I heard somewhere that in response to "Okay boomer", some boomers were retaliating with "Okay renter" because younger generations would never be able to afford a house. I don't think boomers realize that is a self inflicting insult.
They are called the "me" generation for a reason. They don't defend that they are selfish. It's a sense of entitlement and think it's normal behavior. The bad boss in Office Space is a meme for a reason. (this movie, The Matrix and Fight Club were a response to those boomer values of idol worshipping evil corpos that dehumanise people) Future generations will get revenge pissing on their graves to relieve the anger from abuse from sociopaths. If you want to stop suffering you got to promise yourself that you don't become the Darth Vader character the Boomers aspire to be.
Baby Boomers really took advantage of the greatest era in human history and completely squandered any of that hope for their grandchildren and onwards.
They took advantage of living in the era of autumn. Autumn is the harvest season. When the work of the past is most obviously in full fruit. It requires the least effort for the most gain. They over feasted in their autumn, and now they are blaming the coming of winter on the children who will starve.
A study should be done on how many acres of land they squandered away that the Greatest generation had been passing down since the 1700's. Freakin idiots.
Has anyone else noticed how many trees we're losing over the past few decades? The two properties I lived the most of my life on growing up had about 70% more trees, bushes, and hedges before we moved out.
Boomer generation’s anthem is John Lennon’s ‘Imagine.’ Turned the world to hell, and in their hubris think it’s everyone else’s fault it’s not a heaven.
As a latchkey Gen Xer, my parents and teachers were from the Silent Generation. My experience with the Boomers is that they're terminally unable to understand any perspective but their own. "Everyone else is wrong" got baked into them somehow, and they'll be stuck there till the end.
@@Lexie810-b5r Worse than that they mostly could not understand why we didnt want to be exactly like them and were baffled when we had our own reasons for doing things. If it didnt fall in line with their own point of view we were lazy or apathetic or just plain worthless. And then, if there were things that we wanted to do that DID appear to follow their path, they automatically took credit for it with a smug little smile and could NOT resist telling you how YOUR efforts will never reach the epic heights THEIR generation made and isnt it cute that you just missed out on SO much.
I think “millennials” are so obsessed with nostalgia because they remember a world that literally was better in almost every way but are politically programmed to think that the past was horrible and now is better and the future will be perfect. This causes extreme cognitive dissonance.
I think nostalgia has a hard divide around 1990. If you were born before that, you're afflicted by nostalgia because things indeed were better. Born after that you don't really have a clear memory of things being better. For most millennials every year is year is zero.
@@DVSPress Was born in 1992, and I still remember a better time. 2008 was really when things dramatically changed for the worse and never got better. By the time I got my GED in 2011, I couldn't get a full time doing anything. I had to work as a part time dishwasher making 700 a month while paying 500 in rent, and 150 for food. I refused to go into massive debt for college and the Army wouldn't even take you at the time if you had a GED. Eventually I was able to enlist and that improved my life drastically, but things never really got better in the general economy.
@@Harvest133 2008 was horrible and nobody want so talk about it. Every place I gigged at closed. But the culture was so different pre-9/11. It really was a different world.
@@DVSPress I do have a vague recollection of the pre-9/11 world. The sense of... how to explain this... world peace? I didn't know the phrase at the time, but the idea of The End of History. Things definitely changed a lot after 9/11. That idea of The End of History started to die. 2008 just cemented to me that America wasn't the country promised to me in the culture, is all, I guess.
@@a.wadderphiltyr1559 I had three half siblings. My parents divorced when I was 8 months old because my mother was psychologically unstable and my dad was an abusive drunk. I have two half-siblings from my dad's first marriage; one from when my mother got knocked up by a narcissistic loser who made a point to psychologically torment me, a 7 year old all the way until I turned 13 and went to live with my dad which really wasn't much better. Just a different kind of shitty. I eventually moved out on my own with a few hundred dollars and lived in my car for a few months at 17 after dad pulled his M1911 on me in a drunken fit. Despite the terrible homelife I had, it doesn't take much to realized society at large was drastically better at that time. I had friends that had two parents and healthy relationships I got to experience a sample of what life was like.
Millennial: *complains about something he had no control over* Boomer: "You Millennials need to learn to take responsibility for your actions! Now let me tell you how my parents ruined my life.
The US became way too arrogant & self absorbed as a result of winning & the mass produced children of Gen W were spoiled rotten as a result. Maybe Gens U&V failed at parenting?
On the subject of gen x parenting, my parents call us "helicopter parents" because we pay attention to what our children are doing. We're involved in their lives. My parents have absolutely zero interest in an actual relationship with their grandchildren. They've literally said "I raised my kids", insinuating we're attempting to drop off our children and disappear when we ask if they're available to babysit. The ironic part is when I was a kid, I WAS AT MY GRANDPARENTS HOUSE CONSTANTLY! So yeah, they did the bare minimum as parents, and completely checked out on their grandchildren.
Had something very similar with my family calling us Helicopter parents. I love my kids! Of course I want to be involved with their lives and know them as people.
My dad ALL day with his grandchildren. He drove 3 hrs once to see them in 34 yrs!! And has NEVER seen his great grandchildren, the oldest being 10 now. He is loaded. His beach house is 2 hrs from us and we've never been there...
I've had the same experience with my boomer parents. Zero real interest in their grandkids. Not available in any way to them, yet my siblings and I were babysat constantly by our grandparents...not so my parents could work, so they could party. My grandparents gave me more wisdom and real interaction than my boomer parents. Yet, boomer parents narrative is "nobody helped us". Well, in my parents case they had a lot of financial and other types of support from their parents and they're unwilling to give it to their kids. In my opinion that qualifies as sociopathic and hypocritical.
raising just meant doing the bare minimum to not die from starvation for them. on the other hand u need to be on call 24/7 for all small inconveinances in their retirement and their personal slave. ofcourse hired help isnt enough it has to be family
YOU SUMMED IT UP PERFECTLY- everyone over 70 in my family had huge lots of land LEFT TO THEM, ie family farms, and sold them off bottom dollar in the 70s/80s, at shockingly small dollar amounts. Then they wonder why all of their descendants are “losers”, you benefited from century old family land and then sold it to remodel your bathroom, or get a Cadillac that you wrecked.
I'm a bartender who makes 28000 a year in a small town . The whole town is dying . A majority of the population are boomers and everyone younger are now drug addicts . Only way to make money is be a nurse . Now I work hard . And I'm not whining . But last saint Patty's day . I clocked into work at 7 am for (kegs and eggs) on 45 min of sleep (cuz a few hours before I closed the bar down and my regulars wouldn't leave till 2:30 am saying I'm young I can do it ) . I didn't eat the whole shift cuz how busy I was . I didn't have a break . I clocked out at 6:15 am the next day . 23 hour shift and 15 min . Should've stayed and extra 45 min . I stumbled home . Counted my tips . And im ashamed to say I crumbled in front of my wife . And next day couldn't move. My 2 year old was born . I was getting shit for taking 5 days off being told "in my day I went to work the same day . Young people don't want to work " I'm 33 years old . I am in my situation cuz of my mistakes . But im starting to really hate these people ..and I'm conservative. But Im starting to think . All of us are literally at each other's throats . Over more boomer shit . We are literally cancelling each other over whose old person is a better candidate. I'm not complaining I just wanted to share my thoughts with you guys .
When I finished my welding courses at my local community college and went to get a minimum wage entry level position, all of the jobs required experience for entry level work and my dad gave me shit about being un employed even though I spent two hours a day writing resumes.
I see the majority of boomers as having an emotional intelligence of a teenager. I know a handful of "good boomers". But most are materialistic Karen's.
Gen Xer here. I've had a distaste for the Boomer's since the 70's. When I think of the Boomer generation, back THEN, I think of hubris, collectivism, and hypocrisy. They seemed to talk FOREVER about how great their generation was and how much social change they did, yada, yada, yada... but never took responsibility for the collateral damage of their social changes. Now that they're old, they still believe their echo chamber of how great they were... they're still arrogant and entitled... just grumpier. I also blame them for disco and light rock. Had to listen to that crap every day on the bus to school. That's probably the biggest reason why I don't care for Boomers.
Millennial here. I found a bunch of boomer newspaper comics from the early 80s, and it was mind blowing. Because it was the exact same sort of "I hate my wife" and "father I cannot click the book" jokes about younger people that they make today. I used to think that style of humor was a product of being old. But no, boomers were like this even when they were in their 30s and 40s.
Boomer humor has always struck me as very ugly. Every bit seems to be about hating your wife or regretting having kids. Think of Married with Children or the Simpsons. Even clean comedians from the boomer era can't help but make jokes about how much they hate having a wife and kids. And the dark part is that comedy only works when it points to some kind of truth or reality.
@@DVSPress Think of all the boomer sitcoms from the 80s and 90s. Marital conflict is a key source of comedy and "sleeping on the couch" became a punchline
You had me until the diss at Disco and light rock. The Bee gees, Donna summer, Yvonne Elliman, The Carpenters, that music was great. When GenX turned to nihilistic discordant Grunge in the early nineties when I had just entered my teens, IN 1990, what a dark time that was for music. I hate to say this but thank God Pearl Jam decided to stop being commercial and never released videos for their Vs album and that Kurt cobain.... well let's just say I think the Foo Fighters were much better for music than Nirvana. From the Ashes of grunge came alternative which wasn't a genre, that music that didn't always fall under one category. The wonderful Heyday of britpop, female rockers the pinnacle of rap, with Biggie and Tupac, which ended when he died. And I don't care what anyone thinks, I loved, techno, house music and freestyle. The NYC club scene in the 90s was incredible. But unfortunately generation x was not large or or influential enough , MTV died, and autotune made any skinny hot girl singer. The generation born in the 15-20 years after world war II ended were entitled, narcissistic, and worse. But their music was the jam
@@glurgbarble7268 I never thought of humor as generational. Just good or bad. I can remember good and bad comedies in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Not sure I ever noticed a common thread. Yes, dysfunctional family humor started in the late 80s, but to be fair that might be just as much Gen X's fault. We are the "latchkey" generation after all.
George Carlin was right about the boomers and he said it in 1996. "Whiney, narcissistic, self-indulgent people, with a simple philosophy: 'gimme-it it’s mine'! "
They are hyperdefensive about themselves, and they have a huge need to be perceiced as super succesful. Everyone needs to be in awe, to compensate for fragile boomer ego.
My mom took out a second mortgage on our house so she could go on multiple vacations in mexico. While there she cheated on my dad for basically no reason. My dad ended up selling the house which he soent year on because he wanted to "simplify his life". On the other hand, my sisters inlaws have been extremely generous. Helping her and her husband buy their own home, which they would never have been able to do without the assistance. I wish my parents had shown more care for us. I know they love me and my brother and sister, but they are so full of pride that they cannot see their nose in front of their face.
@@marvalice3455 I knew you seemed familiar, you're a fellow Argent aficionado: we had that silly exchange about Batman being a war criminal in the last UCU...
@@marvalice3455 it's the first time I have an Argent/Stewart crossover and it was long overdue, as they both have many coinciding points of interest. They're like the same character/channel, but one version is a Virgin (a meta Virgin that's no longer the butt of jokes) and the other is a Chad. They'd clash over Evangelion though...
In the working world the baby boomer refusal to retire or allow younger people to move up into roles has done a lot of damage. Its one thing when you have to work a difficult or demanding entry level job for 3-10 years knowing that you will have paid your dues so to speak and find a better position. Its another when that ladder has been destroyed, and then the people at the top laugh at you for not being able to climb.
A boss at my job is planning to retire...he is 74 now and who did he hire as a replacement? a 64 year old man (who he thinks will be here for 10+ years). So yeah its crazy how boomers don't see anything wrong with that
My grandma passed away recently and my baby boomer Mum and uncles sold her house immediately. I was taken aback when I heard they done that because it was a really nice home they could have rented it out and distribute the profit regularly between us all like an ongoing inherence. I dont even own a home.
I think in discussions with boomers the thing I notice in general, and it's always refreshing when a boomer doesn't do this, is to have a simple solution for everything and these simple solutions to problems that are generally not so simple. Then believe with an unreserved confidence that their solution is THE solution, as if to affirm their own view of the world. It's incredible to witness.
I’ve thought a lot about what you’re saying ( boomers hating their parents) . I think it’s because they could never live up to what the ww2 generation accomplished. They were spoiled and cry babies who appreciated nothing.
You are absolutley right Dave! Even boomer generation from countries outside of US have much much higher rates of sociopathy... current generations are more messed up/lost, but baby boomers were definitely more purposeful in choosing selfish and self indulgence at every turn when it was so much easier in their time period to choose better
@@Lexie810-b5r no but I think it’s pretty easy to understand why they were selfish. Life sucked before and then suddenly they were some of the richest people in the world
@@pheonixshaman What is it with boomers and just walking in without knocking? Every one I know does it and it strikes me as crazy. Growing up we would go to visit friends, and I would get to the door first, knock politely and wait to be let in, and my parents would walk past and just open the door like it was their house.
My baby boomer father committed suicide and left none of the money to me or my brothers. He instead donated it to a boys ranch with a history of sexual assault allegations.
Jackie Chan, born in 54, stipulated that all of his ~400 million $ fortune go to charity "so his son will make his own money", and the fatality was "if he's capable, he'll get his own. If he's not, he'll just be wasting mine"
People don't understand group stats anymore. "But I know someone who isn't like that!" It's alarming how much discourse has degenerated. And regarding God letting the Israelites wander the desert, I often feel that way about myself, like I'm being punished by God. Born juuust late enough to miss the golden age. Relationships imploded just as I was graduating high school. Housing market went crazy as soon as I graduated college. Job market dominated by AI and globalization as I'm forming my career. I'll never have kids, never own anything, never find love. Meanwhile, Boomers just got a job in town cutting hair, got married, bought a house, and had kids, all at like 20 years old lmao. So if anyone is being judged or punished here, it's not the Boomers, it's me. I do think there will be a huge crash catalyzed by the WFH bubble popping, leading to housing crash, etc, that will lead to people fleeing the United States. And in 50-100 years, maybe another Golden Age will happen. But the few generations born after the Boomers will never get to experience it. Worst time in history to be alive. People cope and say "This is the most free, technologically advanced time to be alive!" Don't care. Give me a life in the 1400s where I marry the neighbor's daughter in my village of 50 people, make swords, and die in a war at 30 years old. At least my life will have had more meaning.
Im in the same boat as you man. I hope theres a way out of this soon. Id rather die fighting this hellhole and the boomers that prop it up instead of living like this
I have nothing against globalization because I like anime & pocky. Personally I believe we are suffering for the unending evil acts of our grandparents greedy & apathy filled generations. Humanity is unlikely to ever recover from the multiple crises we're inheriting unless massive changes are made now.
Setting aside social polices boomers pushed that have made our society low trust (as many of those are controversial) the economic policies the boomers pushed (and admit they pushed) are awful at even a glance, and most people don't even know half of them. Here are the ones I can think of and roughly when they were passed. 1. Going off the gold standard (tbf to boomers the oldest would have been 25 when this was passed) in 1971. 2. Elimination of usury laws (1980). 3. Elimination of the ability to apprentice to get certifications in fields that require a degree nowadays (1980s). 4. Weakening of anti trust laws in the 1980s. Every big box store was only a franchise or a regional player before this occurred (WalMart, Lowes, etc were not national chains before the 80s). 5. Removal of capital flight laws (1980s). 6. Removal of the ability to get student loans forgiven in bankruptcy (1980s-90s). 7. Granting amnesty to illegals, increasing the quotas for immigration, and expanding it to unskilled labor (1980s). 8. Removing laws that prevented advertising to children (hence why so many millennials are consoomers)(1980s). 9. The H1B Visa system (1990s-2002). 10. Removal of laws that prevented people from paying for a mortgage with money generated from rent (1980s). 11. Credit scoring systems (1991 or 92). 12. Removal of laws preventing dual citizens from running for political office (1990s).
My only rebut regarding the gold standard was that we actually went off in the 1930s when FDR outlawed owning gold. At that point the currency was fully fiat with all cash supplies controlled by the Fed, but they claimed the dollar was backed by gold because it made people feel secure. The Nixon admin just admitted we had been off the standard for 4 decades. You can't have a gold standard if the currency is not exchangeable for physical gold.
My parents are getting up in age. They're relatively well off and about to retire. I've still never officially "entered the workforce" and go from gig to gig - I'm 32. I'm barely surviving. Not existing frequently looks better than existing. The icing on the cake is that I know my parents will not give me anything and when they die it will all go to the local Baptist church. They will, however, expect me to do everything for them and be their emotional and medical support when they get up in age.
US Christianity was hijacked by evil before we were born & we regret our own existence because of what the most selfish generation who will ever exist did with theirs. I wish TH-cam would let me say more.
You really did softball Boomers here... the Sexual Revolution and it's aftermath effect on the future generations could have gotten a rant that would make Räz0rfist blush.
My city had a really low crime rate in the 80's and 90's. On par with most European paradises' numbers of violent crime to quantify. From 1985 until 2005 there was this campaign to close all the community spaces, arcades, school after hour's programs, public parks and sport fields to "end teenage vagrancy". Any child over 8 years old should be working in the mind of the defenders of these policies. And because boomers had voting majority and politicians have no morals, they did it. By 2000, when I was a teen, all public and community spaces were closed or had restricted access. What happened was an explosion of crime that hit the city in waves. At first it was drug use and vandalism. Later it turned into robberies and gang violence. Teenagers could not find anywhere to be without a police patrol car stopping by and beating everyone so they confessed a crime. Sometimes boomer neighbors called the cops on teen reunions inside private properties. There were academic papers linking into a direct correlation the destruction of public spaces to the soar in crime since the early 1900's. But Boomers tell everyone that they predicted that Xers and millenials would be so unruly teenagers that needed to be controlled at all cost. I worked public infrastructure and it took over 10 years to take enough of these morons out of positions of power, so city hall could restart a parks and recreation strategy that wasn't calling the cops to beat groups of children. Small crimes have lowered ever since but it will be at least another 10-15 years to rebuild all that was lost.
@@a.wadderphiltyr1559 I would have to visit my local university to collect the papers and see the correlation coefficient of other factors. But lack of public and community spaces was over 0,7. It also matched national, state and local law enforcement data for crime initiatives on violent communities. A lot of NGOs point the same conclusion. The census, however, is easy to access and points to no significant change in demographics from 1990 to 2010. There was an increase in wealth per capita, but no significant inequality change. IHDI is on very high and increasing in constant fashion for over 30 years. Population was growing only what expected in the fertility rate from 1990 to 2010. Ethnicity is 75% white and 20% white-mixed, without significant changes from what it was in 1970.
You are one of the few content creators where I can like the video before watching it. It's not about if I agree or not. Your method of presentation is consistently thought compelling and well articulated.
13:35 John McCain (born 1936, Silent Generation). Barack Obama (born 1961, Generation Jones). Both caved-in towards & behave like typical Baby Boomers. That's how rigid & archaic this system is towards boomers.
To be fair: a whole lot of us *weren’t* raised by our Boomer parents. We were stuffed into daycares and, in the case of boys, high on adderall *because* we were behaving like boys and that was a problem.
Your commentary on generally any societal, generational, or cultural trends is some of my favorite content on TH-cam. You have a way of articulating human experiences that can be challenging for most to really access. Lean into it!
Yes but they react to it in unhealthy ways, such as collecting toys they don't play with and watching movies they hate. This is because it was the only thing that gave them pleasure and meaning while their parents ignored them (just generally). Star Wars will never be good again. We have to move forward from that and make better things, find real meaning.
@@kommandantvhs4994my parents grew up with all that stuff so I was able to get into it without feeling any of the nostalgia. I was young when the prequels came out but I don’t even remember those very well. The MCU though is the nostalgia for 90s and 2000s kids. That’s going to hit just as hard as Star Wars did for people in a few decades. I just BARELY escaped the trap that things like Star Wars and Star Trek are now. They’re nostalgia coffins. Newer generations will have the benefit and ability of looking back at past things and picking out the good parts instead of their favorite things getting ruined by corporate greed and incompetence
@@DVSPress The part of their parents ignoring them is the big part, imo. My father was a teacher, and my mother was a stay at home mother, and my father spent a lot of time with us even though he was older when we were born, and my mother spent a lot of time with us as well. My parents were never divorced, and unlike most of my hs counterparts, I never had a consoomer mindset, which makes me wonder if the attention my parents gave me prevented me from making brands a part of the zeitgiest that makes up my sense of identity.
I never really thought about it as a generational thing until now, but when my grandfather died (silent generation, grandma passed five years before), my mom and her siblings (all boomers) squabbled over every last scrap he owned. I only heard about it second hand, but what I heard really disgusted me. I always expected people to have some dignity and respect for the dead, but all they seemed to care about was the money. I'll never forget a few years later, one of my aunts and her husband started grilling me about the one thing my grandpa explicitly gave to me (his rock collection; I'm the only geologist in the family). They started asking me geology trivia questions as if I needed to prove myself, and I had a moment where I kept thinking to myself "Is this really happening? Are they jealous of some rocks??" lol. Also now that you mention it, ever since my mom retired she's been playing the house equity shell game. They sold one house and used the profits to buy a fancy motorhome to tour the country in. They've been touring around for years now.
The #1 thing that needs to be fixed is entry level jobs. Tone down globalism and outsourcing of jobs. You got to stop hurting the kids, or else those kids will get angry enough to hurt you right back.
Outsourcing is not the problem. I live in Brazil and we don't have jobs either. The real culprit here is minimum wage. It raises the cost of hiring so much that people just starting can't get in. The people hiring end up asking for super qualified help in order to justify those salaries. Also, globalism and globalization are two completely different things. Globalization creates a global free market economy that makes things more abundant and cheaper for everybody. Globalism is the idea of a central totalitarian world government that disincentives globalization.
@@lilylittlemonster5 Yes, it's at the lower end, that's why I'm talking about minimum wage. I know a lot of people migrate to the USA and end up with low level jobs. How many people migrate to Brazil in comparison? And we're also having the same issues about jobs as the USA. The problem here is how much a person earns at low end jobs. Migrants, even more so the illegal ones, will do jobs that do not meet the required minimum wage instead of a regular citizen that will only work for the minimum wage. With this barrier, the regular citizen won't be able to compete with the illegal immigrant and will be end up sidelined. With a minimum wage in place, you are denying the chance for the regular citizen to even start and out-compete.
Boomers: "You millenials and zoomers need to pull up your own bootstraps and work for what you have like we did." Also Boomers: "What do you mean you don't want to pay for my social security? Stop being lazy!"
Yes, the super-rebellious rock and rollers who were supported by major corporations and every corporate media outlet. Pretty funny when you think about it, just like the 1990s "edgy" corporate rock phase. Jimi Hendrix was the best-paid musician in the world in 1969.
@@DVSPress Yeah, that was all pretty laughable in the 90s in hindsight. Meanwhile the 90s death and black metal scenes... Well I mean, those sometimes went ulta-edgy in very wrong directions that are in no need of receiving praise, but the point stands.
If I can talk about my own parents (who I love very much, not to be misunderstood) there is definitely differences in worldview between us. something that struck me is their... how can I say this, 'general expectation that things just get better over time'. im struggling to think of an example to really drive this home, but maybe the 'get good grades, go to college, get a good job. congrats, you won at life' mindset is a good one. because it did indeed work like that when they grew up. today, i found that really isn't the case. not to say it doesn't still work, but you really have to pick your major well, and even then, you might have to move to get a good job. that's the case for me anyway, in my third world country. the 'dad works, mom is a housemaker' thing as well. i can't fathom having to support my wife, kids, parents and in-laws man-alone. when it comes to kids, im perhaps an advocate for being more hands-off. i think overparenting is just as bad as underparenting. and that much attention can actually be a burden for the child, to have every part of their life micromanaged. it also somewhat backfired in my personal situation because my parents really wanted a good education for me. i ended up being enrolled in tons of extra classes during high school, then when i studied engineering in college, i was suddenly left to do everything myself, and i seriously struggled because of it. anyway, i have a lot to say on this topic, but ill stop here (and that example of selling the family farm after hundreds of years... oof, that hits too hard)
I get what you mean. Boomers could afford to be overly optimistic (like a classic Superman film) because that’s how their world was. Even if you fell, you could get back up. Sadly it just doesn’t work like that anymore. There aren’t enough jobs that are low entry and pay well like that anymore. You can’t just go down to the steel-mill like everyone’s grandparents did. I do still generally believe that thinks will get better over time, but not nearly as quickly as it did for the boomers.
I was born in the 90s & I know my best years are behind me. Logistically civilization has less than 25% chance of ever recovering from the mistakes of Boomers & their parents who never should have created them.
My dad is a Gen X but he's seeing the light now that's he's retiring. Took him being semi-forced into an early retirement to finally understand that things are not easy for people on a low/fixed income. Whenever he decides to complain about the state of our economy or culture all I can say is, "Yep, this has been my whole life, I didn't ask for this!". Problem is, for a lot of these Boomers and "spiritual Boomers" is that they never seem to have the ability for introspection. Just watch cable news, blame the Liberals, blame all immigrants, blame GenZ, etc... The classic phrase of, "You aren't IN traffic, you ARE traffic." applies well here.
It's actually common in scripture for entire generations to be judged. And the boomers seem to be doing a speed run of how many similar sins they can pile up
I love these vids you do, very cathartic, we're about the same age I think. You hit the nail on the head with every point, aside for the student debt (which I was fortunate enough to avoid with scholarships) you could've been describing my life, from latchkey kid to the parents selling the family farm only to get divorced and declare bankruptcy several years later. Anyway, thanks for helping me blow off some steam tonight, afterglow is a really good read btw. Cheers.
Not having any debt when you begin your adult life is such a huge advantage. Even a few hundred a month can destroy your ability to take risks. I was very lucky.
Private student loans were non-dischargeable in 2005. Government student loans have been non-dischargeable since 1976. I’m a GenX’er and I couldn’t discharge my student loans, but I didn’t need private ones. Starting tuition in 1986 was $750/semester. It was $1500 when I graduated and $2500 when my brothers graduated 5 years later.
My boomer parents (great people otherwise) were appalled at me and my sister's ambivalence about student loan forgiveness. We didnt even endorse Biden's plan, we were just vaguely sympathetic and didnt really oppose the idea on principle. They thought having your debt forgiven was some horrible thing and sent a bad message to younger generations who need to "keep their word." Lol
Yeah but there’s plenty of reasons to be against Biden’s student loan forgiveness that don’t have anything to do with “keeping your word” or any other Boomerisms.
Soon Hades or Yemma will deliver justice to the most self absorbed generation to ever exist. Society didn't keep its promises to Millennials while Boomers who had prosperity handed to them look down on everyone less lucky from the top of a tower of deceit.
It's easy to hate on the Baby Boomers, and it is not as though they try to contextualize why their lives have been better than the generations that preceded them and now succeed them. The Baby Boomers lived in a unique time in American history, where all other industrial powers were demolished in a war, and the thriftiness of their parents (who were last generation to experience real hardship) rewarded them with unprecedented prosperity, which was viewed as normal for the time... and that is the Boomer blind spot. The American experience from the '50s through the '80s conditioned that generation to believe that it was the way things would always be. Evidence which contradicts that 30-year experience has been mounting since the '90s, but it just does not penetrate their minds... we're always just one election away from going back to the '80s. The one cold comfort is that the Baby Boomers are living long enough to witness the collapse.
Don't forget, according to boomers it's all the wokesters' fault. You know, those people that hold about 5% of congressional seats are definitely the problem.
They didn’t want normal. They thought they deserved more. More drugs, more sex and less responsibility. The goal of their movement was to transform society because their ideology was superior. That’s why to this day they are arrogant. Most of them were born on third base, and thought they hit a triple.
The part I find interesting is: On a whole boomers haven't shown introspection. From voting, choosing policies for society vs the individual, resenting anything and anyone that doesn't agree with them no matter what.
I don't think they're capable of it for the most part. Even if I rationally explain to my Marxist parents everything wrong their worldview and they understand my point, they will have forgotten the entire conversation by the following week. And it's not due to actual medical issues or anything, they _only_ ever forget facts, information or anecdotes that run contrary to their political opinions, and their minds are perfectly healthy otherwise. I'm at loss on how to deal with those types of reactions from people in general to be honest.
My generation refuses to step aside for the younger people. I've said that for 20+ years. They think their generation had the best music and everything else, and while it was a Renaissance type period, it doesn't give them the right to force it down everyone's throats. What was truly better back then? I'll tell you: Shoes, clothes, food, and books. Simple. Education was simple and to the point. Food was real. Clothes were made well, mostly. Shoes gave support. McDonald's fries were cooked in lard and were delicious. Nothing today can compare. However, medical advancements have been huge, and a lot of everyday stuff is way cheaper to buy. We choose our path as adults. We can't keep blaming our parents for being from the '50s' culture and being "repressed." My parents were together since they could first drive, 57 years. My mom was a lady, and my dad faithful, but believe me, neither were repressed.
Sort of on the nostalgia track: Your'e absolutely right that Gen Y needs to get over nostalgia, but there are so many Boomers that are 70+ years old and seem to somehow be in complete denial about their coming death. They constantly surround themselves with young people (not their grandkids), and I think it's part of the denial.
If we were to give them ANY defense, I would say that Baby Boomers assumed the economic prosperity of their time would last forever. Obviously, things like immigration, changes to taxation and introducing student debt, as well as a rapidly growing population etc, were bound to change this, but they obviously weren't really aware of it at the time. Actually, Boomers seem to only be learning now, in the 2020s, how miserable most people really have become. Covid may have awoken some regret in them seeing their grandkids suffer.
I didn't even mention Covid, but that whole fiasco was Baby Boomers causing their children and grandchildren to suffer immensely for their own fears of safety.
Just a thought from England...the tendency to make comments which imply that it was all the individual public who enforced lockdowns anc shielding is odd. As is the charge of fear. Though most Boomers do house, or frequently visit, yheir elders, so perhaps wanted to avoid infecting them? The usa is a vastly different place, but I don't think anybody votes for the bad results...perhaps naively, based on a combination of current miseries, and a misplaced faith in the ethics of their favoured party decades ago. @@DVSPress
@@LuckyZelda There was really not a lot of help for WW2 war vets. My dad came back anxious, hair trigger temper, alcoholic, 40% disabled from bomb fragments....which cause the entire family a life of hell. Caused my mom to have 2 breakdowns. Whenever people talk about the boomers having it so great, just remember everyones dad was a war vet, quite a few in the same situation as my dad. Nobody ever brings up the bad stuff......like JFKs death,,,,a country in mourning ,the viet nam war going on from the time I was 8 till 18 and constantly wondering if I would be drafted and die over there. Also the fear of the cold war (atomic attack, bomb shelters, duck and cover) and the Cuban Missile crisis which could have turned out very badly. Constant fear.
@inkey2 thanks for sharing your experience. It sounded like there was a lot of fear during that time. I feel for the families that suffered from the fall out of war. It was a hefty toll to pay. The world owes these families a lot of gratitude
You posted that video a couple of years ago? It feels like I watched it not that long ago. 😂 I think another reason why people dislike boomers is that a lot of the moral decay that exists in society can be traced back to them. The other generations are just following their example. I also think there’s a difference between boomers born in the 40s and boomers born in the 50s and early 60s. Older boomers are responsible for the moral degradation of the late 60s. They are the ones still clinging to life in public office. They are far more out of touch than younger boomers, at least in my experience. They want more for themselves and less for the generations that followed them.
There is generational theory that gives younger Boomers their own name - the Jones generation. Likewise, the Silents, a significant number who are still alive, were the big brothers leading the way in Boomer culture.
@@atrifle8364 My grandparents were born in the early 30s. They were technically members of the Silent Generation, but had more in common with the Greatest Generation. Younger members of the Silent Generation, those born in the late 30s/early 40s, have more in common with baby boomers. They were the rebellious teenagers in the 1950s who were blinded by consumerism.
David and Brian and JD had a good run discussing that back and forth through blog articles. I think the specific article that talked about "lost" generations (the Silents, the Jones, the Ys) was at Brian's blog. David compiled and shared the whole conversation and I can't understand why they didn't published it to get a physical copy.
"I'm not a vampire." What an odd thing to say... Maybe do a video of you holding a cross, communion wafer, holding up a mirror so we can see your reflection?
Dude you shouldn't hold the Eucharist: receive on the tongue. And the cross would have to be properly blessed for it to make him blaze. Maybe eat some raw garlic on stream? 🤷♂️
the amount of shit i got for being on the pc as i was denied to go out with friends just so my boomer parent could be glued to the tv. being told im a useless burden for not having a house of my own or a job during 08 crash but dad got his house bought by my grandpa as moving out gift
Milenial here. I spent my whole childhood dreaming of being successful, mostly with a fanily and a reasonably nice house.. then i left school in 2007. Boom 2008 crash. Since then every year has been worse than the one before it. Its like everhthing stopped at that point. We never recovered from that. People born in the 90s were full of hope growing up and the minute we hit adulthood. We got handed a massive debt and a big bill to pay. And now we pay everyones mortgage in massive rent costs. The world is a sad joke now.
I just recently got a full time job as an Amazon driver. I'm 40. My first good job. I have a culinary degree and spent 15 years starving to death in the restaurants i worked in. Told my Dad (born in 57, he's the stereotypical boomer). I thought he'd be proud. He wasn't. 2 reasons. 1. I'm not working a "real job" where i have to stand for 8 hours. He never had a job like that. 2. A gig job gives you the option NOT TO PAY INTO SSI. He got angry about that. "How will you pay for retirement?" "Don't you want the security?" The look on his face when I explained that I literally took the job to avoid SSI was worth it. I also showed him a statement from the SSA that stated by 2030, the system goes upside down because of the Boomers. He was so upset i wouldn't be paying for his retirement. In 3 days, we have our family holiday gathering. I'm going to say im coming, then im not going to. Imma ghost em. They deserve worse. I'm finally able to afford food. They can bite it. Sad part is that I doubt they'll even notice.
You are spot on about the music, but more specifically I can't stand how boomers blow themselves endlessly over the Beatles. FFS the Beatles are the most overrated band ever, not even the best music of the '60s, but the Boomers won't shut up about them. Like, imagine thinking that all human music peaked with I Am the Walrus and Hey Jude, and all music before or since is inferior.
@@shophet125 Stereotypical Boomer interaction (I am GenX): a customer I was dealing with recently was a very arrogant guy, it was clear he had limited technical knowledge, he didn't understand how to use the software he was complaining about, he refused to listen to any advice and would not take time to learn anything by reading tutorials or help articles given to him. I get on a support call with the guy, he turns his camera on, and he is some old Boomer who should have retired years ago, he is in his home office, and he's got about 10 framed Beatles pictures all over his walls displayed prominently so they will stand out when his camera is on. Not like, a Beatles pic, a Stones pic, and other Boomer bands: just all Beatles, every single one. I was tempted to ask, "So, what kind of music are you into?"
At the end of the 2012 London Olympics the show included Paul McCartney singing, he was awful . Then I realised that as so much of the rest of the show was tongue in cheek clearly they had wheeled him on as 'Mad Uncle Paul' who always insists on doing karaoke at the family party when he's had a few. 😀
I'll add this word of pity for the Boomers. The world has changed freakishly fast in the past 50 years compared to the previous 2000. Keeping up with that pace of change is very hard when you get older.
The world changed pretty dramatically from ~the US Civil War to WWII as well, and some lived to see it. IIRC there was a guy who was in the Civil War and still in the military in WWII (though not in a combat role). Arguably war, at least, changed more in that time period than it did from the 1970s til now. You went from massed infantry formations and cavalry charges to tanks, air supremacy, and machine guns.
@@crushervenI wish the gap between the civil war and WWI would be covered more in media. The most we get is cowboy films that don’t really focus on that actual transition. I think a movie about a war journalist living up to the end of WWI would be a great film.
As a Gen Jones cusping short of Gen X, It amazes me as a "middle child" between Boomers and Gen Xrs watching the culture war between the Boomers and Millennials.
I was a daycare kid but a very fortunate one as the daycare i went to was run by a housewife with two kids my age and she ran it out of her house in a good neighborhood. I was, still am, best friends with her son. It was more like a second family. Trips to the movies, the pool, the city, sleepovers with scary movies. Fond memories.
Theres something called the Cantillon effect and there are two spheres where this has worsened perhaps as much as a 4 or 5x for the Average/Median/Mode Man. (Women have issues but the government and media hardcore has their backs so nowhere near as bad). Namely the ability to get enough money through work to then get a decent woman and support a family. Both on the getting steady work for good purchasing power and passing through the beyond delusional requirements women want these days.
The "term" boomer is very American, and yet it slithered over to other cultures. Which is a shame, because it's a derogatory term specifically aimed at the American generation and has nothing to do with people of the same generation in other countries. For example, my boomer parents were freaking legends to live through the 90s of post-Soviet era. Not just managing to live through it, but prospering and giving me and my brother a functional family and a good headstart in life. The same can be said for most people of their generations. Without them, we would not have a country.
It only became derogatory because everyone hates the American Baby Boomer. The term itself only connotes the fact that the west had a post-war baby boom - the Boomers are just the product of that. Boomers themselves never considered it derogatory until their behavior started being called out.
@@DVSPress yes, I get that. It's just that the term is now used far outside the context. I speak another language and hail from another country. But even here, people on the Internet call anyone they deem to be old-fashioned and grouchy a "boomer". Meaning "a dinosaur", basically. Although, in our country, these "dinosaurs" endured and achieved so much that neither my generation nor the next will ever come close.
@@arcanefeline kids these days are calling Gen X/Y "ancestors". I'm from the Caribbean. My two cents are that while there was no demographic or economic boom compared to that of the US in my country, the cultural influence through music and cini (and direct investments in mining that stunted agricultural production) did kinda create like creole spiritual baby boomers. Maybe not in eastern Europe, but the boomer influence here was wild...
Boomers were the first generation to have an extended childhood en masse. Also, this is when advertising really got dialed in. When you target children, and especially girls, boys will spend money and fathers will spend money to make their girls happy. 100 years ago 10% of people graduated high school. imo 10th grade should be the last year of school. Let kids get jobs and build skills and confidence.
There's something very wrong about a society that expects people have to study into their late twenties and then climb the ladder into their late thirties to maybe be able to provide for a family.
Yeah I think if you look at the creative output the generational complaints actually produce interesting things. Popular music especially is a combination of established conventions and small rebellious changes. Everything felt both novel and accessible as a result.
Zoomer here. I do like some old stuff. I know some you g people whose memory goes baxk to the 70s and late 60s. Hell I like oldies music. Fallout helped. I did griw up with the original trilogy of Star Wars. After watching the prequels. Raised by boomers but not the toxic kind. Can say the next generation will only remember how they ruined us and not for their music or plight.
My parents (I’m born at the end of the 70s) were pretty much “let the kids do what they want” mindset. I was 6 when Nightmare on Elm Street came out on VHS… and my mom let me watch it. Thankfully they never divorced though my mom struggled badly with alcoholism. But interestingly enough… towards the end of both of their lives (brief lives, they both died young)… they found religion. And I don’t mean spirituality, that they had and it seemed to do them no good (the effects on me included). But they found religion (Catholicism), and it was probably the first time in my life that I saw my mom have meaningful drive. She successfully overcame alcoholism (which she credited solely to God… a God we never really spoke about prior). And though from that point forward her life would be very brief (the years of living before that conversion took a big toll) those years were beautiful. She had a peace in her which I had never seen before.
A boomer retort usually involves how we should thank them for some sort of social mayhem that they managed to cause. "You kids! IF it wasn't for us, we wouldn't have all the diversity!"
US Gen Worst, who potentially lived the most self absorbed lives on average of any demographic of humanity who ever lived. Their intense arrogance won't help them when the inevitable happens because I doubt their next life will be kind to them.
What drives me nuts about boomers crying about social security is that most of their lives a social security deduction would be below 10-15 dollars, and now they want thousands a month in cash plus thousands in Medicaid. They probably put in 10 grand over their entire life, and they expect hundreds of thousands in benefits at the expense of the younger generation. Meanwhile I’m paying over a hundred dollars a paycheck into social security and another hundred into Medicaid, and it will be gone by the time I’m old enough to be eligible. It’s disgusting that I bust my ass and I have to lose hundreds a month to support people that are either a drain on the country or the elderly that voted to destroy our country. It really makes me want to work under the table so I can keep the money I make and put it towards my own retirement since I don’t get pensions and other nonsense.
While I definitely enjoy the things that I grew up with, I also realize it isn't the Marxian end of history. It's ok to have new experiences while sharing the older ones with new generations, so while the current era of film and music seem lost, time will seperate the dross and people will select their classics. Personally nothing excites me more than experiencing a hidden gem of a new film, a new musical artist, or a good new book.
I love finding new things. I wish more people were willing to, but I'm painfully aware that most of my peers are simply not interested in new or different things. They'd rather watch a bad sequel and talk to their friends about it than try to convince them to consume something new.
@@DVSPress The channel retroblasting had an excellent video about nostalgia wherein he covered how the normal process of growing includes letting go. For some reason Millennials ( my generation) can't let go, and while I understand times are hard, for me personally, it is just an unprecedented opportunity to forge a new future and to learn from the failures of the preceding generations.
My baby boomer parents were an absolute car wreck. My dad drank himself to death with 24-hour partying, and my mum didn't even know bills usually had to be paid.
Fresno state ??? Ha Ha - I went there too. When I started it was $286.00 per semester full time. When I graduated it was $486.00. Unbelievable. I hate what they are doing to the young people now. Especially young men.
Good point. I've never heard a Boomer talk about their problems and how they are trying to improve. None of them are honest about alcohol addiction. They will never admit fault. I've never heard of a Boomer wanting therapy.
Another hypothesis, based on your last comment: The baby boomers who say younger generations like 60's & 70's music better probably have a better relationship with their own kids. This relationship, in turn, influenced their kids' taste.
Milton Friedman pointed out that they were only a benefit so long as they remained illegal. That's why there was never any attempt to close the border, despite the fact doing so would benefit all legal immigrants already here and it being overwhelmingly demanded by Republican voters.
@13:18 It's probably not policy that caused housing prices to rise; we've spent 100 or so years moving towards cities. House prices in urban & suburban areas have out paced thevratevof infkation. But look at a map of houses available across a state; houses in rural areas, two or three hours from major cities are about $200,000-250,000; in line with inflation.
I love my dad. However, it really saddens me that he basically is a textbook example of the “bad boomer”. It’s a real thing and it’s hard to believe. Boomers have so much financial security that they’ve never really had to worry about money even today. That’s why so many of them are so out of touch.
I heard somewhere that in response to "Okay boomer", some boomers were retaliating with "Okay renter" because younger generations would never be able to afford a house. I don't think boomers realize that is a self inflicting insult.
It's the perfect boomer response, they can't help but be the meme.
They are called the "me" generation for a reason. They don't defend that they are selfish. It's a sense of entitlement and think it's normal behavior. The bad boss in Office Space is a meme for a reason. (this movie, The Matrix and Fight Club were a response to those boomer values of idol worshipping evil corpos that dehumanise people) Future generations will get revenge pissing on their graves to relieve the anger from abuse from sociopaths. If you want to stop suffering you got to promise yourself that you don't become the Darth Vader character the Boomers aspire to be.
They love rubbing salt in the wounds they inflicted
@@legit.jacquie how do we stop them? They are currently destroying pop culture with Woke crap. A lot of these boomers suffer from NPD.
Idiots
Baby Boomers really took advantage of the greatest era in human history and completely squandered any of that hope for their grandchildren and onwards.
They took advantage of living in the era of autumn.
Autumn is the harvest season. When the work of the past is most obviously in full fruit. It requires the least effort for the most gain.
They over feasted in their autumn, and now they are blaming the coming of winter on the children who will starve.
A study should be done on how many acres of land they squandered away that the Greatest generation had been passing down since the 1700's. Freakin idiots.
If there’s an exact opposite of planting trees whose shade you will never sit in, that’s what baby boomers have been doing for sixty years.
They cut down the trees their parents planted to hold Burning Man, then planted weed in place of the fruit groves.
They plant those flowers that open after some decades, only to reveal a putrid smell.
They cut down the trees to sell the lumber.
Here so true! They burnt every tree and heated themselves alone with the flames.
Has anyone else noticed how many trees we're losing over the past few decades? The two properties I lived the most of my life on growing up had about 70% more trees, bushes, and hedges before we moved out.
Boomer generation’s anthem is John Lennon’s ‘Imagine.’ Turned the world to hell, and in their hubris think it’s everyone else’s fault it’s not a heaven.
I've always thought it's weird how the boomers worship the Beatles like they're some sort of religion.
Genuinely one of the most sickening and evil songs ever made.
And he was a pretty awful person too.
@electricpizza 5774 they worship muh Woodstock too...
Imagine a world with no possessions. Says the man who owned multiple mansions.
As a latchkey Gen Xer, my parents and teachers were from the Silent Generation. My experience with the Boomers is that they're terminally unable to understand any perspective but their own. "Everyone else is wrong" got baked into them somehow, and they'll be stuck there till the end.
Yep, and this "it's never my fault" mentality is the number one trait of all narcissists, boomers were the most narcissistic generation.
@@Lexie810-b5r Worse than that they mostly could not understand why we didnt want to be exactly like them and were baffled when we had our own reasons for doing things. If it didnt fall in line with their own point of view we were lazy or apathetic or just plain worthless. And then, if there were things that we wanted to do that DID appear to follow their path, they automatically took credit for it with a smug little smile and could NOT resist telling you how YOUR efforts will never reach the epic heights THEIR generation made and isnt it cute that you just missed out on SO much.
Looks like you picked that up from them. Same old projection crap gets handed down from one generation to the next.
This Gen Xer completely agrees.
lead poisoning
I think “millennials” are so obsessed with nostalgia because they remember a world that literally was better in almost every way but are politically programmed to think that the past was horrible and now is better and the future will be perfect.
This causes extreme cognitive dissonance.
I think nostalgia has a hard divide around 1990.
If you were born before that, you're afflicted by nostalgia because things indeed were better.
Born after that you don't really have a clear memory of things being better. For most millennials every year is year is zero.
@@DVSPress Was born in 1992, and I still remember a better time. 2008 was really when things dramatically changed for the worse and never got better. By the time I got my GED in 2011, I couldn't get a full time doing anything. I had to work as a part time dishwasher making 700 a month while paying 500 in rent, and 150 for food. I refused to go into massive debt for college and the Army wouldn't even take you at the time if you had a GED. Eventually I was able to enlist and that improved my life drastically, but things never really got better in the general economy.
@@Harvest133 2008 was horrible and nobody want so talk about it.
Every place I gigged at closed.
But the culture was so different pre-9/11. It really was a different world.
@@DVSPress I do have a vague recollection of the pre-9/11 world. The sense of... how to explain this... world peace? I didn't know the phrase at the time, but the idea of The End of History. Things definitely changed a lot after 9/11. That idea of The End of History started to die. 2008 just cemented to me that America wasn't the country promised to me in the culture, is all, I guess.
@@a.wadderphiltyr1559 I had three half siblings. My parents divorced when I was 8 months old because my mother was psychologically unstable and my dad was an abusive drunk. I have two half-siblings from my dad's first marriage; one from when my mother got knocked up by a narcissistic loser who made a point to psychologically torment me, a 7 year old all the way until I turned 13 and went to live with my dad which really wasn't much better. Just a different kind of shitty. I eventually moved out on my own with a few hundred dollars and lived in my car for a few months at 17 after dad pulled his M1911 on me in a drunken fit.
Despite the terrible homelife I had, it doesn't take much to realized society at large was drastically better at that time. I had friends that had two parents and healthy relationships I got to experience a sample of what life was like.
Millennial: *complains about something he had no control over*
Boomer: "You Millennials need to learn to take responsibility for your actions! Now let me tell you how my parents ruined my life.
My parents ruined my life because they won WW2 lol.
@@unkonoWell at least some of them admit that the wrong side won.
The US became way too arrogant & self absorbed as a result of winning & the mass produced children of Gen W were spoiled rotten as a result. Maybe Gens U&V failed at parenting?
On the subject of gen x parenting, my parents call us "helicopter parents" because we pay attention to what our children are doing. We're involved in their lives. My parents have absolutely zero interest in an actual relationship with their grandchildren. They've literally said "I raised my kids", insinuating we're attempting to drop off our children and disappear when we ask if they're available to babysit. The ironic part is when I was a kid, I WAS AT MY GRANDPARENTS HOUSE CONSTANTLY! So yeah, they did the bare minimum as parents, and completely checked out on their grandchildren.
Had something very similar with my family calling us Helicopter parents. I love my kids! Of course I want to be involved with their lives and know them as people.
My dad ALL day with his grandchildren. He drove 3 hrs once to see them in 34 yrs!! And has NEVER seen his great grandchildren, the oldest being 10 now. He is loaded. His beach house is 2 hrs from us and we've never been there...
I agree, they try to accuse us of what they did (dropping us off). Funny though, my parents scoffed when I went above and beyond with my kids.
I've had the same experience with my boomer parents. Zero real interest in their grandkids. Not available in any way to them, yet my siblings and I were babysat constantly by our grandparents...not so my parents could work, so they could party. My grandparents gave me more wisdom and real interaction than my boomer parents. Yet, boomer parents narrative is "nobody helped us". Well, in my parents case they had a lot of financial and other types of support from their parents and they're unwilling to give it to their kids. In my opinion that qualifies as sociopathic and hypocritical.
raising just meant doing the bare minimum to not die from starvation for them. on the other hand u need to be on call 24/7 for all small inconveinances in their retirement and their personal slave. ofcourse hired help isnt enough it has to be family
YOU SUMMED IT UP PERFECTLY- everyone over 70 in my family had huge lots of land LEFT TO THEM, ie family farms, and sold them off bottom dollar in the 70s/80s, at shockingly small dollar amounts. Then they wonder why all of their descendants are “losers”, you benefited from century old family land and then sold it to remodel your bathroom, or get a Cadillac that you wrecked.
Correct!! On perfect point
Boomers: born on 3rd base, thought they hit a triple.
Well said.
I'm a bartender who makes 28000 a year in a small town . The whole town is dying . A majority of the population are boomers and everyone younger are now drug addicts . Only way to make money is be a nurse . Now I work hard . And I'm not whining . But last saint Patty's day . I clocked into work at 7 am for (kegs and eggs) on 45 min of sleep (cuz a few hours before I closed the bar down and my regulars wouldn't leave till 2:30 am saying I'm young I can do it ) . I didn't eat the whole shift cuz how busy I was . I didn't have a break . I clocked out at 6:15 am the next day . 23 hour shift and 15 min . Should've stayed and extra 45 min . I stumbled home . Counted my tips . And im ashamed to say I crumbled in front of my wife . And next day couldn't move. My 2 year old was born . I was getting shit for taking 5 days off being told "in my day I went to work the same day . Young people don't want to work " I'm 33 years old . I am in my situation cuz of my mistakes . But im starting to really hate these people ..and I'm conservative. But Im starting to think . All of us are literally at each other's throats . Over more boomer shit . We are literally cancelling each other over whose old person is a better candidate. I'm not complaining I just wanted to share my thoughts with you guys .
When I finished my welding courses at my local community college and went to get a minimum wage entry level position, all of the jobs required experience for entry level work and my dad gave me shit about being un employed even though I spent two hours a day writing resumes.
I see the majority of boomers as having an emotional intelligence of a teenager. I know a handful of "good boomers". But most are materialistic Karen's.
Gen Xer here. I've had a distaste for the Boomer's since the 70's. When I think of the Boomer generation, back THEN, I think of hubris, collectivism, and hypocrisy. They seemed to talk FOREVER about how great their generation was and how much social change they did, yada, yada, yada... but never took responsibility for the collateral damage of their social changes. Now that they're old, they still believe their echo chamber of how great they were... they're still arrogant and entitled... just grumpier.
I also blame them for disco and light rock. Had to listen to that crap every day on the bus to school. That's probably the biggest reason why I don't care for Boomers.
Millennial here. I found a bunch of boomer newspaper comics from the early 80s, and it was mind blowing. Because it was the exact same sort of "I hate my wife" and "father I cannot click the book" jokes about younger people that they make today. I used to think that style of humor was a product of being old. But no, boomers were like this even when they were in their 30s and 40s.
Boomer humor has always struck me as very ugly. Every bit seems to be about hating your wife or regretting having kids. Think of Married with Children or the Simpsons. Even clean comedians from the boomer era can't help but make jokes about how much they hate having a wife and kids. And the dark part is that comedy only works when it points to some kind of truth or reality.
@@DVSPress Think of all the boomer sitcoms from the 80s and 90s. Marital conflict is a key source of comedy and "sleeping on the couch" became a punchline
You had me until the diss at Disco and light rock. The Bee gees, Donna summer, Yvonne Elliman, The Carpenters, that music was great.
When GenX turned to nihilistic discordant Grunge in the early nineties when I had just entered my teens, IN 1990, what a dark time that was for music. I hate to say this but thank God Pearl Jam decided to stop being commercial and never released videos for their Vs album and that Kurt cobain.... well let's just say I think the Foo Fighters were much better for music than Nirvana.
From the Ashes of grunge came alternative which wasn't a genre, that music that didn't always fall under one category. The wonderful Heyday of britpop, female rockers the pinnacle of rap, with Biggie and Tupac, which ended when he died. And I don't care what anyone thinks, I loved, techno, house music and freestyle. The NYC club scene in the 90s was incredible.
But unfortunately generation x was not large or or influential enough , MTV died, and autotune made any skinny hot girl singer.
The generation born in the 15-20 years after world war II ended were entitled, narcissistic, and worse. But their music was the jam
@@glurgbarble7268 I never thought of humor as generational. Just good or bad. I can remember good and bad comedies in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Not sure I ever noticed a common thread. Yes, dysfunctional family humor started in the late 80s, but to be fair that might be just as much Gen X's fault. We are the "latchkey" generation after all.
George Carlin was right about the boomers and he said it in 1996.
"Whiney, narcissistic, self-indulgent people, with a simple philosophy: 'gimme-it it’s mine'! "
They went from "love is all you need" to "whoever has the most toys in the end, wins"
He ought to know, he was one of them. And that description describes himself quite well.
Even when boomer criticize eachother it's still projection
@@marvalice3455 He was born in the 1930s, that isn't boomer lol
@@marvalice3455 Carlin is a Silent
@@jellyfrosh9102 he's still a moron. Extremely overrated.
They are hyperdefensive about themselves, and they have a huge need to be perceiced as super succesful. Everyone needs to be in awe, to compensate for fragile boomer ego.
Just look at the comments!
My mom took out a second mortgage on our house so she could go on multiple vacations in mexico. While there she cheated on my dad for basically no reason.
My dad ended up selling the house which he soent year on because he wanted to "simplify his life".
On the other hand, my sisters inlaws have been extremely generous. Helping her and her husband buy their own home, which they would never have been able to do without the assistance.
I wish my parents had shown more care for us. I know they love me and my brother and sister, but they are so full of pride that they cannot see their nose in front of their face.
That is brutal. There we go, but only by the grace of God...
@@marbellaotaiza801 true
@@marvalice3455 I knew you seemed familiar, you're a fellow Argent aficionado: we had that silly exchange about Batman being a war criminal in the last UCU...
@@marbellaotaiza801 ah yes. I remember it.
TH-cam is a small world isn't it?
@@marvalice3455 it's the first time I have an Argent/Stewart crossover and it was long overdue, as they both have many coinciding points of interest. They're like the same character/channel, but one version is a Virgin (a meta Virgin that's no longer the butt of jokes) and the other is a Chad. They'd clash over Evangelion though...
In the working world the baby boomer refusal to retire or allow younger people to move up into roles has done a lot of damage. Its one thing when you have to work a difficult or demanding entry level job for 3-10 years knowing that you will have paid your dues so to speak and find a better position. Its another when that ladder has been destroyed, and then the people at the top laugh at you for not being able to climb.
A boss at my job is planning to retire...he is 74 now and who did he hire as a replacement? a 64 year old man (who he thinks will be here for 10+ years). So yeah its crazy how boomers don't see anything wrong with that
My grandma passed away recently and my baby boomer Mum and uncles sold her house immediately. I was taken aback when I heard they done that because it was a really nice home they could have rented it out and distribute the profit regularly between us all like an ongoing inherence. I dont even own a home.
Renting, is exploitation, and continues on the evil boomers behaviour,
I think in discussions with boomers the thing I notice in general, and it's always refreshing when a boomer doesn't do this, is to have a simple solution for everything and these simple solutions to problems that are generally not so simple. Then believe with an unreserved confidence that their solution is THE solution, as if to affirm their own view of the world.
It's incredible to witness.
The Boomers hated and despised The Greatest Generation. What goes around comes around.
"Don't trust anyone over 30."
The "greatest" generation gave us Hart-Celler and the Civil Rights Act which have been instrumental in tools the hands our Nation's murderers
I’ve thought a lot about what you’re saying ( boomers hating their parents) . I think it’s because they could never live up to what the ww2 generation accomplished. They were spoiled and cry babies who appreciated nothing.
I was born in 1987. Among my friends and neighbours I know maybe 2 families where boomer parents were not narcisstic toxic vampires.
You are absolutley right Dave! Even boomer generation from countries outside of US have much much higher rates of sociopathy... current generations are more messed up/lost, but baby boomers were definitely more purposeful in choosing selfish and self indulgence at every turn when it was so much easier in their time period to choose better
And can you really blame them? They probably grew up poor because of the Great Depression and WWII.
@@superjlk_9538 haha, are u a boomer ?
@@Lexie810-b5r no but I think it’s pretty easy to understand why they were selfish. Life sucked before and then suddenly they were some of the richest people in the world
@@superjlk_9538- The Boomer childhoods were significantly better than their parents. They didn't grow up in a Depression
@@Lexie810-b5r honestly I wish I was. My life would have been a lot better 😂
"I'm not a vampire."
That's what a vampire would say 😏
I, too, notice a lack of crosses, mirrors, and garlic.
He's definitely a vampire. Have you ever seen him record a video outside during the daylight hours? Didn't think so.
Boomers aren't vampires. Vampires are required for permission before they enter your home. Boomers would just waltz in.
@@pheonixshamanStu isn't a boomer. I did invite him into my house when he did that video about Force Awakens and he never left though...
@@pheonixshaman What is it with boomers and just walking in without knocking? Every one I know does it and it strikes me as crazy. Growing up we would go to visit friends, and I would get to the door first, knock politely and wait to be let in, and my parents would walk past and just open the door like it was their house.
My baby boomer father committed suicide and left none of the money to me or my brothers. He instead donated it to a boys ranch with a history of sexual assault allegations.
Yikes
I'm really sorry.
Jackie Chan, born in 54, stipulated that all of his ~400 million $ fortune go to charity "so his son will make his own money", and the fatality was "if he's capable, he'll get his own. If he's not, he'll just be wasting mine"
Omg. That is awful.
Goddamn! I believe you!
People don't understand group stats anymore. "But I know someone who isn't like that!" It's alarming how much discourse has degenerated. And regarding God letting the Israelites wander the desert, I often feel that way about myself, like I'm being punished by God. Born juuust late enough to miss the golden age. Relationships imploded just as I was graduating high school. Housing market went crazy as soon as I graduated college. Job market dominated by AI and globalization as I'm forming my career. I'll never have kids, never own anything, never find love. Meanwhile, Boomers just got a job in town cutting hair, got married, bought a house, and had kids, all at like 20 years old lmao. So if anyone is being judged or punished here, it's not the Boomers, it's me.
I do think there will be a huge crash catalyzed by the WFH bubble popping, leading to housing crash, etc, that will lead to people fleeing the United States. And in 50-100 years, maybe another Golden Age will happen. But the few generations born after the Boomers will never get to experience it. Worst time in history to be alive. People cope and say "This is the most free, technologically advanced time to be alive!" Don't care. Give me a life in the 1400s where I marry the neighbor's daughter in my village of 50 people, make swords, and die in a war at 30 years old. At least my life will have had more meaning.
Im in the same boat as you man. I hope theres a way out of this soon. Id rather die fighting this hellhole and the boomers that prop it up instead of living like this
I have nothing against globalization because I like anime & pocky. Personally I believe we are suffering for the unending evil acts of our grandparents greedy & apathy filled generations. Humanity is unlikely to ever recover from the multiple crises we're inheriting unless massive changes are made now.
Setting aside social polices boomers pushed that have made our society low trust (as many of those are controversial) the economic policies the boomers pushed (and admit they pushed) are awful at even a glance, and most people don't even know half of them. Here are the ones I can think of and roughly when they were passed.
1. Going off the gold standard (tbf to boomers the oldest would have been 25 when this was passed) in 1971.
2. Elimination of usury laws (1980).
3. Elimination of the ability to apprentice to get certifications in fields that require a degree nowadays (1980s).
4. Weakening of anti trust laws in the 1980s. Every big box store was only a franchise or a regional player before this occurred (WalMart, Lowes, etc were not national chains before the 80s).
5. Removal of capital flight laws (1980s).
6. Removal of the ability to get student loans forgiven in bankruptcy (1980s-90s).
7. Granting amnesty to illegals, increasing the quotas for immigration, and expanding it to unskilled labor (1980s).
8. Removing laws that prevented advertising to children (hence why so many millennials are consoomers)(1980s).
9. The H1B Visa system (1990s-2002).
10. Removal of laws that prevented people from paying for a mortgage with money generated from rent (1980s).
11. Credit scoring systems (1991 or 92).
12. Removal of laws preventing dual citizens from running for political office (1990s).
My only rebut regarding the gold standard was that we actually went off in the 1930s when FDR outlawed owning gold. At that point the currency was fully fiat with all cash supplies controlled by the Fed, but they claimed the dollar was backed by gold because it made people feel secure. The Nixon admin just admitted we had been off the standard for 4 decades. You can't have a gold standard if the currency is not exchangeable for physical gold.
@@DVSPress I never knew that occurred, and I agree with your assessment.
Some of the most heinous ones seem to have passed under Regan/Bush
Damn. Probably the best list I've seen so far. I learned some things here. Thank you
These were things not many of us had control over. It was the generation about 10 years older than me.
My parents are getting up in age. They're relatively well off and about to retire. I've still never officially "entered the workforce" and go from gig to gig - I'm 32. I'm barely surviving. Not existing frequently looks better than existing. The icing on the cake is that I know my parents will not give me anything and when they die it will all go to the local Baptist church. They will, however, expect me to do everything for them and be their emotional and medical support when they get up in age.
Sad considering that Scripture tells parents to leave an inheritance for their children.
US Christianity was hijacked by evil before we were born & we regret our own existence because of what the most selfish generation who will ever exist did with theirs. I wish TH-cam would let me say more.
Dump them.
You will,hopefully, be in a position fianncially to help them and in a position psychologically and spiritually to say "No."
You really did softball Boomers here... the Sexual Revolution and it's aftermath effect on the future generations could have gotten a rant that would make Räz0rfist blush.
The first video was even gentler and I had people calling me Hitler.
@@DVSPress Dang... and yet they've got the chutzpah to call the younger generations, "Snowflakes?" That's nuts.
"Ave" Stewart 🖐️
My city had a really low crime rate in the 80's and 90's. On par with most European paradises' numbers of violent crime to quantify. From 1985 until 2005 there was this campaign to close all the community spaces, arcades, school after hour's programs, public parks and sport fields to "end teenage vagrancy". Any child over 8 years old should be working in the mind of the defenders of these policies. And because boomers had voting majority and politicians have no morals, they did it. By 2000, when I was a teen, all public and community spaces were closed or had restricted access. What happened was an explosion of crime that hit the city in waves. At first it was drug use and vandalism. Later it turned into robberies and gang violence. Teenagers could not find anywhere to be without a police patrol car stopping by and beating everyone so they confessed a crime. Sometimes boomer neighbors called the cops on teen reunions inside private properties. There were academic papers linking into a direct correlation the destruction of public spaces to the soar in crime since the early 1900's. But Boomers tell everyone that they predicted that Xers and millenials would be so unruly teenagers that needed to be controlled at all cost. I worked public infrastructure and it took over 10 years to take enough of these morons out of positions of power, so city hall could restart a parks and recreation strategy that wasn't calling the cops to beat groups of children. Small crimes have lowered ever since but it will be at least another 10-15 years to rebuild all that was lost.
Destroying kids third spaces. That's really revolutionary, they really changed the world there huh?
@@a.wadderphiltyr1559 I would have to visit my local university to collect the papers and see the correlation coefficient of other factors. But lack of public and community spaces was over 0,7. It also matched national, state and local law enforcement data for crime initiatives on violent communities. A lot of NGOs point the same conclusion. The census, however, is easy to access and points to no significant change in demographics from 1990 to 2010. There was an increase in wealth per capita, but no significant inequality change. IHDI is on very high and increasing in constant fashion for over 30 years. Population was growing only what expected in the fertility rate from 1990 to 2010. Ethnicity is 75% white and 20% white-mixed, without significant changes from what it was in 1970.
You are one of the few content creators where I can like the video before watching it. It's not about if I agree or not. Your method of presentation is consistently thought compelling and well articulated.
13:35 John McCain (born 1936, Silent Generation). Barack Obama (born 1961, Generation Jones). Both caved-in towards & behave like typical Baby Boomers. That's how rigid & archaic this system is towards boomers.
You forgot the old reverse mortgage to squeeze out the last drop of equity in the property market. Leaving nothing after life.
They are oblivious. Saying how much their salaries are compared to theirs instead of looking at how much things costed back in their day
A Comprehensive history of saving Gen X:
- DARE to say no to drugs.
- Um, put the kids' pic on a milk carton.
The end.
Always here for the new boomer bashing episode. Soothingly cathartic, Thank You very much.
To be fair: a whole lot of us *weren’t* raised by our Boomer parents. We were stuffed into daycares and, in the case of boys, high on adderall *because* we were behaving like boys and that was a problem.
Yup!
Your commentary on generally any societal, generational, or cultural trends is some of my favorite content on TH-cam. You have a way of articulating human experiences that can be challenging for most to really access. Lean into it!
The reason older millennials and Gen Xers are so nostalgic is because of the continual cultural degradation.
Yes but they react to it in unhealthy ways, such as collecting toys they don't play with and watching movies they hate. This is because it was the only thing that gave them pleasure and meaning while their parents ignored them (just generally).
Star Wars will never be good again. We have to move forward from that and make better things, find real meaning.
Weirdly I don't own any nostalgic knick knacks and I'm a gen xer. Strangely I feel Nostalgia for things that never occurred in my lifetime.
@@kommandantvhs4994my parents grew up with all that stuff so I was able to get into it without feeling any of the nostalgia. I was young when the prequels came out but I don’t even remember those very well. The MCU though is the nostalgia for 90s and 2000s kids. That’s going to hit just as hard as Star Wars did for people in a few decades.
I just BARELY escaped the trap that things like Star Wars and Star Trek are now. They’re nostalgia coffins. Newer generations will have the benefit and ability of looking back at past things and picking out the good parts instead of their favorite things getting ruined by corporate greed and incompetence
@@DVSPress The part of their parents ignoring them is the big part, imo. My father was a teacher, and my mother was a stay at home mother, and my father spent a lot of time with us even though he was older when we were born, and my mother spent a lot of time with us as well. My parents were never divorced, and unlike most of my hs counterparts, I never had a consoomer mindset, which makes me wonder if the attention my parents gave me prevented me from making brands a part of the zeitgiest that makes up my sense of identity.
@DVSPress I agree that many do this. I for one do believe I keep my nostalgia in check.
I never really thought about it as a generational thing until now, but when my grandfather died (silent generation, grandma passed five years before), my mom and her siblings (all boomers) squabbled over every last scrap he owned. I only heard about it second hand, but what I heard really disgusted me. I always expected people to have some dignity and respect for the dead, but all they seemed to care about was the money.
I'll never forget a few years later, one of my aunts and her husband started grilling me about the one thing my grandpa explicitly gave to me (his rock collection; I'm the only geologist in the family). They started asking me geology trivia questions as if I needed to prove myself, and I had a moment where I kept thinking to myself "Is this really happening? Are they jealous of some rocks??" lol.
Also now that you mention it, ever since my mom retired she's been playing the house equity shell game. They sold one house and used the profits to buy a fancy motorhome to tour the country in. They've been touring around for years now.
The #1 thing that needs to be fixed is entry level jobs. Tone down globalism and outsourcing of jobs. You got to stop hurting the kids, or else those kids will get angry enough to hurt you right back.
Outsourcing is not the problem. I live in Brazil and we don't have jobs either.
The real culprit here is minimum wage. It raises the cost of hiring so much that people just starting can't get in. The people hiring end up asking for super qualified help in order to justify those salaries.
Also, globalism and globalization are two completely different things.
Globalization creates a global free market economy that makes things more abundant and cheaper for everybody.
Globalism is the idea of a central totalitarian world government that disincentives globalization.
@@kamikaze5528 I don't see how you can maintain globalization without globalism.
@@marbellaotaiza801 Why not?
They're the opposites of each other.
@@kamikaze5528 What you are describing sounds like to much labor at the lower end of the market. Here in the US we have it from to much immigration.
@@lilylittlemonster5 Yes, it's at the lower end, that's why I'm talking about minimum wage.
I know a lot of people migrate to the USA and end up with low level jobs.
How many people migrate to Brazil in comparison? And we're also having the same issues about jobs as the USA.
The problem here is how much a person earns at low end jobs. Migrants, even more so the illegal ones, will do jobs that do not meet the required minimum wage instead of a regular citizen that will only work for the minimum wage. With this barrier, the regular citizen won't be able to compete with the illegal immigrant and will be end up sidelined.
With a minimum wage in place, you are denying the chance for the regular citizen to even start and out-compete.
I found you by your zardoz video.
I can tell you are gifted. Youd be a good teacher.
I was one for a long time.
At least younger generations see Boomers for what they really are!
An excellent and very insightful commentary video. As always, you shine further light on an interesting topic.
Thank you!
I love it when you cover culture topics. Great analysis as always!
Boomers: "You millenials and zoomers need to pull up your own bootstraps and work for what you have like we did."
Also Boomers: "What do you mean you don't want to pay for my social security? Stop being lazy!"
This is SO ACCURATE. Boomers have NO idea what it's like to be a twenty something trying to make it right now.
I could just listen to you rip on boomers for hours. What a great rant. I've heard other people say similar things, but not nearly as well.
That jab as 60s pop rock... wish I heard that sort of talk more often, I really never cared for it either.
Yes, the super-rebellious rock and rollers who were supported by major corporations and every corporate media outlet. Pretty funny when you think about it, just like the 1990s "edgy" corporate rock phase. Jimi Hendrix was the best-paid musician in the world in 1969.
@@DVSPress Yeah, that was all pretty laughable in the 90s in hindsight. Meanwhile the 90s death and black metal scenes... Well I mean, those sometimes went ulta-edgy in very wrong directions that are in no need of receiving praise, but the point stands.
If I can talk about my own parents (who I love very much, not to be misunderstood) there is definitely differences in worldview between us. something that struck me is their... how can I say this, 'general expectation that things just get better over time'. im struggling to think of an example to really drive this home, but maybe the 'get good grades, go to college, get a good job. congrats, you won at life' mindset is a good one. because it did indeed work like that when they grew up.
today, i found that really isn't the case. not to say it doesn't still work, but you really have to pick your major well, and even then, you might have to move to get a good job. that's the case for me anyway, in my third world country. the 'dad works, mom is a housemaker' thing as well. i can't fathom having to support my wife, kids, parents and in-laws man-alone.
when it comes to kids, im perhaps an advocate for being more hands-off. i think overparenting is just as bad as underparenting. and that much attention can actually be a burden for the child, to have every part of their life micromanaged. it also somewhat backfired in my personal situation because my parents really wanted a good education for me. i ended up being enrolled in tons of extra classes during high school, then when i studied engineering in college, i was suddenly left to do everything myself, and i seriously struggled because of it.
anyway, i have a lot to say on this topic, but ill stop here
(and that example of selling the family farm after hundreds of years... oof, that hits too hard)
I get what you mean. Boomers could afford to be overly optimistic (like a classic Superman film) because that’s how their world was. Even if you fell, you could get back up.
Sadly it just doesn’t work like that anymore. There aren’t enough jobs that are low entry and pay well like that anymore. You can’t just go down to the steel-mill like everyone’s grandparents did.
I do still generally believe that thinks will get better over time, but not nearly as quickly as it did for the boomers.
@@superjlk_9538 that's because boomers moved the steel mills to Chy-na
I was born in the 90s & I know my best years are behind me. Logistically civilization has less than 25% chance of ever recovering from the mistakes of Boomers & their parents who never should have created them.
My dad is a Gen X but he's seeing the light now that's he's retiring. Took him being semi-forced into an early retirement to finally understand that things are not easy for people on a low/fixed income. Whenever he decides to complain about the state of our economy or culture all I can say is, "Yep, this has been my whole life, I didn't ask for this!".
Problem is, for a lot of these Boomers and "spiritual Boomers" is that they never seem to have the ability for introspection. Just watch cable news, blame the Liberals, blame all immigrants, blame GenZ, etc... The classic phrase of, "You aren't IN traffic, you ARE traffic." applies well here.
It's actually common in scripture for entire generations to be judged. And the boomers seem to be doing a speed run of how many similar sins they can pile up
I love these vids you do, very cathartic, we're about the same age I think. You hit the nail on the head with every point, aside for the student debt (which I was fortunate enough to avoid with scholarships) you could've been describing my life, from latchkey kid to the parents selling the family farm only to get divorced and declare bankruptcy several years later. Anyway, thanks for helping me blow off some steam tonight, afterglow is a really good read btw. Cheers.
Not having any debt when you begin your adult life is such a huge advantage. Even a few hundred a month can destroy your ability to take risks. I was very lucky.
Private student loans were non-dischargeable in 2005. Government student loans have been non-dischargeable since 1976. I’m a GenX’er and I couldn’t discharge my student loans, but I didn’t need private ones. Starting tuition in 1986 was $750/semester. It was $1500 when I graduated and $2500 when my brothers graduated 5 years later.
Now that's some hyper inflation right there way before the word was popular...
My boomer parents (great people otherwise) were appalled at me and my sister's ambivalence about student loan forgiveness. We didnt even endorse Biden's plan, we were just vaguely sympathetic and didnt really oppose the idea on principle. They thought having your debt forgiven was some horrible thing and sent a bad message to younger generations who need to "keep their word." Lol
Yeah but there’s plenty of reasons to be against Biden’s student loan forgiveness that don’t have anything to do with “keeping your word” or any other Boomerisms.
@@baw5xc333 True I'm not even for it necessarily but my parents were upset that I wasn't outraged at the core concept.
It wouldn't be that bad if the debtor was forgiven, but the banks and universities took the blow, not the taxpayer.
Soon Hades or Yemma will deliver justice to the most self absorbed generation to ever exist. Society didn't keep its promises to Millennials while Boomers who had prosperity handed to them look down on everyone less lucky from the top of a tower of deceit.
Should you be required to keep your word to loan sharks? The world is drastically different from what it was 60 Years Ago.
It's easy to hate on the Baby Boomers, and it is not as though they try to contextualize why their lives have been better than the generations that preceded them and now succeed them. The Baby Boomers lived in a unique time in American history, where all other industrial powers were demolished in a war, and the thriftiness of their parents (who were last generation to experience real hardship) rewarded them with unprecedented prosperity, which was viewed as normal for the time... and that is the Boomer blind spot. The American experience from the '50s through the '80s conditioned that generation to believe that it was the way things would always be. Evidence which contradicts that 30-year experience has been mounting since the '90s, but it just does not penetrate their minds... we're always just one election away from going back to the '80s. The one cold comfort is that the Baby Boomers are living long enough to witness the collapse.
Don't forget, according to boomers it's all the wokesters' fault. You know, those people that hold about 5% of congressional seats are definitely the problem.
Gens Y&Z will likely know more hardship than Gens U&V ever did thanks to how badly Boomers messed things up.
They didn’t want normal. They thought they deserved more. More drugs, more sex and less responsibility. The goal of their movement was to transform society because their ideology was superior. That’s why to this day they are arrogant. Most of them were born on third base, and thought they hit a triple.
The part I find interesting is: On a whole boomers haven't shown introspection. From voting, choosing policies for society vs the individual, resenting anything and anyone that doesn't agree with them no matter what.
I don't think they're capable of it for the most part. Even if I rationally explain to my Marxist parents everything wrong their worldview and they understand my point, they will have forgotten the entire conversation by the following week.
And it's not due to actual medical issues or anything, they _only_ ever forget facts, information or anecdotes that run contrary to their political opinions, and their minds are perfectly healthy otherwise. I'm at loss on how to deal with those types of reactions from people in general to be honest.
My generation refuses to step aside for the younger people. I've said that for 20+ years. They think their generation had the best music and everything else, and while it was a Renaissance type period, it doesn't give them the right to force it down everyone's throats. What was truly better back then? I'll tell you: Shoes, clothes, food, and books. Simple. Education was simple and to the point. Food was real. Clothes were made well, mostly. Shoes gave support. McDonald's fries were cooked in lard and were delicious. Nothing today can compare. However, medical advancements have been huge, and a lot of everyday stuff is way cheaper to buy. We choose our path as adults. We can't keep blaming our parents for being from the '50s' culture and being "repressed." My parents were together since they could first drive, 57 years. My mom was a lady, and my dad faithful, but believe me, neither were repressed.
Sort of on the nostalgia track: Your'e absolutely right that Gen Y needs to get over nostalgia, but there are so many Boomers that are 70+ years old and seem to somehow be in complete denial about their coming death. They constantly surround themselves with young people (not their grandkids), and I think it's part of the denial.
If we were to give them ANY defense, I would say that Baby Boomers assumed the economic prosperity of their time would last forever. Obviously, things like immigration, changes to taxation and introducing student debt, as well as a rapidly growing population etc, were bound to change this, but they obviously weren't really aware of it at the time.
Actually, Boomers seem to only be learning now, in the 2020s, how miserable most people really have become. Covid may have awoken some regret in them seeing their grandkids suffer.
I didn't even mention Covid, but that whole fiasco was Baby Boomers causing their children and grandchildren to suffer immensely for their own fears of safety.
@@DVSPress hah, that’s actually a good point.
Just a thought from England...the tendency to make comments which imply that it was all the individual public who enforced lockdowns anc shielding is odd. As is the charge of fear. Though most Boomers do house, or frequently visit, yheir elders, so perhaps wanted to avoid infecting them?
The usa is a vastly different place, but I don't think anybody votes for the bad results...perhaps naively, based on a combination of current miseries, and a misplaced faith in the ethics of their favoured party decades ago.
@@DVSPress
I am a boomer and grew up poor. My dad was a ww2 disabled vet. Many boomers had war crazed dads.
It was no picnic
I'm sorry. That had to have been very difficult. I wish mental health knowledge and acceptability could have been better during those times.
@@LuckyZelda There was really not a lot of help for WW2 war vets. My dad came back anxious, hair trigger temper, alcoholic, 40% disabled from bomb fragments....which cause the entire family a life of hell. Caused my mom to have 2 breakdowns. Whenever people talk about the boomers having it so great, just remember everyones dad was a war vet, quite a few in the same situation as my dad. Nobody ever brings up the bad stuff......like JFKs death,,,,a country in mourning ,the viet nam war going on from the time I was 8 till 18 and constantly wondering if I would be drafted and die over there. Also the fear of the cold war (atomic attack, bomb shelters, duck and cover) and the Cuban Missile crisis which could have turned out very badly. Constant fear.
@inkey2 thanks for sharing your experience. It sounded like there was a lot of fear during that time. I feel for the families that suffered from the fall out of war. It was a hefty toll to pay. The world owes these families a lot of gratitude
You posted that video a couple of years ago? It feels like I watched it not that long ago. 😂 I think another reason why people dislike boomers is that a lot of the moral decay that exists in society can be traced back to them. The other generations are just following their example. I also think there’s a difference between boomers born in the 40s and boomers born in the 50s and early 60s. Older boomers are responsible for the moral degradation of the late 60s. They are the ones still clinging to life in public office. They are far more out of touch than younger boomers, at least in my experience. They want more for themselves and less for the generations that followed them.
There is generational theory that gives younger Boomers their own name - the Jones generation. Likewise, the Silents, a significant number who are still alive, were the big brothers leading the way in Boomer culture.
@@atrifle8364 My grandparents were born in the early 30s. They were technically members of the Silent Generation, but had more in common with the Greatest Generation. Younger members of the Silent Generation, those born in the late 30s/early 40s, have more in common with baby boomers. They were the rebellious teenagers in the 1950s who were blinded by consumerism.
David and Brian and JD had a good run discussing that back and forth through blog articles. I think the specific article that talked about "lost" generations (the Silents, the Jones, the Ys) was at Brian's blog. David compiled and shared the whole conversation and I can't understand why they didn't published it to get a physical copy.
2:39 "I'm not a vampire." Hmmm...sounds exactly like something a vampire would say.😊
He should chew on some garlic on the next stream, just to clear things up 🧄
"I'm not a vampire."
What an odd thing to say...
Maybe do a video of you holding a cross, communion wafer, holding up a mirror so we can see your reflection?
Dude you shouldn't hold the Eucharist: receive on the tongue. And the cross would have to be properly blessed for it to make him blaze. Maybe eat some raw garlic on stream? 🤷♂️
the amount of shit i got for being on the pc as i was denied to go out with friends just so my boomer parent could be glued to the tv.
being told im a useless burden for not having a house of my own or a job during 08 crash but dad got his house bought by my grandpa as moving out gift
Milenial here. I spent my whole childhood dreaming of being successful, mostly with a fanily and a reasonably nice house.. then i left school in 2007. Boom 2008 crash. Since then every year has been worse than the one before it. Its like everhthing stopped at that point. We never recovered from that. People born in the 90s were full of hope growing up and the minute we hit adulthood. We got handed a massive debt and a big bill to pay. And now we pay everyones mortgage in massive rent costs. The world is a sad joke now.
Great commentary that explains the last 30 years! The 60s rock band reminded of a certain tribute band of that group from Liverpool.
I just recently got a full time job as an Amazon driver. I'm 40. My first good job. I have a culinary degree and spent 15 years starving to death in the restaurants i worked in.
Told my Dad (born in 57, he's the stereotypical boomer). I thought he'd be proud. He wasn't. 2 reasons.
1. I'm not working a "real job" where i have to stand for 8 hours. He never had a job like that.
2. A gig job gives you the option NOT TO PAY INTO SSI. He got angry about that.
"How will you pay for retirement?" "Don't you want the security?"
The look on his face when I explained that I literally took the job to avoid SSI was worth it. I also showed him a statement from the SSA that stated by 2030, the system goes upside down because of the Boomers. He was so upset i wouldn't be paying for his retirement.
In 3 days, we have our family holiday gathering. I'm going to say im coming, then im not going to. Imma ghost em. They deserve worse. I'm finally able to afford food. They can bite it.
Sad part is that I doubt they'll even notice.
You are spot on about the music, but more specifically I can't stand how boomers blow themselves endlessly over the Beatles. FFS the Beatles are the most overrated band ever, not even the best music of the '60s, but the Boomers won't shut up about them. Like, imagine thinking that all human music peaked with I Am the Walrus and Hey Jude, and all music before or since is inferior.
Their music isn't good and John Lennon was a horrible human being. I don't allow the Beetles' music to be played in my house or my car.
@@shophet125 Stereotypical Boomer interaction (I am GenX): a customer I was dealing with recently was a very arrogant guy, it was clear he had limited technical knowledge, he didn't understand how to use the software he was complaining about, he refused to listen to any advice and would not take time to learn anything by reading tutorials or help articles given to him. I get on a support call with the guy, he turns his camera on, and he is some old Boomer who should have retired years ago, he is in his home office, and he's got about 10 framed Beatles pictures all over his walls displayed prominently so they will stand out when his camera is on. Not like, a Beatles pic, a Stones pic, and other Boomer bands: just all Beatles, every single one. I was tempted to ask, "So, what kind of music are you into?"
The Beatles are the most overplayed band ever. If I never hear a Beatles song again, it will be too soon.
At the end of the 2012 London Olympics the show included Paul McCartney singing, he was awful . Then I realised that as so much of the rest of the show was tongue in cheek clearly they had wheeled him on as 'Mad Uncle Paul' who always insists on doing karaoke at the family party when he's had a few. 😀
@@tuppybrill4915 "I... I got the reference"
I'll add this word of pity for the Boomers. The world has changed freakishly fast in the past 50 years compared to the previous 2000. Keeping up with that pace of change is very hard when you get older.
The Boomers I know luv their tech. They don't know how to use it, but they all have the latest/greatest.
The world changed pretty dramatically from ~the US Civil War to WWII as well, and some lived to see it. IIRC there was a guy who was in the Civil War and still in the military in WWII (though not in a combat role). Arguably war, at least, changed more in that time period than it did from the 1970s til now. You went from massed infantry formations and cavalry charges to tanks, air supremacy, and machine guns.
@@crushervenI wish the gap between the civil war and WWI would be covered more in media. The most we get is cowboy films that don’t really focus on that actual transition.
I think a movie about a war journalist living up to the end of WWI would be a great film.
Imagine how future changes will mess with us Gen X/Y when we're old...
I honestly don't think it will be particularly hard for me, but I understand that's not necessarily normal.
As a Gen Jones cusping short of Gen X, It amazes me as a "middle child" between Boomers and Gen Xrs watching the culture war between the Boomers and Millennials.
I’m a good person said every sociopath ever
Generational wealth? Dynasty building? pffft Your problem is you haven’t knocked on the doors of enough employers, resume in hand.
A firm handshake from the manager is all you need!
The saga continues
I was a daycare kid but a very fortunate one as the daycare i went to was run by a housewife with two kids my age and she ran it out of her house in a good neighborhood. I was, still am, best friends with her son. It was more like a second family. Trips to the movies, the pool, the city, sleepovers with scary movies. Fond memories.
Theres something called the Cantillon effect and there are two spheres where this has worsened perhaps as much as a 4 or 5x for the Average/Median/Mode Man. (Women have issues but the government and media hardcore has their backs so nowhere near as bad).
Namely the ability to get enough money through work to then get a decent woman and support a family. Both on the getting steady work for good purchasing power and passing through the beyond delusional requirements women want these days.
The "term" boomer is very American, and yet it slithered over to other cultures.
Which is a shame, because it's a derogatory term specifically aimed at the American generation and has nothing to do with people of the same generation in other countries.
For example, my boomer parents were freaking legends to live through the 90s of post-Soviet era. Not just managing to live through it, but prospering and giving me and my brother a functional family and a good headstart in life.
The same can be said for most people of their generations. Without them, we would not have a country.
It only became derogatory because everyone hates the American Baby Boomer. The term itself only connotes the fact that the west had a post-war baby boom - the Boomers are just the product of that. Boomers themselves never considered it derogatory until their behavior started being called out.
@@DVSPress yes, I get that.
It's just that the term is now used far outside the context.
I speak another language and hail from another country. But even here, people on the Internet call anyone they deem to be old-fashioned and grouchy a "boomer". Meaning "a dinosaur", basically. Although, in our country, these "dinosaurs" endured and achieved so much that neither my generation nor the next will ever come close.
@@arcanefeline kids these days are calling Gen X/Y "ancestors".
I'm from the Caribbean. My two cents are that while there was no demographic or economic boom compared to that of the US in my country, the cultural influence through music and cini (and direct investments in mining that stunted agricultural production) did kinda create like creole spiritual baby boomers. Maybe not in eastern Europe, but the boomer influence here was wild...
@@marbellaotaiza801That's what I was going to say. Boomer influence did happen in the Countries that were outside of the Soviet Sphere.
Very good analysis!
Thank you!
A lot of good points. I'm kind of over it, though. My life is what it is and I'm tired of wasting my energy on being angry with the boomers.
It only gets worse.
16:15 Boomers really are the "Line Go Up" crowd
3:03 how would you have felt if you didn't had taken a second mortgage on the house to go on a cruise?
Boomers were the first generation to have an extended childhood en masse. Also, this is when advertising really got dialed in. When you target children, and especially girls, boys will spend money and fathers will spend money to make their girls happy. 100 years ago 10% of people graduated high school. imo 10th grade should be the last year of school. Let kids get jobs and build skills and confidence.
There's something very wrong about a society that expects people have to study into their late twenties and then climb the ladder into their late thirties to maybe be able to provide for a family.
My thoughts on Boomers and Generation Jones: these generations produced excellent creatives but godawful leaders. At least it seems that way.
Yeah I think if you look at the creative output the generational complaints actually produce interesting things. Popular music especially is a combination of established conventions and small rebellious changes. Everything felt both novel and accessible as a result.
Zoomer here. I do like some old stuff. I know some you g people whose memory goes baxk to the 70s and late 60s. Hell I like oldies music. Fallout helped.
I did griw up with the original trilogy of Star Wars. After watching the prequels.
Raised by boomers but not the toxic kind.
Can say the next generation will only remember how they ruined us and not for their music or plight.
My parents (I’m born at the end of the 70s) were pretty much “let the kids do what they want” mindset. I was 6 when Nightmare on Elm Street came out on VHS… and my mom let me watch it. Thankfully they never divorced though my mom struggled badly with alcoholism. But interestingly enough… towards the end of both of their lives (brief lives, they both died young)… they found religion. And I don’t mean spirituality, that they had and it seemed to do them no good (the effects on me included). But they found religion (Catholicism), and it was probably the first time in my life that I saw my mom have meaningful drive. She successfully overcame alcoholism (which she credited solely to God… a God we never really spoke about prior). And though from that point forward her life would be very brief (the years of living before that conversion took a big toll) those years were beautiful. She had a peace in her which I had never seen before.
A boomer retort usually involves how we should thank them for some sort of social mayhem that they managed to cause.
"You kids! IF it wasn't for us, we wouldn't have all the diversity!"
The most self-centered generation that has ever existed
The narcissistic generation.
US Gen Worst, who potentially lived the most self absorbed lives on average of any demographic of humanity who ever lived. Their intense arrogance won't help them when the inevitable happens because I doubt their next life will be kind to them.
What drives me nuts about boomers crying about social security is that most of their lives a social security deduction would be below 10-15 dollars, and now they want thousands a month in cash plus thousands in Medicaid. They probably put in 10 grand over their entire life, and they expect hundreds of thousands in benefits at the expense of the younger generation. Meanwhile I’m paying over a hundred dollars a paycheck into social security and another hundred into Medicaid, and it will be gone by the time I’m old enough to be eligible. It’s disgusting that I bust my ass and I have to lose hundreds a month to support people that are either a drain on the country or the elderly that voted to destroy our country. It really makes me want to work under the table so I can keep the money I make and put it towards my own retirement since I don’t get pensions and other nonsense.
While I definitely enjoy the things that I grew up with, I also realize it isn't the Marxian end of history.
It's ok to have new experiences while sharing the older ones with new generations, so while the current era of film and music seem lost, time will seperate the dross and people will select their classics. Personally nothing excites me more than experiencing a hidden gem of a new film, a new musical artist, or a good new book.
I love finding new things. I wish more people were willing to, but I'm painfully aware that most of my peers are simply not interested in new or different things. They'd rather watch a bad sequel and talk to their friends about it than try to convince them to consume something new.
@@DVSPress The channel retroblasting had an excellent video about nostalgia wherein he covered how the normal process of growing includes letting go.
For some reason Millennials ( my generation) can't let go, and while I understand times are hard, for me personally, it is just an unprecedented opportunity to forge a new future and to learn from the failures of the preceding generations.
My baby boomer parents were an absolute car wreck. My dad drank himself to death with 24-hour partying, and my mum didn't even know bills usually had to be paid.
Is it the lead?
That's one hypothesis I have heard.
Fresno state ??? Ha Ha - I went there too. When I started it was $286.00 per semester full time. When I graduated it was $486.00. Unbelievable. I hate what they are doing to the young people now. Especially young men.
Good point. I've never heard a Boomer talk about their problems and how they are trying to improve. None of them are honest about alcohol addiction. They will never admit fault. I've never heard of a Boomer wanting therapy.
Some of us GenXers were born in the latter half of the 60s and were fully kids during the 70s.
Another hypothesis, based on your last comment: The baby boomers who say younger generations like 60's & 70's music better probably have a better relationship with their own kids. This relationship, in turn, influenced their kids' taste.
Regulations also contributed to cheap immigrant labor being used.
Milton Friedman pointed out that they were only a benefit so long as they remained illegal. That's why there was never any attempt to close the border, despite the fact doing so would benefit all legal immigrants already here and it being overwhelmingly demanded by Republican voters.
@13:18 It's probably not policy that caused housing prices to rise; we've spent 100 or so years moving towards cities. House prices in urban & suburban areas have out paced thevratevof infkation. But look at a map of houses available across a state; houses in rural areas, two or three hours from major cities are about $200,000-250,000; in line with inflation.
I love my dad. However, it really saddens me that he basically is a textbook example of the “bad boomer”. It’s a real thing and it’s hard to believe. Boomers have so much financial security that they’ve never really had to worry about money even today. That’s why so many of them are so out of touch.