[yummypaint]

Look up the salaries for jobs boomers got out of college and compare to today. Also look at the amount of debt they took on to get their education. Next look at real estate prices at the time. Taken together these factors explain everything to first order.

Boomers rode a wave of affordable education and economic growth. They did not see fit to secure those benefits for their own children in the way their parents did for them. Their final legacy is climate denial and environmental damage that will haunt their descendants for generations.

Boomers were the generation who decided to cook food on plastic instead of normal pans because it saved them a few seconds of cleanup. Millennials are the generation who grew up eating food cooked on plastic and now have unprecedented rates of early onset cancers. This type of pattern touches many aspects of the intergenerational relationship in the US.

[harryquach]

> Millennials are the generation who grew up eating food cooked on plastic and now have unprecedented rates of early onset cancers

I am curious about this. Do you have a source?