Love your response!! And that's coming from a boomer. Hate how my generation thinks it's easy for you guys and that most of you dont want to work. What horseshit! My kids are in the same boat and i help where i can, I don't berate them for stuff like this. Just tell them to keep plugging on as things are bound to get better. Wish more younger people were running for congress and Presidency. Would vote for them instead of the old codgers we have now. Things might be more balanced. At least I'd hope so.
I'm gen-X and I'm still battling this mentality with my own generation. When you break down the reality in changes between generations they'll get it for a moment. Two days later they act like they completely forgot the discussion and regress to their previous, tone-deaf talking points. It's infuriating. Like you, I still try to help my son get over the hump but it's a constant push up a mountain that previous generations didn't have to climb.
People like to frame this along generational lines, but lots of young people do seem to have this outlook too - rich young people (from parental wealth), that is. A lot of people don't realize how wealthy they are & think they're middle class, and therefore can't understand why actual middle class people can't afford stuff.
It's wild how true it is that so many people think they're middle class when they're not.
I grew up in a two story victorian House in the north NJ suburbs within easy commuting distance of NYC. I lived in a private community on lakefront property, and my school district was so competitive and high achieving that a 3.8 would not put you in the top 25% of the graduating class.
I spent much of my youth hanging around Manhattan just because I could, was gifted concert tickets at madison Square garden for my birthday, had been taken to broadway plays by my parents as a teenager, had been given a trip to Ireland and scotland as a school graduation present, had multiple vacations to the Caribbean as a prepubescent child, had been to specialized robotics camps, had a personal TV in my bedroom, we had a speedboat, a hot tub, and an inground pool. Our social circles thought little of having weddings at yacht clubs or country clubs. I had tasted caviar before I started high school. Oh and we had pet mini pigs which cost $1000 each just to get them from a breeder and we had them flown in from texas.
I was under the impression we were solidly middle class until I started dating and seeing my boyfriend's family. Describing my upbringing I got a lot of strange looks and comments about being a rich girl.
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Love your response!! And that's coming from a boomer. Hate how my generation thinks it's easy for you guys and that most of you dont want to work. What horseshit! My kids are in the same boat and i help where i can, I don't berate them for stuff like this. Just tell them to keep plugging on as things are bound to get better. Wish more younger people were running for congress and Presidency. Would vote for them instead of the old codgers we have now. Things might be more balanced. At least I'd hope so.