My grandpa was the blue collar working class version of this. Here were my Boomer parents’ reaction:

“Why does he do this? He’s just being taken advantage of!”

“He does everything for everyone else. And they do nothing for him.”

“Why doesn’t he do that for us instead of strangers [his neighbors].”

“Why is he taking his grandson [me] as a source of free labor?”

This is you answer. My boomer parents don’t leave the house, don’t care about their kids and grandkids, don’t know their neighbors, think doing anything for anyone else beyond their own family is socialist, and don’t do anything for their family either. This was my first inkling growing up that we might’ve lost WWII in the long run.

My grandpa was the blue collar working class version of this. Here were my Boomer parents’ reaction:

“Why does he do this? He’s just being taken advantage of!”

“He does everything for everyone else. And they do nothing him.”

“Why doesn’t he do that for us instead of strangers [his neighbors].”

“Why is he taking his grandson [me] as a source of free labor?”

This is you answer. My boomer parents don’t leave the house, don’t care about their kids and grandkids, don’t know their neighbors, think doing anything for anyone else beyond their own family is socialist, and don’t do anything for their family either. This was my first inkling growing up that we might’ve lost WWII in the long run.