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Chromattix t1_iuq1rrn wrote

Reply to comment by YellowBabylonianSub in [Image] Focus on what really matters to you by tdbair000

It's a pretty decent metaphor isn't it?

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Greatest generation: Planted trees because they knew what it was like to grow up without any and wanted better for their kids.

Boomers: Cut the matured trees down for wood to heat their huge homes. Didn't plant new ones because they'd damage the pool they put in their place to one-up the neighbours.

Millennials: Inherits no trees because their parents wanted a sun-bathed yard mostly full of nothing instead so now they have to plant their own.

Gen Z: Learn from all this.

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ConfusedSpaceMonkey t1_iuq71fg wrote

Updoot for not including GenX. No, it’s fine. We’re used to it.

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SumGuyWhoDis t1_iur5bhj wrote

GenX benefits all of the conspiracy theories, won’t do much besides bitch, and generally vote in/line with the boomers once the Millennials became the punching bag for the angry Fox News audiences.

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ConfusedSpaceMonkey t1_ius8avc wrote

I’d say we were the generation who got to helplessly watch it all free fall throughout our youth and young adult lives. We did get some pretty awesome video games along the way. But the overall long term brain-rot and embracing of the Fox “news” alternate reality is super sad.

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What---------------- t1_iuqcwtn wrote

Gen X is chilling with Van Halen while Boomers and Millennials beat the shit out of each other.

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jarockinights t1_iura4j7 wrote

I wouldn't over romanticize the G.I. Generation. That generation was consumed by alcoholism and incredibly rampant violent child abuse. Childhoods that the Boomers grew up in, being flogged with beltbuckles while simaltaniously being told how easy they have it and how their music and more progressive attitudes toward minorities were evil and misguided. Every Boomer I've talked to either hates their parents, or at best has an extremely tenous relationship marked by stories of extreme fear.

I honestly think millennials (and I'm one of them) are at high risk of falling into the same shoes as our Boomer parents, especially when millenials start getting those large windfalls from the death of their Boomer parents. Millenials are going to look around at the growing disparity and going to be scared of losing that new money, and Generation Alphas are going to criticize us Millenials of sitting on our inheretances like dragons.

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UnfortunateJones t1_iurecde wrote

You’re getting an inheritance? That must be nice.

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jarockinights t1_iurehyv wrote

When your parents are one of the stereotypical Boomers everyone talks about, then yes, you will have a hefty inheritance.

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sgtNACHO117 t1_ius6yq5 wrote

Until the Leftist progressives tax away your entire inheritance to put into "welfare" programs that really just lines their own pockets and those of big tech and big pharma.

People are people and will always choose their own over yours. Every generation is selfish and blames the others for their own problems. Every generation since the Industrial revolution has had to deal with the complete upheaval of their way of life. Before then you were just a farmer or cooper or smith like your family before you.

Now you have to be better than the previous generations in a never ending climb while those exact generations live longer and longer and dont want to lose hold of what they have.

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jarockinights t1_ius7ej3 wrote

Oh boohoo, you mean I'll only be able to keep a million dollars of my inherated wealth??? However will I live without my third villa?!

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MuminMetal t1_iuvyo5k wrote

ie. strong men create good times, good times create weak men etc etc.

There's truth to it, but what's happened and is happening in America goes beyond "boomers", does it not? Unchecked greed and corruption has made sure that only corporations and the political ruling class have the power to change course.

Boomers are mostly just guilty of being out of touch, like most people in their 60s-70s.

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