That’s why is included the word some. Wage inequality, partisanship, racism, sexism, national debt, climate change - but I won’t belabor the ways things are worse. My only point was seeing Boomers in a negative connotation shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Racism is worse now? Sexism? I don't see that at all. Wage inequality? Have you heard of "Robber Barons?"
The national debt is higher. Yet the economy chugs along. I don't pretend to understand it, so I'm not prepared to say it's better or worse.
We've been impacting our climate since the industrial revolution. It's pretty much the Boomer generation who identified the problem, and we've made huge progress toward both alternative energy and efficiency. We banned DDT, cleaned harbors which had been virtual cesspools, passed emissions and efficiency standards for automobiles, created the EPA and endangered species lists, and founded all kinds of organizations which are helping push positive changes. Are we done yet? No. But we've made good progress.
My real estate agent blamed "The Baby Boomers" for driving up house prices. She meant people born in the late 1940s, not youngsters like me. But I'm classed as a "boomer" now.
I know! I wasn't a Boomer until recently, either. The boom was supposed to be when the servicemen came home from the war in the 1940s. and started, er, resuming normal activities. I wasn't born for another 15 or so years after they got back. I guess my parents were slow starters?
For example, some people are almost proud that they never read/watch newscasts or popular movies or tv shows; if we don’t have current/shared knowledge that we can view through the vintage filters of our decades or experience and then share this with others, how can we be seen as relevant?
That's me. I seek out varied news sources on the web and read the stories myself; no talking head reading them to me or opining about why they prove the "other team" is awful. I also avoid TV shows and movies.
And, yes, I'm left out of the conversation when it turns to irrelevant drivel like who was in such-and-such a movie. I couldn't care less. If they talk about something which has some relevance to our lives, I'll join the discussion.
I'm not sure how that makes
me irrelevant. But I'd admit to being uninteresting to someone who lives their lives vicariously through TV and movies, and I'm certainly not going to win the favor of some die-hard partisan who only watches one-sided so-called news channels which support their pre-conceived point of view.
Anyway, not only were mortgage rates sky-high (13%), but house prices were going up literally every week. My real estate agent blamed "The Baby Boomers" for driving up house prices. She meant people born in the late 1940s, not youngsters like me. But I'm classed as a "boomer" now.
