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by dragonwriter 3381 days ago
> By every measure Millenials are doing better.

You cite no actual quantitative measures to support this claim, so rather than rebutting with such I'll just say this: by many economic measures, Millenials are worse off than boomers (by a few, they're​ also worse of than Gen X, though by more Gen X is in the worst position of the three, though it usually gets left out of comparisons.)

> All of these gripes are really sad 'Oh the Boomers fed everything up' and 'life sucks'. Bullshit.

It's true that the f-ing up (specifically, of the features in the politico-economic system that resulted in aggregate gains being widely distributed) mostly happened wat the end of the time when the "Greatest" Generation was running the show, the Boomers just were the last generation to have a substantial fraction of their working life before things were f-ed up.