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I'm Gen-X and we usually get dumped in with the Boomers here in the US. However, ours was the first generation to get fucked. Like all those golden pensions of yesteryear dried up and disappeared as soon as we began entering the job force. So those a little older than us are kickin' back enjoying 70% of their retirement pay or whatever, often with health insurance (as opposed to Medicare), and we're stuck with shitty 401Ks that yield not only less assets but less secured assets because you can easily go through your entire benefits before you die, as opposed to the pension system. And, of course, our retirement today doesn't typically come with any auxiliary benefits such as healthcare. Plus most of us are assisting our elderly surviving parents and adult children simultaneously!
As the child of a gen-xer:
Your generation was also one of the few to literally fucking try nothing.
Say what you will about boomers, they had the civil rights movement, they had the ant-war movement. You don't get a Kent state without pissing off the right people. Don't get me wrong, they all became fucking turncoats at 25 when they fucked off to daddies company, but for a split second they did something that mattered.
Between the civil rights movement and the post-9/11 anti-war movement there was barely any fucking political action here in the states. The only thing I could think of was the LA Riots, and a huge chunk of you assholes spent it praising "roof Koreans."
The only bit of youthful rebellion your generation had was manufactured and sold to you by your parents generation via music videos pre-packaged by one of three major record labels, and delivered by a cable channel owned and operated by viacom. Fucking VIACOM.
Maybe this doesnt apply to you personally, but collectively? Y'all where a bunch of fucking posers who said "good enough", because yall collectively thought what came next would be your kids problems and not yours.
If you want proof that most gen-x folks are boot lickers ask them about work ethic and listen to them repeat the same shit pulled up by your bootstraps shit as their boomer parents.
We DIDN'T swing massively fascist despite the Skull and Bones crowd doing their best to wag the dog -- and we're still not, while younger generations fall for the bullshit and hate
We got gay marriage in nations around the world, for one example. You lack a concept of what came before us. You enjoy all the benefits and assume it was just always like this. When I was a kid, you couldn't even be openly gay. It wasn't boomers that changed that and it wasn't millennials, either. You live in a totally different world than I was born into.
I keep seeing this with people I know, including my spouse and myself. We have spent our entire marriage so far taking care of old family members. Why us? Because my wife is literally the only competent person anyone in her family knows. And she's very caring and compassionate.
Or she was. None of the elderly people we have supported have been nice or easy to care for. My wife got tired of feeling used. We have decided that we are no longer an unpaid skilled nursing service and therefore we are the most heartless people to have ever existed. It has not been popular but there aren't yet laws demanding we take care of them.
My family, on the other hand, is more organized and generally heathier. But i have still explained to my parents that they had better have a plan, because we aren't it.
And I wonder, how many other genx and millenials have made this same decision? How many will sleep on the Boomer-only bench?