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I'm sure there would be plenty of things to blame me for, but I'm still waiting to be able to sit and do nothing while my assets grow by an order of magnitude effectively risk-free, and be able to influence local policies to protect that growth no matter the cost. Instead, it seems like the very opposite is happening, with my labor being used to subsidize boomers to this day.

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I also don't recall anyone ever blaming the WWII, or other generations like this.

Boomers coasted off the success of the postwar era, and now we're all poorer for it.

You’d have to go back a long time: the silent generation invested a lot in the public good from electrification to the GI Bill to roads to education and environmental protection. It took the Reagan era cuts to start rolling back investment in the country—I grew up in California during the 80s and 90s and each of the schools I went to had visible decline because they had built infrastructure prior to Prop 13 and then couldn’t afford basic upkeep.

> You’d have to go back a long time: the silent generation invested a lot in the public good from electrification to the GI Bill to roads to education and environmental protection.

My parents were silent generation and I'm endlessly surprised how little adults of that generation understood about truly basic things, like psychology.

To be fair, they generally parented a few hours a week. That wasn't much, not compared to the 24/7 adulting that was required of my generation (and is now the standard for every gen of parents).

But... With our modern, unsustainable parenting requirements, birth rates are plummeting. More competence, fewer kids.

What's the evidence for more competence?

I was a youth leader for ~20 years and I consistently found that young people understood people/psychology better than my generation did and certainly better than my parents' generation.

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