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At the risk of sounding butthurt, it's kind of strange and unfair to claim that "boomers are the entitled generation." They merely happen to have been born at a

At the risk of sounding butthurt, it's kind of strange and unfair to claim that "boomers are the entitled generation." They merely happen to have been born at a time when the social and economic situation for future generation changed due to changes in ecology, world economy, and in this case the demographic of industrialized countries. By the way, the changes have been going on for much longer. When I was young we were called "Generation X" and newspapers told us that we were going to be the first generation much poorer than their parents, with "patchwork CVs" and a "decline of traditional work opportunities." Overall, these predictions turned out to be true. So I guess we could call our parents the "entitled generation." After all, the Club of Rome warned in 1972 that economic growth was not sustainable but the warnings did not lead to major changes of the socio-economic systems, although many smaller positive changes were made.

kazen44 5y ago
> At the risk of sounding butthurt, it's kind of strange and unfair to claim that "boomers are the entitled generation." They merely happen to have been born at a time when the social and economic situation for future generation changed due to changes in ecology, world economy, and in this case the demographic of industrialized countries. Also, it is good to remember that the "boomer generation" is a mainly american phenomenon. Most other western countries had a period of rebuilding after world war 2, which was not a time of economic prosperity. A good example of this is the late 1940'and 50's. American's wealth grew quite a bit during this time. Most (western) european countries had wage freezes, a corve system or even rationing during that time. Western european economic power started to increase in the late 1950's and early 1960's. (wirtschaftswunder etc) Ofcourse, eastern europe was far worse off considering the lack of marshall aid and heavy restructuring of the economy to a soviet style command economy.

kazen44 5y ago

> At the risk of sounding butthurt, it's kind of strange and unfair to claim that "boomers are the entitled generation." They merely happen to have been born at a time when the social and economic situation for future generation changed due to changes in ecology, world economy, and in this case the demographic of industrialized countries. Also, it is good to remember that the "boomer generation" is a mainly american phenomenon. Most other western countries had a period of rebuilding after world war 2, which was not a time of economic prosperity. A good example of this is the late 1940'and 50's. American's wealth grew quite a bit during this time. Most (western) european countries had wage freezes, a corve system or even rationing during that time. Western european economic power started to increase in the late 1950's and early 1960's. (wirtschaftswunder etc) Ofcourse, eastern europe was far worse off considering the lack of marshall aid and heavy restructuring of the economy to a soviet style command economy.