This is so on the nose (no pun intended) in my experience. All of my friends had boomer parents, and the level of callous disregard these parents had for my friends was off the charts - nickel and diming the kids on everything while spending shitloads of money on corvettes or motorcycles or whatever, fucking off and doing irresponsible shit while leaving the kids to fend for themselves, you name it. I grew up with old school European immigrant war baby parents, and while they were psychotic in their own way, they would fucking kill themselves before they ever neglected their basic parental duties, or before they ever let me want for anything, and it’s not because they had infinite money - it’s because they ate shit so that they could make my life easier, at least in a material sense.
It continues to this day - I now make 6-7 figures a year, and even still, whenever I visit my dad (retired factory worker), he stuffs wads of $100 bills in my pocket and gets pissed off if I object.
This is so on the nose (no pun intended) in my experience. All of my friends had boomer parents, and the level of callous disregard these parents had for my friends was off the charts - nickel and diming the kids on everything while spending shitloads of money on corvettes or motorcycles or whatever, fucking off and doing irresponsible shit while leaving the kids to fend for themselves, you name it. I grew up with old school European immigrant war baby parents, and while they were psychotic in their own way, they would fucking kill themselves before they ever neglected their basic parental duties, or before they ever let me want for anything, and it’s not because they had infinite money - it’s because they ate shit so that they could make my life easier, at least in a material sense.
It continues to this day - I now make 6-7 figures a year, and even still, whenever I visit my dad (retired factory worker), he stuffs wads of $100 bills in my pocket and gets pissed off if I object.