Dad was ‘43, so technically not a boomer. Mom was ‘47, her dad (my grandad) was a WWII soldier, so right at the beginning of the baby boom.
My impression of the boomer generation is that there is just so much about the world that they just don’t understand. They lived and grew up in an era where the United States was the unquestioned Top Dog. We won the Big World Wars, both of them, then helped rebuild Europe. Every thing was built here. Every single thing. Appliances, TVs , cars, airplanes, engines, ships, machinery, literally everything. They did not have to compete with the world, because the vast majority of the world was destroyed and it took decades after WWII to rebuild. I still remember the backlash in the early 80’s when Japanese cars just started to get popular.
It’s not that they got successful and pulled the ladder up behind them. The world just changed, and they don’t understand. They played the game by the rules that society created and a lot of them won big.
Who was in charge of the world when pensions were cut, factories moved overseas, wages stagnated, etc? Not boomers for the most part. Much of that was being driven by the Silent Generation. But it really doesn’t matter who was in charge, the math works out the same way, the results would be the same.
