Quote: CAVBaby Boomers lessened regulations to allow banks to run wild and free where the recession would be caused. Aren't the Baby Boomers the ones who idolize Reagan and his Reaganomics, and continue to this day to enforce higher education and medical costs than should be reasonable?
Gen X has mostly just stood on the sidelines watching **** hit the fan between Boomers and Millennials. If that's not the case please let me know as I'd like to be more knowledgeable. But as it stands from my POV it's largely the Boomers who've taken advantage of their circumstances and are doing what it takes to take it away from future generations because it's "a free lunch".
And people absolutely should care since the Baby Boomers are the ones in Congress and the government, getting to decide just how little financial aid, medical assistance, and social security we get to have. They will suck dry things like social security and then reduce it later on so when it's our turn we can't have it. Or that we're "entitled".
When college is too expensive for you to go or you need to pay an arm and a leg to save your other arm you'll probably care a decent bit.
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1) Actually BOTH generations idolize Regan, not just the Baby Boomers. GRANTED, Generation X is kinda weird because you have the babies born in the 80's who have more progressional and liberal viewpoints compared to the rest of Generation X. Man, politics are weird.
2) Oh they did their fair share of messing up our generation. Here's a list I made. Granted, looking at my facts Baby Boomers did mess us up too, but Generation X did NOT just sit there twiddling their thumbs.
- Divorce rates are at an all time high, which has tempered with our generation's anxiety, depression, and other mental problems
- Actually they're overall just very bad parents.
- They're taking more risks in entrepreneurship. It's good for them, yeah, but its changing the social norm of what would be considered elastic and inelastic goods. What that means is that things that used to be a luxury are now a necessity, and they're constantly raising the price that would be considered "pushing the envelope" but it doesn't matter because we're now conditioned to buy it.
- Most of Generation X is in office right now. Generation X is from the 1961 - 1981, which is an age range of 56 - 36. Average age, iirc, is 40-50.
3) honestly yeah I have no idea why everyone is saying they don't care because it matters a lot. They're the ones constantly belittling us about our technology, views, student loans, and a lot of other things. I remember reading a book two years ago called Generation Me and it was LITERALLY some old lady whining about how Millennials just whine and moan and don't do anything and it was actually the worst book I've read. She literally called us "The Entitlement Generation." I heard she updated it and it actually has nicer things about Millennials but lmao im not wasting my money again.