I was born in 1959. My son was born in 1993. He recently explained to me that his generation is very angry with my generation. In case you didn't know, there is a war brewing between millennials and baby boomers, and it is consuming news feeds, podcasts, memes, Twitter and even our dinner conversations. As I understand it, my generation is responsible for pretty much all the ills of society today including climate change, economic and social inequality, student debt and the absence of young political leaders to fix things. The charge is that we grew up fixated on our own individual prosperity, secure in the knowledge that government would set aside our retirement benefits, and that, as a generation, we over-stressed education, especially a college education, but did little to ensure that wages would increase to meet the cost of living increases or make education affordable. ADVERTISEMENT Simply put, we used up resources, created a wealth gap, wrecked labor unions, ignored the planet and didn't meet the promise that every child goes further and farther than their parents. Or to better sum it up, according to a 2017 book by Bruce Gibney, the boomers have committed "generational plunder," "pillaging the… Read full this story
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