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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Originally Posted by Costaexpress
Baby boomers are one of the most educated generations in American history, but they are also one of the most ignorant. Their degrees do not equate intelligence. They fooled their own children. They built freeways, parking lots, and malls and used them. They moved to suburbs to escape urban problems. They offshored jobs, closed factories. They put their kids in debt. They told them they could be anything ey want to be, but be prepared to fund it with a lifetime of debt.
No, baby boomers may patronize malls, and use the freeways (just like millennials) but did not build them. They are defined as being born in the years 1946-1964. Looking at the deveopers of the biggest and most successful malls, for example, and you will find them to have been mostly born in the 40s. They were kids during WWII. Freeways were being built in great numbers starting in 1956, when the oldest boomers were 10 years old
As a boomer myself, my parents moved us to the suburbs in 1960, when I was 8 years old.
Exactly as she said: smug and aloof.
I would add "and self-congratulatory".
Yes, there were times when life was certainly simpler and certainly more favorable for the average Joe than at any other time in human history. Funnily enough, it is exactly the people who benefitted from coming of age in those times that are the most eager to advise that "life was never simple". Imagine that.
This is what the post-war years in the West were about: life being not terribly hard even for the biggest losers, let alone for average Joes, many of whom had about the same level of worries and strife as British aristocracy.
Those of you lucky enough to have lived your best years during those times should also be decent and humble enough to admit your historical advantages instead of pumping your "greatest generation" chests. You also could have done well had you hit the sack less often and contributed less to overpopulation. But you missed that opportunity.
All that happiness, all those musicals, all that serendipitous economic prosperity lifting even the least merituos boats...that must have affected your sack activity.
This thread needs to be moved to the politics/controversy forum where it can die the kind of death in obscurity it so richly deserves.
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