"Look Timmy, I get you want me to be your ‘mom’ or whatever, but have you considered that my do-nothing job that pays me like 80k a year makes me feel kinda alienated sometimes? I’m the real victim.
Anyway I’ve decided we’re going to join a MLM scheme/cult that I heard about on AOL. So I’m going to be busy, you’ll have to make your own Mac-n-Cheese tonight."
I know generations are idealistic nonsense, but I unironically think boomers and gen X both are dealing with a permanent midlife crisis.
Some boomers seem to have this forever young mentality, and seem to resent actual young people slightly out of a sense of envy. Youth is the one thing millennials and gen Z have that they don’t, and they wish they could literally steal it from them. So the closest thing they can do is make everything a luxury for the rich and clog up all the jobs to keep millennials and younger fighting tooth and nail for McDonalds jobs well into their 30s and have to live with their parents…because how DARE they ever get the spotlight and not them?
This isn’t because their boomers, but I think that loads of propaganda has made this naked attention grubbing crabs-in-a-bucket mentality normalized among them.
People say this, but as someone who works retail I don’t really agree. There are semi-consistent trends you see with age groups. All my Gen Z coworkers are a little brainrotted and have terrible attention spans. My millennial coworkers are all depressed. Boomers are all horrible people who reign terror down on any service worker they can get their hands on.
Every generation is a reaction both to new material conditions and to the errors of the previous generations