Boomers who believe facing discomfort has a significant benefit may be right.

I believe kids learn a great deal from parents as regards how to face life’s challenges. IMO, many kids who struggle with these challenges learned to struggle from their parents.

 

This might make sense if boomers weren’t actually the biggest Uber entitled snowflakes in current society. Alas…

 

Bingo. The Greatest generation coddled and let Boomers run wild (ex woodstock). Millennials and Gen Z are the result of lack of parenting, not bad parenting. Boomers continue the gift to the younger generations by not providing childcare to their grandchildren, causing Millennials and older Gen Z to pay for daycare, adding to their already heavy financial burden.

Boomers are the most entitled, spoiled, self-centered generation in human history. The generation that gave us Bill Clinton, GWB, and Trump... Real outstanding people...

 

You’re on thin ice there, bud

 

You just made the list, too

 

Damn, must have been so hard growing up during a time of unprecedented prosperity when college cost like $2 a semester and you could immediately become CEO of a bank just by completing a year of college and dropping out. We younger generations have it so easy, knowing your $50,000 college degree will earn you minimum wage at the Gap. Shear entitlement on our part.

 

Now, that’s funny!!

 

I don't like to generalize, but I will say we Americans give lip service to "family values".

As for the topic, there is no doubt that struggling with and overcoming adversity builds character.

 

You left out Ronald Reagan.

 

Ronald Reagan wasn't a boomer, though he does suck

 

Okay, so this is one of those threads where young people have it so easy in the world, not one of those threads where older people pretend to be very concerned about housing prices, education prices, etc. paid by younger people in order to advance their narratives on inflation.

 

The brain science is right.

But can we stop saying it's Boomers who have this all encompassing knowledge?
I know it. I'm in my 40s. I've worked with kids a quarter of my age who know - and live it daily - too.

The issue isn't the science. It's the claiming of it like some sort of trophy...

 

Says the man who thinks that inflation is a narrative, not a problem.

FYI, inflation hurts the oldest and the the youngest the most. The oldest who are on fixed income and savings aren’t going to get raises and worry about exhausting their savings too early. The younger folks will get raises over time but that doesn’t do them a damn bit of good right now when they are trying to buy a starter home that is 25-30% higher than it was 3-4 years ago, and they have $10K-$15K less to put down because they’ve been spending more on food, rent, repairs and damn near anything they enjoy doing for entertainment.

Please go peddle your divisive comments elsewhere.

 

Resilience is a thing, regardless of age.

 

Reagan was a member of the "Greatest Generation" but then so was Richard Nixon as were most of his accomplices like Haldeman, Mitchell and Erlichman.

 

Your proposed cures for inflation are even more painful to the same set of people

 

Oh yes, your comments are really about bringing people together. So you are now saying that young people have faced discomfort? Take it up with the OP. You two seem to be arguing entirely different things. I'm just pointing it out.

 

I have no desire to bring people like you together into anything. You are a lost cause. Inflation has been hammering older, younger, and lower middle class people for four years now and you and your elitist ilk deny it as a problem because your doing fine telecommuting to your job and haven’t felt the pain.

I have not really felt a pain either, but I know that my children have. Their friends have. I hear from employees on a daily basis of their struggles. The difference is that I don’t claim it’s only a political narrative because it hasn’t hurt me much.

I thought you libs were supposed to be caring and compassionate? You’ve been claiming that while demonizing conservatives for 40 years. I think people are starting to realize that that was all a narrative as well.

 

Haha, wow. A lot to unpack there. Let's start with the factual inaccuracies:

1. I don't telecommute to my job.
2. I bought a house less than a year ago.
3. I am a millennial!

So now that we know some basic facts about me, perhaps you would like to revise your rants?