There’s a whole con behind the pharmaceutical industry here in the USA. The Millennial generation fell for it and sadly the Zoomers are following in their footsteps.
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  251. They are the lesser children of those parents who sacrificed and saw economic depression and a giant war.
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  252.  @GoonCaveDiver All you have to do is look at the Clintons right now. I rest my case.
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  253. What’s the point? Boomers set us up for failure. When more of them live in senior homes we’re not going to give them much sympathy. It’s sad, but that’s the reality.
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  254.  @jesusisdead  You best believe us when we say we’re angry. You already know the cost of living, the lack of opportunity, and the lack of sympathy and care. For us Americans, nobody genuinely wants to put America First. And there is a debt accumulation that will ensure the death of this country. Right now I’m living with friends while I’m working towards something where I can be alone and content. Single people like myself are getting shafted, and it’s all by design. Our government is rotten to the core, and most people are too lazy to see what’s going on.
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  255.  @jesusisdead Pick up trucks in the 80’s and 90’s were smaller. They used up a lot of gas, but gas was cheaper, so it wasn’t too big a deal. Today I see pick up trucks with lift kits, costing $80,000 - $100,000 a piece. Taxes and insurance are off the charts. Monthly payments are beyond what the average person can afford. We cannot get smaller trucks.
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  256.  @jesusisdead I read somewhere that Boomers control at least 80 percent of American finances, if not more. We can’t become independent because our system is reliant on Boomers, who will die in the next 10 to 25 years.
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  257. Not just using it, sniffing it as well.
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  258. That’s been a thing since the early 90’s at least. Hollywood already covered high speed chases in the late 60’s - 70’s.
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  259. When did this happen? Proof that I’m younger than you.
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  260.  @JefferyHagen  I entered the workforce in the late 90’s, and the damage was already done. I’m part of that Xennial, elder Millennial group born in the first two or three years of the 1980s. By being born in 1965 you were already finishing highschool when I came into this world. To keep this short, manufacturing was already long gone. We were convinced in highschool in the late 90s to pursue college, more specifically grab a Bachelors Degree, which requires four years. I did warehousing for various companies, never staying more than two to three years because work conditions were awful. The only people who were paid anything worthwhile were the general managers, who were one tier under the bottom corporate. Every once in a while I would spot a man in a business suit. This was corporate, who only did business with the general manager. Every other manager was denied to discuss anything with this corporate business suit. It was back then around the early 2000’s that I started to learn about the top 1 percent, and the control they had and still continue to have. Then the events of the 2000s happened. We see more things being stripped away in the 2010s. And now we’re possibly facing full societal collapse, partly due to a certain party who is going to initiate full authoritarian rule should they win.
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  261. Gen X are the guys sitting on the bleachers eating popcorn.
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  262.  @chrischoy9  War in Afghanistan isn't a Gen Z problem. That was a Millennial problem. They were all misled when George W Bush helped send young Millennials to the War in Iraq, while the Bush Administration was crafting the War on Terror narrative. There was also the looming threat from Al-Qaeda and the likes of Osama bin Laden. Saddam Hussein was captured in 2003 and executed in 2006, a memory that many Millennials still remember. Everything that Gen Z is facing was lumped on Millennials first. This generation, in contrast, has a higher bill to pay than what the Millennials had to do when they were college aged.
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  263. This person didn't forget Gen Xers. It's moreso the fact that what you guys had to put up with, was decades ago.
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  264. “Just Say No” was the Reagan political campaign to get Gen X to stay off drugs. Only that it backfired. Drug usage increased in the 90’s. The Boomers were voting in incompetent politicians who were part of the Greatest/Silent generations. They play a part in this grand scheme too. You were the latch key kid while your hippie parents did drugs and told you to be outside until the street lights came on. Baby Boomers talked at you, not to you. TIME did a piece where Gen X was seen as lazy, entitled, incompetent and the ones to be worse off than their parents. This decline has been evident for a very long time. We have three adult generations and one child generation who have all been shafted.
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  265.  @johnbattle7518 That includes you, Boomer.
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  266.  @MajinMist603  Which led to a better qualify of life for a lot of Americans.
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  267.  @chesterwilberforce9832  Bernie Madoff really shafted you guys. People committed suicide over him ruining their entire livelihoods. But there are far more people like Bernie, who don’t get caught and will never get caught.
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  268.  @msstarstramel7158  Boomers are too old to care. Better to just let this entire system collapse and let those of us who care build something out of the ashes.
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  269.  @msstarstramel7158  California proved that the $20 wage just increased everything. The puppet masters are deliberately sabotaging everything to fill their pockets.
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  270.  @retroriceremix9407  Supply and Demand.
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  271. Gen X were latch key kids.
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  272. Social media and the internet were a mistake.
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  273.  @josephham  So it's fine to you that people are living in virtual boxes inside their homes? Japan and South Korea already have tons of people who don't ever interact with anything in the outside world, the internet and electronics is all they know. Japan was always an isolationist society, so this is nothing new to them. Unfortunately, the West is falling in the same direction. No communication, outside of texting. Actual interaction is rare. That's what this generation is doing. And rebelling by joining groups like Antifa, bad move.
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  274.  @josephham  The parents are doing a horrible job.
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  275.  @josephham  It’s you who is full of crap. I’m in my late 30’s. I know what has gone on over the past decade. I know where America and other western countries are heading. I didn’t just wake up suddenly with a dictionary in my hand.
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  276.  @josephham  Freedom? Have you not seen what Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter are doing? We were better off before the internet became big.
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  277. So did Gen X. Were you not aware of 1970’s and 1980’s kids doing nuclear drills?
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  278. The entire narrative about Washington or Oregon being leftist is utter garbage. The blue counties are situated in metropolitan areas, such as Portland. Red counties are more typically representative of rural America. I’ve met many good folks from these parts. Hard working, loyal, nice and friendly, not at all buying the garbage MSM tries to feed us on a regular basis.
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  279.  @afkaqualls  Correct. Boomers also hate old people, you know, the remnants of the previous generation who are all 85 - 90+ in age. So in addition, they mistreat Gen Z in the process.
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  280. You can see this in a lot of celebrities and rich people.
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  281.  @derbdep  Boomers shafted all three generations. Gen Z can barely afford having a roof over their heads. The anger is justified, and there’s simply no excuse anymore. We’re going to have to fight to gain our freedoms, independence and opportunities. All things that the elites are trying their best to eliminate.
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  282.  @derbdep  We all have a valid reason for hating them. But we’re going to have to fight for our independence. Freedom ain’t free. And the powers that be don’t want us to have freedom.
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  283.  @briangallagher1704 Biden is technically part of the Silent Generation. But it’s the same thing.
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  284. 100% agree.
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  285. Congress has one of the most pathetic approval rates you can think of. Yet they can still play dictator and sell us out while they sit there holding office.
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  286. That’s the point. Us Millennials at 35 - 40 cannot afford homes. Boomers grabbed homes in their early 20s to late 30s. Cheaper, more livable, better quality materials, and overall more properly built houses. Most of us just rent off homes, apartments or condos. We cannot afford anything better than that. And the Boomers just sit there on their retirement money ranting about whatever tickles their fancy.
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  287. People need to cut the TV and cut off social media. Until then, mass amounts of people will be fearful of the future and our legacy.
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  288.  @bveracka  I’m glad I came up when I did back in the 90’s and early - mid 2000’s. I’m not having kids. Sad to see we have come to this.
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  289.  @bveracka  I've seen the declining public schools, and to be honest they're probably not worth the trouble anymore. Granted some of the schools have good teachers, but they're beholden by the system. LGBTQ shouldn't be taught at the elementary school level, I'm sorry but that's unacceptable. I look at kids on TikTok in their late teens and early 20s and I see they are simply brainwashed. Another big problem is it's simply more expensive now to have children. Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and even the early Millennials didn't have this issue. That's not to mention wages not keeping up with rising inflation costs and real estate is absolutely ridiculous now. I'm in my mid 30s and I've given up on owning a home anytime soon, because the payments you have to make are completely unreasonable for the income you make. It sucks, and I really wish things will start changing for the better.
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  290.  @Whitetiger187  I don’t know what CRT is. We all fell to Obama’s slogan. What we didn’t know is he would turn out to be incompetent like so many before him. Now things are even worse with Trump and now Biden. I’ve already checked out. I’m fed up with politicians and their incompetence to do anything. Voting pamphlets and ballots are just pieces of paper. My home state of California is a mess from the politics and the people of far leftism and progression. Boomers did much to wreck the state, along with the rest of the country. Born in 1986. Single, work in a trade, been through college.
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  291.  @Whitetiger187  By rust belt you mean Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis?
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  292.  @Whitetiger187  Okay. Schools have omitted a lot of that “true” history. Now they’re telling kids that American Japanese didn’t actually get sent to camps during World War II.
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  293. Finally, somebody out there gets it.
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  294.  @jackspring7709  Gen X was the first to get handed the bill. Then when the 2000’s decade hit it went to the Millennials. Now we are passing that bill even higher to Zoomers, a generation having to work two jobs or more while paying that $10,000 - 40,000 college debt they’ve accumulated. All while both apartment and condo prices continue to rise while wages remain stagnant. It’s no wonder so many of them have mental health problems.
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  295.  @designheretic  Good luck telling them this. I gave up trying to convince them of anything.
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  296. Biden is part of the Silent generation.
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  297. You were latchkey kids.
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  298. Their parents gave them third base.
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  299. Late Gen X early Millennials are all in their 40’s. It’s too late for them to have kids now.
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  300. Cool story bro.
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  301. Because cost of living is much higher than when your grandparents were of working age.
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  302. Nuclear families haven’t been strong since the 1960s/1970s.
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  303. Millennials were raised by Boomers. That’s why they are self loathing.
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  304. Unless you were born in the late 1940s, the crisis is just as faint to you just as we viewed 2001. That event affected your parents far more than it did to you.
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  305. We can’t afford homes.
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  306.  @asturiasceltic3183  Those are celebrities. They do not represent the average Boomer.
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  307.  @Attmay  Gender studies is one of the most useless fields you can ask for.
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  308. Tomboys were around in the 90’s. The Xers loved shows like Beavis & Butthead because they were firmly anti establishment. The Simpsons also broke barriers in that American families weren’t as stable as previous shows/media had us believe.
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  309. ⁠ @oldtechnology  The only thing I like from them is some of the entertainment and technology they used. That’s not what the Boomers made, it was their parents generation. I despise a lot of them because they put themselves above everyone else. I’m all for being independent, but not when you jeopardize other peoples futures.
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  310.  @joesama3282  I know exactly how you feel. I work hard in the real world and I still get lectured about things. No, house prices are not the same as they were when you were young. No, marriage is not as stable as it once was. On and on.
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  311.  @HabitualLover  Which explains why these mega corporations are the way they are today. These Boomers and their politics need to go if America and the rest of western society wants to change for the better.
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  312. Boomers sucked, and they still suck.
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  313. You and me both. You look old enough to be a Gen Xer.
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  314.  @davisworth5114  These young people cannot afford any sort of home, let alone have the knowledge to build a home themselves. Also, they need jobs, and unless they're lucky enough to work remotely then they're going to need to commute, which is costly in this day and age. People under the age of 30 will be paying the price. Something that your generation of Boomers largely contributed towards over a few decades time.
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  315. We were better off without social media.
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  316. They are Silent generation people. Boomers are all in their late 60s and 70s, who share many of the same possessions.
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  317. Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z
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  318. The Boomers are the main reason why I left FB years ago. Too much drama and politics involved.
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  319. I just had a discussion with them with politics. Boomers politicized everything, you can see the evidence in front of you. Contrary to many, I actually enjoyed the early years of Facebook. Then when the Boomers all hopped onto it, they began turning it into a political warzone.
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  320. Truth.
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  321. Ok Boomer
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  322.  @freeyourmind9997  ‘Back in my day, when things were good’. Blah blah blah. This is typical Boomer talk from someone who didn’t learn to adapt. Those kids, their music, their tastes. Can’t stand them all, right? Continue to lock the doors and bury your head in the sand.
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  323. You look pretty young to be Gen X.
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  324. Reaganomics took open a hole in the American economy. Taxes also increased several times. Many people don’t know that taxes, prices and cost of living all rose when Reagan was Governor of California. Combine that with the Energy Crisis of 1973 - 1974, and you got a recipe for disaster.
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