[quote Grobagsforever]@Witchend - boomers enjoyed all the benefits of technology and travel but will never have to face the consequences of climate change.
They enjoyed peace in Europe and will never have to face the consequences of Brexit
They enjoyed job security and good pensions, massively rising property wealth,
Just because around 10 percent of them experienced rationing as children doesn't mean that had it hard, they ARE spoilt. And young ppl are left to pay the price. [/quote]
You really don't have a clue do you?
Boomers are people born between 1944 and 1964. Rationing ended in 1954-and lots of things were still in short supply even after that. So well more than 10% of them experienced rationing. Prices of items were relatively expensive too, and you were limited to what shops near you had.
They had parents who had suffered loss in WWII, and many of those parents would have had undiagnosed mental health issues associated with WWII. We call it PTSD now. Then, it was unrecognised. That will have effected their childhoods.
They had the fear of the cold war, fear of nuclear war was real. Northern Ireland was also a worry. I remember my uncle, who was in the army, having to check under his car for bombs every time he went out. I remember being stopped at a roadblock to have the car searched when there was a political party conference. I remember running with my parents when there had been a bomb threat in town. It was a very real fear.
Job security? In May this year the unemployment rate was around 4%.(I've just checked) In the 80s it was closer to 12%. Redundancies were happening all over, and often without much of a nice redundancy cheque you'd expect to get today.
And if we also go back to the 80s, the interest rates went up to 15% so yes the housing may have been cheaper, but they were paying a heck of a lot of interest. They also had to raise around 20% deposit and would only be given around 4 times salary for a mortgage.
I really don't think you can say they enjoyed the benefits of technology more than the current generation. Things have moved on fast in the last 40 years. 40 years ago I still knew people who didn't have telephones in their house. The home computer had 8k memory.
As for travel. In my childhood I only recall one family going abroad for holidays. Everyone else holidayed in the UK, or not at all. My parents have not been abroad since 1971, when they went on honeymoon for 3 days to France. Lots of their friends are similar.
Now, holidays abroad are thought of as a right-and not by the boomers, but the current generations. How many times have you been abroad? I assume you've given up flying due to climate change?
Moaning about them being spoilt, and you being hard done by makes you just look entitled. All generations have their hard parts and all generations have their easy parts. Dismissing the hard parts of other generations simply shows you don't understand it.