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.