I see the term "Boomers" used more and more often as a pejorative. If boomers are guilty of anything, it's raising a generation of spoiled entitled brats. That's my take on it from the view point of a boomer :-).
They kind of did in a way. My parents are boomers. They had things to deal with like Vietnam, civil rights and easy access to all kinds of drugs and heavy alcohol use as the norm. Cigarettes weren't a bad thing until they were middle aged. So I can't say they all had it easy.
However, when boomers came of age and started buying houses and property and going into business and politics they shaped a majority of laws and regulations to favor them. Their numbers made for a massive majority. They absorbed massive assets. They have previously unheard of wealth and power for their generation.
Something I find comical about boomers is it seems as though most of the really successful ones I have met and know today, including some of my good friends, is how they came into success and power largely by just not making terrible choices- They bought real estate when prices were low and their wages were high. All they had to do to make it in business was pay for a spot in the yellow pages and do the work OK. Innovation and technological obsolescence happened over decades, not overnight. Boomers weren't under video surveillance 24/7 for the first half of their lives atleast.
So I don't think boomers should stop giving younger generations shit for being lazy, but I do think they should stop and think how they played a part in creating the problem.
. One of those kids walked off the job on me last week, and I was paying $20 per hour, he did not say a word, he just walked.
