I aced Calculus all the way up but Gaussian still gives me grief.
I think he just has a hard-on for Boomers. Oh well, it is our fault really. We spoiled ya'll and made you soft af.
The boomers inherited a rich financial market and proceeded to destroy it with not even a single look towards the future. They grew up in a time of uninterrupted economic prosperity. The boomers were the original trust fund babies, living off the hard work of the post WW2 baby boom brought on by the greatest generation. This isn't conjecture, economists have attributed our current financial peril to the selfish actions of the baby boomers. Culturally, the destruction of the family unit, falling numbers of successful marriages, and poor education can be completely attributed to the "prosperity and individualism-without-remorse" culture cultivated by the worst generation to grace this unfortunate planet. Their hedonism took on loans the rest of us are going to be forced to pay off.
"We made them soft" might be the way your father would describe you. How sad he'd be to see you're so willfully ignorant of the luck you had being handed one of the greatest economies in history. The core millennials born between 1989 and 1994 came of age in the worst market in the last 30 years. I remember competing for my first real job against a bunch of people 3 times my age. We had no benefit. We've been fighting since 2006. Millennials by and large save more and spend less compared to their boomer counterparts. The Millennials are closer in nature to the greatest generation than the boomers in terms of economic participation.
While the boomers sucked on teet of the greatest generation they saved nothing, drove the economy into the ground on multiple occasions (1980 housing bubble anyone?), and took individualism to a level that ruptured the community fabric the country had before. Boomers still hold the majority of power, leaving Gen X and the millennials wondering when their opinions will actually matter.
And now, for their final hurrah, we will see that they are going to begin leaving the country in droves to live somewhere cheaper (Mexico seems popular). Their magnum opus, the ultimate "fuck you, I got mine", will happen in the next 5-10 years.
An edit for clarity:
I have a grudge with boomers because their lack of foresight will come to a head by the time I'm getting ready to retire. My greatest economic fear will be when all of the 401ks and pensions start getting drawn on, and the market stays high - effectively locking my generation out of buying lower in hopes of accumulating wealth through passive investing in the same instruments. I have plenty of boomer friends. I don't hate someone
for being a boomer. My grudge is strictly business - I am worried about my economic future. I realize what I said above might be inflammatory. I apologize if you're offended.
