Actually in seriousness I do agree that a lot of the intergenerational slanging is distracting. The post war generation benefitted from an increase in housing standards (eg my mum in the post above), living standards, state provision and job security. But they did so because the people in charge at the time had been through a bloody world war and had to build things up from scratch again, literally in the case of many towns and cities. Not exactly a positive position really.
Plus as a pp pointed out they did hit many bumps along the way - even before Thatcher, there were years of inflation and spiralling interest rates in the UK - I mean, yes, in the town I live now a three bedroom house is 10x my wage, but is that really much different from paying 20% interest on your mortgage? In many cases the interest situation was worse because people had taken out mortgages based on much lower rates of interest and then suddenly got clobbered with higher repayments than they had thought they would.
This was also the generation that in many cases found itself suddenly unemployed and their work skills devalued in middle life with scant opportunity to retrain, while having dependent children to support.
The only thing they lucked out on was that those who had managed to hold onto their homes suddenly found they increased in value, but for the vast majority of them they had no control over this whatsoever.
Just as most people in most generations don't really have power, so it is with the boomers.
And as ever, it's the vested interests and corruption that we need to be looking at, in every generation, instead of turning on each other. No war but the class war!