I think you've got your generations a little mixed up.
Millenials are children of boomers. Boomers in no way have spent their lives "in abject poverty while someone else benefited from their labor".
Boomers spent most of their lives getting high and partying in the ultimate self indulgence. That's why their kids are the way they are.
Now, if you're X, you're parents were kids during either the depression or the war, and as such the values from those times run strong in you. (Added to that the fact that you're always eating the boomers scraps)
Millenials are children of boomers. Boomers in no way have spent their lives "in abject poverty while someone else benefited from their labor".
Boomers spent most of their lives getting high and partying in the ultimate self indulgence. That's why their kids are the way they are.
Now, if you're X, you're parents were kids during either the depression or the war, and as such the values from those times run strong in you. (Added to that the fact that you're always eating the boomers scraps)