Uh, I think you're confused. Boomers aren't the ones whining, crying, bitching and as usual expecting something they did not earn. I just don't get it. wtf does people today expect their parents to leave them anything. Then get pissed if they don't. I saw a young adult once scream at his parents, ' I didn't ask to be born. Because they expected him to be responsible for his life.

I am so glad I never had kids.  I'm not triggered about this nonsense. I just keep thinking these are the people that will be running out country one day. America is doomed to failure and we are witnessing it now.

So where is my tuition reimbursement?

It is always cheaper to rent.

That is my Dad's favorite line as well!

Yeah, how could anyone dislike this wonderful generation?

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When you realize it’s a class problem and not a generational problem you can direct your anger in the right direction.
In the collapse of 2008 we demanded that the bankers who had leveraged out fraud go to jail and allow the system to collapse the bad banks so that the system could reset.
But the politicians demanded “ to big to fail” bailouts because they were up to their asses in stock portfolios trading AAA mortgage backed paper.
If the banks had been allowed to go bust and be taken over by the Fed all of that bad debit would have been cleared out and new laws would of rolled back the glass/stegal act that turned banks into casinos.
Houses would now reflect true home prices and not Ponzi trading schemes they still are.

My daughter acts pissy because I remarried and we basically bought our current house together, she thinks when I die it should all go to her, and not my wife who’s been here 6 years now, but if it were reversed, it should be her house and fuck those kids. I’m leaving each daughter a small amount of life insurance and keep sakes for them and grand kids, but my wife gets the property, as it’s her home.

Entitled selfish people everywhere these days.

My dad left everything to my step mom, I didn’t even get a pocket knife. Disappointed, but that was his wish, and his property to dispose of as he wished, you won’t here me complaining about how I was robbed / fucked over, as it was never mine.

If a parent wants to be frugal, save everything for 30 years to leave everything to their kid, that’s their right, if they want to party for 30 years and leave the kids barely enough to cover their funeral, that’s their right as well. fucking over your wife though, or leaving debt because you didn’t give a shit is selfish and bullshit though.

I am a Boomer. He is a cry baby. We have been taking care of our family’s “Greatest Generation” for the last 20 years with daily visits and making up the financial difference. They are in their late 90’s now.

generational wealth is based and traditional

hedonistic consumerism is gay modernity

He's delusional if he thinks that the property owned by Boomers has been passed down along " ten to twenty generations"
He mentions farming, which is at most about 2 % of the US population now

The boomers are getting ready to pass on the biggest generational wealth transfer in history as they die off. Individual boomers may have squandered their wealth (or opportunities for wealth). But as a group, they are going to make their kids and grandkids well off over the next 20-30 years.

Why should parents owe their adult children anything?

Once I adulted at age 21 I was done needing breast milk, help getting dressed, and needing money.

Wife and I are boomers and proud of it. Started off with nothing and worked our butts off for 4 1/2 decades to get to retirement and yes, we get SSA now.

We raised 2 Gen-X daughters who are hardworking and don't need our financial help. When we pass we will leave each of them a paid-off house ($800K each in the crazy W WA housing market) and whatever is left of our IRAs. Yup, I guess that makes us selfish.

Just the oldest ones. But the youngest ones are done with college now (unless they're in grad school).

This. He was talking about thinking down the road, long term. Leaving a legacy. Boomers were the first YOLO generation because they got duped by the government. They thought Uncle Sam would have their backs and  ow they're pissed that they found out what later generations know. The government doesn't give a shit about you.

Best lines from The Matrix:

"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."

All of them, actually. Oldest Zoomers were born circa 1997.

He’s right just look at the national debt and growth of government in the time of that generation’s biggest influence. Best case they were either complicit, too cowardly or too self absorbed

Who's going to cut the crust off of my grilled cheese sammy for me when you die?  

Some spoiled socialist crybaby sitting there in a diaper full of poopoo because mommy and daddy didn't provide a nanny for them when they die.

This. Just try reminding boomers that social security is welfare!

I am a Boomer, when my parents died, I got $1,000.  I would give it back instantly for just one more day with them.  More importantly, they left me with a good work ethic, good morals, a Christian upbringing and wonderful memories.

Piss, moan, bitch, complain.  

Generations have been complaining about each other since the complaint was invented.  

Other people look like they have it easier than the person bitching so it's more envey than anything else.

Socrates complained about the frivolity of the youth of Anthens.  And I'd bet they complained about ole Mr. Logic and his quest for "truth".  Except they weren't profound enough to have their complaints written down.  

Hell, the caveman probably invented complaining when they complained their parents have a nice cave and they had to share a cave-ette with roomies.

Kids can be tough, my oldest daughter especially so.

Once, when she was 18, and had moved in with me as her mother was tired of her shit. I gave her permission to drive my vehicle to a party, after thinking about it, I revoked that permission . She flew into a rage, screaming about “ how she’s an adult, and how I can’t stop her from going to said party, because she’s an adult, and she can do, WHATEVER THE FUCK SHE WANTS !! BECAUSE SHES A ADULT NOW !etc. “

I responded… yes, you’re an adult, and I can’t control your behavior, but I’m not required to finance or enable your ADULT behavior. You’re an adult, so figure out how to do your adult shit, figure out how to pay for it, figure out your transportation , housing, pay your own bills, etc.  She screamed until I got mad enough and said something to really hurt her feelings, after which she stormed out. ( I kicked her out a few days later after catching her lying about going to community college, ( hadn’t been in 6 months, even though driving my truck out daily to school, entire reason I let her move in ) , sent her back to her enabler mother, as I’m not dealing with that shit.


You’re an adult at 18, damn sure at 21. So, no, I can’t tell you what to do, but I damn sure don’t have to finance your adult lifestyle. If I AM financing it, then Iv got the right to criticize your lifestyle, and control your behavior to a certain extent. Aka, I’m not helping you do stupid / destructive shit, and will force you to meet goals, school, job, clean up, etc. if your parents do decide to help you financially after your a adult, that’s great, but not required. If they do, expect controls, if they refuse to help, that’s fine too, because believe it or not, that’s teaching you a valuable lesson about how to be a responsible adult.

A parents job is to teach their kids and give them skills to survive on their own after their parents are gone, I know 45 year olds who even though they have careers, homes, etc, have zero budgeting ability , no life skills, because mom, dad, grandma, etc give them hundreds - thousands each month to keep shit working after they blew their check on dumb shit, bought a shit car and needs constant expensive repairs, and parents still raising them like they were still 10 years old and helpless. Because they are helpless, because they were never taught life skills / taught to be adults.

Hedonistic narcisscists don't care about leaving a legacy?

I don't want shit from anyone.. Just leave me alone i got it. Best part is like always i'm sitting here in my sweatpants working remote, working for two W2 jobs full time, in my sweatpants sipping coffee, shit posting on ar15.com. The boomers in management are too dumb to know what i'm doing or not doing. I just keep getting paid..

GenX is the master race

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Has everyone forgotten that before they were called boomers, they were called the “Me generation”. In other words, they were pretty much described exactly the way millennials are described today. When are you guys going to figure out that this stupid bullshit gets repeated generation after generation? Everyone says today’s kids are a bunch of slackers and pussies. And you guys keep falling for it. Sure there are a lot of millennials that are pussies. But who raised them? You know what else the millennial generation has? More combat veterans than any generation since World War II.

Dont hate the player.

"Baby boomers are set to pass to their children more than $68 trillion, the biggest wealth transfer ever."  

But to some entitled greedy bitches this still isn't enough.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/17/how-to-navigate-the-great-wealth-transfer-according-to-top-advisors.html

Yes, the desire to obtain other peoples wealth simply by existing is strong. The free shit army is alive and well.

Right! Nobody ever 'saved for the next generation' - you do the best you can for your family and try to do better than your parents, and you hope your kids will do the same. Just because you might have lived and worked in a time of prosperity doesn't make you liable to provide it to the next generation. In fact, that is impossible, beyond doing what you can to send them to school and see that they're as prepared as you know how, to cope with the world and hopefully prosper.

Found the ageist bigot.

He's not wrong and you need to earn your own money instead of relying on selfish dreams.

Gen X, born in 1970.  I was making my own money since 11 with paper routes and p/t jobs.  Moved out at 20 and have been paying my own way since.  I paid to go to junior and senior prom.

The only thing my parents (actually my mom) gave me financially was a check for 250.00 when I told her I was taking classes p/t at a junior college.  I tried giving it back and she refused.

I have never expected my parents to hand me anything and I am trying to install this mindset into my teenage kids but so far I am not having much luck so I guess they will have to learn the hard way.  I have no qualms bequeathing my entire estate to some pro 2A organization upon my death if my kids are unproductive members of society.  The wife and I actually have verbiage in our wills that states that our kids gets nothing if they are not productive members of society and that is up to our executor to determine

ETA: Once we graduated HS we had to get a f/t job or go to school f/t.  If you went the job route we had to pay mom and dad 30 a month for room and board AND get our own phone line so that we were not tying up theirs

I'm sure this has been posted before, but it's pretty funny and relevant to this discussion.

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/millennial-millions/3867395

If you’re blaming boomers for the current fucked up country…. But your ok with open borders, your political party being “ the good guys “, welfare, laws attacking shit you don’t like, criminal / scammer shit, and 1000 other things, congratulations, YOU are as responsible as anyone for the country being fucked up / insanely expensive as anyone else, boomers included.

Only thing being passed to the next generation is a broken country , huge reduction in standard of living and opportunities, and 200 trillion in debt.

How old is that fag?  Because he looks kinda old

It's really, really common for younger folks to not want kids right now.  I have two young adult daughters and they've bought into all sorts of BS over the years from idiot peers and media.  My oldest is coming around to reality, and knows that her fertility has a "best by" date.  She just graduated college with a good degree and got hired by the Fed gov.  And no college debt.  Her and her boyfriend are probably going to get married pretty soon, and they are starting to house shop.  I told them to keep renting for as long as they can to let housing to go down.  

I probably raised my kids a little differently.   They know that they will struggle more than their grandparents did.  They've always known that they aren't competing with kids in their class, but the 200+ Indian and Chinese kids that will do their jobs cheaper.  They'll have to hustle their whole life.

@buck19delta  Bravo, good job!

My grandfather wanted to give the inheritance to his grandkids but he died before my grandmother.  His two sons fought over the inheritance and squandered almost all of it.

I'm going to give a little of what I have to my kids and the rest to my grandkids.  I feel like they will appreciate it more.

Pearl clutching boomers are the reason we can’t say fag anymore.

Whining about how Boomers took and kept everything for themselves and not pass anything down to the next generation, yet there are
a shit load of Boomer owned business's around here that when the owner(s) retire, the kids don't want to take it over because its too much work,
has no glamor, it's beneath them, etc and as a result the business just folds or is bought by some immigrant who has lived here for a shorter period of
time than the slackers who are bitching about how life has treated them unfairly.

What's the average age of Congress, again?

You're lucky. I wish my parents had 25 years left. I could care less if they spent every dime they have, if it meant they'd be around longer. I doubt they have 5 years and that's being optimistic.

Due to divorce custody issues, my daughters got to decide which parent they could live with / wanted to live with. My oldest hauled ass right to her mothers, because she at 14 could basically do whatever she wanted, there were no rules, no curfews, and her mother trying to relive her teenage years thru my daughter, and my daughter rarely visited me, because we had rules, wanted to know who she was with, curfews, etc.  

try parenting in that situation.

Year 1 of Gen X here and he isn’t completely wrong about the reverse mortgage side of things. Those can really be insidious beasts to deal with.

A lot of folks think it’s “free money” but when they die that house goes away (unless they did a term policy so it automatically paid it off).  

FIFY

Right there with ya fellow GenX bro.

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