Another thing, try to buy a piece of land now adays and build a house on it. Her in Pa it take maybe two years of paper work. 50 years ago maybe tow weeks.....j.k

I (gen X) work for an entitlement program that was primarily created to help developmentally disabled folks. However it wouldn't be fair if we only helped them. Now.....2/3 are people that are 55+. It crosses all races and rural v urban.

The team i manage is made up of half younger boomers.....they've learned how to skirk work and accountability. My top 3 performers are 2 millenials and 1 boomer.

Work culture has changed. I blame de-industrialization. During the 80s and 90s we shifted culture from being loyal and taking care of each other to squeezing blood out of a turnip. You can no longer trust your employer and now your employer doesn't trust their staff.

I dont know what I am, so what are the years of the different gens?

Well boomers were born after WW2, so 50's,60's...after that it gets muddled, with some overlap on age groups...don't know what "THEY" say but these "groups" tend to depend somewhat on region, upbringing and wealth class....it's a mess, lol

The Greatest Generation: 1901–1927

The Silent Generation: 1928–1945

Baby Boomers: 1946–1964

Generation X: 1965–1980

Millennials (Generation Y): 1981–1996

Generation Z: 1997–2012

Generation Alpha: 2013–2024

Generation Beta: 2025–2039

Wonder what the generation born in the late 1800s was called, if anything. Back in the 60s had a neighbor in his 80s that was spry as anything. Loved to tell stories of days gone by. Watched the lake form in front of his house when the dams on the Mississippi were built. Honest fella and good fisherman, loving husband. Knew several others in their 70s . . . all fit for their age and eager to guide a boy into river life.

Maybe the next one will be the Generation omega

It is easier than ever today to succeed and be successful , Its is also easier to NOT be successful.

Its been proven with data that the baby boomer generation in America has had it the sweetest. Im not saying they didn't work, they did. But American society had the most leverage because of the greatest generation which benefited the boomer generation.

I admire Millenials now that they have gotten older. GenX and Milenials created the largest all volunteer active war force in history. No draft needed.

I was born in 55 and if I had it easy I would hate to see what tough would have been.

"I was born in 55 and if I had it easy I would hate to see what tough would have been."

and yet we didn't realize that it was any other way...lol

Same for this Boomer. I quit school at 16 and got my work-release papers (required at the time to work in an industrial setting at that age). For the next two decades I worked long hours at dirty, hard-labor, low-paying jobs. Started my own business and worked even harder. At first my employees made more than I did. After a while I figured it out and I do okay now. It was anything but easy.

This is the truth.
If you can’t make it in today’s world there is no one to blame but the man in the mirror.

Stop the whining and get to work.

If people spent the gracious amount of time they spend complaining on putting there head down, tightening their belts and working, they would make it just fine.

Exactly

I disagree with you old farts.

I believe it's harder these days but I do agree that it was always hard


The boomers and early Gen xers have made unfunded promises to themselves that the kids are going to have to pay for

I won't blame them if they tell us to pound sand.

How do you know they're going to have to pay for "it"?

Most of the younger generations are inheriting more than any generation.

What's all this have to do with Epstein?

More is relative to the value of the dollar.

175 trillion in unfunded liabilities. Are the kids going to inherit that much cash?

The last Epstein thread got axes this one will too

It appears no one cares.