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You could work as a milkman and raise a family on one salary. Now they would pay the milkman minimum wage and tell him he should go back to school and learn to code.
. . . and his wife would still have to go right back to work after having their first child, just to make ends meet. Children or no children both husband & wife must work just to afford a modest lifestyle
Fax
Milkman jobs have long gone . . . but at least now, the ex-milkman can rent rooms in his house to Millennials for $1,500 a month each.
@@magnificentmuttley154 The milkman's wife has an OnlyFans account as a side hustle gig. 😉
Boomers need to all die already
That's my parent's generation! And I tease them that because of them, I probably won't be able to retire until I'm 85 years old lol
You can if you save a few bucks and invest.
Vote carefully. Free stuff isn't, as you may have noticed by now.
Talking about "free stuff" while living off the younger generations social security deductions. Lmfao
@@MidnightRR You don't think they stole the Boomers' money too for "The Greatest Generation"? We didn't set up the ponzi scam, nor did they.
dbergerac Ok boomer
2008 global financial crisis
read the Wall Street Journal lately? Thought not! :D
Wasn’t even the worst this century
Yeah that one was bad.
baby boomers: the luckiest generation in history
I make millions and have 6 kids
No they weren’t you are by a lot
@@The_king567they are. They had it easy from school, job, bills to NO INFLATION. They grew up in the perfect generation they're the ones who had it easy everything was handed to them
@@cafezo87934
We had Vietnam, segregation and social upheaval like you wouldn't believe. We paid the price for our prosperity. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
@@carlbowles1808you boomers ruined the environment and were able to by homes dirt cheap.
It’s time to get rid of Boomers in the government. This country needs people who are younger and wanting to do more for others rather than themselves
Nothing to do about that.
Literally politicians that aren't from the boomer generation aren't any better.
Ronald Reagan is from the greatest generation and pushed neoliberalism and mass immigration.
All generations are already doing more for the boomers then for themselves,
all their life now...
And are boomers ever going to do something for all those generations ?
At all ?
Or should only the other generations just be less selfish and sacrifice even more for others, namely the boomers ?
Nope, it's time the boomers coughed up their due's,
But then, we'dd realize they already spend it all on themselves and there will be nothing left.
so ya "you youngsters, just get a job and work harder, or are you some kind of slacker that will never amount to anything" ?
"When I was your age I already owned a house, 3 cars and had 5 children"!!
"Please give us your retirement funds so we can spend it cause we're soo poor".
Yea, right
we had it good under Reagan.
They that got the gold make the rules.
Our wealthy leaders never did and never will
care about common citizens.
The object is probably to find contentment
that we are far better off than most people in the world.
🤷🏼♂️ Wadda ya gonna do?
I love how nonchalantly he says things. Don't worry! 2041 is far off and they'll just raise the retirement age to 85. See? You won't have to worry about social security when the majority of you are dead 🙂
When SS was created, the life expectancy was lower, so yeah, it was always supposed to work like that.
@dbergerac thats why we have to gas you boomers ASAP.
#25.
the U S Govt will do what it has historically always done when they need more money.........just PRINT MORE MONEY
I'll be close to 70, if I make it. Pretty much figuring I'll never be able to retire.
What he neglects to report on is how many baby boomers had parents who were seriously disabled vets. from WW2.
Like my father. Terrible post traumatic stress, his body filled with shell fragments, loss of the use of his right arm, alcoholic, hot head temper. Try being raised by someone like that.
I make millions and have 6 kids
@@bobbyjonas2323 I have no idea what your answer even means in the context of my post. Try to express your point.
I'm sure you need to make millions to take care of 6 kids.
@@inkey2 No I don't need this much. I only need a fraction because I'm just that rich. I'm just flexing on you peasant. Stay poor.
@@bobbyjonas2323 I was just kidding...I have a trillion dollars and 12 kids. I'm just flexing on you. Stay delusional.
I'm around a lot of boomers everyday and they always talk about some guy named Gomer Pyle, shows the rifleman and Bonanza and then I'm like well I grew up listening to Marilyn Manson and watch the Walking dead and Buffy lol
I make millions and have 6 kids
busty buffy?
Ask them if they wanted to be cowboys when they grew up. The little girls all wanted to be that "Famous DOLL" when they grew up.
Goer Pile,wasn't he the private who shot himself in full metal jacket ?
There's a boomer for ya.
My mom was born in 46. I was born in 64. My childhood environment was completely different from hers she was Elvis I was zeppelin..😂😂
Elvis was the silent generation
Your mom was a baby boomer and you weren't
Fast Facts about Baby Boomers: They basically destroyed the world. The end.
Wow that’s not true at all they literally helped it Statistically there was more people in poverty back then lmao god you are stupid
The ones who destroyed the world are the same ones who took over Russia in 1917.
Stop being a bigot ignorant fool.
The greatest generation destroyed Germany and Italy
@@Charles8777-od4kj No, that was The Soviets,
@@Yoseman1no, the Americans destroyed Italy and Japan, if it weren't for the United States, the USSR wouldn't have even reached Berlin.
Love your videos, they're very informative. However, please add captions. I use your videos in my class and captions would really help for those who speak English as a second language and those who are hard of hearing.
Lies again? Barcelona Manchester Serve Country
Wrong. Although Boomers take all the credit, Silent Generation made these times what they really were. Boomers were not adults until the 80's.
What is silent generation?
The silent generation are in between the greatest generation (those who fought in WW2) and the baby boomers.
Wrong. The first cohort of boomers (which, btw, are those who really lived most events people associate with the baby boom) were adults in the late 60s and early 70s. Do you know when Woodstock happened? 1969. They were old enough to go to that WITHOUT their parents taking them.
@@shahrazadsaied4426 18 and 19 year old irresponsible kids are not really adults.
@@barbmelle3136 Could be but they were certainly adults before the 80s.
Thanks baby boomers.... ya did great. Oh, don't worry, we have the old folks home picked out for you already. You'll love it.
And you will love being young forever.
Pinky Mixology It is where they belong and they can take there little pooches with them as well...for company
Pinky Mixology ....one day you will be old like them. Every living things will eventually be dead on planet earth. It's compulsory by nature. You live because you are born. You die because you lived.
Archer its “their” not “there” - didn’t you get the chance to go to school !
At the age of 48, I was expected to die of natural causes. Unfortunately, my unconscious body was taken to the hospital. Like I told my three nearest relatives, taking my unconscious body to the hospital was a mistake. Only one more day, and I would have been dead. Better luck next time.
Great info !
I'm tired of the boomers blaming video games for real life shootings!
at least they weren't the reason for censoring them, unlike millenials. Even in 80s and 90s, when christianity was the default ideology everyone has had, games weren't being censored.
While supporting foreign wars , fighting on behalf of the zionists, while being flower kids in the 60's
@@turbotrup96 what the heck are you talking about? Games were starting to get censored around the 90s. Millennials had nothing to do with censorship of games. You can blame John McCain for that.
@@theexplorer7139 games were very brutal and sexualized, so the censorship wasn't that big, seemingly
@@jonathanoliveros7537 Christians did a very poor job then, considering 80s-early 2000s were the most sexualized times in both cinema and video games' history. Women could show nipples even in works for kids.
They were equally if not more violent to current times too.
Meanwhile, just a few years ago we have had developers of Mortal Kombat cover female characters up from toe to neck because of some jealous feminists, which they excused by stating they do this out of "respect for women".
In the same franchise they make them get brutally killed in the most humiliating ways possible.
dont forget baby boomers also destroyed internet
Hmm, the world wide web was developed by Tim Berners-Lee, a baby boomer...
Nope they discovered internet and develop it and bill gates in the 90s made it more accessible
They created the internet 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@shadow-wolfgaming1737 wow so the same people who created it ended up destroying it, crazy how that ended up
@@shadow-wolfgaming1737 Ok boomer dipshit, yes that is true, but its boomer politicians and in the private sector who censored the internet. Followed by gen x selling utube and millennials such as zuckerg and jack dorsey
2041!? Perfect right when I turn 61!
okay boomer
@@ketaminekeith9740 your momma a baby boomer
I’ll be 35 lol
@@Bom.3d I’ll be 40
@@ryanroberts2598your a man!
The world is catching up to the Boomers, who have lived in a bubble for most of their lives of (largely) their own narcissistic design.
I make millions and have 6 kids
@@bobbyjonas2323i know you goodly invest, how good you invest for you kids soon?
Wow that not true boomers have Statistically helped the world more than any other generation probably ever
interesting how you mention your assets..@@bobbyjonas2323
Honestly although some boomers can be a pain and are annoying some are not that bad and can tell great stories of their life my grandma and my step grandpa are both baby boomers and are not bad it’s just those other boomers that make the generation look bad
Nice try terrible person. Since they did not denounce their generation's habits, they are as guilty as the rest of them. Only terrible people think that the other people in the country are going to be their human shield while they reap the benefit of sitting at home and doing nothing.
Just give them time and their dark side will start to show. My kid's grandma is a baby boomer, and she just had an argument with my kid when I was not home (we live together) and I don't know the details but now my kid decided to enroll in college, which she wasn't thinking about before but she's talking about moving out.
@@cartergomez5390 also why are you crying about your child trying to get a degree 🤣
Sounds like you’re too young to realize. My parents are boomers and I’m almost 40 and miss the wholesome years despite the struggles my parents went through. I fear for the younger generation and their future leadership of the US. Their emotional turmoil will collapse our country.
@@elysharay7423 Their emotional turmoil is the result of boomer leadership and crisis theatre. It'll pass and they will be fine once the economy rebalances. The reality is the boomers were numerous and created a bunch of government and economic pyramid scheme's, and didn't realize their 2 kids each would only have 1 kid each or even no kids at all.
Resulting in a pyramid with no bottom to support it.
The baby boom generation also had the benefit of going to their parents for money when they needed help from a prior generation that had savings. Some grandkids today are still getting payouts from Trusts or wills from those dying Grandparents but that is coming to an end. That is no longer the case for current generations. Savings is zip for most families.
I make millions and have 6 kids
Yup one of my aunts had a house her dad bought for her but she lost it to gambling and debt lol typical boomer
American boomers lived rich of the loot form europe.
Where do you think all those gold teeth the natsee's had from the jews went huh ?
Into german savings accounts ?
We mowed lawns and flipped burgers without complaining about it.
History channels at 3 am be like
*sip* "Now Doom, that's a true FPS!!"
Ah another Doomer brother.
I make millions and have 6 kids
Must be nice to be a baby boomer
Not if you were a black one.
@Maxsteel 42 nowhere near
Definitely not the child of one
I bet it was
Not really. Why would you say such a thing?
Boomers are an enormous demographic spanning decades, so grouping them altogether is unfair. People born in the 40s are not the same as those born in the 50s & 60s, & so on. Donald Trump was born in the mid 40s, so he grew up during the 50s boom period with a silver spoon. Madonna was born in the late 50s, grew up in the 60s/early 70s & her attitude & generation would be quite different from a Trump.
WWE is BETTER than NJPW! New Japan SUCKS! Thank you! The problem was baby boomers but baby boomers aren’t the problem. It’s innocent till proven guilty and I’m willing to bet most didn’t handle too much money
Boomers are a mix of people with different values; some are more selfish than others. But you gotta admit theyve been in control of the Federal government for a long time. And leave it to those fine Washington D.C. custodians to borrow & embezzle from the S.S. fund so badly over the decades that it will go bankrupt when their numbers of retirees hits critical mass. From there GenX & Millennials in power will be using fiat money & multi-trillion dollar national debt to keep the country functioning, as the cost of Medicare swallows up over 40% of the national budget
Concerning the outlook, values, & behavior of Boomers, personally I dont consider someone a Boomer if they cant remember the 50s. Most kids born 1955-59 would have no memories of the 50s, so, like that contrast drawn between Trump & Madonna in the video, the behavior & viewpoint would be very different. Madonna definitely behaved more like GenX in the 80s & 90s than the average Boomer did. I was THERE. I saw that with my own eyes, not from watching her music videos or from news videos & documentaries of the time, as a GenZ would
Other than that Trump is just another spoiled brat who got everything handed to him. He'll never know the meaning of hard work, & he's certainly never known hard times like the millions who've lost jobs, suffered foreclosure on their home, & many of which ended up homeless. He is a self-centered narcissus that always has a fall guy chosen in advance for his failings. Personal responsibility is another expression he has no familiarity with either, as far as Im concerned
Baby Boomer were born after WW2. The average Boomer was 18 in about 1973.
Donald Trump is a Baby Boomer
@@magnificentmuttley154 the USA has been using Fiat money since 1965 when the last silver coinage was recalled out of circulation and the paper Silver Certificates were recalled as well.
Even though I'm not from there however I heard that baby boomers days were the best
Reginald Bostic they were. We played outside, rode bikes, enjoyed the outside. Our moms stayed home and cooked family meals.
@@sheilawarner9550 this is why I like the great old days better than these days
@@sheilawarner9550 80 and 90 kids played outside we are the last generation..
Like now
I never see kids out and about like when I was a kid.
Not for you sir. Unless racism and discrimination is your thing. In that case, you would have had a blast because there was a lot of that going on back then.
I make millions and have 6 kids
*Boomer apologetics 101*
Lol I thought G.I. stood for Ground infantry.
both of my parents are on ssi and my dad works and he is 70
Baby Boomers | are so lucky!
O K B O M M E R
There seems to be a lot discus for the situation which the generations that followed the baby boom generations. Corporate greed offshored the jobs that use to be plentiful. Profits could be out sourced to make more money from offshored jobs. The postwar wars and police cost the treasury from Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf 1, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia , Chad etcetera.
Who is running those greedy corporations? Oh right.
I'm a baby boomer. Born in 1960!
I was made from a baby boomer father. He had 17 children from different women. Yep, he's a baby boomer alright. God rest his soul.
I make millions and have 6 kids
@@bobbyjonas2323 Read the novel, Jordy, Bounce, and Lilli (Amazon Books)- it’ll take you back to the freedoms little kids had back in the fifties.
Six years ago: social security ends in 2041
Anyone have the updated year?
How is 2.5% average GDP growth today more prosperous than 4.5% average GDP growth of the 1960s?
I have to say... ok boomer :D
put the title please
I'm a baby boomer 😆1963
I'm sorry for you
I feel old
Hah! Good thing I'm not going to be around Earth in 2041! I'm going to the moon! *wooooooshhhhhhh...*
Michael Jackson said you are not alone
yeah.... thanks
Half of what people in the comments are talking about is Silent Gen....
Oops! My bad. Should have written 1946 to 1964.
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0:52 where's the other leg of the girl?
Ralphu Wreck it wow
Prolly stepped on a land mine
You can see a shadow on the one leg, that's the other one.
I refuse to consider 1960-1964 as baby boomers. They are actually too gen x.
OMG people born in the 60s are as much of a joke as those born in the 50s. Nan, I say baby boomers are 50s and 60s, regardless of how the media classify them.
Where you born around 1962?
2041 is twenty years away.
Jeez
21*
So
boomers demand we pay healthcare for them until they are 120 y/o
I'm a late baby boomer and I can tell you we had a quality of life and high living standards the young crowd wants but can't have easily as we did. Blaming us for the mistakes, bad choices and misfortunes of the young crowd will create sadness and failure. The factories and social stability of my generation aren't coming back. The foundational quote of the Roman's is if there is no way we will find a way, if we can't find a way we will build one. Roman public buildings and roads are in use today thousands of years later. Want to succeed March with your battle flags held high like the Roman armies who conquered an empire. Defeat isn't an option.
The baby boomer generation played a key roll in taking care of our environment, in women's equity and liberation, and in peace --no more wars. They also criticized big corporation systems. The values created and "pushed" by this generation are now common place ideals in American culture.
And then they laid down like cowards and let corporate interests take over the Democratic party. If baby boomers would have stayed home the last two elections, the world would be a better place.
Not all baby boomers retire my grandpa is still working as q janitor he's in his 80s now but he looks young lucky for me I come from a long line of workaholics so I'll survive around 2041
Thats actually kinda the problem with boomers. They have held onto their jobs far longer than any previous generation. They live a more lavish retirement than anyone before (and likely ever again). They left no place for Gen X or Millenials to rise and build up. The only areas where younger generations have prospered has been cutting edge industries where boomers never had a chance to set up shop (see: electronics, software)
If he is in his 80's, he is of another generation. The older Boomer is 75.
He is a silent generation.
@@jarynn8156 Keep whining. That'll get you sooo far in life.
@@jarynn8156 Yeah, it's those darned silent generation guys that stole all the Baby boomer's jobs by working so long!😂😂😂 I just can't get over it! I knew it was the previous gen. that made my life so miserable
Read Carroll Quigley’s “Tragedy and Hope” for a full synopsis. For example in China prior to western diffusion of resources, the peasant class could make a fine living providing the crops needed to feed the upper levels of society. To supplement income they sold handicrafts in the open market and did quite well. It wasn’t until an early form of globalization that competition created an unsustainable type of existence of decreased wages and increased poverty. People who lament that boomers had it “easier” fail to grasp effects of widespread globalization. And this is coming from someone much younger than a boomer.
My dad is a baby boomer
If there was a baby boom was Co-vid the end of it.
Don’t forget wars to some baby boomers actually fought for the independence of there Countries in Africa like mine did
Why were they given "bottled formula milk"?
It’s warming that communists and right wingers can both agree to hate baby boomers
Baby boomers blaming the gen z
Gen z is actually pretty cool!
@@acrowdofone6075nah they are cry babies cowards
They blamed their parents generation, then they blamed gen X in the 80s and 90 then they turned on the precious millenials around 08 and now they attack gen Z.
Trump was a baby boomer im surprise he wasent a hippie
Dark Souls baby boomers and hippies are the same thing.😶
Archer no they’re not.
They got the dates very wrong.
I was born in 1954……the very last year that the baby boomers weee born so i am the youngest baby boomer. I treasure my memories and my unique perspective. ☮️💟
I'm a gen x and my ex is a baby boomer. They definitely see the world differently to rest of us
I make millions and have 6 kids
Because they see it as it was
You dated your parents generation ? EEEWWW !!!!🤮🤮
"Free and prosperous," - What a laugh! More like, "Land of the fee, home of the slave!"
Very catchy...
Land of the greed, home of the depraved.
Ah yes, the predominantly white boomers still living of the spoils of their grandparents slave colonies and what was looted in WW2.
Spend it all in 1 generation.
And still they demand more.
2041 Social Security runs out....That is 20 years from now. Let that sink in.
The clock is running folks. Either we do something about it or Social Security dies and we are in big trouble.
The FAT old COW will slowly turn into a sick and emaciated OLD COW. NO milk. GOT milk.🙁☹😮
It won’t they been saying that for years
Just stop it right now. its another program for the entitled boomers and another instance of pulling the ladder up for future gens
Largest "AT THE TIME" ... but Xers and Millennials were significantly larger. Boomers (the prophet archetype) always follows an Artist generation (which is always small because they are born in society's winter). Boomers actually aren't a large generation. They're just large, vis a vis the generation prior.
Well when one generation has a bunch of kids, and those kids all have a couple of kids = their kids will outnumber them. However the following generation is almost 1:1 so the pyramid government, and economic schemes will all come crashing down. So the kids better plan their own retirements and not expect government payouts.
Let’s not even start with their way of parenting
ok bommer
Por favor en Español🙏
Wow, it sounds like they were born during the most prosperous period of our countries history
I make millions and have 6 kids
@@bobbyjonas2323 eat ur kids
They weren’t actually Statistically you people want to be oppressed so badly
Ahh the Babyboomers. A generation of non strong and silent types. Their fans are the same.
I make millions and have 6 kids
There was a lot of us.
My grandparents are baby boomers
They were born in 1947
Shay138 my grandparents are silent generation. Born in the 1920s-1930s.
I just missed it I was born in 1965 so iam a generation x
Too bad because Gen X is pretty boring. You hardly ever hear anything said about them.
@@shahrazadsaied4426 haha that is so true
To be honest, I would consider 1960-1964 as gen x, so in my bokks, you didnt “just” miss it.
Shahrazad Saied better than being hated by other generations
@@shahrazadsaied4426 GenX doesn't need validation or awards for anything. We grew up taking care of ourselves, the home and our friends all without parental supervision. We just carry on without expectations of affirmation or glorification. Nobody ever paid much attention to GenX and we're fine with that. We 're not one of the "Me" generations.
Retire is such a bad word, connotes a piece of throwaway thing no longer needed.
Now is …how generation Z ore crystal destroyed the society
Hey, while everyone is at one another's throats about dumb stuff.lookie over there, and there oh, and there...the rich just keep getting more and more richer.
I was born too late!! April 1980 here
Zach Ephron, wsup man. I might've spelt your name wrong. My apologies.
New target practioners
Game blame it on some one!!! Take a look in a mirror!!
Thank you! I admire you
I make millions and have 6 kids
Baby Boomers wrecked the west
A baby boomer is defined as a person born on or after 1/1/60 up to and including 12/31/64. This is a good title. They were came in with the sound of Hiroshima/Nagasaki and went out with the ricochet of the gunshots at Dealy Plaza (the JFK assassination).
Boomers are classified as being born between 1946 and 1964. You honestly think the baby boom was only "4 years" ?
In terms of boom years for birth it was 1942-67.
@@stephfoxwell4620 Technically Boomers are considered "post" WW2 through 1964
Inkey. Yes, techically in the USA.
But the actual years of raised birth rates were 1942-67.
In the UK it was 1957-71.
@@stephfoxwell4620 What do you think caused it to delay in the UK. The fact that it was hit so hard by the Germans recovery tine took longer.....just a guess.
This was brought to you by a boomer
And none of that went to African Americans
For good reason
Wife Bad.
*ok boomer*
All you people can say is ok Boomer. How about ok to working harder?
The best thing you can do is to be anti-cyclical against the baby boomer generation. Prices are high in the markets where the boomers are hanging around. In the current situation, this means not buying real estate or a mobile home. Instead, invest in digitalization.
*trollface*
*oK BoOmEr*
It is a better place because if B Boomers.
Not the greatest generation but the coolest.
I was born 2001 am I gen Z?
Brandom Castor yes
Lol no
Forget about having 3 kids, a dog and a house. Gen Z ers had better learn to make TREE HOUSES. Boomers know how and should teach Gen Z ers. Oh, I forgot, they can google it. DIY Z 'ers. Ya got power tools now. Grandpa made his own tree house when he was a kid and his buddies helped him. NO girls were allowed. They remember. FUN times. 😀😃🤣
Okay boomer
Baby boomers were a bunch of spoiled brats! No not all of them but a good chunk of them!
OK BOOMER
Ok boomer
did they drenk alot of monster too ?
No they just huffed leaded gasoline fumes and ate DDT
Come get your issue
Let’s not forget how annoyingly butthurt they get about newer generations like shut up we are here to stay 😂
Yea my grandma said shut up to me the other day super weird because I have a different opinion.
Isn't it ironic that the Baby Boomer generation (who received their name for having so many children), want nothing more than to ruin the lives of younger generations?