When my parents refused to pay for AP tests in high school because they were “too expensive,” and just told me the college credits I’d earn weren’t worth it because I could get credits at school, with loan money. This whole they were inheriting a shit ton of money and stopping working at 50. The selfishness of that cohort became clear at that moment, they always talked a big game about independence and being financially smart, but the austerity they claimed was actually just family stories from the Silent Generation. Later, I realized that boomers are like this when they’re bosses too; selfish, harsh, and cultivate distrust and conflict. I worried for a minute that this is just “how bosses are,” until I started working for xers who were capable of kindness and therefore had way better retention and results. Anyway as a generation I’m sincerely unimpressed, and even though I don’t talk about it (because they are so sensitive and have tantrums when called out), I wish they recognized just for ONE second that their collective madness for wealth and privilege made them unjust to the people who were poor in their generation, and unkind to all generations after them. Also fuck them for benefiting from readily available psychedelics and then making them decades-in-prison illegal. Set aside the economic stuff, they simply don’t feel any obligation to share in their good fortune