I'm sure there would be plenty of things to blame me for, but I'm still waiting to be able to sit and do nothing while my assets grow by an order of magnitude effectively risk-free, and be able to influence local policies to protect that growth no matter the cost. Instead, it seems like the very opposite is happening, with my labor being used to subsidize boomers to this day.

I also don't recall anyone ever blaming the WWII, or other generations like this.

Boomers coasted off the success of the postwar era, and now we're all poorer for it.

You’d have to go back a long time: the silent generation invested a lot in the public good from electrification to the GI Bill to roads to education and environmental protection. It took the Reagan era cuts to start rolling back investment in the country—I grew up in California during the 80s and 90s and each of the schools I went to had visible decline because they had built infrastructure prior to Prop 13 and then couldn’t afford basic upkeep.

> You’d have to go back a long time: the silent generation invested a lot in the public good from electrification to the GI Bill to roads to education and environmental protection.

My parents were silent generation and I'm endlessly surprised how little adults of that generation understood about truly basic things, like psychology.

To be fair, they generally parented a few hours a week. That wasn't much, not compared to the 24/7 adulting that was required of my generation (and is now the standard for every gen of parents).

But... With our modern, unsustainable parenting requirements, birth rates are plummeting. More competence, fewer kids.

What's the evidence for more competence?

I was a youth leader for ~20 years and I consistently found that young people understood people/psychology better than my generation did and certainly better than my parents' generation.

> You too will grow old and then... you too will be blamed for everything.

Not so. Or at least not so much. I'm part of the group that's responsible for every atrocity, avoidable disaster and systemic failure in history. Adults.

Adults are also the cluelessly stupid group that endlessly blames teens and kids for crap.

Millennials will be called "little boomers" because all future generations will seethe about them living through the ZIRP era.

ZIRP was mostly limited to the US tech industry no? Where as back then even any blue-collar job would allow you to support a family and buy a property outright after some years of savings.

After we either repair all the shit the boomers broke, or fail trying. Not a lot to be blamed for if the ship can't be wrighted.

Problem is that individuals often know what is right, but can't do the right thing because society as a whole is not collaborating. In a few years we will all be blamed for not taking action when it was clear climate change was going to cause big problems for humanity. There are many who are trying, but as a while society doesn't seem to be able to course correct, see the current disaster in Brazil.

Oh, and the current generation will most likely be blamed for destroying most of the job market and opportunity for people to earn a living by pushing AI so much. There's always something to be blamed for.

We're not going to be able to fix the boat with a country as divided as ours. Half of us are hopelessly bailing out water instead of fixing the problems, and the other half are drilling holes in the hull with big grins on their faces.

> We're not going to be able to fix the boat with a country as divided as ours.

You are correct. However, I couldn't see how we could have fixed it before. In the US, every possible group of people was fully mired in a state of

    No One Anywhere Wants To Clean Their Own House.

I couldn't see how anything could improve before, not while that principle dominated everything. And it's still that now, just 10x worse.

> Not a lot to be blamed for if the ship can't be wrighted.

'Not being wrighted' means a whole lot of boomers won't be getting in-home care, or absolutely terrible minimum "care".

But this started with the Mergers and Acquisitions crisis back in the 80's, and vulture capitalism has really taken off in the last 30y.

Oh, and my SO was a in-home healthcare person. They got paid a WHOLE $14/hr, no benefits naturally. You can probably guess the type and quality of most the candidates and workers. Even a few of them did the petty and felony theft from their dementia/Alzheimer's clients. Not like they'd miss what was stolen :(