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I still hear boomers around me tell me how hard they had it. Yes, please go on about how your houses and school weren't hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I've been looking for work since losing my job in March. And all these lead-addled antiques keep saying, "nobody wants to work anymore." These people couldn't be any less attached to reality.
Talked to a (old) boomer just yesterday during a BBQ. Everything from climate change denial to citing the Bible to .. I don't kinow, justify his hate of "weirdos" like gay and trans people.
But he did admit that young people have it harder than him and that he would not be young in our current time.
Finances aren't the only difficulty in life. It's not that simple and reducing down to just the financial aspect of life, while that aspect is important, is oversimplifying things. Don't forget there were tons of poor boomers too. Only about 1/3rd ever saw a pension. Plus, try telling gay boomers, POC, women, people with mental and emotional issues, etc that they had it easier. They weren't all middle class straight white men, and treating them as one homogenous group is disingenuous.
Doesn't making necessities unaffordable affect all working class populations?
I get what you're saying, and agree in part, but depending on where you are in the US, a lot of the progress has really only been superficial - and over the same time working class purchasing power decreased and social safety nets decreased.
Economics is an easy point of intersectionality for the working class, because it hurts us all. We can unite around that instead of dividing ourselves from it. It even hits the boomers, and I think we're all aware that many of them are already skating on thin ice in retirement.
There are no 'easy times' for some groups of people (and they deserve our utmost empathy) but I can't help but see it like this: Throw in a minority identity, or a neurodivergency, or anything else that already makes life hard on top of this late stage capitalist economy, and 2020s are right out of a dystopian novel. At least in my opinion.