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Everything that happened to a Baby Boomer was the most extreme ever. All other generations before Baby Boomers and since the Baby Boomers have had an easier tim

Everything that happened to a Baby Boomer was the most extreme ever. All other generations before Baby Boomers and since the Baby Boomers have had an easier time than the Baby Boomers. Their experiences are the Alpha and the Omega of human experience. When they die, the universe probably will cease to exist.

groby_b 5y ago
That, frankly, would be a small price to pay to stop hearing arguments about specialness of that generation.
- elefanten 5y ago
  I’ve never heard an argument about the “specialness” of that generation? I’ve only heard the relentless shit all the younger generations started talking about Boomers at some point. Which always came as a surprise to me… If we’re going to generalize about people based on generation (bad idea, but…)— I conclude that every generation since the Boomers has been linearly weaker and less competent, in aggregate, than the generation before it. Definitely in the West, but I suspect everywhere. And no, I’m not a Boomer, I’m one of the younger ones.
  - BlargMcLarg 5y ago
    >I’ve only heard the relentless shit all the younger generations started talking about Boomers at some point. Counterreaction, a lot of voices claiming to speak for boomers, or boomers themselves, have done plenty to claim "it's just young people messing up". Despite the obvious that they have been the majority voter base for decades, have more wealth as a collective, and because of their age and wealth, tend to have different incentives and opinions than the younger generations having problems to do something as simple as getting a foothold in adult life. NB: the obvious problem isn't "boomer / old", but the nature of the social game as it is (relatively or perceived zero-sum) and the haves voting against the have nots. >I conclude that every generation since the Boomers has been linearly weaker and less competent Weaker and less competent how? I assure you, for every argument you'll find, you can find another argument which would flip the script.
    - bombcar 5y ago
      It doesn’t help that “boomer” now apparently means “anyone older than me” and “millennial” “anyone younger than me. And I’ve been called both in the same day.
    - ROTMetro 5y ago
      Dude, if you think that is different than any other generation ever well, hopefully when you get older you'll learn about perspective. The 'Greatest Generation's version of the boomers sent them to WW2 to die by the millions, but poor you, right? Never has a generation been handed such a shit sandwich by the generations before them as the boomers have handed you. Get over yourselves. You aren't so special in the list of generations. When the boomers had nothing in their youth they created the hippie culture where it didn't matter. Today's hyper consumerist tiktok generation think they have a right to live like the made up people on TikTok do. They aren't boomers, but you know the characters on the TV show Friends could never have lived like that in New York, right? That it was a fake show that portrayed an unrealistic quality life that young people working those jobs didn't actually live, right? Finally, I'll just leave this here: https://www.humanprogress.org/u-s-housing-became-much-more-affordable-over-the-last-40-years/ https://www.humanprogress.org/u-s-housing-became-much-more-a... Interest rates rising will change the calculus, but it will also push housing prices down.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
  ... arguments which are nothing like the ones made on behalf of, say, "The Greatest Generation" that immediately preceded Boomers.
  - Adraghast 5y ago
    It’s apropos you forgot the Silent Generation between them!
crocwrestler 5y ago
Well, they did have domestic terrorist groups going around setting off bombs on the regular in the 60s and 70s. I was quite surprised to read about it. https://www.amazon.com/Days-Rage-Underground-Forgotten-Revolutionary/dp/0143107976 https://www.amazon.com/Days-Rage-Underground-Forgotten-Revol...
- UncleOxidant 5y ago
  And going back further there was even more of that going on during the labor wars of the late 19th century into the 1920s.
  - bombcar 5y ago
    Wodehose refers to bearded bounders with bombs as it was a pretty common occurrence in the early 1900s - enough so that jokes could be made from it. We’ve had it comparatively calm and so bombs get noticed.
- uoaei 5y ago
  The only interpretation of this vs the parent comment is that you are insinuating this is somehow extreme and unprecedented. Surely it is not.
  - rufus_foreman 5y ago
    "In a single eighteen-month period during 1971 and 1972 the FBI counted an amazing 2,500 bombings on American soil, almost five a day." -- https://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/ https://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/ That was extreme and unprecedented for America.

groby_b 5y ago

That, frankly, would be a small price to pay to stop hearing arguments about specialness of that generation.

elefanten 5y ago
I’ve never heard an argument about the “specialness” of that generation? I’ve only heard the relentless shit all the younger generations started talking about Boomers at some point. Which always came as a surprise to me… If we’re going to generalize about people based on generation (bad idea, but…)— I conclude that every generation since the Boomers has been linearly weaker and less competent, in aggregate, than the generation before it. Definitely in the West, but I suspect everywhere. And no, I’m not a Boomer, I’m one of the younger ones.
- BlargMcLarg 5y ago
  >I’ve only heard the relentless shit all the younger generations started talking about Boomers at some point. Counterreaction, a lot of voices claiming to speak for boomers, or boomers themselves, have done plenty to claim "it's just young people messing up". Despite the obvious that they have been the majority voter base for decades, have more wealth as a collective, and because of their age and wealth, tend to have different incentives and opinions than the younger generations having problems to do something as simple as getting a foothold in adult life. NB: the obvious problem isn't "boomer / old", but the nature of the social game as it is (relatively or perceived zero-sum) and the haves voting against the have nots. >I conclude that every generation since the Boomers has been linearly weaker and less competent Weaker and less competent how? I assure you, for every argument you'll find, you can find another argument which would flip the script.
  - bombcar 5y ago
    It doesn’t help that “boomer” now apparently means “anyone older than me” and “millennial” “anyone younger than me. And I’ve been called both in the same day.
  - ROTMetro 5y ago
    Dude, if you think that is different than any other generation ever well, hopefully when you get older you'll learn about perspective. The 'Greatest Generation's version of the boomers sent them to WW2 to die by the millions, but poor you, right? Never has a generation been handed such a shit sandwich by the generations before them as the boomers have handed you. Get over yourselves. You aren't so special in the list of generations. When the boomers had nothing in their youth they created the hippie culture where it didn't matter. Today's hyper consumerist tiktok generation think they have a right to live like the made up people on TikTok do. They aren't boomers, but you know the characters on the TV show Friends could never have lived like that in New York, right? That it was a fake show that portrayed an unrealistic quality life that young people working those jobs didn't actually live, right? Finally, I'll just leave this here: https://www.humanprogress.org/u-s-housing-became-much-more-affordable-over-the-last-40-years/ https://www.humanprogress.org/u-s-housing-became-much-more-a... Interest rates rising will change the calculus, but it will also push housing prices down.
PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
... arguments which are nothing like the ones made on behalf of, say, "The Greatest Generation" that immediately preceded Boomers.
- Adraghast 5y ago
  It’s apropos you forgot the Silent Generation between them!

crocwrestler 5y ago

Well, they did have domestic terrorist groups going around setting off bombs on the regular in the 60s and 70s. I was quite surprised to read about it. https://www.amazon.com/Days-Rage-Underground-Forgotten-Revolutionary/dp/0143107976 https://www.amazon.com/Days-Rage-Underground-Forgotten-Revol...

UncleOxidant 5y ago
And going back further there was even more of that going on during the labor wars of the late 19th century into the 1920s.
- bombcar 5y ago
  Wodehose refers to bearded bounders with bombs as it was a pretty common occurrence in the early 1900s - enough so that jokes could be made from it. We’ve had it comparatively calm and so bombs get noticed.
uoaei 5y ago
The only interpretation of this vs the parent comment is that you are insinuating this is somehow extreme and unprecedented. Surely it is not.
- rufus_foreman 5y ago
  "In a single eighteen-month period during 1971 and 1972 the FBI counted an amazing 2,500 bombings on American soil, almost five a day." -- https://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/ https://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/ That was extreme and unprecedented for America.