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Can't tell what point you're making, but when my brother left his job at Google our grandmother asked what that was going to do to his pension. As if companies
by na85 7y ago
Can't tell what point you're making, but when my brother left his job at Google our grandmother asked what that was going to do to his pension. As if companies paying pensions was still a thing.
These people grew up when a factory job could support a family of four, and companies hired people with no experience and then paid actual benefits.
Boomers benefited from very generous circumstances. To suggest they earned the postwar economic boom is laughably misguided.
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- creaturemachine 7y agoMy parents, I guess who were boomers, suffered from crushing debt, divorce, poverty, unstable work. Factory work killed two of my Grandfathers, COPD and asbestosis. But go on, tell us how Google ruined your Brother's future.
- na85 7y ago>But go on, tell us how Google ruined your Brother's future. I didn't write or imply this in any way. My point is that many boomers conveniently gloss over the fact that they benefited immensely from the economic climate of yesteryear, and the common refrain of millennials needing to just tug harder on their bootstraps isn't received well because of it.
- dang 7y agoWould you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? There are much better ways to honor your grandfathers. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html