Boomers are basically adult children themselves, just manifested less severely than millennials. They grew up in a Swiss watch economy designed to be the best in the world and just assumed that things would keep going fine no matter how much waste and malevolence happened under their watch.

A lot of them still think like that. I'm amazed every time a conservative boomer says Trump lost the last election or that he's "on Twitter too much." And these are the same people that love to tell younger people that they "don't know how the world works."