The New York Times is a typical reverse-indicator: they are regularly and routinely 180-degrees incorrect about absolutely everything.

So, here's a piece of (retarded?) writing that should get all the boomer denials/excuse-makers riled up!

Basically, if EVEN THE NYT is defending the boomers, the boomers must be worse than we thought

Anyway, on a serious note: generational divides and differences are everywhere

What boomer hasn’t heard, repeatedly, how mom and dad walked five miles to school, uphill in freezing rain while fighting off wolves — or some other hair-raising tale of toughness and deprivation?

Then our turn came. Having learned exactly nothing, we told the kids stories from our own legendary childhoods: how we left home after breakfast in patched jeans on a banana bike, armed with 55 cents, and didn’t return until dusk. That allowance goes a long way when you mooch a PB&J at a friend’s house and dine on chips and a Milky Way. There’s even enough left for bubble gum.

"Competitive suffering may be one of the few things generations reliably pass down."

in that sense, today’s young adults are building a mammoth bequest. They have excellent material. Housing is outrageously expensive, inflationpersistent and health care increasingly unaffordable. There are fewer traditional tickets to the middle class in corporate management or in manufacturing. A.I. is eyeing their future earnings. It’s a compelling tale of economic adversity.

Kumbayaha: we all the same, but poor boomer tech!

On a recent video call with my 30-something daughter-in-law, something about the scene felt oddly familiar. She was working from home on her laptop while my not-quite-a-toddler grandson sat contentedly nearby with his toys under her distracted supervision. Suddenly, I remembered a photo I snapped in 1995, with a film camera. There was my wife, Kim, about the same age, in her windowless home office, cutting deals using a cellphone with an antenna affixed, surrounded by a fax machine and file folders and a desktop computer the size of an Oldsmobile — all while balancing our youngest on her lap.
Different century, same chaos.

It's all just a life-cycle delusion...?

for most people, their 20s and 30s have never been the gravy years. They’re the years when expenses tend to arrive before income does, careers wobble, babies appear, and many of the older people you know seem to have had it made for decades. The question isn’t whether young adults today have it hard. It’s whether they have it uniquely hard,

This boomer guy is particularly keen on missing the point:

the message isn’t that young people should quit complaining. That would be both unfair and, coming from a boomer, almost self-parody. The message is simpler: Hardship and opportunity tend to arrive in the same package. We’re just better at noticing the hardship than, say, the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in American history tagged for millennials — if mom and dad don’t spend it all on home whole-body cryotherapy chambers and a personal longevity concierge. The kids are all right.

It's not hardship or the times or bad memory; it's the worst, most corrupt (#1592492), most unique, most non-replicable and undeserved transfer of wealth (stocks+houses; broken money) in human history. It's pretty astonishing that anybody can diminish that to "oh well, it's all just hardships, love!"

Fuck; you don't hate the boomers enough

Housing may reclaim its former role as an accessible wealth builder. And then, as always, the hard years will start to glow. The cramped apartment becomes our first little place. The awful job becomes the place where I learned everything. The scramble to balance work, babies and bills becomes a season of being young, busy, useful and fully engaged — the very things older people miss most.

TL;DR: talk about COMPLETELY missing the generational-theft/unearned benefit story. On-brand for the New York Times.

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