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EdwardOfGreene t1_j0408p3 wrote

Reply to comment by day7seven in [Image] Focus on what really matters to you by straightWash425

I truly tire of people generalizing entire generations.

No individuals in the group? Just need to know date of birth, and you know all about them without further inquiry?

I grow equally tired of people doing this with race, language group, nation of origin, over generalization by creed, whether they live in sparce or densely populated areas, etc.

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CokeFanatic t1_j04d19l wrote

Ya well you're the only one bringing up race and all that other shit right now, aren't you. That's not what is being discussed here.

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nhh t1_j05iype wrote

You are right on point. Yes, boomers had it easy. The fact is that they lived in post WW2 economy where America was basically the ONLY country territorially unaffected by WW2.

The fact that there were a whole lot fewer people than there were today also is a factor.

The fact is that Americans today have to compete on a global scale which was not a possibility due to impossibly expensive real-time communication?

Sure, there may be things that boomers were responsible for creating - they exacerbated climate change and did nothing to address it, given that this problem was known since the 80s. They kept voting Republicans into office with the goal to gut the government and gut the tax code - which left us at the current deficit mess.

But by an large, the problems that today's younger generations face are not a result of direct action by Boomers. Arguing so is stupid.

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