I understand the frustration ...truly. And I have plenty of empathy for what younger generations are dealing with. I see it with my friends children.
What I push back on is the habit of lumping entire age groups together, as if everyone born in a certain decade lived the same life or had the same advantages. Labels like “boomer” flatten people into caricatures, and that helps no one.
For context, I am technically a Boomer — born in ’61 — and nothing about my life fits the stereotype. I worked my entire adult life, often 50+ hours a week as an art director and later as a freelance writer, where the hours got longer and the pay got smaller. For years I commuted three hours a day. I wasn’t sitting on a pension or a cushy retirement plan; I had to build everything myself.
At 21, I bought a small two‑bedroom apartment in Brooklyn and spent 13 years paying it off. I supported my parents through nearly two decades of medical issues — financially, emotionally, logistically. I worked weekends. I took side jobs because the main job never paid enough. When I went freelance to follow my passion, I doubled my workload just to stay afloat. I’ve done fine in the long run, but only because I lived within my means and stayed disciplined when I had very little.
So yes — I get the struggle. I lived my own version of it. And I agree that today’s situation is out of control. Housing, wages, healthcare, cost of living — the whole system has been distorted by decades of policy failures, real‑estate speculation, and plain old greed. That’s not a generational flaw. That’s a structural one, built and perpetuated by people of all ages.
If we’re going to talk honestly about what’s broken, we should aim at the right targets — not each other.
It's truly abominable how quickly it went to "no it's just porn" to "everything in the centralised Internet is on lockdown until we are able to arrest everyone for memes"
Everyone felt sad for the penguin walking alone and the monkey rejected by his mother. But this video is far more heartbreaking, yet it didn’t receive the same attention.
I don’t understand this economy.
Nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents, yet nursing home aides rely on food banks.
Daycare costs so much it can consume an entire paycheck, yet daycare workers often need second jobs to survive.
College leaves students buried in debt, while professors struggle to afford housing.
Everything we need is astronomically expensive, and yet so little of what we pay seems to go to the people actually doing the work.