Why do Gen Z n Y say boomers had it easier?

[tuckgod]

“Boomers” had to fight in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam plus built America into the Nation it is today

fukk them kids

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Boomers had a thriving middle class. Thriving housing and factory jobs. Jobs they could get at 18-20 fresh out of high school with little experience. They had crazy purchasing power. Owned homes, cars. Many of them got to power positions, whether at the local factory, or local gov. and stayed there for years and didn't wanna give anyone else a chance. As they got older they didn't want younger generations to have what they had. The whole boomer sh*t is deep.

 

[UpNext]

“Boomers” had to fight in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam plus built America into the Nation it is today

fukk them kids

Boomers were drafted to Vietnam because opportunity and resources were so plentiful they couldn't get enough people to sign up for the military.


There will never be a draft as long as we live because there will never be a military shortage due to the current economic landscape.

 

[kaldurahm]

Breh you can't get no job now with no kinda back ground check or history.

I'm talking an era prior to the internet vs now.

The internet alone made jobs harder to get because it necessitated keeping files. Online applications, online "training", etc.

Fred.

My father had fake insurance with some white coworkers from the 90s and early 2000s,

 

[tuckgod]

Boomers were drafted to Vietnam because opportunity and resources were so plentiful they couldn't get enough people to sign up for the military.


There will never be a draft as long as we live because there will never be a military shortage due to the current economic landscape.

Your point?

 

[Clayton Endicott]

Cac Boomers on the other hand have ruined this country.

And are lazy, spoiled, entitled and act like they're the ones that built this shyt.

 

[UpNext]

Your point?

The topic of them having it easier. We live in a time where economic conditions are so bad the military is filled up.

This was unheard of in their era. Jobs were so plentiful and affordable housing was abundant.

 

[ignorethis]

Because they lived in an era where the US government actually cared about growing the middle class.

So the government enacted policies to benefit them and help them reach middle class.

Right now the US government can’t even stop the hemorrhaging of the current middle class.

 

[JasoRockStar]

And are lazy, spoiled, entitled and act like they're the ones that built this shyt.

They ain't shyt. Lowkey the most sensitive group of people too, but the main ones calling everyone else sensitive.


They're easily the worst litter of cacs produced in this country is the past 80 years or so.

 

[spliz]

What mental labor do you do in your day to day that makes you say this? I just told you what I do (SWE) and you said it's unfair to comparing it to working in a packaging plant. What's a fair comparison?

A fair comparison would be the physical labor and dangers of working certain construction where u DO have to use ur brain or it could mean life or death. There's little things we enjoy everyday that people have to have the balls and and will to physically do. I'm a repair tech currently. I was in corporate sales management for years. And while that shyt was definitely stressful. Scheduling. Planning. Marketing. Meeting deadlines. Customer development and Salesforce. Long hours. Always getting calls even at home. Etc etc. I still would choose that over the hardest labor shyt I've done. What i do now is the easiest shyt I've ever done tho.

 

[tuckgod]

The topic of them having it easier. We live in a time where economic conditions are so bad the military is filled up.

This was unheard of in their era. Jobs were so plentiful and affordable housing was abundant.

Economic conditions for Black Americans haven’t changed since slavery times

We was the same in the “Roaring 20s” during the “Great Depression” “Great Recession” and everything in between

That’s white folks problems

We get by how we get by regardless

But I’d much rather live in a time when I didn’t have to worry about going to war for years at a time for most of my adult life, back when war was war and you had to look the people you killed in the eyes.

There isn’t a human alive today that could hold a candle to those folks in their prime.

I caught the tail end of it and I know how great they were

 

[UpNext]

A fair comparison would be the physical labor and dangers of working certain construction where u DO have to use ur brain or it could mean life or death. There's little things we enjoy everyday that people have to have the balls and and will to physically do. I'm a repair tech currently. I was in corporate sales management for years. And while that shyt was definitely stressful. Scheduling. Planning. Marketing. Meeting deadlines. Customer development and Salesforce. Long hours. Always getting calls even at home. Etc etc. I still would choose that over the hardest labor shyt I've done. What i do now is the easiest shyt I've ever done tho.

And you know what, I agree. The high end pole workers and whatnot who every day could really die from a small mistake do have a much tougher job than me.


The other 90% of manual laborers tho

 

[Apprentice]

Maaan I’m a Gen z nikka and never heard nobody talk like this, Zay pullin a fast one on yall

 

[hex]

Maaan I’m a Gen z nikka and never heard nobody talk like this, Zay pullin a fast one on yall

I'm Gen X and literally everyone after boomers criticizes them. And for good reason.

This has been going on for 25+ years.

Fred.

 

[Apprentice]

I'm Gen X and literally everyone after boomers criticizes them. And for good reason.

This has been going on for 25+ years.

Fred.

Never met a nikka in my life who be like “I hate boomers”

Matter of fact this is the type convo that really only happen on the internet

Some of our mentors, grandparents, teachers, coaches are all “boomers”

Everyone criticizes everyone