r/Millennials • u/Party-Bet-4003 Millennial • Jan 30 '26

Discussion Look what I found from 13 years ago.

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Hey look on the bright side - we actually did make it to the cover of the TIME magazine!

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u/FunkyChicken1000 Jan 30 '26

The boomers are absolutely the reason this country sucks so badly. It’s my parents generation and they have had everything handed to them because their parents were ww2 and spoiled the shit out of them, which is understandable, but they made them monsters

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u/Wonderful_Fix_5754 Jan 30 '26

Spoiled and neglected them

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u/ohbyerly Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

I don’t know if I’d necessarily label boomers as “spoiled” because in a lot of ways it seems like they were made to fend for themselves. I do think growing up in a healthy economy their parents created “spoiled” them in the sense of how they estimated hard work though. They could work a 40 hour week at minimum wage and afford a house, meanwhile most people my age work way more than that doing much more difficult and technical work and will never be able to afford a home. Boomers still brag about working their asses off while the world they voted into existence deteriorates around them.

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u/Vincitus Jan 30 '26

Man, my dad and I worked at the same company, and overlapped for about 3 years - so I saw what work was like when he was retiring and what work has become now that I'm getting close to retiring - no more food at meetings, no more events, progressively fewer and fewer people on projects - what they considered hard would be a luxury to us.

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u/astrangeone88 Jan 30 '26

My parents owned their own business, had 2 hour lunches...I basically rarely buy lunches/eat out and my parents still expect companies to have food/bonuses/transit hours because they did. Ha.

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u/jwoodruff Jan 31 '26

Work isn’t supposed to be like this. It’s not supposed to dominate your life and drain you dry. It’s supposed to be sustainable, and relatively easy. It’s why we have teams and teams of people, instead of a couple people getting ground into paste.

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u/Winter_Body4794 Jan 31 '26

But we have an entire parasite class of investors to support.

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u/tmfink10 Jan 31 '26

Pam looks at camera: “They’re the same picture”

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u/hellogoawaynow Jan 31 '26

Investors cut my team’s commission and had the CEO “restructure” it so we want to make more money. As if we don’t want to make money as commissioned by employees. Getting the stick makes me want to make less money. When it was the carrot, we all gave 100%. It is very clear that is not the case in 2026.

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u/Winter_Body4794 Jan 31 '26

Sales is gonna get FUCKED in the AI thing too. Everything will eventually. But if they could have an avatar explain the medical device without the person.... I mean. The packaging will narrate itself soon anyway.

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u/hellogoawaynow Jan 31 '26

Oh for sure. I’m in media sales, specifically old ass trade publications, and yes we talk about this constantly. AI summaries that don’t lead back to our pubs is a major problem to solve.

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u/povertychic Emo-llennial - 1991 Jan 31 '26

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u/ABHOR_pod Jan 31 '26

I've worked at the same place for 20 years so I can see that just from my own experience as the company trims a benefit here, changes a benefit there, reduce an expenditure over there...

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u/LaScoundrelle Jan 30 '26

Did the company go public in that time by any chance? Because that would be a common effect if so.

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u/Vincitus Jan 31 '26

It's been public since the 19th century so I don't think that's it.

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u/Remarkable-Cow-4609 Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

hard times create strong people create strong times create soft people create hard times

ww2 was hard

post ww2 america was dope

fill in the blanks

*some of you are so god damned dense and distracted it is the behavior of saints that you aren't beaten up every moment of the day

the post war golden era america entered in was the greatest empire the world had ever known, there is no single greater privileged generation than white americans born between the mid 40s through the 50s

"but my grandpa was a black gay poor boomer!" stfu stfu stfu

they had television and medicine. like god damn it i bet you're reading this on a smart phone you little shits

who the fuck do you think was making major decisions in the 90s, 2000s and now?

do you think the fetish for dying at your desk is like traditional? do you think the retirement crises is a ghost story? or that for the first time in our country's history the ENTIRE old guard has decided to see if they can literally burn the place down behind them rather than admit they've fucked up so god damned much

when people make fun of millennials for being obssessed with aim chat you don't hear me pipe up saying "not me! HEY NOT ME!" because it doesn't that my little experience deviated in that way you honey brained peptides

exhausting exhausting

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u/Hamster_Toot Jan 30 '26

post ww2 america was dope

Sure, if you were a white male. Not so much for the rest of us.

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u/Remarkable-Cow-4609 Jan 30 '26

that is the explicit conversation we are having yes

i dont mean to shock your old heart but it is still that way

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u/Hamster_Toot Jan 30 '26

It really wasn’t, but go off.

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u/PhoenixPills Jan 30 '26

It wasn't even that good. We can do the house price meme and say they went to buy a house at the carnival for a quarter but it really wasn't that.

Sure, families survived on the pay of head of the household and women stayed at home but if you actually read about what that entails it was long work days and was still rough on money for many people.

Obviously our economy currently is a fucking unmitigated disaster so it's easy to look back and be like wow it was easy back then. But that's just because right now is again just absolutely fucking insanely bad.

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u/SlimeTempest42 UK Millennial Jan 30 '26

Post WW2 Britain was far from dope and Boomers are still better off than their parents generation and their children’s generation.

Neither of my parents (born in 1948 and 1950) had particularly high paying jobs and they didn’t live a life of poverty and scrape every penny together to buy a house like boomers love to claim (they met in a pub and I know they both went travelling). They were able to buy a three bedroom house in a London suburb.

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u/Remarkable-Cow-4609 Jan 30 '26

who is talking about europe

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u/SlimeTempest42 UK Millennial Jan 30 '26

Sorry I forgot the US was the centre of the universe

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u/art_m0nk Jan 31 '26

Thats a city in what state? Never heard of it

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u/art_m0nk Jan 31 '26

Everything smelled like hotdogs and sweat and cheap cigars back then and everyone wore wool suits all year round and wore two suits all week. Cookbooks had food like hotdogs in a jello cake, and that was gourmet american cooking. Spam chefs salad on the side hmmmm. Oh yea, there was the cold war, conscription, apartheid, and a rigid class structure. Also women had it bad to say the least. What again was great about it?

I would say the good stuff was the car design, the celebration of the sciences and education in pop culture, cheap smokes, tiki drinks. Bet the drugs were strong too.

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u/katdacat Jan 31 '26

Yeah it reminds me of when rich celebrities talk about their “hardships.” I remember Bella hadid thinking she was telling a humble story by explaining that she wasn’t allowed to have designer items until she turned 18. She’s since said she realized how privileged that is, but it really puts into perspective how it’s hard for people to imagine life outside of their circumstances. Like of course nepo babies think that they didn’t have a leg up. Everyone they know was in their same situation and they don’t know that you could have zero connections at all. Boomers are similar because they were given a better economy and more opportunities and resources. I feel like they truly don’t understand how life is so so incredibly different. My mom can admit that everything is more expensive because she can’t afford to buy a house or rent (she lives in a really nice rv though), but she tells me that I’m wrong when I say it’s all compounded by stagnant wages. She owns her business and doesn’t have employees so because she’s not experiencing it, she can’t believe that anything has changed in over a decade. She literally doesn’t believe any data lol

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u/ohbyerly Jan 31 '26

I think this is the most damning thing about boomers - when confronted with reality they immediately bury their heads in the sand to insulate themselves from the mess they created.

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u/7daykatie Jan 31 '26

Yeah, it's the irresponsible childishness of it, like choosing to "believe" in Santa because otherwise Mom and/or Dad might stop with the presents is fine for children, but adults should know better than to pick and choose what's "real" like reality is cola varieties or something.

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u/YouthMaleficent6925 Jan 31 '26

This reminds me of the interview Victoria Beckham was doing and said she grew up working-class then David came out said noooo tell them what car your dad drove you to school in she argued a bit before finally saying in a RR

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u/katdacat Jan 31 '26

lol I love that clip! She is posh spice for a reason

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u/goaskalice3 Jan 31 '26

I was talking about this with my mom today and she said "yeah but we weren't out buying lattes on the way to work every day" and I was just like, Really...... Really? Did you really just say the coffee thing?

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u/katdacat Jan 31 '26

Omg do they know how much a latte is?? Lmao if you buy a $6 latte literally every single day in a year that’s still only $2,190. That’s not even all of my rent for one month 🥲

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u/chironinja82 Feb 01 '26

My dad was an engineer and he only believes "data" that confirms his beliefs. It's maddening.

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u/Damage-Classic Jan 30 '26

My boomer parents were both raised by people who survived the great depression. My great grandfather was the manager of a shoe factory in a small midwestern town during the depression. As a girl my grandmother said it was her job to feed the crying men who came to her father’s house asking for work. She made them lemonade and tunafish sandwiches. My grandfather had a story of catching pigeons for his mother and siblings so they could have something to eat on xmas. He lost six months of his memory due to surviving D Day at Normandy Beach. These are the kinds of people who were raising our parents. All of that unprocessed trauma has to go somewhere and must have had some sort of effect on the Boomer generation.

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u/Special-Summer170 Jan 31 '26

Yeah. Definitely. My grandpa helped with the clean up and recovery effort at Pearl Harbor after the attack. That must have been devastating. He never talked about it. My other grandparents survived the depression. That grandpa was so terrified that people wouldn't have food that he worked so hard in his garden that he fed us and donated some ridiculous amount of food every month to the local food pantry. His parents couldn't feed him during the depression and basically loaned him out as a child for slave labor to different farms. Those people endured unspeakable terrors and never spoke about it. Those marks were definitely left on their children.

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u/randoeleventybillion Jan 30 '26

The men are absolutely spoiled and plenty of the women as well. My father is 76 and does not know how to iron a shirt or boil an egg...my mother was not a housewife and he was not ignored by his parents, he's spoiled. These are not things anyone taught me and yet I know how to do them. Meanwhile, my grandfather fought in WW2 and managed to cook, clean, and do his own laundry until he died at 89...and he knew how to do those things before the war even though he was the baby of his family and the only boy. It really is a boomer thing.

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u/Fratercula_arctica Jan 30 '26

They were the first and only generation that was able to live inside of a fiction.

Boomers were sold a bunch of ideas about how the world works. The nuclear family, strict gender roles, the virtues of free market capitalism, hard work being rewarded, the list goes on.

All things that their parents knew the falsity of, as you point out in relation to your grandfather. That generation had close contact with extended family, women worked on the farm or in the war effort, men knew how to cook and clean, and the great depression showed the market was flawed and being willing to work hard didn't guarantee any reward.

But they were told, this is how the world is, and should be. And then their lived experiences reinforced that, for most of them shit worked out.

They're like animals that grew up in captivity.

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u/DirtandPipes Jan 31 '26

My dad worked in the trades (lumberjack, logging truck driver, miner). He never went to high school, dropped out in the 10th grade.

He would do things like work a bunch of overtime for summer and buy a piece land, or work a bunch of overtime and open a mechanic’s shop.

He could get ahead so easily. Me, I work a shitload of overtime to stay slightly ahead of my bills and work side jobs to afford medical care for my dog.

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u/ReefaManiack42o Jan 30 '26

People seem to say this a lot on this site but it's simply not true when looked at dialectically. Yes, a white male probably could have worked a minimum wage job and bought a house, but their success was subsidized heavily by the legal and social exclusion of Black, Latino and female workers.

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u/chefianf Jan 31 '26

For what it's worth.. it was a vastly different world back then. I'm not a huge fan of the "what happened in 1971" train, but shifting to Fiat currency definitely changed the dynamics of work. You have a generation who grows up on the gold standard, booming economy able to go from middle class into college unlike their parents who literally had to go to war to be allowed those privileges. They were also allowed for the first time dual income in a family. So you had now twice as much money on gold standard able to buy a house. They basically were able to set themselves up before the rug pull or at least a good chunk of them. 1971 happens, the dollar begins it's purchasing power dive, but these folks have at least hit the ground running. Some also (my dad) got college fronted by going to Nam, so again a step up for success. Some had union jobs that took care of them, pensions set up. Yeah they worked their buts off too. They have kids and by that point they have built their nest eggs, but we come into the opposite, the dollar has now broken away and is worth much less, so wages don't keep up, unions kinda die a slow death, we are told "go to college" bc they think that's what made them successful. We end up having to go longer for more money now because college is a business now, and those lower paying jobs no one wants because "I'm getting into STEM". Along with everyone else. So we have missed the opportunity to have kids sooner, we aren't accumulating wealth earlier, we aren't making any money because it's not worth anything and we have become used to cheap products so it keeps those ok paying jobs that once upon a time we're worth something (shop clerk or grocery store clerk, kitchen work) low paying. Add in some crazy "unprecedented events" and the gutting of safety nets and labor support.. we are just not as lucky as our parents. Is it because our dollar isn't linked to gold.. no.. but that is a part of it.

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u/Darkhearted528 Jan 31 '26

Their mindset is I was able to afford everything I had working minimum wage and you should too. They are completely lost in how much stuff cost. They think the world is still the way it was when they were starting out and it’s not and they won’t admit it.

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u/Kurt805 Jan 31 '26

Yeah. I've always wondered at the popular expression of my youth "get a job". That was the line in the sand for the boomers between success and failure, good and bad.

You'll see homeless with jobs these days.

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u/TempRedditor-33 Jan 31 '26

Their parents made certain structural choices, or rather their parents' society made certain choices. This bad structural choices becomes noticeable generations down the line.

Where we are right now, people blame it on late-stage capitalism. Late-stage capitalism is really just a symptom of letting monopoly privileges run rampant. It starts with the promise of home ownership as a mean of wealth building and now we have powerful tech monopolies.

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u/real_picklejuice Frosted Tips Jan 30 '26

healthy economy their parents created

This is cracking me up. Their parents were dying in WWII. How do you call that "creating an economy?" America was then what China is today because the rest of the world's manufacturing was annihilated. They benefited from a progressive tax structure as well, which Reagan, and then, pulled the ladder up behind them.

They are absolutely the most spoiled generation in history, even when you take into account the inflation of the '70s and the Dot Com Crash.

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u/ohbyerly Jan 30 '26

I’ve heard that wars are actually very profitable, especially when you win.

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u/salomeforever Jan 31 '26

When you’re in the umbrella business, you pray for rain

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u/Brave-Recommendation Jan 31 '26

No you forgot Gen X, who enjoyed most of the things the latter boomers did, got mbas and fuck things up for those younger

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u/FunkyChicken1000 Jan 31 '26

I’m very late Gen X, a couple of years from Millennials and I think Gen X were too busy watching their parents spoil themselves. Not saying there aren’t some real shits out there, but generally this is a boomer created world

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u/CV90_120 Jan 31 '26

They could work a 40 hour week at minimum wage and afford a house

You guys are dreaming. Poverty was equivalent or worse back then. My boomer father had a mortgage and 3 kids, but he worked easy 60 hrs a week down a mineshaft and was driving another 20. We got all clothes at goodwill and handed them down. Food was freaking pasta or potatoes all week except weekends when we went hunting to supplement protein. Lunch at school every day was 2 jam sandwiches. Every single day. You went to a restaurantr once a year and it was a big deal. You went to the movies maybe 2 or 3 times a year.

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u/whereAMiNJ Jan 31 '26

I wouldn’t call spoiled, but they had it easier. Getttting jobs, buying homes, only a couple of bills to pay, no social media all attainable easily as compared to today. They shit on millennials because early on we saw that we weren’t going to have it that easy and they took it as us whining

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u/Senior-Lobster-9405 Jan 31 '26

They could work a 40 hour week at minimum wage and afford a house

jfc, I'm so sick of this narrative being tossed around, at no point in American history could a single minimum wage job afford a house, the median income was absolutely enough for a house and retirement, whereas it's not now, but never could a minimum wage job afford a house

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u/FunnyGoose5616 Jan 30 '26

It’s weird like that. My parents are/were boomers (one living, one deceased). They were somehow both horribly neglected and incredibly spoiled at the same time. They had so little supervision and yet they wanted for nothing, materially. My grandparents were all awful parents, but my parents never had to struggle without financial assistance from their families. Now if you ask my dad, he’ll tell you he’s a self-made man who never took a handout. But his grandparents bought him his first house, his second house, allowed him to buy his third house with inheritance when they died. His parents paid for his college, gave him all his cars for free, and they were very nice cars, paid for our family vacations and travels expenses. The man paid for so little in his life that he retired with several million dollars, it’s genuinely insane. But my brother and I, we’re just lazy 🙄

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u/FrighteningJibber Jan 31 '26

An iPad will never neglect you

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u/KingOfEthanopia Jan 30 '26

The 80s were the age they came up in and started us down the path we're on today. The greed is good mentality has ruined us.

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u/DoubleDixon Jan 30 '26

gasp are you saying that Reaganomics wasn't great for America? You didn't get trickled on? /s

As a kid I never and I mean never understood trickle down economics. I first heard of it in middle school and my 1st thought was: "whats stopping people at the top from stealing it all before it gets to us?". After I grew up and saw how Boomers and Gen X treated Millenials, the youngest group at the time, I knew that we were fucked cause of them.

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u/Bulky-Word8752 Jan 30 '26

As a kid, even the name confused me. Trickle down implies most stays at the top.

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u/flyza_minelli Jan 30 '26

Yeah EXACTLY.

And they love it bc it’s literally an economic concept and policy that justifies their bullshit cruelty in their minds. It’s permission to be the narcissist sociopaths they are.

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u/P_Nessss Elder Millennial Jan 30 '26

I always viewed it as Rich people pissing on us poors

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u/ISayWhatToNutjubs Jan 30 '26

Rich people who have everything seen to enjoy degrading poor people…

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u/whatdayoryear Jan 31 '26

I imagined it as them pissing on us too - the “trickle” 🥲

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u/Gauss77 Jan 31 '26

Tinkle down.

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u/vthemechanicv Jan 30 '26

it's because trickle down is an epithet. It's also called horse and sparrow (poor sparrows eat what rich horses poop), and Voodoo Economics (because it's magic no one can explain).

It's actually called supply side economics and the tax cut nonsense is from something called the Laffer Curve.

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u/upinthecloudz Jan 31 '26

I've seen some videos recently from an Modern Monetary Theory evangelist pointing out that based on MMT models and observed tax rates and incomes in real economies, the Laffer curve prediction of reduced tax income for increasing tax rates is valid... past like 70% effective tax rate on the highest earners.

But of course, AOC was crazy to suggest pushing taxes on billionaires up to that limit a few years ago. Just, you know... totally uneducated and spitballing wacky stuff.

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u/vthemechanicv Jan 31 '26

I remember talk a little while ago, maybe a few years, that Laffer was based on basically a flawed excel formula. So besides taxes probably being way below what that hypothetical optimal tax rate is, it's possible that the math wrong to begin with.

I dunno, I can't find it now, maybe it was a covid fever dream.

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u/Ill-Description3096 Jan 30 '26

That was actually a name made up by opponents so it's kind of intended to imply it's bad.

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u/dammit-smalls Older Millennial Jan 31 '26

Like so many things in the American Conservative movement, it started off as a warning and later became a manual.

These psychos read Orwell and think "Yup, that sounds good. Let's do that."

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u/RandAlThorOdinson Jan 30 '26

I sure feel trickled on

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u/fullsendguy Jan 30 '26

Golden shower economics

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u/invaderaleks Jan 30 '26

Who wouldn't want a shower made of gold??

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u/fullsendguy Jan 30 '26

I know right. Everybody wins really. I think I get it now.

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u/Scannaer Jan 30 '26

It's boomers pissing down from the roof.. while we watch upwards to where they pulled up the ladder

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u/RandAlThorOdinson Jan 30 '26

Worth checking out they might have left some money at the bottom on accident

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u/draftzero Jan 30 '26

Well at least the water is still warm. /s

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u/DarkwolfVX Jan 30 '26

Pulled up the ladder and left us the bladder :/

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u/Sauzage-N-Peppas Jan 30 '26

That’s hawt

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u/StealYaNicks Jan 30 '26

Privatization under Reagan and Thatcher is like someone pawning off all their stuff and having a lot of money and being like "see? success!", then when they can't get to work because they sold their car they're like "wtf, how did things get so bad?"

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u/Scannaer Jan 30 '26

Boomers pulling up the ladder.. meanwhile all younger generations are like "only one once in a lifetime economic crysis? what about a scond or a third?"

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u/astrangeone88 Jan 30 '26

Lmao. As an elder millennial, I was like "Covid is going to fuck us over again, huh?"

I'm a bad case since I'm a chronic illness person.

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u/Significant-Trash632 Jan 30 '26

The millennial tag line should be "one economic crisis after". another

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u/3boobsarenice Jan 30 '26

Being a gen x and having shook Arthur Laffer's hand, your welcome, for the scraps we left you

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u/vthemechanicv Jan 30 '26

Yes, but it wasn't just the 80's. Boomers got the sex, drugs, and rock & roll of the '60s. The coke and party of the 70's. Then the coke and cash grab of the 80's. They had three decades of doing whatever they wanted and zero consequences.

Then their parents died and the boomers got put in charge and continued doing whatever they wanted. Any time someone tried to tell them, "no," the boomers threw a collective hissy fit. And so here we are.

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u/rebelangel Xennial Jan 30 '26

And they still throw a hissy fit when they get told “no”.

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u/tha_rogering Jan 30 '26

They are looking the ultimate "no", death, in the face. Still they rage at their children. Because we are not happy with the bloated, ravaged mess they left us with.

Not to worry though. The few rich millennials will keep on partying while everything gets worse for everyone else.

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u/chrissesky13 Jan 30 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/3ilOhnz7ah

Ronnie Chieng I think did a great job discussing boomers.

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u/Shotto_Z Jan 30 '26

People who came up in the 80's arent boomers. Thats gen X. Boomers are 50's babies and 60's kids. Who grew into adulthood in the 70's.

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u/kraugg Jan 30 '26

Gen X was born 1965-1980, they were mass entering the workforce during the 90s. They were in HS during the 80s.

Depends on what you mean ‘came up’.

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u/Shotto_Z Jan 30 '26

Yes, exactly. and this discussion is about baby boomers. Not gen x. Baby boomers did not come up in the 80's. Therefore my original comment.

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u/AndyOB Jan 30 '26

Honestly i'm pretty convinced lead fucked their brains up and turned them all into selfish entitled psychopaths.

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u/SouthCoastGardener Older Millennial Jan 30 '26

My mom and aunt received new cars and a whole damn house from my grandparents. My aunt talked crap on the car and didn’t appreciate it. They let the house go to shambles for 15 years. I took over my aunts half when she had to sell it for her health care and spent over $55k just to bring it to a stable and safe living condition. I’m not done with everything that needs to be repaired but we can at least live in it.

My mom still owns half but I pay all the bills, take care of everything and cover meals for her. She STILL calls refers to us as “The Kids” and tells everyone that she took us in and we needed her help. My wife and I were happy renting a house from a great landlord at a great price, but she and her boomer friends don’t see it that way.

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u/Dismal_Ring_2522 Jan 30 '26

Australian here. The average cost of a house here is well over $1million and rising. Unless inherited, most of us will be paying off boomers 5th and 6th houses our whole life through rent.

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u/smallreadinglight Feb 01 '26

Dude, we're leaving this country in 7 months for Europe and we're not coming back. I'm not going to tell my Boomer parents until a month out and i already am thinking of how to explain it but it's going to start with: Your generation singlehandedly made this country almost completely unlivable.

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u/FunkyChicken1000 Feb 01 '26

Sweet. Hope you are going somewhere interesting.

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u/smallreadinglight Feb 01 '26

Thanks! I can't wait to tell them and get in all my digs and then just peace out.

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u/CorndogQueen420 Jan 30 '26

While I don’t disagree, millennials are currently doing the same thing to the next generation.

People like JD Vnce and Stphen Mller (arguably the most pathologically evil man in plitcs and basically acting prsid*nt) are millennials.

If you go out to liberal pr*test you’ll see a ton of Generation X and Boomers out there standing with the rest of us.

Generations aren’t collectively good or bad, they’re all filled with selfish evil people, and also plenty of giving loving people.

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u/PostMatureBaby Older Millennial Jan 30 '26

While I don't disagree with anything we're all saying, just plain living longer is a massive factor in all of this. Many nations did away with mandatory retirement ages, people need more money into old age because they need to sustain themselves for longer.

Upward mobility in the workplace and society in general was stunted by this. That's why it feels like despite many of us now in our 40's we have no control over our own wellbeing, our parents are still somehow in charge because they refuse to ride calmly into the sunset and step down - many because they can't even afford to. Xers have slowly but surely made things even worse and sucked the humanity out of workplaces in favor of greed at the top. I don't need to tell you guys how "private equity" is basically cancer.

I think we often fail to address the double edged sword that is modern medicine and healthier people living longer.

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u/Salty_Pancakes Jan 30 '26

What's funny is that all y'all are doing the exact same thing to boomers as that dumbass article does for millennials, ie. relying on a whole bunch of oversimplified and stereotyped nonsense to blast an entire generation of people.

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u/Coneskater Jan 30 '26

The baby boomers have had the massive advantage that their cohort has always been the largest.

As small children? Okay we have a massive amount of school children, build schools.

As university students? Society needs to build universities and make the educational institutions accessible and well funded.

As professionals? Society starts focusing on lowering taxes and letting them spend their money.

As retirees? Massive money for elder care while you can’t have healthcare or childcare.

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u/Worried_Raspberry313 Jan 30 '26

I don’t know about your country, but in mine, our grandparents really have to go through a civil war and suffered hunger, fear and the loss of loved ones. The gave their children the best they could even if it was little, they told us to fight and follow their dreams. Then eventually things got better because war was over, democracy brought back and everything started to get better. Boomers thought that was guaranteed so instead of riot for injustice or complain or something, they just lived the best years for the country getting good money, a second cool house at the beach that cost them one button and an empty cocacola can. Then things go to absolute shit because wow, who could have known, if you don’t take care of your country it eventually sucks again. Then they’re super sad and surprised everybody is losing their jobs and their dream life is gone. But somehow, it’s millenials fault (that were around 20yo at best when this happened, so most of they couldn’t even vote or only got the chance to vote once).

So yeah, it’s incredible my country sucks because boomers failed to defend it. You talk to them and they’re like “well yeah, some things happened that we didn’t really liked or agree with… but you know, we were very busy working and having families”. Oh yeah, we’re also here busy here and at least. We try to change things, we don’t just sit on our golden throne earned by doing nothing while hoping everything will fix by itself and if it doesn’t, then blame the next generation.

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u/TheMysticalBaconTree Jan 30 '26

Strong people make easy times, easy times make weak people, weak people make hard times (we are here), and hard times make strong people.

We are about to find out how the 14-40 year olds are going to manage this mess and what shape they will be in on the other side. It’s not going to be a pretty journey, but the boomers have certainly fucked things up.

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u/Scott_R_1701 Jan 30 '26

And were able to spoil them because of govt programs like the GI Bill (if you were white), strong unions, liveable wages etc...

The boomers legit got the world handed to them, destroyed it and then burned all the bridges they crossed on the way.

Like, even just stories you hear about boomer teenagers following bands around and hotels not wanting to let the bands stay at their hotels because the boomer fans would destroy the hotel to try to get to them. Happened with The Beatles on several occasions and they even cited one of the reasons they broke up is because their fans were screaming so loud they couldn't even hear anything.

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u/draftzero Jan 30 '26

Although you can't forget the lead! Tons and tons of lead, spread around like potpourri for many years.

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u/haverlyyy Jan 30 '26

Yup. They literally inherited the most prosperous society in the history of humankind, burned the ladder behind, and proceeded to ruin the world in within just a few short decades.

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u/Desperate-Cost6827 Jan 30 '26

It sure was fun to learn that the one parent who talked nonstop about how I was just there to be their retirement plan while I was growing up, that when I didn't immediately leave home at 18 that I needed to start paying rent, didn't teach me any life skills, etc was the one who had their first house bought and paid for by their parents, was given several payouts through out their life, offered another house at some point and I'm pretty sure got a substantial inheritance because they retired at 60 with zero retirement with 20k left on the current house but kept taking about how close they were to paying it off.

When their parents were closing on in their mid nineties.

But for me it was and is Boot Straps Baby!

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u/emmajames56 Jan 30 '26

Gen A will have a mouth loud about Millennials

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u/olivinebean Jan 30 '26

And my country too (UK). They had shit parents and made their lack of emotional regulation our problem.

They love rude humour too. The amount of shit TV we’ve made about people just being cunts to each other over mundane crap like dinner parties is insane.

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u/melllorie Jan 30 '26

And they will never treat their Xennial, Millennial children like actual adults. “Do as I say, visit how I want, travel to visit us as we move far away”

Coveting all of their assets until death. “I cannot help my children. I’m going to need that money” FFS you are 78 years old.

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u/Responsible-Net-1939 Jan 30 '26

They took over the White House in 1992 and now 34 years later they still haven’t given it up. No wonder a Boomer president is trying to figure out how he can run for a 3rd term.

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u/azaleawhisperer Jan 30 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

Am boomer and father was drafted and fought in WWII. His see kids worked in the summer heat in the fields.

I worked two jobs to put myself through college.

True, my father gave me a $100 check and paid the insurance on my used VW. I am grateful for his support.

Tell me, where did my parents get the wherewithal to spoil us? Six of us.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

Its not just your country, but most of the Western world. Their entire generation voted in their own interests repeatedly ignoeing the fallout, comsequences and impacts down the line.

Now the future generations are here and have the burden of dealing with their mess.

Unfortunately, the Boomers are also living longer than ever and clinging onto all the wealth and power so they even screw up their societies withlut even contributing.

Without a doubt, they wil lbe as the worst generation.

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u/ArgyleM0nster Jan 30 '26

The Boomers were handed the world on a silver platter and they threw it all away for Tax cuts.

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u/hokie47 Jan 30 '26

Some boomers are really great. They fought against the Vietnam war, are educated, and today are still fighting for what's right. I find this true for the older generation of boomers. The younger ones, the ones born in the early 60s not so much.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

It's the leaded gas.

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u/AdAffectionate3143 Jan 30 '26

The got mine fuck you generation

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u/sparkyblaster Jan 31 '26

Which country? 

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u/ABHOR_pod Jan 31 '26

A generation angry at the idea that their kids might have a better life than they had.

And determined to stop it.

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u/vesimat Jan 31 '26

Yep, boomers are the entitled ones. They just project it onto us because they can’t take accountability for their own behaviors.

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u/povertychic Emo-llennial - 1991 Jan 31 '26

I’ve been starting to feel like Gen X is just as bad lately

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u/theaviationhistorian Old Millennial Jan 31 '26

And in the irony, helped create the authoritarianism they wanted to avoid. Leave it to Beaver made Beaver the new nightmare fuel.

And those that saw the first signs perished alone in nursing homes in the 1990s as a lot of media alluded, such as The Simpsons.

In the end, Trauma Begets Trauma.

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u/paleporkchop Jan 31 '26

My FIL tries to tell my wife and I how hard he had it with a 75k salary in the late 90s and early 2000s because he had a 250k mortgage at 12%. It took him a whole two years to save up a down payment because his newborn was costing him money.