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You're kind of getting at the point I was hinting at. The "hippie" aspect that is played over and over again in the media about the 60's perhaps was largely overblown? It's often a major characteristic that people like to bring up when they talk about the boomers - but how true is it really for the generation as a cohort?
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In 1968, the late social scientist Lewis Yablonsky published The Hippie Trip: A Firsthand Account of the Beliefs and Behaviors of Hippies in America By A Noted Sociologist, one of the few books that actually tried to count the size of the American hippie population while the hippie phenomenon was still ongoing. Yablonsky estimated that there were 200,000 full-time hippies in the United States who were both conspicuously identifiable as hippies and had dropped out of mainstream society. In addition, Yablonsky estimated that there were another 200,000 teenyboppers, part-time hippies, and "weekend hippies" who might go to high school, college, or a "straight" day job, but participated in hippie culture on an occasional basis. That gives us an estimate of about 400,000 total hippies in 1968.
For the sake of making a clean estimation, I'm going to exclude Baby Boomers who weren't yet teenagers in 1968 as "ineligible" to be part of the counterculture. That means the relevant Baby Boom cohort to use as a denominator is all Baby Boomers who were born between 1946 (the start of the Baby Boom) and 1955 (the cohort that would have turned 13 years old in 1968). Based on data I found at Births in the United States 1930 to 2007, the size of the 1946-1955 Baby Boom cohort was 34.13 million. If we use Yablonsky's estimate of 400,000 hippies as the numerator, then the percentage of Baby Boomers who participated in the 1960s counterculture would be only 1.17% (400,000/34.13 million = .0117).
I really do not think many 'boomers' are living on pensions or even have them. Most pensions disappeared in the 80s. There may be a few of the very first boomers with a pension, but most people who have pensions in retirement are over 80. A lot of those pension people were also promised health care for life, but that also disappeared quickly. Companies simply revoked it, and there was not much that could be done.
Born in 1950. been collecting my pension since 2010.
I really do not think many 'boomers' are living on pensions or even have them. Most pensions disappeared in the 80s. There may be a few of the very first boomers with a pension, but most people who have pensions in retirement are over 80. A lot of those pension people were also promised health care for life, but that also disappeared quickly. Companies simply revoked it, and there was not much that could be done.
Oh you could have done something........you just didn't..........
I am right gen x, i blame the BOOMERs definitely. Sure plenty of other are to blame too. But they are the ones who set this train in motion and they are the ones who haven gotten fat benefits have been voting to deprive everyone behind them. They are greedy as hell, instead of voting to protect their grandkids they voted for Trump .
it is not just boomers but they are the biggest group and they vote to impoverish everyone following.
Y'all do know that the time when everyone had a pension never existed, right? In fact, only roughly 35% or so had them at the time of most coverage.
The bottom started falling out of them during the economic upheavals of the 1970s and 80s. Upheavals brought to you by decisions made and governmental policies adopted going back to right after the end of WWII. Yes boys and girls, Mee Maw and Paw Paw are the ones who started screwing you, not your Boomer parents. In fact, we were screwed by those policies too.
Boomer here. I get a pension from the federal government, I get $9000 a month. I've been receiving it every month since Aug 2007 when I turned 55. My wife gets a pension too, plus she gets Social Security. Life is good. I have all I need. Thanks to all of you.
I am right gen x, i blame the BOOMERs definitely. Sure plenty of other are to blame too. But they are the ones who set this train in motion and they are the ones who haven gotten fat benefits have been voting to deprive everyone behind them. They are greedy as hell, instead of voting to protect their grandkids they voted for Trump .
it is not just boomers but they are the biggest group and they vote to impoverish everyone following.
BS I am a Boomer and love the present economy under Trump and am banking thousands.I am one of the last Carpenters Obama tried to put out of work with illegal immigration.Now I turn down work.I could collect SS tomorrow but prefer the big bucks Trump is sending my way due to his booming economy.Talk about boomers and booming.Sorry you made poor life choices and hate your life and blame the boomers Maybe stop working for slave Masters and learn Carpentry and become self employed and pick and choose your jobs.You sound like a baby who screwed up and wants to blame us old farts.
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