Yeah, this is so Redditor in it's grasp on real life.

"I baby sat twice and I'm rich"

As someone who has a dad in his 60s who worked exteremely hard, spent far below what he made, etc. He has a good amount of money, but it's through discipline, hard work, talent, and not spending his money willy nilly, but making long term decisions.

A lot of these "the older generation could afford a home" people, they go out, they buy craft beers, they buy pot, they have 3 or so digital subscriptions.

My parents when they were in college, lived in a crappy apartment. They didn't drink, smoke, do drugs, due to them being Christian.

They saved up years just to purchase a crappy tiny little TV so they could watch their favorite football team play, before that, they were content with the radio describing it.

A lot of their meals were the ones they could get from the job they worked at, or other college meals they didn't have to pay for, and a lot of their meals was stuff like tuna on crackers.

I kid you not, but eating at Subway was something they treated themselves to about once a month. Back then Subway was actually good according to them.

That was a treat, that they'd give themselves. That would be like a Gen Z or millenial "roughing it" to have to subject themselves to subway.

They were living with their eye on the future, of having a family, of realizing that money has wings, and is fleeting and you could have an emergency and huge chunks of your money gets sucked up despite all your careful planning.

I doubt most millenials or gen Z could live a single week like my parents lived a good chunk of their early life as they were building the road to having a financial stability.

"But I need my spotify, and my Amazon Prime Video, and my decent cell phone, and at least 1 video game a month at a miinimum, and the ability to unwind on the weekends with beers with my friends, and pot, and....(on and on)".

They compare their parents general wealth but don't see the lean times.

The millenial and Gen Z (I'm a millenial) think they're living in a lean time because they don't have a nice situation like past generations at their age.

No, you'll be in a lean time when you live like you're in poverty, because that's what you are. My parents weren't rich, and they lived like some section 8 housing people.

If you were to see how they started to live in their 30s, people would assume (pfft, privelaged boomers get everything handed to them).

No, YOU'RE the generation that has had everything handed to you, not the older generation. You've had a life where you got 100x the luxuries that the prior generations had. Back when my parents were growing up, drinking a soda was a special treat that was rare. I imagine when you were growing up, it was a stable of your diet.

Then because of that extreme luxury you became used to because of your parents, as you grow up and see that life's luxuries don't grow on trees, instead of being grateful to the generation that provided you the luxuries throughout your upbringing you took for granted, you grow bitter assumming they had it easy.

Life has always had the desire, in every generation, to kick you square in the stomach and keep kicking you relentlessly, and being a man is forging a future forward in spite of that.

The generation wants to lay blame at the "boomers" because it's easier than taking personal responsibility.

The things they're describing isn't even a boomer thing, it's a CEO and people running the country thing and everyone, no matter their age, makes the same choice when they get into that level of power. Look at Elon Musk, selling America down the river for Indian H1B's. He's not a boomer, is he?

Millenials at that level of power and decision making, if given the same choice at the same power level, eventually, the ones that could, would. But it would only represent a small few part of a generation, not representative of the generation as a whole.

Boomers didn't sell the country for globalism. My dad, despite his relative financial success, was never presented with the option of "outsourcing the country for his own financial gain" (not that he'd pick that choice if he was given it) because that's the faustian choice presented to people with entire industries in the palm of their hands, not vast majority of individuals including the successful workers making up the various middle class financial brackets.

The lower millionares (less than 10 million) are the ones grinding away at jobs their whole life and living below their means and generally spending quasi responsibly. They aren't "selling their children's futures away" to globalism for a quick buck. That's a tiny tiny amount of people who even have that "option", and it's an option that if someone in that situation doesn't take, someone else with less principles will. There's no generation so principled that someone wouldn't be happy to take that deal when presented the option to own an island rather than a few mansions. That's because every generation will have greedy, evil people.

Generation blaming is why the black community is so stuck and will never become successful unless they drop that mentality. Personal responsibility is the only way out or worse situations. There is no other way.

Yeah, this is so Redditor in it's grasp on real life.

"I baby sat twice and I'm rich"

As someone who has a dad in his 60s who worked exteremely hard, spent far below what he made, etc. He has a good amount of money, but it's through discipline, hard work, talent, and not spending his money willy nilly, but making long term decisions.

A lot of these "the older generation could afford a home" people, they go out, they buy craft beers, they buy pot, they have 3 or so digital subscriptions.

My parents when they were in college, lived in a crappy apartment. They didn't drink, smoke, do drugs, due to them being Christian.

They saved up years just to purchase a crappy tiny little TV so they could watch their favorite football team play, before that, they were content with the radio describing it.

A lot of their meals were the ones they could get from the job they worked at, or other college meals they didn't have to pay for, and a lot of their meals was stuff like tuna on crackers.

I kid you not, but eating at Subway was something they treated themselves to about once a month. Back then Subway was actually good according to them.

That was a treat, that they'd give themselves. That would be like a Gen Z or millenial "roughing it" to have to subject themselves to subway.

They were living with their eye on the future, of having a family, of realizing that money has wings, and is fleeting and you could have an emergency and huge chunks of your money gets sucked up despite all your careful planning.

I doubt most millenials or gen Z could live a single week like my parents lived a good chunk of their early life as they were building the road to having a financial stability.

"But I need my spotify, and my Amazon Prime Video, and my decent cell phone, and at least 1 video game a month at a miinimum, and the ability to unwind on the weekends with beers with my friends, and pot, and....(on and on)".

They compare their parents general wealth but don't see the lean times.

The millenial and Gen Z (I'm a millenial) think they're living in a lean time because they don't have a nice situation like past generations at their age.

No, you'll be in a lean time when you live like you're in poverty, because that's what you are. My parents weren't rich, and they lived like some section 8 housing people.

If you were to see how they started to live in their 30s, people would assume (pfft, privelaged boomers get everything handed to them).

No, YOU'RE the generation that has had everything handed to you, not the older generation. You've had a life where you got 100x the luxuries that the prior generations had. Back when my parents were growing up, drinking a soda was a special treat that was rare. I imagine when you were growing up, it was a stable of your diet.

Then because of that extreme luxury you became used to because of your parents, as you grow up and see that life's luxuries don't grow on trees, instead of being grateful to the generation that provided you the luxuries throughout your upbringing you took for granted, you grow bitter assumming they had it easy.

Life has always had the desire, in every generation, to kick you square in the stomach and keep kicking you relentlessly, and being a man is forging a future forward in spite of that.

The generation wants to lay blame at the "boomers" because it's easier than taking personal responsibility.

The things they're describing isn't even a boomer thing, it's a CEO and people running the country thing and everyone, no matter their age, makes the same choice when they get into that level of power. Look at Elon Musk, selling America down the river for Indian H1B's. He's not a boomer, is he?

Millenials at that level of power and decision making, if given the same choice at the same power level, eventually, they as a whole would, but it would only represent a small few part of a generation, not representative of the generation as a whole.

Boomers didn't sell the country for globalism. My dad, despite his relative financial success, was never presented with the option of "outsourcing the country for his own financial gain" because that's the faustian choice presented to people with entire industries in their hands, not vast majority of individuals including the successful workers making up the various middle class financial brackets.

The lower millionares (less than 10 million) are the ones grinding away at jobs their whole life and living below their means and generally spending quasi responsibly. They aren't "selling their children's futures away" to globalism for a quick buck. That's a tiny tiny amount of people who even have that "option", and it's an option that if someone in that situation doesn't take, someone else with less principles will. There's no generation so principled that someone wouldn't be happy to take that deal when presented the option to own an island rather than a few mansions. That's because every generation will have greedy evil people.

Yeah, this is so Redditor in it's grasp on real life.

"I baby sat twice and I'm rich"

As someone who has a dad in his 60s who worked exteremely hard, spent far below what he made, etc. He has a good amount of money, but it's through discipline, hard work, talent, and not spending his money willy nilly, but making long term decisions.

A lot of these "the older generation could afford a home" people, they go out, they buy craft beers, they buy pot, they have 3 or so digital subscriptions.

My parents when they were in college, lived in a crappy apartment. They didn't drink, smoke, do drugs, due to them being Christian.

They saved up years just to purchase a crappy tiny little TV so they could watch their favorite football team play, before that, they were content with the radio describing it.

A lot of their meals were the ones they could get from the job they worked at, or other college meals they didn't have to pay for, and a lot of their meals was stuff like tuna on crackers.

I kid you not, but eating at Subway was something they treated themselves to about once a month. Back then Subway was actually good according to them.

That was a treat, that they'd give themselves. That would be like a Gen Z or millenial "roughing it" to have to subject themselves to subway.

They were living with their eye on the future, of having a family, of realizing that money has wings, and is fleeting and you could have an emergency and huge chunks of your money gets sucked up despite all your careful planning.

I doubt most millenials or gen Z could live a single week like my parents lived a good chunk of their early life as they were building the road to having a financial stability.

"But I need my spotify, and my Amazon Prime Video, and my decent cell phone, and at least 1 video game a month at a miinimum, and the ability to unwind on the weekends with beers with my friends, and pot, and....(on and on)".

They compare their parents general wealth but don't see the lean times.

The millenial and Gen Z (I'm a millenial) think they're living in a lean time because they don't have a nice situation like past generations at their age.

No, you'll be in a lean time when you live like you're in poverty, because that's what you are. My parents weren't rich, and they lived like some section 8 housing people.

If you were to see how they started to live in their 30s, people would assume (pfft, privelaged boomers get everything handed to them).

No, YOU'RE the generation that has had everything handed to you, not the older generation. You've had a life where you got 100x the luxuries that the prior generations had. Back when my parents were growing up, drinking a soda was a special treat that was rare. I imagine when you were growing up, it was a stable of your diet.

Then because of that extreme luxury you became used to because of your parents, as you grow up and see that life's luxuries don't grow on trees, instead of being grateful to the generation that provided you the luxuries throughout your upbringing you took for granted, you grow bitter assumming they had it easy.

Life has always had the desire, in every generation, to kick you square in the stomach and keep kicking you relentlessly, and being a man is forging a future forward in spite of that.

The generation wants to lay blame at the "boomers" because it's easier than taking personal responsibility.

The things they're describing isn't even a boomer thing, it's a CEO and people running the country thing and everyone, no matter their age, makes the same choice when they get into that level of power. Look at Elon Musk, selling America down the river for Indian H1B's.

Millenials at that level of power and decision making, if given the same choice at the same power level, eventually, they as a whole would, but it would only represent a small few part of a generation, not representative of the generation as a whole.

Boomers didn't sell the country for globalism. My dad, despite his relative financial success, was never presented with the option of "outsourcing the country for his own financial gain" because that's the faustian choice presented to people with entire industries in their hands, not vast majority of individuals including the successful workers making up the various middle class financial brackets.

The lower millionares (less than 10 million) are the ones grinding away at jobs their whole life and living below their means and generally spending quasi responsibly. They aren't "selling their children's futures away" to globalism for a quick buck. That's a tiny tiny amount of people who even have that "option", and it's an option that if someone in that situation doesn't take, someone else with less principles will. There's no generation so principled that someone wouldn't be happy to take that deal when presented the option to own an island rather than a few mansions. That's because every generation will have greedy evil people.