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> BoomerJobs--the jobs in which you actually have some choice in what you work on, where you write your own performance review

Yes, boomers had better pay where a middle class blue collar job could afford you a nice house and kids in the suburbs, but this idea you quote, I'd need much more data on because the entire culture of being a boomer is much more top down, listen to your boss, do what your told then the modern culture.

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I think it’s now; do what you’re told or I’ll replace you with someone cheaper. Then it will be do what your told or I’ll fire you and you’ll lose your visa and have to go back to your home country. It’s also hard for me to think of it getting any worse than the gig economy where you’re one capricious algorithmically driven decision away from being fired. And don’t get me started on Amazons intentional grinding down of employees. I think the attempt at adopting a culture to placate millennials with some agency is simply a way to replace the older workers with cheaper newer workers. I think the reality is millennials on average have fewer good options and will always have to accept worse conditions.

Yeah but the reward for "listen to your boss and do what you're told" was often cushy overpaid jobs where you go golfing a couple of times a week with your boss and coworkers because you're all buddies. As long as you brown nosed your boss just enough.

Plus, you only had to brownnose for a couple afternoons. Once they decided they liked you, you just had to be not insufferable.

People believe what they want to believe

Is that true for Boomers, or was that mostly true for the Silent Generation (those born 1928 to 1945)?

My experience of Boomers (my parents and their friends are early Boomers) is that most of them were working as two-income families, whereas my granparents' generation (late Greatest and early Silent), it was much more common for there to be only one outside income coming into the household.

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