Baby Boomers cannot even comprehend the difficulty of life for younger generations

You mean the situation is nearly identical to this movie from 31 years ago ? The characters are a depiction of the first wave of people born after 1964.

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Reality Bites (1994) ⭐ 6.6 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

1h 39m | PG-13

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We live in the most comfortable time in Human history. We have internet access. Most of us here live in America. Work hard, talk to people, look them in the eye, make connections, find a skill, you will be rewarded. Stop complaining and live life

Wow, what an original handle you have. I didn't read your post dummy. What did you say dummy?

I mean boomers did have the draft and Vietnam war to deal with but yeah getting a job interview must suck

As an HR practicioner,to get a job, you have to go through the interview process. Thats just part of life bud. And no im not a boomer lol

Make an effort instead of excuses.

Regardless of generation, it isn’t that hard to be successful.

+100. It's still an uphill battle for these generations to get a job, but even once they get a job they are still screwed.

People in older generations were set for LIFE once they got a job in a factory, and their wives didn't have to work either. They can buy a nice house, raise several children, and retire relatively early - off of just 40 hours per week of work.

Every generation thinks they have it harder than the last. Then they grow up, have kids and complain about how easy they think the next generation has it, while that generation complains "how much harder" they supposedly have it. The cycle repeats.

Some people will always seek excuses for their failures to avoid taking responsibility for their own lives. "My generation has it harder..." "The system is stacked against me..." "I can never catch a lucky break..." etc.

There has been a right-wing takeover of the country. We've got a dictator ignoring federal law at every turn. And you're talking about preventing a left-wing takeover? Every Trumpian accusation is a confession.

As a gen x'er raised by a father who grew up selling newspapers on street corners in the Great Depression and World War II, worked on Great Lakes steamers in the summer, served as a paratrooper and military policeman in Korea and Japan between the wars, from age 17, I started working a paper route myself at age 9 and would get up for years at 5 a.m. every day to deliver the paper, rain or snow, in darkness of night. As kids, we would wander the tracks as far as we wanted, dig holes, and build multi-story tree houses all on our own. Good times. I feel sorry for the kids of later generations who are overparented into anxiety, spend all their time on social media, and never get any freedom.

Why do you care what Baby Boomers think or understand? Find a path to your definition of success and follow it with grit and determination.

Checked my school. Average SAT is like 20 points higher than when I went there (you also have access to computers and easier study methods than older generations). You are also competing for more available spots with fewer kids.

Yeah. And it's called late stage capitalism.

Well-off societies, like the US, got more well off while technology improved to the point where global manufacturing and shipping/trade was far easier and cheaper, therefore cheap countries naturally start to make the 'things', while the rich countries make the 'services'.

So highly produceable physical things stay cheap, but valuable things like real estate and education balloon in price as population increases and overall wealth increases. Education becomes more important in a high tech services economy because college essentially becomes required therefore colleges can basically start charging whatever they want, vastly increasing the cost of education and therefore the entry cost of getting a career. Companies also start buying up all the real estate, and the popular places become more crowded while nobody wants to live in some podunk random place partially because jobs simply don't exist their anymore, so the small places become poorer while the popular places become super expensive, these things leading to skyrocketing housing prices.

So now the two 'American Dream' things of having a great career and having a house both cost way more money than they used to and you basically spend your entire adult life just paying off those two things.

Meanwhile companies also focus on paying their execs more and handing money to investors rather than paying workers more, so wages don't keep up with the price of those valuable things. And govt in US takes a scary spineless and corrupt right wing bent for decades now that leads to govt letting companies get away with this extreme greed and instead of controlling it companies and the wealthy are rewarded with lower taxes than the middle class. Setting up a system where the wealthy and powerful get ever more so, while most other people fall further and further behind over time.

As all this happens a family starts to no longer be able to survive on a single salary, so women are freed from essentially being domestic servants bound to their husbands with no economic independence and need to have jobs for the family to survive. Which of course is great, but this also adds to the applicant pool meaning even more competition for jobs.

So more economic freedom for more people, but more competition for jobs. With greedier companies, much higher wealth disparity and income inequality, the rich and corporations buying up all the valuable assets therefore making these much harder for the general public to get, a govt supporting this decline, far fewer good easy to get careers, and so much more competition for the high paying careers but much higher costs to even be able to apply for those, all means more people who struggle to find jobs, struggle to get by with huge economic costs to live well and to even get started on the American Dream, while paradoxically the wealth is still around it's just cemented in the few hands of the wealthy with them increasingly taking more of the pie so that over time there is less and less for everyone else.

It's called late stage capitalism because it's a natural consequence as society progresses with capitalist ideals if things aren't watched VERY closely to make sure it doesn't happen.

At this point you have to break up the power/wealth/greed in both politics and industry, build lots of new housing and whole new cities, break up the systemic problems in education and medicine to bring down costs drastically. But those in power in any of these areas don't want to do any of this, and in fact many of them want to exacerbate it. Just look at today's govt in US, they are rabidly for less accountability and fewer taxes for those with wealth and power, while cutting jobs for actual workers. All the opposite of what you do in order to fix anything.

It boils down to the defining trait of humanity: always refusing to live in congruity and sustainability. Humanity always wants to do more, conquer more, oppress more, kill more, have more. But in a limited natural world, and well as in a limited economic world, that simply leads to destruction. That's what we get to witness in real time. What did work is now done in excess with rules bent and broken to allow more excess and so the system breaks more and more as time passes and those doing the breaking are those in power and those who don't want to put a stop to it. Meanwhile the rest of us just find it harder and harder to get by even as wealth overall increases and technological advances make it at least feel like we should be living easier lives.

Story of the world.

With some exceptions, it has gotten progressively easier for each generation. My Dad ran on a cinder track and got ridiculed for playing HS football on team with black athletes in the late 50s. His Dad worked in a tire factory for 30+ years and lost a finger on the assembly line 10 years in. I don't know what his Dad experienced, but I'm willing to bet it was pretty grim relatively speaking. This is a great time to be alive. Make the most of it.

I’m genx with adult kids. There is no doubt that things are tough. I worry that they’ll be able to afford rent let alone a house in the future. But they have far more opportunities than my parents ever had. My parents were born just prior to the boomer years (early 40s). My mom grew up so poor they milked their own cow for milk and raised chickens for eggs because they couldn’t afford store bought. My mom worked 35 years as a bank teller. My dad joined the Marines at 17 and then worked in a parts factory for a few years before becoming a highway patrolman for 35 years. We never went on vacations when I was younger (couldn’t afford it). My parents worked their entire lives until they were finally able to retire at around 67 or so. It’s hard to compare the two generations because they are each dealing with different difficulties. Inflation is insane at the moment but, at least you’re not worried about being drafted to go and fight in Vietnam for a year.

My grandma was one of 8 kids - only 4 made it to adulthood. She got pregnant at 16 and had to work because my grandpa was an ironworker who got constantly laid off in the 70s. Then on the way to work she got in a car accident, broke her back, and lost her mind. The family had to live in poverty and take care of their unmedicated mother with schizophrenia and then their house burned down. Both of these grandparents started smoking when they were <10 years old and died in their early 60s - they really had it made, I tell you.

Home ownership rate is on the high end of historic norms (and much higher than it was for boomers). And those same boomers won’t live forever. 9.2 million homes are projected to hit the market over the next ten years as boomers die. As they pass on, their retained wealth will pass to subsequent generations.

The social security reserve will be exhausted soon. The system will still exist, but payouts will likely decrease or age increase to match the money coming in. It’s one reason to vote for Republicans: they want to make cuts and increase the age for eligibility, Democrats want to tax your income more to subsidize older generations longer who are taking out far more than they contributed. The enemy is modern medicine. It keeps people alive longer than the system was intended. The solution to save Medicare is cuts to Medicare (limit baseline Medicare to preventative and palliative care after 80 with mandatory DNR. An individual can pay for a premium policy upgrade on their own if they wish).

Sounds like your friends failed as parents if they still have their adult children living with them. That’s the problem, you think it’s the kids who failed when in reality it’s the boomers who failed at being good parents.

in the good old days there was no such thing as a HR practitioner.

This would seem to be where the problem arises