Americans once assumed their kids would be better off than they were. But business professor Scott Galloway says today's economic policies work to enrich Boomers and steal from younger generations.
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If boomers are doing so well can’t they setup their finances to benefit their heirs
aug 31, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Billionaires are enriched.
aug 31, 2025, 5:54 pm • 2 0 • view
I have seen Scott Galloway enough times to know someone robbed HIM of his empathy to the world
aug 31, 2025, 6:15 pm • 3 0 • view
Duh. And what about Gen X. The boomers have been fucking us for 40 years now.
aug 31, 2025, 8:25 pm • 1 0 • view
It's not Boomers doing this. It's selfish, old, rich folks. 60 years ago we said "never trust anyone over 30." That's still true. This Boomer continues to live a life of voluntary poverty, understanding that many many of my generation have become poor because of these same people.
sep 1, 2025, 2:28 am • 1 0 • view
This is about wealth, not age
aug 31, 2025, 5:57 pm • 16 0 • view
No babes it’s about policy.
aug 31, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Well-- and voting history.
aug 31, 2025, 6:11 pm • 5 0 • view
😡😡😡
aug 31, 2025, 11:11 pm • 0 0 • view
So many defensive boomers in these comments. He’s talking about the tax cuts and policies boomers have overwhelmingly voted for over decades. Maybe some of you didn’t vote for it but the gen in aggregate did
aug 31, 2025, 6:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Ageist. Deflecting from the real problem of Republicans acting only for the1% starting with Reagan.
aug 31, 2025, 6:47 pm • 5 1 • view
You forgot about all the boomer democrats that voted for the tax rules, finance rules and tax laws as well
aug 31, 2025, 7:26 pm • 1 0 • view
🎯
aug 31, 2025, 7:24 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s absolutely right. Boomers are the worst
aug 31, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ll pass on the generational warfare, thanks. While I’m neither rich nor a boomer, I think the problem is that billionaires wield too much power and influence over our elected officials.
aug 31, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Boomers paid into SS their entire working life. It's their money.
aug 31, 2025, 8:12 pm • 2 0 • view
it will all change when boomers leave their money to their kids.
sep 1, 2025, 12:10 am • 1 0 • view
When SOME Boomers leave their wealth to their kids.
sep 1, 2025, 2:30 am • 1 0 • view
Pitting generations against each other is just the ploy of neoliberalism to obfuscate its role in economic inequality. Galloway, who benefits greatly from neoliberalism, is one of its premier useful idiots. #UBI #MEDICARE4ALL #FREEEDUCATION
sep 1, 2025, 12:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Perhaps boomers with massive incomes and piles of cash but not all boomers have such luxuries and struggle to make ends meet.
aug 31, 2025, 7:06 pm • 6 1 • view
Most don’t
aug 31, 2025, 7:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Is this generation blaming? Is there an assumption that all Boomers are billionaire oligarchs? Were Ronald Reagan et al, the authors of trickle down and other detrimental policies, Boomers? Did the entire Boomer generation impose Citizens United on us?
aug 31, 2025, 6:20 pm • 7 0 • view
It's horseshoes attempting to convince themselves they're not racists and misogynists; they're just ageists.... and probably abelists.
aug 31, 2025, 6:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Duh. When I was in college in the 1980s we were led to expect Social Security to run out when we were old enough to need it. Now the fat fuck is deporting people who are paying into it, who will NEVER collect from it. So I will grab SS as soon as I can now instead of waiting for my full benefit.
sep 1, 2025, 12:31 am • 0 0 • view
BULLSHIT.
aug 31, 2025, 7:02 pm • 4 0 • view
He spelled billionaires wrong
aug 31, 2025, 6:13 pm • 6 0 • view
THIS
aug 31, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
This is the unfortunate side effect of having one group with a vast numerical advantage over others.
sep 1, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view
Enrich which Boomers? How many Boomers never owned homes? Why wasn't accounting mandatory in high since 1950? Can the Economics Profession explain that?
sep 1, 2025, 1:10 am • 1 0 • view
That was supposed to be "in high schools since 1950". Going to have to buy some new fingers.
sep 1, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
Hmmm. It’s not boomers, it’s policies
aug 31, 2025, 9:28 pm • 3 0 • view
The maximum estate tax used to be 55% but now is 40. The intent was to prevent dynasties. But that, with the other tax cuts, insure dynasties. I don't think you can blame one age group. Young people vote the same, for their own personal comfort
aug 31, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
If your instinct to reading this is "not all boomers," then yeah it you too. That pigheadedness when it comes to acknowledging the actions of your cohort is the most consistent sin of your generation.
sep 1, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
Execute all boomers! Oh shit, wait a minute...
aug 31, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view
My nephew, only child, will be better off than I or his father. I have no children. He will receive everything I have including my home, which is almost paid off. And his father's, almost paid off as well. Graduates 2027 with 2 degrees. Better off than most will be.✌️💜
aug 31, 2025, 7:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Same. Had no kids and have a paid off house in early 40s. I’m leaving it to him because I have no idea what his future is going to look like. At least I can put a roof over his head that’s low cost upkeep if need be. He’s 16 right now. Poor kid
aug 31, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Both houses have multiple fruit trees, mine has 15 plus grapes and berries. Brothers house has 20 almond trees. We saw this coming and planted. Also good for the environment. Bees and birds along with all sorts of flying insects. Organic, no pesticides. A 25 year artichoke too! Love them. ✌️💜
aug 31, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
There are some really angry boomers in this thread making excuses for exactly what they know they did and are doing. Boomers are angry little children who got everything handed to them, but, it's still not enough. Fuck off. Woof woof motherfuckers.
aug 31, 2025, 6:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Ageist. Deflecting from the real problem of Republicans acting only for the1% starting with Reagan.
aug 31, 2025, 6:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Why are there no captions or a transcript?
aug 31, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I would like to point out that younger Boomers are the fastest growing homeless population. Sure, if you're a white, middle class Boomer, preferably male, born early on in the gen, you probably did great. Not everyone was in that boat. moneywise.com/real-estate/...
aug 31, 2025, 6:41 pm • 3 1 • view
My Econ 101 professor at MSU in 1986 told the class of 500 people that we would not be better off than our parents. He was right. He was an advisor to the Reagan Administration. He knew what was coming. Many of our parents had a company retirement plan not a 401 k. Not a new problem.
aug 31, 2025, 7:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Yay Boomers. Fighting positive change since the 60s.
aug 31, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
The Boomer generation ran 1946 - 1964.
aug 31, 2025, 7:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes. What's your point?
aug 31, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
And there is this. Sorry about the paywall if you aren’t a subscriber. www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
aug 31, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 1 • view
If resources are scarce and people are fighting over them you have got to ask why. When that is expired it becomes obvious it’s the top 1% who are horsing and influencing everyone else to blame each other and fight among themselves instead of looking at the money hoarding 1%.
aug 31, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
This Scott Galloway dude is insufferable. Seriously.
aug 31, 2025, 6:34 pm • 5 2 • view
I'm so GD sick of this rhetoric. God bless the child who's got his own. Grow up gen z
aug 31, 2025, 6:42 pm • 2 0 • view
It's the billionaires and the corrupted politicians and Trump's Cult that are stealing from the younger generation. Why does the government allow hedge funds to buy up houses and jack up rents? Why not single payer healthcare? Free higher education? High Billionaire Taxes?
aug 31, 2025, 6:41 pm • 3 2 • view
I think Scott Galloway is just stating the obvious, but hey, better late than never, right?
aug 31, 2025, 5:50 pm • 15 0 • view
Sounds like a standard economist protecting the wealthy stealing from the rest of us. The problem is that the Republican/Rich ass holes have moved more and more of the total cash flow to the fewer and fewer evil rich bastards.
aug 31, 2025, 5:55 pm • 15 2 • view
He’s right. The Me Generation abandoned the Commons, We the People, and pluralistic American identity in favor of Balkanized zero-sum tribes of cynical pay-to-play politics. They got theirs, so f*ck everyone else. They forgot how much THEY benefitted from systemic wealth redistribution.
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 pm • 2 0 • view
We are boomers and not rich or getting richer. We haven't stolen from anyone. Ask boomers.
aug 31, 2025, 7:58 pm • 5 0 • view
Our 40-something kids are far better off than we were at their age.
aug 31, 2025, 7:59 pm • 5 0 • view
Right. My neighbor is 77 and lives off $1,200/month social security. I mean she’s living high off the hog. Goes out to eat every night & steals from everyone within 5 feet of her…lmao these ppl are nuts.
aug 31, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank goodness. Mine, too.
aug 31, 2025, 8:11 pm • 1 0 • view
How many billionaire boomers do we have ?
aug 31, 2025, 6:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Listen to the podcast. It's not Boomers personally, its the System that was built over decades -- beginning in the Reagan years, if you ask me. Skyrocketing costs of higher ed, housing, healthcare, & childcare combined with stagnant wages have screwed young Americans.
aug 31, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Unfortunately, I’ve been saying it for years. Us GenX’ers had Boomer Gordon Gekko saying “Greed is Good”, and we were screwed! And, yes, I said Gekko was a Boomer. None of my generation were old enough to accrue the wealth he had in the move. He was to what we aspired to be!
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
We have failed our kids.
aug 31, 2025, 5:53 pm • 2 0 • view
You might have. I did not. You do not fucking speak for me.
aug 31, 2025, 6:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Like people who declare they were good parents, it's always interesting to hear the kids viewpoint. And how often they disagree
aug 31, 2025, 7:20 pm • 0 0 • view
As my mother said to me, when I was worried about being a "good parent" - most parents do the best that they can. And what this has to do with this person thinking they can speak for an ENTIRE GENERATION is fucking beyond me.
aug 31, 2025, 7:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for proving my point May your children find a good therapist after going no contact.
aug 31, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Lolol fuck off. You know nothing about me.
aug 31, 2025, 7:38 pm • 0 0 • view
What should you have done differently?
aug 31, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Whew. Pleasure doing business with ya.
aug 31, 2025, 6:22 pm • 2 0 • view
See also the agro comments made by those who see they don’t fit into the arbitrary generation categories they associate with their own grievances. They don’t understand that the labels don’t fit individuals. They fit statistically manufactured narratives.
aug 31, 2025, 6:22 pm • 4 0 • view
Ppl like Scott Galloway and headlines like this one enrich capitalist myth ls that obfuscate the real source of economic hardship— ensconced protected pockets of gigantic wealth.
aug 31, 2025, 6:16 pm • 7 0 • view
You take that famous socialist geezer, Bernie, the old chuff: three houses and a champion of the 99%, right? A good guy fighting he good fight and keeping all his stuff at the same time. Paradox? Nope. Just reality. Its okay to keep living. Even the worshipped ones do it.
aug 31, 2025, 6:14 pm • 1 0 • view
PS scott galloway doesn’t look like a youth to me— so why doesn’t he shove off with the rest of us geezers and give all his stuff to the kids? Just roll over and die and instantly all the kids will be rich! Capitalism solved by ageism— easy preasy
aug 31, 2025, 6:09 pm • 3 0 • view
You take that last one: why shouldn’t one keep their house and work while they can? Economic hardship is not created by ppl staying alive and well, its created by economic policies that favor extreme wealth and punish struggle— in every generation.
aug 31, 2025, 6:01 pm • 10 2 • view
Talking about this in terms of generations is not helpful or informative. Generations don’t represent entire blocks of wellbeing or struggle. Statistics that follow decades of prosperity don’t describe people- they describe economies.
aug 31, 2025, 5:55 pm • 15 3 • view
This is the exact sort of nonsense that contributes to ageism. Generations are not organized mafia that move in lock step. Framing debt and income issues according to generations places focus on age instead of capitalism.
aug 31, 2025, 5:53 pm • 39 3 • view
But the Boomers were the ones driving policy since the ‘70’s that have created the economic environment that allows the hoarding of wealth.
aug 31, 2025, 5:57 pm • 33 0 • view
Reagan and his cohorts were not boomers. Bill Clinton was the first boomer president, and he balanced the budget.
aug 31, 2025, 6:05 pm • 24 2 • view
I don’t care about the budget. He continued the policies which got us where we are.
aug 31, 2025, 6:06 pm • 16 0 • view
Nonsense. Republicans are responsible for where we are. Anyone who doesn’t vote for Democrats at every opportunity is responsible for where we are. The record is clear. The 1% supports Republicans.
aug 31, 2025, 6:15 pm • 21 2 • view
Yeah, ergo Reagan and his tricke down economy bullshit. Started it and will finish us all.
aug 31, 2025, 10:24 pm • 5 0 • view
He’s talking about policies
aug 31, 2025, 9:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Sorry to tell you, but the boomers were voting for Reagan and Clinton (we aren’t talking about individuals we are talking about actions and policy). Many boomers are very proudly Reaganites as they grew up into adulthood with his policy action being “good for them”. And haven’t changed since…
aug 31, 2025, 6:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Reagan was widely supported by boomers, as have been his conservative successors.
aug 31, 2025, 6:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Not all of us.
aug 31, 2025, 6:27 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s not what the story is about. It’s not talking about individual descent. It’s talking about the most general actions and policies moved by the boomer generation.
aug 31, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
It started in the late ‘40s, early ‘50s but, you’re a kid, you must know it all.
sep 1, 2025, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view
Don't let the Silents off the hook so easily. Even now, the Silent generation has a lot to say about policy and their votes have been contributing to policy since the 1940s. Even now, we've got a few old timers who just won't step down.
aug 31, 2025, 6:47 pm • 1 0 • view
You mean the Silent Majority? They were powerful until the ‘70s-‘80s.
sep 1, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
The youngest boomers were born in 1964. A lot of boomers were very progressive in the 1970’s; I was there and one of many progressives. Your ageism is showing. Criticize people how what they do, not for demographic characteristics.
aug 31, 2025, 6:12 pm • 6 3 • view
The youngest boomers were born in ‘46. Right after everyone got home from WWII. That was the start of the big “Baby Boom”.
sep 1, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
I get that. My parents are boomers and super progressive. That doesn’t mean the generation, as a whole, hasn’t been disastrous to the country. Look where we are!
aug 31, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
The “generation as a whole” is ageist. I’m not responsible (nor are your parents) for what other people do. Blame the bad people for doing bad things. Blame the Republican Supreme Court for Citizens United, allowing dark money to pour into Republican campaigns. Do what you can to elect Democrats!
aug 31, 2025, 6:29 pm • 6 1 • view
White Peoples voted majority Trump and Majority Republicans for the last 60 years Maybe you aren’t the one to be making these comments without looking at your own demographics
aug 31, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 1 • view
Yes, perfect example of judging people by demographics. You aimply that I am responsible for “white people” because you think I am white. My point was/is that we should judge people by their behavior, not for characteristics that they didn’t choose. BTW, I am multi-ethnic.
aug 31, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
That was directed at Ken When White people complain about boomers then I say to look in the mirror There is something wrong about a group who couldn’t reach 50 percent complaining about another one In other words, if you can dish it out, expect it back
aug 31, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
And why wouldn’t a boomer who is Black give it back to these people?
aug 31, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
“The boomers” are not one thing.
sep 1, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s the truth they don’t want to face.
aug 31, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s hard to overlook or minimize the impact the boomers’ spending has had on our society over the years. I don’t see it as ageism so much as this huge glut of people moving through our system has thrown it way outta whack. Or built it to where it is-however unaffordable for later generations.
aug 31, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
There is no “ the boomers”
sep 1, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Preach sister. Can't believe NPR went there.
aug 31, 2025, 5:56 pm • 3 0 • view
Thank you!
aug 31, 2025, 7:53 pm • 2 0 • view
In order to analyze economic realities for everyone, it is reasonable to consider demographics, including age cohorts. Ignoring data analysis so we don’t hurt people’s feelings about worrying if they feel blamed won’t help actually know what is happening on the scale that drive policies.
aug 31, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Its not about ignoring statistics— its about analyzing them correctly.
sep 1, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Age cohorts are part of analyzing population statistics. Getting upset at the reported trends across different age groups is useless. Dismissing trends because there are individuals who fall outside the averages is absurd.
sep 1, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
And if one generation have disproportionately benefited and is still the majority of business owners and politicians what are they going to do about it?
aug 31, 2025, 5:57 pm • 1 0 • view
One generation (as defined an arbitrary grouping on a timeline — a group so disunited in reality that it is often itself defined by two different economies l) benefited from the economic times they were living through. That’s the news. Period.
sep 1, 2025, 6:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes they are; The WH, Senate, House, SCOTUS, down to the C-suites and local power structures. We live in systems designed by and for their benefit. It is now at a fever pitch, and everything that benefits the young and the poor is under attack at the highest levels of government.
aug 31, 2025, 6:06 pm • 3 0 • view
It is pervasive. It is American culture.
aug 31, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
And there is the contradiction
sep 1, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Seems to me that read this 50 years ago.
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
White Boomers with money ONLY. The rest of us are getting destroyed.
aug 31, 2025, 9:25 pm • 0 0 • view
What a bunch of hooey. We are under assault and you shovel this into the situation?
aug 31, 2025, 8:28 pm • 1 0 • view
We need more Boomers saying this loudly and on repeat. Too many Boomers think that just because they did not vote for Trump, it means they did not actively damage the futures of their children and grandchildren. Only Boomers are able to call out their bullshit, bc the gaslighting is rampant.
aug 31, 2025, 5:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Ageist. Deflecting from the real problem of Republicans acting only for the1% starting with Reagan.
aug 31, 2025, 6:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Keep telling yourself that. However, your parents thought the same thing and there are a plethora of articles dating back to the 1950s as evidence. "I got mine, screw the rest of you" and the ME generation are from the 1970s and 1980s, when you were young. and the Boomers VOTED for Reagan.
aug 31, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, there were and are many articles about Boomers, many critical. It is still ageism, like racism, ableism, etc. blaming people for who they are, not for their behavior. (We were the first generation to be named.) The best review of Post WW2 economics was/is The Affluent Society by JK Galbraith.
aug 31, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Again, evidence of poor education and the inability to understand basic definitions. If you are hated at every age, it's not agism.
aug 31, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Bs. Look at your real thieves responsible for misery, not this old man who spent his life caring for his dad and mom his whole life, then adopted a homeless teen caring fof him, and his mom. Tell me what age Theil, Musk, Zuckerberg and redt of those parasites are!
aug 31, 2025, 11:50 pm • 5 0 • view
This pompous ass fancies himself a guru for moderate “fiscally conservative, socially liberal” types. You know he’s “badass” and “the chill prof” because he says “fuck” and other tired swear words.
aug 31, 2025, 5:55 pm • 4 0 • view
Yeah, we Gen X saw this decades ago.
aug 31, 2025, 5:51 pm • 3 0 • view
They robbed millennials too, at least gen z is young enough that maybe change will happen before they’re 40 yrs old still paying off college debt and renting an apartment while working overtime. Childless bc they couldn’t afford kids.
aug 31, 2025, 6:12 pm • 0 0 • view
The worse thing that we are doing to the younger generation is to saddle them with national debt.
aug 31, 2025, 6:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Well NPR, followed you for 40+ years. Donated too. Never again. This generational bullshit has to stop.
aug 31, 2025, 5:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Yep at 37 and college degree. No hope of buying a home. My parents have owned multiple homes in their lifetimes.
aug 31, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you Captain Obvious.
aug 31, 2025, 5:49 pm • 1 0 • view
@rbreich.bsky.social , @profgalloway.com is exactly right on this. As a Gen X-er, my kids and I are going to be saddled with all the wealthy tax-cut driven national debt that the me-too generation spent on their own largess. We need a wealth tax on the 1% now - a big one - to pay their debt off.
aug 31, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Is there a transcript of this? Some of us can't listen and only absorb information by reading.
aug 31, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
They been doing that for decades.
sep 1, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
We need to stop call them Boomers, and start calling them the Pirate Generation.
aug 31, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Cool! I'll look for my eye patch, bottle of rum, parrot, and ship in the mail. 👍🏴☠️🦜
aug 31, 2025, 6:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Gonna need @thischairrocks.bsky.social to weigh in on this
aug 31, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 1 • view
There's always a way to turn what you are saying into a positive, it's all on those who claim they are leaders and it's coming with a war whether any of them like it or not-- thanks to the "care" of the yesterdays and if they are a leader, it won't have to be too harsh of a situation (or rather war)
aug 31, 2025, 5:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, what else is new.
aug 31, 2025, 7:20 pm • 0 0 • view
This is pretty misleading, since the majority of boomers are losing health care and much of the social safety net. Today's economic policies, the BBB, works to enrich the oligarchs, and steal from ALL generations. The battle isn't boomers vs. the rest, but the rich vs. the rest.
aug 31, 2025, 6:44 pm • 10 2 • view
I was going to say, I don’t feel very enriched.
aug 31, 2025, 7:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Today's TAX policies -- thanks to Republicans -- I think you mean.
sep 1, 2025, 2:26 am • 1 1 • view
Where are the facts?
sep 1, 2025, 1:08 am • 1 0 • view
Ah … but MAGA policies only benefit boomers who are already rich. Not the millions who struggle in retirement. The Bastille mob needs to go for the rich.
aug 31, 2025, 7:15 pm • 4 2 • view
This is horseshit. He is talking about apples v oranges. Galloway has personally benefitted from very weak corporate tax law. He is saying the US government is handing out too much money to boomers who’s house cost 10k back in the 60s and is now valued at a million. This is a thin slice of the pie.
sep 1, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Seems like Zuck and Musk alone have more than all the boomers living off their social security.
aug 31, 2025, 7:59 pm • 5 1 • view
Partly. However almost all of it reducing the top marginal income tax rate from 70% in 1981 to 37% today.
aug 31, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view
What's this WE shit - It's the corporate welfare state and the 1%.
aug 31, 2025, 6:18 pm • 5 0 • view
I am a boomer. It ain't enriching me. MAKING ME FUCKING POORER. Damn.
aug 31, 2025, 6:53 pm • 10 0 • view
I agree with you for sure
aug 31, 2025, 7:04 pm • 4 0 • view
ok listened to5 min so far. he's talking about the money and programs govt spends on seniors vs young people. I have to say I'm not listening to this anymore right now. imo the headline like I wrote a few min ago DISGUSTING AND WILL LIKELY LEAD TO HATE AGAINST SENIORS. I FIND THAT DISGUSTING. ⬇️
aug 31, 2025, 7:40 pm • 3 0 • view
And he says "we" this and that "we." who's we? I think WE is GOP and the current regime TAKING AWAY AND CUTTING BUDGETS FOR EVERYTHING SUCH AS SENIOR AND NURSING HOMES AND TRYING TO GET RID OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE. THE GOP AND RUMP MAY BE FAILING YOUNG PEOPLE AND OUR ENTIRE SOCIETY, BUT⬇️
aug 31, 2025, 7:43 pm • 2 0 • view
that isn't "WE." again the idea of pitting ages against each other VERY WRONG. I'm worried about Healthcare for baby boomer parent and myself and everyone else I'm worried about our democracy!
aug 31, 2025, 7:45 pm • 2 0 • view
I didn't read but I highly dislike the headline. as someone who has baby boomer parents....is this meant to turn age groups against each other. we know the billionaires and oligarchs are robbing everyone of their futures. what kind of headline is this?
aug 31, 2025, 7:24 pm • 10 1 • view
cont'd from above. jmo upon reading the headline. it rubs me the wrong way
aug 31, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Labeling one group of people as the “bad guys,” the ones who are responsible for all of our problems is as old as humanity itself. In this case, Galloway is singling out the parents and grandparents. It’s scapegoating and history has shown that it works.
aug 31, 2025, 7:33 pm • 3 0 • view
yep very bad.
aug 31, 2025, 7:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, Boomers had a much easier time of things when they were young. But the reason has to do with the fact that the population since 1945 has grown from 145 million to 342 million. So, getting a college degree and affording a home is much more difficult, due to a lack of gov. foresight. +
aug 31, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Taxes were much higher than they are now in the post-war period, and there was a lot of gov. spending on housing, hospitals, higher ed. and creating Community Colleges. But when Ronald Reagan led the anti-tax revolution, the will to tax and spend on social programs became wildly unpopular. +
aug 31, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
An example is public school bonds. R-W media influencer Rush Limbaugh went on a crusade against them, telling empty-nesters that they shouldn’t have to pay for other people’s kid’s education. D pols have been fighting against the anti-tax thing but it’s really hard to raise taxes in this country.
aug 31, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s why things like free college, and free healthcare are largely wish-casting. The reason why European countries are so far ahead of us in social spending is, after WWII they were determined to make their society better for everyday people + they didn’t have an anti-tax movement like ours.
aug 31, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Happy to help your parents off a cliff
aug 31, 2025, 7:31 pm • 1 0 • view
excuse me? can you clarify what you're saying
aug 31, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
We all hate your parents
aug 31, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
We, millions of people, economists, left politicians have been saying this since the early 90s This guy is all:
aug 31, 2025, 7:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Boomers never worked one day from home
aug 31, 2025, 5:55 pm • 1 0 • view
"Steal?" Fuck you.
sep 1, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
… not all Boomers, Scott
aug 31, 2025, 9:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Enrich “some” boomers.
sep 1, 2025, 1:24 am • 1 0 • view
Duh.
aug 31, 2025, 7:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree Scott. By the way what millionaire retreat are you currently at ?
aug 31, 2025, 7:10 pm • 3 0 • view
Ouch, but funny.
aug 31, 2025, 8:00 pm • 1 0 • view
There are a lot of boomers who are not privileged. A lot of them are getting laid off early because of age. The word boomer is a trigger word. Don’t be lazy!
aug 31, 2025, 6:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Policy can be designed so this isn’t the case, ESPECIALLY inheritance tax on the estates of wealthy boomers on wealth often acquired on real estate speculation.
aug 31, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Some rich dude says something and suddenly folks are like "oh that's very insightful!" You fucks have been giving me shit for years for saying the same damn thing. America cannot breath unless it is through the asshole of a rich man. You deserve what you get from them.
aug 31, 2025, 7:33 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t know what boomers he’s talking about because all my money goes to my millennial daughter and my generation alpha granddaughter. BTW Scott Galloway, boomers are also the ones protesting in the streets. Where are you but always pitting one group against another? Shut up and lead a protest!
aug 31, 2025, 5:54 pm • 61 7 • view
You sound like you’d fit in better on Twitter
aug 31, 2025, 6:33 pm • 5 0 • view
When I protested Viet Nam you weren’t even alive. You are so educated by social media that you’re clueless.
aug 31, 2025, 8:21 pm • 2 0 • view
I rest my case
aug 31, 2025, 8:31 pm • 4 0 • view
If you know when I was born would you please also tell me when I'll die?
aug 31, 2025, 8:29 pm • 2 0 • view
“This can’t be correct because of my one specific example”
sep 1, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
He's conflating the billionaire class with the tens of millions of elders that are suffering at their hands. He's misconstruing the class war as a generational fight. I don't know why, and I don't know why npr is promoting it.
aug 31, 2025, 6:48 pm • 4 0 • view
Hey sister. Maybe read the article… before you comment with a hurt ego… and maybe idk look at the voting record of your generation. Helping your kids directly and being a family unit is different than policy action.
aug 31, 2025, 6:31 pm • 10 0 • view
Hey dude, we’re losing democracy and that’s the hill I want to die on. Every protest I’ve been to this year is nothing but boomers. Are you out there? You want to argue about voting records, really? How about we focus on fighting fascism together.
aug 31, 2025, 8:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Understand how we got here is not useless in fighting fascism… trump is an aberration of long term systems and action not an anomaly. We have declined in fascism of our own actions or inactions. Boomers are the oldest of this trend still running our entire government..…
aug 31, 2025, 8:49 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m not arguing on your character. The whole point of this is not on your character. But generational trends. On the actions and policies that have occurred. This the result of late stage capitalism boomers are just our current markers for its decline.
aug 31, 2025, 8:47 pm • 8 0 • view
Girl you left the comment…
aug 31, 2025, 8:45 pm • 4 0 • view
And I’m okay with the discourse.
aug 31, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I understand how we got here but it has been ongoing since the civil war. If we’re going to fight Trumpism, we have to do it together. He doesn’t even live in the US and he is still creating discourse. I hated him on Bill Maher and now I hate Bill Maher. Both boomers btw.
aug 31, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you think maybe it’s because the boomers have the most time and energy to protest?
sep 1, 2025, 2:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Agreed Brenda, 100%
aug 31, 2025, 7:06 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s an idiot. The only guest Maher can get anyway.
sep 1, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view
This is about policies not individuals. Part of why your children and grandchildren need more help from you is because it is systemically harder for them. That's the point he's making.
aug 31, 2025, 6:22 pm • 81 1 • view
Yes. I appreciate the Boomers who are turning out for these protests, but I also appreciate Boomers have the time & the ability to afford to do so. Millenials and Z-ers are working so many part time jobs to afford basic rent & student loan payments. --signed Gen X, who can see how hard it is.
sep 1, 2025, 10:07 am • 4 0 • view
I protest. Both on the streets and your comment. At 72 I’ve lent a hand in caring for two grandchildren Monday-Friday 8am-5:40pm. Take them to Sunday school, doctor apts For 9 years now. Yes I have time iI earned it. I’m thankfully retired. No vacation in 20 years.
sep 1, 2025, 10:25 am • 1 0 • view
You're "what about ME" protests are not having the effect you may think. I'm glad you're helping your family, but that's really not the point we're trying to make.
sep 1, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
So no one should attend protests? I’ve been a Democrat all my life and voted Democrat every election, state and national. I believe when you say the generations that followed after the ‘Boomers’ have it rough. Our generation had tough times too. We’re protesting for Democracy, for all Americans.
sep 1, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
No one is criticizing you as an individual. We are pointing out systemic issues. And you coming in hot with "not ME, though" just plays into the boomers' reputation as the "me" generation.
sep 1, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes and I guess you think enacting change starts by pointing fingers. I grew up in public housing, I understand struggles. This attitude is why young people don’t vote? And then they want to complain. If we don’t come together, we will never save democracy.
aug 31, 2025, 7:58 pm • 2 0 • view
A boomer made the most stereotypical statement letting the point fly right past them. 😭
aug 31, 2025, 6:26 pm • 47 0 • view
It didn’t fly right past me. I didn’t get anything handed to me. I would venture to guess you did and it just wasn’t enough. I’m tired of the finger pointing while the old white hippies are in the streets fighting for your rights while you’re being a keyboard warrior.
aug 31, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Yikes.
aug 31, 2025, 7:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Jumping to "but what about me!" Is a little on-the-nose, you're right.
aug 31, 2025, 6:33 pm • 35 0 • view
👏👏👏
aug 31, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I came here to say exactly this so thank you. I'd also add that some more of my money goes to my siblings who didn't save as much as I did (believe me when I tell you I built the wealth I have as poorly paid academic support staff) and in past years, went to my parents and in-laws with dementia.
aug 31, 2025, 6:14 pm • 4 1 • view
Are you always this defensive before or after you read the article?
aug 31, 2025, 7:31 pm • 6 0 • view
I’m not defensive about anything except fascism right now. What I am tired of is the finger pointing. If you got out in the streets and protested, you’d see what the boomers are doing. Where are you young people?
aug 31, 2025, 8:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Sounds like you feel entitled to control what other people examine & critique.
sep 1, 2025, 4:53 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe only the boomers are protesting in the streets because they got to retire while the rest of us are too drained from working at least one day job.
sep 1, 2025, 3:53 am • 2 0 • view
i’m genX. a combo of my grad school loans(only paid off b/c of Biden making lenders & PSLF do what it promised) & financially supporting my mom after my dad died until her death means i don’t own my own home & am not where i need to be with my 401K. i thought my parents had planned well. nope
aug 31, 2025, 7:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah? Tell the Berniebros and Stein voters that helped to elect Trump. www.newsweek.com/bernie-sande...
aug 31, 2025, 6:20 pm • 4 0 • view
This is maddening since Bernie endorsed Kamala. His supporters apparently don’t even listen to him. I’m a Democratic Socialist but I wasn’t stupid enough to throw away my vote and/or directly vote against democracy. I voted for Kamala.
aug 31, 2025, 6:30 pm • 8 1 • view
Maybe have a word with your peers? They seem more content with joining forces with MAGAts because..... fck the olds? Or misogyny? Or racism?
aug 31, 2025, 6:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Putin just loves Bernie and the Berniebros. www.thedailybeast.com/how-putin-pl...
aug 31, 2025, 6:55 pm • 3 1 • view
💯
aug 31, 2025, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Every progressive I personally know voted for Kamala as well. 🤷♂️
aug 31, 2025, 6:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Good. Ty
aug 31, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
So it's trump's fault, got it!
aug 31, 2025, 9:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Still can't blame the rich. Only the old. There are young rich people. Because they got the wealth of their parents.
aug 31, 2025, 7:00 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm a boomer, not sure which of us will be so enriched. Tho I do agree kids today are and will have a much harder time than previous generations. ✌️🇬🇧
aug 31, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Ya'll won’t complain come inheritance time.
aug 31, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe Prof. Galloway should get off campus more. Boomers are not getting rich. Not by a longshot.
aug 31, 2025, 5:53 pm • 6 0 • view
Mmmm, if they aren’t they did something wrong along the way. Pretty hard to mess up success during their lifetime…
aug 31, 2025, 5:55 pm • 6 0 • view
Said someone absolutely clueless about American society.
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 pm • 6 0 • view
We’re not talking about individually we’re talking about the averages the statistics of the boomer generation. They are richer than any other. Just look at the average age of secondary homebuyers. It’s way older than it’s ever been. Young folks are not able to buy but old folks can!
aug 31, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
The point he makes on the subject is by allowing the government to rack up debt, it makes borrowing more expensive for the next generation and future cuts to SS and Medicare are likely to cover these expense which further affects the current younger generation
aug 31, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
The parents need to teach their kids to count! At McD drive thru, gave girl exact change, 21 cents, and she said "how much change is this?" We are NOT going to be OK.
aug 31, 2025, 6:13 pm • 2 0 • view
I know this. I'm poor
aug 31, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
So am I and I’m 69. It’s the rich oligarchs getting the money. Most boomers I know live social security check to social security check.
aug 31, 2025, 7:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Fuck rich people
aug 31, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
The last of the boomers are working on retirement
aug 31, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 6:11 pm • 5 0 • view
Really? Because my boomer ass isn’t getting any richer. Rapacious billionaires, on the other hand….
aug 31, 2025, 8:31 pm • 4 0 • view
YES. Just like the half-breeds Pelosi, Bidung and Trump do the same. Boomers r by far the greediest, most ridiculous, disgusting generation in American History.
aug 31, 2025, 5:57 pm • 0 0 • view
They’ll bitch about Boomers long enough to steal everything they can from Gen X. Cause that’s how it’s always gone.
sep 1, 2025, 12:03 am • 0 0 • view
Billionaires are robbing everyone of a decent living
sep 1, 2025, 5:21 am • 0 0 • view
NPR has been taken over by MAGAZ/Russians
aug 31, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
That has been the story all along. America’s most selfish generation.
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Boomers, regular people boomers, did do this. Nixon and his cronies were more culpable. The greed of businesses to move offshore did this. Boomers built post war America to where spoiled undereducated after generations have the luxury of complaining and blaming. I sympathize but stop blaming.
aug 31, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
#BoomerDeathGrip
aug 31, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Galloway's chart does not mention the most significant destroyer of our children's future: climate change. We are on track for 4 degrees of warming, which will devastate everything living on this planet. www.greenfacts.org/en/impacts-g...
aug 31, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Easy to scapegoat the old, but the people who are actually stealing the wealth of the country are the wealthy. www.businessinsider.com/wealthiest-1...
aug 31, 2025, 9:40 pm • 2 0 • view
The reason why senior poverty is down is because of Social Security. "Social Security lifts more than 22 million people out of poverty, including over 16 million older adults and almost 1 million children. justiceinaging.org/social-secur...
aug 31, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Galloway: Social Security is "the greatest transfer of wealth from you to old." It's not a "transfer" at all. "Social Security is an insurance program. Workers pay into the program, typically through payroll withholding from their paychecks." www.investopedia.com/terms/s/soci...
aug 31, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, they will be when the boomers die and the kids inherit. Right? Isn't that how it will work with no taxes on inheritance?🤔🤔
aug 31, 2025, 6:33 pm • 1 0 • view
And Gen X. We literally lived in their shadow…it was annoying as eff
aug 31, 2025, 6:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Um maybe blame banks, REITs, corporations which don’t pay living wages, corrupt politicians and republican policies.
aug 31, 2025, 6:22 pm • 3 0 • view
*and X and Millennials
aug 31, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 0 • view
We plan to leave it all to the kids so they too can raise hell.
aug 31, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm a boomer and im getting sick of these assholes blaming everything on Boomers. FUCK YOU WE CAN'T HELP WHEN WE WERE BORN IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME, GET YOUR FUCKING HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS AND STOP BLAMING EVERYTHING ON BOOMERS YOU FUCKING SLACKER!
aug 31, 2025, 11:16 pm • 1 0 • view
76 with decreasing security. Sure would like a bit of that enrichment. Billionaires and millionaires are being enriched. Not Grandma who is going to be thrown out of her nursing home. IT’S CLASS NOT AGE COHORT
aug 31, 2025, 5:59 pm • 14 1 • view
Remove the need for seniors to pay property taxes. We could then retire.
aug 31, 2025, 5:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Hmmm, maybe it’s bc boomers actually vote and participate in politics. It’s annoying yes but all younger people have those elderly family members they avoid
aug 31, 2025, 6:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Boomers aren't getting rich. And with the exception of Gates, the Oligarchs are all Gen-X or Millennials. No, what's happening is MOST boomers are losing ground slightly, and almost all X, Y, Z are losing ground or not gaining. Boomers are mostly retired or dead now.
aug 31, 2025, 5:58 pm • 6 0 • view
True. I don’t think they did it on purpose but they could retire at 55. They could buy a home on a single income with middle income pay. Corporate greed and inflation preclude most people from home ownership. So I’m looking at rents, & they used to be 1/4 your take home pay. Now it’s 3/4 of your pay
aug 31, 2025, 7:41 pm • 0 0 • view
That's a bit silly. Everyone knows plenty of boomers that are poor and will never be anything else. Today's policies work to enrich the already well-off. Some boomers are indeed extremely well-off because they have enjoyed a lifetime of compounding, low home prices and tax cuts. But so are many GenX
aug 31, 2025, 10:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Not mine. They are.
aug 31, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
don't blame me, I'm not a billionaire getting all those tax cuts
aug 31, 2025, 6:20 pm • 1 1 • view
Been saying this for over a decade now. They don't want to get out of the fuckin' way. Gen Xers like me got squeezed and fucked, royally.
aug 31, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm nowhere near as well off as my parents, but they're not hoarding wealth or spending frivolously. And I will inherit everything if I outlive them. IF.
aug 31, 2025, 7:37 pm • 1 0 • view
All the folks arguing this can’t be true because some boomers are struggling financially while some young people are well off… sit down! By now, anyone old enough to be getting personally offended here should understand the difference between analyzing demographics and personal anecdotes. 1/2
aug 31, 2025, 7:33 pm • 0 0 • view
The personal denials are exactly the same as “not all men…” responses regarding misogyny discussions, or “not all whites” regarding racism. Look at the data, discuss the trends, and don’t take age cohorts having been named as generations as a personal attack on any individual.
aug 31, 2025, 7:37 pm • 2 0 • view
dude you told them to 'sit down' you made it a personal attack right away !
aug 31, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Boomers= the most selfish, narcissistic, destructive generation in history.
aug 31, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Once again proving that Boomers are the most horrible people to ever exist in this country. Worthless selfish lazy thieves
aug 31, 2025, 5:55 pm • 1 0 • view
You are a scary person.
aug 31, 2025, 5:59 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you over your generation killing our retirement, clean air, affordable housing and living wage. How’s that ladder you pulled up behind you?
aug 31, 2025, 6:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Ageist. Deflecting from the real problem of Republicans acting only for the1% starting with Reagan.
aug 31, 2025, 6:53 pm • 1 0 • view
WE KNEW THIS AGE 16 U IDIOTS
aug 31, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
This boomer isn’t better off or enriched by today’s economic policies. The OLIGARCHS (some of who are Boomers) definitely are benefiting from economic policies.
aug 31, 2025, 7:11 pm • 6 1 • view
Galloway is a Temu fusion of Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan.
aug 31, 2025, 7:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Never mind the fact that Millennials are the most educated and populous, but poorest living generation. If Boomers finally passed the torch to Millennials such as @aoc.bsky.social and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, we would have true generational equity and prosperity for all.
aug 31, 2025, 6:28 pm • 6 0 • view
Yes! --signed a Gen X-er who has the perspective in the middle between Boomers and Millenials.
sep 1, 2025, 10:08 am • 1 0 • view
Many of my friends are gone. Boomers. We were born in the 1940s. Wake up and study history.
aug 31, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Not all boomers! If I don't live too long, they will inherit much more than I did.
aug 31, 2025, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Stop the ageism. This could be solved with Democratoc governance.
aug 31, 2025, 6:38 pm • 8 0 • view
Excuse me, boomer here. I’m not being enriched by anyone. I work, pay taxes, and juggle everything to make it. Prices so high good luck saving up for retirement, in 5, wait 7 years, or did they change again? 12 years now? How am I being enriched? I may not even get SS after all the years paid in. 🤬
aug 31, 2025, 9:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Thinking of youth as cheap labor is to be matter of fact.
aug 31, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re a fucking idiot. The oligarchs may be baby boomers, but we’re not all demonic.
aug 31, 2025, 5:51 pm • 3 0 • view
No one said that… especially not in the article. Maybe read it instead of just the comments and headlines
aug 31, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Duh-doi!
aug 31, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow, what a genius. Can you ask him if water is wet as well?
aug 31, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
#billionaires have stolen their future.
sep 1, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, with respect, he is WAY late to the party as many ppl saw this a decade ago.
aug 31, 2025, 5:48 pm • 72 0 • view
Huge props to Prof G for using his massive platform to spread this hard truth, with data and personal testimony
aug 31, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s been yelling about this for years
aug 31, 2025, 6:01 pm • 43 0 • view
Alright, well then I am glad he is getting some coverage then. 👍🏼
aug 31, 2025, 7:20 pm • 9 0 • view
Is this still true considering the massive loss of health care for seniors about to happen?
aug 31, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
It isn't true. This is some piece of Gen-Z BS because they feel angry they aren't getting rich from their Instagram influencer account and got a job at NPR.
aug 31, 2025, 6:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Scott Galloway speaks my love language. “Do we love our kids?” In actions over words, he brings the data that shows WE DO NOT. At least, this is what is unequivocally shown for the boomers.
aug 31, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
No fucking shit -_-
aug 31, 2025, 8:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course he'd forget Gen X, their actual children.
aug 31, 2025, 5:50 pm • 11 0 • view
I’m a Millennial. My parents are Boomers.
aug 31, 2025, 6:02 pm • 5 0 • view
Seconded
aug 31, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
They've already fucked GenX. They forgot us the whole time.
aug 31, 2025, 6:07 pm • 3 0 • view
"Steal" is quite a harsh word - I've worked very hard for every penny scraped to save.
sep 1, 2025, 3:53 am • 0 0 • view
I've been hearing this from my accountant father since fucking Dubya was in office. Why are people only NOW reporting on it.
aug 31, 2025, 5:52 pm • 6 0 • view
Confusing age effects with cohort effects is a mistake.
sep 1, 2025, 6:23 am • 0 0 • view
No boomer will live forever though
aug 31, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
However, they are the first generation in American history leaving the children worst off than they were and who used up the largest transfer of wealth ( GG to Boomers) in history in a matter of decades.
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 pm • 4 0 • view
Another distraction, thanks Scott
aug 31, 2025, 9:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah buddy, shame you podcast with Americas worst tech journalist
aug 31, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
It is not Boomers robbing future generations, though future generations are getting robbed. It is the wealthy who buy politicians who then gerrymander their way out of competitive races and repeatedly cut taxes for the wealthy. This is class warfare, and the game has been rigged.
aug 31, 2025, 7:38 pm • 8 0 • view
The Associated Press reported that voters between the ages of 45-64, Gen X, voted for Trump over Harris 52% to 46%, a six-point margin. That’s even wider than the three-point margin by which Trump carried his fellow boomers (51%-48%) and a one-point increase in Gen X support for Trump from 2020.
sep 1, 2025, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view
WTF!!! Been happening & now happening more with all the crooks at top level!!! Messing with my SSN already got rid of me at work 
aug 31, 2025, 5:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Careful Gen Z listen to the billionaires who tell you it's the boomers stealing your future. It's greedy people regardless of age and generation that are ruining for us all.
aug 31, 2025, 6:00 pm • 19 4 • view
Please stop trying to be "cool" by pandering to young people and trying to convince them they are "victims." The distribution of wealth in America HAS nothing to do with "generations." Why don't you propose a 100% inheritance tax? Nothing would do more to correct the current state of affairs.
aug 31, 2025, 6:55 pm • 4 1 • view
100% inheritance tax is ridiculous especially for people who have next to nothing and want to leave their kids a pittance. How about a cap and then a tiered tax rate? That would solve the problems. France’s highest rate is 45% for children and 60% for other relationships.
aug 31, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
How about this for the pittance folks? 2M is not taxed. An exemption for a trust fund if there is a disabled child. EVERYTHING else is 100%. OR a FLAT TAX of 22% on ALL INCOME. Inheritance and capital gains included. Exempt the first $70000 for ALL Americans. THIS ACTUALLY BALANCES BUDGET.
aug 31, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Stop pandering to the young. Government policy that has created massive income inequality has NOTHING TO DO WITH GENERATIONS. Older people have marginally benefitted from the policies designed to serve BILLIONAIRES and OLIGARCHS. Call out the Epicurean faculty. Yawn.
aug 31, 2025, 6:48 pm • 3 1 • view
"Business professor" has ideas.
aug 31, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
What if it’s Republican policies since Reagan that got us here
sep 1, 2025, 2:52 am • 1 0 • view
Boomer here. He's a fuckhead.
aug 31, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Focusing on “generations” instead of “class.” 🙄
sep 1, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Now if the boomers would just hurry up and die already
aug 31, 2025, 5:50 pm • 4 0 • view
Wow, really?
aug 31, 2025, 5:57 pm • 4 0 • view
Yup. I was pretty clear.
aug 31, 2025, 6:00 pm • 3 0 • view
You sound bitter. The first step to not being bitter, is to stop blaming others for your sad life..
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 pm • 3 0 • view
I’d rather my Mom not die…
aug 31, 2025, 6:01 pm • 1 0 • view
😬
aug 31, 2025, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Unlike the results of most of the policy choices that boomers left us with, some numbers just look better and better everyday 😇 babyboomerdeathclock.com
aug 31, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Your time is coming. Gen Z version 5 will say the same about you.
aug 31, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
The Greatest were adored and most Gen Z like their parents. Boomers fucking over their children and being disliked for it is a historical anomaly that has been watched for decades. If you do right by your kids, they and history will be kind to you.
aug 31, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, every single generation knows which gen maximized the fuckitude. And every new gen, the media excitedly gears up for spats between them and the immediately previous.... only to discover, nah, it's still the boomers.
aug 31, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I still laugh about "now Gen X will treat Millennials just like Boomers treated Gen X!" and...no, we kinda like our much adored half-siblings the boomers actually wanted and helicoptered, only to declare them coddled and lazy (remember when we were the slackers?) to blame them for the awful future.
aug 31, 2025, 11:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Not if younger generations stop having kids. 😀
aug 31, 2025, 7:15 pm • 1 0 • view
My father died in the same trailer park he was raised in. I'll ask again. Scott, please stop throwing your generation under the fucking bus. This is about rich and poor, not age.
aug 31, 2025, 5:56 pm • 32 2 • view
What did your father do for a living?
aug 31, 2025, 6:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Anything he could do. Construction and dealing in antiques. The crazy thing is, his family came to this country in 1635 on the ship, the Planter. He died poorly. And maybe it's just evolution doing its thing.
aug 31, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks for sharing that. A life of hard work and raising kids is worthwhile even if it's not financially successful.
aug 31, 2025, 7:16 pm • 4 0 • view
I didn't meet my father until I was an adult man. I went in and out of foster homes.
aug 31, 2025, 7:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Everybody ganging up on Prof G, he's speaking about policies. It was BB installed policies that got us here.
aug 31, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow his views has FINALLY reached NPR? A bit late and billions of $$$ in wealth hoarding short. 🤨🤨🤨
aug 31, 2025, 6:20 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm a boomer but consider myself more Gen X being born in '61, I'm closer to my Gen X sister's age than any boomer. The boomers from the 50's led very different lives than the boomers from '60 - '65. I was born to a single, working woman and needless to say, we struggled then and I struggle now.
aug 31, 2025, 7:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Familiar oligarchical strategy. Demonize and dehumanize a demographic swath to draw attention away from their systematic theft of resources from the general populace. Brown people, immigrants, gays, now me. We’re being played.
aug 31, 2025, 7:03 pm • 10 2 • view
That's weird, because like 6 gen-x dudes have more money than half the country.
aug 31, 2025, 5:56 pm • 86 4 • view
Older gen x have benefited nicely from the arrangement
aug 31, 2025, 6:33 pm • 2 0 • view
A couple of them certainly have. Maybe they're curving the average.
aug 31, 2025, 7:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Making it about generations and ageism is a cop out designed to distract from the absolute failure of neoliberalism.
aug 31, 2025, 6:34 pm • 7 0 • view
And current fascist oligarchy...
aug 31, 2025, 6:45 pm • 3 0 • view
Which is the trophy for neoliberalism. It took the desperation of WWI to inspire the early fascists to senseless violence. We did it with the status quo in the heart of a global empire. A historically stunning indictment of our whole system.
aug 31, 2025, 6:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Garbage
aug 31, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Who else would pay for this guy?
aug 31, 2025, 6:19 pm • 6 0 • view
Gates is a boomer. Zuckerberg is a millennial. Will give you Musk and Bezos, but that was due to being in the right place & time for the dot-com explosion.
aug 31, 2025, 6:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Instead of arguing about which generation billionaires belong to we should be asking whether we regulate and tax them into submission now or beat them to death later.
aug 31, 2025, 6:32 pm • 6 0 • view
Gates voluntarily gave up being the richest person in the world. Boomers are only the problem insofar as they vote for corrupt establishment politicians. Inaccuracies in my flippant comment shouldn't detract from the point. It's not about generations, it's about unregulated capitalism.
aug 31, 2025, 6:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Total revisionist history with no concept of the work lives of boomers.
aug 31, 2025, 6:01 pm • 2 0 • view
There are plenty of poor boomers - Scott’s beef should be with the 1% that have demanded & driven the toxic wealth inequality These policies have restricted wealth building since Reagan
aug 31, 2025, 5:52 pm • 42 4 • view
Who do you think makes up the majority of 1%ers? Boomers.
aug 31, 2025, 6:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Damn! I worked as a teacher for 40 years! My retirement is just above the poverty level. Who in the hell am I robbing?
aug 31, 2025, 6:03 pm • 30 1 • view
As a teacher on the verge of retirement, it sounds like you are now dealing with a lifetime of bad decisions
aug 31, 2025, 7:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you own your home?
aug 31, 2025, 6:12 pm • 6 0 • view
Is that their fault they bought a home? Again these are government policies. 27% of homes are bought by hedge funds, that shouldn’t happen.
aug 31, 2025, 6:28 pm • 18 1 • view
It's not about assigning fault. But they have benefited from an economic system that is hurting the younger generations. Boomers will die with millions in nest eggs, while millennial and younger generations live paycheque to paycheque. Earning a pension and living in a paid off home is a dream.
aug 31, 2025, 6:38 pm • 18 1 • view
The thing about pensions is that you have to actually work to earn one. They’re not free. I’m a boomer, I squeak by on SS that I paid into all my working life, live in a beat up shack that I own outright and proud of it! Life doesn’t come with guarantees.
sep 1, 2025, 1:42 am • 0 0 • view
Proper societies do guarantee such things. Old men use to plant trees for the young. Now they chop em down and sell them for profit.
sep 1, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
Statistics don’t own property or make tax policies. Statistics didn’t create our capitalist system which is the mechanism you ought to focus on. Not how many old folks lucked out.
sep 1, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
She just said she’s just above the poverty level. Why are you talking about boomers who will die with millions in the nest egg. Is that the case for her?
aug 31, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
I wonder what percentage of boomers have millions in nest eggs. I'm sure it's higher than for younger generations. But still, that's quite a generalization.
aug 31, 2025, 6:41 pm • 11 0 • view
Thank you
sep 1, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Average boomer has $1.6M, median is $400k though. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
aug 31, 2025, 7:06 pm • 10 0 • view
Story doesn’t say anything about boomers. There are rich and poor in every generation, so keep your labels. The failing polices that plague us now are the result of several generations stripping away the rules and regulations that kept our economy running strong, just to benefit the wealthy.
sep 1, 2025, 1:25 am • 1 0 • view
Well, yes, the homes around me are selling in the $800’s to millions. While paper wealth looks impressive, it’s not particularly useful and I pay higher property taxes because of it. And the people buying these homes are millennials with young children who seem to mostly work in tech.
aug 31, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
More home buyers are over the age of 70 then under 35. Most millenials require help from their parents to purchase a house. House broke is better than having no assets. And you can pay property taxes with equity (reverse mortgage). fortune.com/2025/07/23/b...
aug 31, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Average means you add up everyone's cash and divide by the number in the group. You could have 9 people with $1 and 1 person with $10 million, and the average for the group would be $1 million and 10 cents. A median of $400K isn't that impressive when median home price is >half that.
aug 31, 2025, 7:23 pm • 2 0 • view
* 90 cents, not 10. But the point still stands. Average is meaningless because we have seriously wealthy outliers.
aug 31, 2025, 7:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Median home price is about $400k as well, so to have that much is a big deal. Most people cant buy a house in cash. The point is that wealth is more concentrated with the older generations than in the past and as a result young families are relatively poorer.
aug 31, 2025, 7:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Your median home price is more up to date than mine, but it emphasizes my point more successfully because of that. In 1969, median net worth was $68K & median home price was ~ $25K. I'll give you that wealth is concentrated in older hands. But there's more going on than that. 1/
aug 31, 2025, 7:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow!
aug 31, 2025, 7:07 pm • 0 0 • view
And 50-somethings are Gen X, not boomers. I'm 52 and have a chunk of change but not $1 mil. I thought I was super fortunate. I had no idea I'm actually below the mean? So bizarre. Now I see I'm a massive failure, thanks a lot 😂 jk
aug 31, 2025, 7:12 pm • 4 0 • view
Wealth is heavily skewed to the right (graph). Median is a better metric to where you rank. Distribution, in general, is the issue. Older generations have simply benefited more than the others as a result. Not hoarding wealth does not make you massive failure ;) get out and spend it!
aug 31, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
From the article: “If you’re a 50-something and you’re not worth a cool $1 million, do not despair. Those numbers are averages, and the super-rich drive them waaaay up.”
sep 1, 2025, 1:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh now it’s the over 50s? Cause they ain’t boomers. And while you are whining about generational shifts, the very wealthy of this planet are taking everything, hoarding every resource and forcing all of us to buy it back. Know your enemies.
aug 31, 2025, 8:21 pm • 13 0 • view
They are boomers by def. However you are correct that those numbers day nothing about who — or more pointedly what—to complain about. Our capitalist economy rewards and protects wealth— thereby entrenching it. Blaming old homeowners for their # of bedrooms is idiotic.
sep 1, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I beg to differ that someone born in 1965 to 1975 is a boomer. Everywhere identifies them as Generation X through 1980.
sep 1, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Ok, I guess they are counting your home value- but you are still paying a mortgage- and if you have children they are $$ and college us $$$
aug 31, 2025, 7:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Home value is a huge component. While the value passively grows and increases their wealth, it costs the younger generations more and more at the same time. Most boomers have paid their mortgage off or have substantial equity. Their children could be 40 years old.
aug 31, 2025, 8:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe maths is not the strong suit of that article’s author?
aug 31, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I would expect it would be higher. It takes decades to accumulate wealth. So Boomers will have saved longer than Generation X and so on. I'm in my 50s now and I've saved up a lot more than in my 20s.
aug 31, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Millennial are well into their 30s now and boomers on average had more of the share of wealth when they were 30 than Millennials do now. This older generation is hoarding a larger piece of the pie than previous generations. www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...
aug 31, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I understand. That's not what my comment was about. I was wondering how this wealth is distributed among boomers. What percentage of them have a net worth of "millions?" Not demanding that you provide the answer, just saying many did not in fact retire with millions.
aug 31, 2025, 7:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I asked my good friend ChatGPT and the estimated number of Baby Boomers with a net worth of $2 million or more is 2 to 5 million. chatgpt.com/share/68b49e...
aug 31, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
So you’re blaming boomers for buying a home in the 80s? They’re telling us it will take $1 million to retire now, mostly because of medical.
aug 31, 2025, 7:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Having money saved up for retirement isn't "hoarding"; that's just good planning. (Dave Ramsey voice): EVERYONE should be saving for retirement.
aug 31, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
But due to systemic issues, millennials, some Gen X, and Gen Z do not have the disposable income to save the way boomers did. Wages have been stagnant and living costs have increased.
aug 31, 2025, 7:08 pm • 1 0 • view
When the "savings" come from taking a bigger slice of the pie, rather than growing the pie, it's hoarding. The current generation of 60+ controls more % of total wealth than the previous older generations. Squeezing younger generations harder than they had it.
aug 31, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Get real. What boomers!
aug 31, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Who has a pension now except government folks?
aug 31, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m a teacher too and worked until I was 72 and never owned a home. I’m a boomer from first wave. My dad was a ww2 vet and my mom a teacher.
aug 31, 2025, 10:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I truly wish you would stop these articles that put all boomers into the same category. Boomers and the younger generations need to bond together and fight authoritarianism.A lot of Boomers were hurt bad by Reagan and it just got worse from there.This 💩divides and makes you lose working class votes.
aug 31, 2025, 9:05 pm • 0 0 • view
They already robbed genX
aug 31, 2025, 6:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Classic misdirection. "It's not the GOP's supply-side swindle that gutted the economy and left America with a 37-trillion national debt. It's Granny's social security check that's killing you!"
aug 31, 2025, 6:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Not to worry millenials & Gen Z, your boi trump and RFK Jr are trying to off them all as quickly as possible. Alas, the horseshoes coming out to joyfully express why they're united with MAGAt-cult. Because fck the olds.
aug 31, 2025, 6:36 pm • 4 1 • view
May help to tag the person referenced in the article. @profgalloway.com
aug 31, 2025, 6:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Galloway's argument / solution for Social Security would be disastrous. If you means-test SS, then it becomes an entitlement for "poor people." Next, political support falls, and the program gets dismantled. Then everybody loses. (See recent history of Medicaid vs. Medicare.)
sep 1, 2025, 12:09 am • 1 0 • view
It’s not Boomers. It’s the 1% and their cronies. There are elderly people that are now scared that they’ll lose their Medicaid and Social Security.
aug 31, 2025, 6:00 pm • 18 2 • view
The boomers are the ones voting in policies that favor of the 1%. Duh
aug 31, 2025, 6:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Duh. Not so.
sep 1, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view
That's a ridiculous generalization. I've never voted for a republican in my entire life. I'm still working because I can't afford not to. Lost my house in the 2008 crash. Have zero savings. Please tell me more about how all boomers are evil.
aug 31, 2025, 6:56 pm • 12 0 • view
What caused you to lose your house? Did the mortgage interest rise so much that you could not afford the monthly mortgage. So many people in my neighborhood lost their house in 2009. I don’t know what happened. Lost jobs?
aug 31, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view
For me it was losing my job. I didn't have an adjustable mortgage. I couldn't sell because I was underwater. The value of my place dropped $60k in a year.
sep 1, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
That’s really sad. I remember my neighbors leaving but not saying why. Maybe the same thing. Our government failed us. Allowed the banks and mortgage companies and brokers to cheat people.
sep 1, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
The banks were bailed out, not the people. "The banks were at the center of the housing bubble and its collapse. About 10 million people were displaced from over four million homes across the country. Minority neighborhoods were hit the hardest." www.peoplesworld.org/article/bank...
aug 31, 2025, 9:37 pm • 3 1 • view
But specifically, what caused a person to no longer own their house? If there was a collapse, what collapsed?
sep 1, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
"when the banks inflated the housing bubble, they targeted minority neighborhoods, peddling predatory mortgages to customers who they knew could not afford them. . . When housing prices cratered, the bomb exploded. Mass evictions left entire neighborhoods scarred by empty houses."
sep 1, 2025, 2:04 am • 2 1 • view
Ok so people could not pay the mortgage. Had to leave the house. Sad for the families. One has to wonder what was the point of pushing mortgages on people who didn’t have the income. Commissions I guess.
sep 1, 2025, 2:18 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe YOU should tell boomers more about how the policies boomers vote in are hurting younger generations, and even some boomers. Because younger (and older) generations have been saying it for a very long time, but they don't seem to be listening to us.
aug 31, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
I think it’s obvious when we speak about a generation we are generalizing. It’s right in the root word. Obviously not every person in your generation is that way but the majority identify as conservatives and voted in Reagan twice in big numbers. Trickle down only benefited one generation - boomers
aug 31, 2025, 7:41 pm • 0 0 • view
And my generation can suck it too for voting in Trump this time. Since we are the oldest in the workforce many of us (even liberals like me) don’t want to put pronouns on our email signature. I’m smart enough though not to trade in our country because of 5 trans female hs athletes or pronouns.
aug 31, 2025, 7:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Never
aug 31, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Scott has hundreds of millions of dollars. He doesn’t need social security and Medicare. Some of us didn’t sit at a desk shuffling money around in the stock market for a living. A lot of us did physical labor or actually helped other people for much less money. It’s not a generation, it’s a class
aug 31, 2025, 7:30 pm • 6 1 • view
🏆
aug 31, 2025, 7:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Brilliant
aug 31, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean they have stolen from Millennials and Gen Z.
aug 31, 2025, 5:49 pm • 11 0 • view
What did they call the generation before the boomers? Cuz apparently they stole from boomers. I’m a late 60s boomer - a classification I do not agree with. I’m closer to whatever came after than what came before. Anyway, my kid, a millennium tried to pull some shit in me & I said “what ! You’re
aug 31, 2025, 5:56 pm • 5 0 • view
We're Generation Jones: Who is Generation Jones? | Kadence share.google/Oyz5isYQgGWs...
aug 31, 2025, 6:36 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m still grouped with boomers.
aug 31, 2025, 9:47 pm • 1 0 • view
sorry ☹️
aug 31, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Boom, Bust, & Echo. Hated when that book came out
aug 31, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Late Boomers, aka, Gen Jones, are significantly disadvantaged compared to early generation Boomers. People in your age bracket, Gen Jones, are the fastest growing homeless demographic.
aug 31, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
The Greatest Generation was called that for a reason&created the best economy in history allowing Bmrs to be the worst educated gen while still getting great jobs. They paid for the education you laughed at, & created the unions that made sure you had a living wage while functionally illiterate.
aug 31, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean technically Boomers take credit for things the Silent Generation as well.
aug 31, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
And they also get blamed for things at the silent generation did and is still doing
aug 31, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
going to inherent a shit load from me… cool your jets. Patience grasshopper.
aug 31, 2025, 5:56 pm • 3 0 • view
Planet's on fire, your kid will likely spend it all on insurance and food, and die 10 yrs earlier than you.
aug 31, 2025, 6:07 pm • 9 0 • view
Maybe but I’ve got grands too
aug 31, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
boomer is a nutshell. You got yours baby!!!! Hell to the yeah MFer.
aug 31, 2025, 9:46 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m a young boomer & got onboard as a tree hugging environmentalist very early & quickly. I remember watching, as a child, Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom & Jacques-Yves Cousteau !
aug 31, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re attitude is quintessential Boomer. You are what this post is all about. Congrats!!!!
aug 31, 2025, 10:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t get what you’re saying. My attitude ? I’m teaching my grands about essential survival skills because I refuse to have them grow up without paying attention to the natural environment. I have no idea what you’re generation is but Im pretty sure it’s an annoying one
aug 31, 2025, 10:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Your generation consumed like locusts. Your parents had a garden and canned vegetables. Squirreled away money to help their kids (you) education. Boomers rejected that all, hoarded resources, refused to retire because they didn’t save, and then bad mouthed millenials. I’m Gen X. Saw all of it.
aug 31, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
I would disagree. The Silent generation was the one that got Civil Rights and fought in the Vietnam War. Boomers really got into power when Reagan got into power. Hell even now they have an overwhelming makeup of Congress even though they are dying in office. Not all boomers but overall. They suck
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I hate to break it to you but the silent generation was not fighting in Vietnam that was the boomers.
aug 31, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Early boomers, I agree.
aug 31, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view
So not really. Considering the oldest Boomer was 19 when the US intervention happened. That would mean those in their 20s would be very much affected which is the Solent Generation. It did last 8 years so less than half the boomer generation was eligible to fight
aug 31, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
And every single year the new recruits were boomers not the silent generation. The silent generation started the war but the boomers are the ones who fought it. The average age was 22 years old. So after year two of the war it's skewed heavily towards boomers
aug 31, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view
So the ones already in the military would mostly be silent generation going into it and for the first about 5-6 years Silent would have been drafted. Hell it would take three years before Silent Generation was above that 22 years old
aug 31, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
At the beginning of the Vietnam war the very first year of boomers would have been old enough to enlist. At the end of the war it was 9 years of nothing but boomers enlisting. with the average age across the decade of war being 22 years old that means the majority of Vietnam veterans are boomers
aug 31, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I didn't steal shit!
aug 31, 2025, 5:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean as a generation not every single person. They are the generation of Reagan policies for the last 45 years now. As a generation they have had it easier and burned bridges as they came across
aug 31, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Stealing and hording have always been their main activities
aug 31, 2025, 5:53 pm • 4 0 • view
I’m staying in my way too big, paid off house and my over paid job forever!!!
aug 31, 2025, 5:55 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Here we sit, enriched as we are, wondering how we're going to make it past the next birthday, still working full time at 77 and 67. Boy, is this guy nuts!
aug 31, 2025, 7:49 pm • 12 2 • view
🎯
aug 31, 2025, 7:58 pm • 3 1 • view