agip wrote:
yes or no: You would rather have been born in 1955 than in 1990.
I lived through the 70s and 80s. They were positively poor compared to today. Poor. Everything was garbage.
sure, there are some groups that were better off then. But overall no one should prefer to have had to mature in the 70s over the 90s or 00s.
No era is perfect. But these kids have such a massive better opportunity than boomers.
Agip you have jumped the shark!
I don't even know where to begin. Just like your economic ideas, the ideas expressed in your post don't hold water, and you try to sell value judgments as fact. As the markets rise, your posting deteriorates!
Yes I would rather have been born in 1955 than in 1990.
I lived through the 70s and 80s. They were, in turn, fascinating, intellectual, free-spirited, and revolutionary. They were both culturally and scientifically rich. The ideas of the 60's didn't really happen until the 70's, and produced some of the best of western intellectualism in the new world. The high end of analog material goods arguably reached its fullest flower in the 70's, a level that has not been surpassed. The better things were made to last, and last they have. The personal computing revolution started in this era. New music, dance, visual, and other art forms appeared, and others reached a zenith. Population was not what it is now, and peace could still be found relatively easily, even in the lower 48.
Of course there was a lot of crap, and there were problems and exceptions to what I have written, but the picture that you present is woefully inadequate. It might reflect your personal attitudes, but it is far from fact. I could post specifics all day long.
Every generation has "opportunities"--that is the basis of life, of choice. Those born into less-free and less-diversified societies have less freedom of choice. We are arguably less free today, but also arguably more diversified, so it might be a wash. The opportunities, however, are different--which is natural, since boomers are different people than are millenials. Also, the value of opportunities varies with the individual--some thrive in a society with limited, but well-tailored, opportunities.
I personally prefer the opportunities that would have been presented to me had I been born in 1955 to those that would have been presented to me had I been born in 1990...I think. It is a very personal and specific determination that is, at best, very difficult to make.