Agreed. While many of them likely couldn't read, they were just as human as we are and many likely had more experience and passed-down knowledge for practical living and surviving off the land.
TFR has been below replacement in the US since the 70's. In the same period of time, the country has grown by about 80 million. It's mass importation of the third world driving up housing prices and reducing effective wages, as predicted by any supply-demand curve theory of housing and labor. Boomers started their professional lives at the start of the mass importation of third worlders and before offshoring had hit the tech sector (it had already wiped out textiles). Boomers give you ridiculous advice that can't possibly work because their formative experiences were from a nation and a world before globalization and mass immigration.
Medieval peasants would grow crops, process the crops, take the crops to market, make all their food from scratch with what they grew/foraged themselves and sometimes bought at market or traded for, and many were skilled craftsmen who made trade goods in their free time or during the colder months when you couldn't farm. They'd also likely have had something like chickens around and some of them even more livestock. Fishing if they lived near a river or lake. For a lot of them this was subsistence rather than profit. You had to work with the seasons and weather. It's all much more involved skill sets than people think. Again, a lot of them were skilled tradesmen too.
This meme was made by a boomer with kidney stones
"Many"? "Likely"? No, I think it's safe to just flat-out state that they did have more experience and passed-down knowledge on these matters, on account of the fact that their survival depended on passed-down knowledge and surviving off the land.
The browns are here because of the boomers.
I'm assuming by here you mean the US. If so it was the WW2 and silent generation that passed Hart Celler, 1986 amnesty and the 1990 immigration act.
I remember Scott Galloway did a Ted Talk about how seniors have robbed younger Americans and he called out Social Security as one of the biggest reasons as well
On a day-to-day basis, this is one of the single most annoying things they do. They are completely oblivious to how much physical space they take up. At the grocery store; for all of the reasons you listed. On the road; almost every time I see someone driving in two lanes at once, or just driving slow in general, it is a boomer. Every time I've been cut off, boomer. And they aren't doing things out of malice, they just are genuinely unaware of the fact that they are in the middle of everything obstructing everyone else around them. This is, at its root, the pathology of the boomer. They have no self awareness and even if they did, they feel like they are entitled to every resource they occupy and refuse to share with anyone else.
And then when you call them out, you always get back what I like to refer to as the "boomer face" - it's a combination of confused and mad at you for making them confused. Rumpled brows and mouth open and agape. Like a shithead kid who got caught going "what are you mad at me for? I wasn't doing anything!" Watch for it, they all do it!
Or go up to him, give him a firm handshake with eye contact and tell him you’re not leaving until he gives you a job! The boomers who push the bootstraps bullshit are the ones who would never help anyone out who took their advice unless they were related. They won’t see the hypocrisy in this and will get angry if you point it out to them. In fact, they pretty much respond to any kind of disagreement with anger.
