You are confusing me.
homeownership today is much harder to achieve financially than it was many years ago. I don’t think anybody disputes that and that’s kind of unknown and universally accepted challenge for our country. But it’s not new. It has been trending that way for many, many years.
but what does that have to do with the boomer generation?
And now you’re yelling at boomers for blaming the “younger generation“ but remember this pot got stirred from somebody blaming the boomers, for basically anything, and everything
so what is your point?
My point is that what bothers me is that the Boomers are tone-deaf and lack empathy for the generations that came after.
They rode a wave of prosperity and economic/financial/social conditions that were of enormous benefit. One that later generations didn't have. But when questioned about it, they act like they were the cause of those conditions rather than the beneficiaries, and that the later generations are just whining because they're not as hard-working, or as disciplined, or whatever as the Boomers.
Essentially, to use the old adage, the Boomers were born on third base and think they hit a triple. Or to use a newer one, they've failed to check their privilege.
There are other policy things--not done deliberately IMHO but merely out of self-interest--where you can make an argument that the Boomers ascended the ladder and then pulled it up after them. That gets a little more dicey to talk about, so I've mostly avoided it.
But I just don't like their attitude. And that's what I'm calling them out over.
