Whiny entitled baby boomers

[gwendally]

Something struck me in a book I was reading last week that stuck with me over the week-end and is tumbling around in my brain.

Baby boomers are mad because their standard of living - and expected retirement - is not nearly as great as their parent's was.

The flailing around takes many versions, but generally "the rich should pay more taxes" is the

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[bart_calendar]

The baby boomers have been self centered entitled pieces of shit for roughly 40 plus years now.

I've been bitching to anyone who will listen that they have been fucking over the generations that followed them for their own benefit since the word go and people are finally starting to notice.

[gwendally]

What I'm realizing is that the baby boomers are pissed because they aren't being allowed to loot the way their parents managed to do

[bart_calendar]

They also call their parents the "Greatest Generation" even though it took their parents 11 years to get over a stock plunge, they coddled Hitler until he had most of Europe, started the Cold War, created suburbia which caused devastation in many major cities and created the huge, bloated military industrial complex.

Fuck em all. Gen X or the Slacker Generation or whatever you want to call us did better than either the Baby Boomers or The Greatest Generation simply by not doing much of anything. We didn't advance anything but, unlike either of those generations we didn't make the world a considerably worse place to live in (not that we have had the chance to do anything. The Baby Boomers outnumber us so much that their votes and interests have carried everything since 1972.)

[ernunnos]

I love the irony of people talking about Gen-X's lack of accomplishment on the internet. But then I would, wouldn't I? Gen-Xers love irony.

[allyphoe]

Or because dad was a semi-skilled machine operator, who nevertheless had the wherewithal to support a SAH spouse and multiple kids in a house he owned, and who retired with a pension + Social Security sufficient to comfortably live on. A young semi-skilled machine operator looking for work now has little chance of getting any of that.

[eekm]

And I am a skilled-machine operator: quite litterally, I'm a scientist who operates machinary and "technology" in the pursuit of new medicines. And for me, it is very hard to work in an industry with contant layoffs, constant outsourcing, and 200 (mostly foreign) applicants who are clammering after my position the minute I mess-up.

I actually WANT to be that middle-paid, semi-skilled, stand on my feet labor. My industry and my country as a whole wants to outsource those jobs or import labor that looks different than me and so commands a lower wage with fewer benefits.

[anonymous]

Aren't you and your husband baby boomers? Boomers were born form 1946-1964. And, to me it sounds like you are whiny.

[gwendally]

What's your point? Must I never whine to reflect on whining?

I don't detect my own whining in this piece, although I certainly whine frequently enough in my blog that I actually have a TAG for it.

Also, who is this? You neglected to sign in or sign this. If you're just doing drive-by sniping would you let me know how you find me? I'm open to all sorts of criticism, but I prefer it to be intellectually-rooted and to be sort of interesting. Your "nyah nyah" comment is sort of weak by those standards.

[interactiveleaf]

I've been hearing since I was a child that the American way of life was unsustainable.

Hey, folks, guess what "unsustainable" means? It means is can't be sustained. It means it's going the fuck away.

What baffles me is how surprised so many people seem to be by this.

[gwendally]

This.

[onsafari]

This is exactly what terrified me about becoming a manager. I'm now overhead and easily replaced. As soon as I stop adding value, my job is a lot less secure. I'm always shocked that so few people understand this.