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“ It’ s Simply Impossible To Do So On Your Own” Person Proves Why The Boomer Generation Had It Twice As Easy As Gen Z

Rokas Laurinavičius and
Mindaugas Balčiauskas
On social media, intergenerational conflicts are common. You know how they go; millennials are lazy, baby boomers are bathing in their hoarded wealth and Gen Z'ers spend more time on their phones than with their own families. However, slogans don't really paint an accurate picture. For that, we need hard data. And Reddit user MikeTheBard has compiled a set of numbers that might explain the roots of this hostility. A few days ago, they put together a post for the popular 'Antiwork' community, analyzing how much effort one had to put in to get themselves an education and a roof over their head in 1972, 1992, and 2022, and the stark differences show just how much the world can change for your kids.

Many young adults find it impossible to even dream about getting a home

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And numbers can really help us to understand why

Image credits: Seattle Municipal Archives (Not the actual photo) Image credits: MikeTheBard Of course, all of this doesn't mean that baby boomers (those born roughly between 1946 and 1964) were handed everything on a silver platter. When they graduated from college and were coming of age in the 1970s, an era of both innovation and downturn, their financial future was actually quite hazy. In her book 'Can't Even: How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation,' Anne Helen Petersen explains that by the 1970s, many of those boomers (who were in their mid-twenties at the time), experienced wage stagnation, inflation, and an unemployment rate of 8.5% - American jobs had begun moving overseas so corporations could pay employees less and avoid the wrath of powerful unions that advocated for workers, and on top of all that, the U.S. was dealing with the Vietnam War, the Watergate Scandal, a general distrust of the government, and the resignation of President Richard Nixon. And that wasn't the end of it. One of the biggest financial hits to the generation was the shift from the pension program to 401(k) programs. A pension plan is a benefit provided by an employer who agrees to pay an employee a portion of their salary every year for the rest of their life if they remain at the company for a certain number of years (usually 10 to 20+ years). Petersen points out that combining pension funds with Social Security benefits allowed the generation before the boomers (known as the Greatest Generation) to retire quite comfortably, but with the shift to 401(k) accounts, retirement planning was left in the hands of boomers themselves, who now had to opt-in to save a portion of their income in a dedicated investment account for retirement. And while some companies offered a matching program (like companies still do today), many others didn't offer retirement accounts at all. All this fueled anxiety about future financial security, and with jeopardized job prospects, some boomers also found it extra difficult to preserve the middle-class status of their parents. And while the current economy faces massive uncertainty, at least the young seem to be aware of the problems they're facing. "In 2019, around 27 to 28% of Gen Z'ers had some exposure to equities through holding a stock or through retirement accounts," Lowell Ricketts, a data scientist for the Institute of Economic Equity at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, told CNBC. "That percentage is much higher than that of other generations. When millennials were the same age back in 2004, just 18.7% of them had some exposure to equities." This seems to take the situation full circle. Just like boomers, Gen Z'ers are entering adulthood worried about their ability to earn and save money, but they also seem to be capable of planning ahead in their wealth-building journey. All they need is a little break.

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It's intentional what these companies are doing. They don't have to raise prices and in fact could lower prices and raise wages and still maintain the extreme generational wealth they already have. It's a choice they are making to deliberately keep people at a disadvantage and struggling for basic needs. They lie and say it has to happen when it doesn't. There's enough resources that reproduce constantly for us all to exist. You're being convinced that it has to be like this when these people can literally still live a life of luxury with what money they already have for the next 400 years. I'm tired of the lies and b******t covering up what is really cruel and intentional suffering. That's what they are doing and it's inhumane and wrong. 45 45points reply Jax Jax Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago The “they” your talking about has always been the lies the government tells us. There is always billions of dollars for special interest groups, and worthless projects thought up to bring money to certain people. Our government has to stop sending our tax dollars all over the world. Our current administration is doing exactly what it said it would and it is a total disaster. 8 8points reply Load More Replies... ChickyChicky ChickyChicky Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Government is not the problem. The corporations who have manipulated the government into giving them tax breaks, actually calling corporations people (in the US), loosening regulation, etc etc. Rich people have been telling you that "government" is the problem for decades, because they don't want to be regulated. 11 11points reply Abhinc Abhinc Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago They are on the same team. The government doesn't regulate because lobbying ... They make money to protect the billionaires and corporations. They are just puppets. They are to blame since they are the one responsible for legislations and regulations. They forget they are the people's employees and just profit from them instead 10 10points reply Lily Francis Lily Francis Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago (edited) I hate to tell you this but our government has become a corporation unto itself. And they also get kickbacks. 4 4points reply Peter Hawk Peter Hawk Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago (edited) I think we are on the same page. The government plans to help people usually end up as welfare for billionaires and giant corporations because of corruption 10 10points reply Lily Francis Lily Francis Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago It's a vicious cycle. 0 0points reply Step Step Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago It both the government and corporations and anyone who has a c**p ton of money. They make it the way it is and don't be fooled by what they say. It does not have to be the way it is. Us regular folks could very much so be living a decent comfortable existence. While the rest of the rich folks carry on in a life of luxury. Most people are not out to live an extravagant lifestyle and there's nothing wrong with that. Our needs and existence is a constant struggle and uphill battle because of the decisions those people make. It's an intentional act to see other people suffer and struggle while they stay on top wanting for nothing. I think what bothers me the most is the fact that they take from us to live that lifestyle. All the while changing things to make our lives harder. So we are not only struggling to take care of our own families but they take our hard earned money and we take care of theirs as well. They want for nothing because of us. Healthcare, housing, education you name it. The same cannot be said for millions of us, the American people. It's wrong, cruel, and hardworking decent people are suffering at the hands of their own kind. 3 3points reply Krixl Duke Krixl Duke Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago You are right on the nose of the issue 1 1point reply Step Step Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Jax, you're right! It is also the wealthy elite or the men and women that own these corporations that control how everything is. We live in a world that has already provided everything all humans need to exist, thrive, create, and carry on. Money has no barring on our survival during our lifetime. Money is and has become the complete destruction of our some of our existence. Using it to literally play with people's lives and deny humans the things they desperately need to exist in life. Even though everything we need is plentiful and available for us all. Food, housing, and water are things everyone of us have to have to maintain ourselves. It is beyond cruel and unusual to place conditions such as money or labor on people and deny them those things as if we are not worthy of a decent existence without being forced to do something for it. I honestly cannot believe how so many folks have been conditioned to think living like this is normal. Some animals treat their own kind better than we do. It's not hard to figure out how messed up it all really is in this country or world. I just think people are in denial about the extreme inhumane treatment of our people. Because they've been fed a lie for so long and it took hold over time to just be the awful way it is. There was a time when it was the best of the best and people actually thrived and were comfortable. That is no longer the way it is because of a small percent of very wealthy powerful people intentionally turning this place into the majority doing everything gaining little. While the rich implement how they want it to be with them controlling everything from the food we eat to the hours we work. Running every aspect of our lives making us think it has to be like this. All the while they live it up on the same planet , with the same resources saying we somehow did this to ourselves and don't do enough as it is. A disaster is an understatement, more like an evil oligarchy forcing others to slave away getting nowhere. Then having the audacity to say we are lazy and the system works just fine. Total b******t lies they tell to keep people thinking it just might be our own damn fault. That's the definition of some sick twisted manipulation and control tactics. That's the raw truth of everything going on and it's only getting worse. Anywho, I think I've typed/said enough. I hope you have a good evening, very nice chatting with you Jax. :) 1 1point reply Step Step Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Kris, the only person here that is delusional is you. People are out here killing theirselves busting their asses and they're being taken advantage of. People are literally doing everything they can and everything right and still not being able to put food on the table and be able to afford the things they desperately need to literally stay alive. The government and corporations are at fault and we are blaming the right people. It's unfortunate that you're to blind or willfully ignorant to see exactly what's going on. You're sitting here acting like people are asking for handouts. When they are already working hard and just wanting to live a decent life and have the bare minimum of their needs met, as it should be. Yet it's not that way because of government and corporations greed and expecting people to work hard but can't even afford basic human necessities. No one's talking about a life of luxury like they have. Just a simple life without struggling and going without. The 1% loves people like you because you will blame your own neighbor and defend the very people in power doing those people dirty. 0 0points reply Kris Kris Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago People seem to be delusional about how the free market works. Supply and demand control prices. You don't need to purchase all the extras (designer clothes/ shoes, $1000 cell phones, tvs, video games, expensive cars, expensive housing, etc.). There is a reason that first and second generation foreigners prosper in this economy. They have different values and don't tend to waste a much money. As long as you think that it's someone else's fault that you can't get everything you want, you'll never put the effort in to changing your situation. It might be harder than it used to be but it's still possible -2 -2points reply Jax Jax Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. When the corporations go woke or some other nonsense to “buy” favor with groups of people that is also part of our downfall! I’ve never worked for a poor person! -5 -5points reply Bayou Billy Bayou Billy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Woke just means not being sexist and racist dude. Grow up... 1 1point reply Ray Arani Ray Arani Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago In the case or corporations they actually legally can't just lower prices and increase wages. If they try, their shareholders can and will sue them and win. They have to do what's in the best interest of the shareholders, that's literally the law. In America anyway. Not to say the CEOs and upper management of those companies aren't perfectly happy with the situation, but the law backs all that up, sadly. 1 1point reply Honest Bob Honest Bob Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Buyers raise home prices, not sellers. Young people keep out-bidding each other. Boomers aren't doing it, we'll sell for the market price set by buyers. Don't blame boomers. Our home purchase 40 years ago isn't driving up prices now. 1 1point reply Krixl Duke Krixl Duke Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Blackrock (the governments) is who is buying the houses to put condos or apartments on to get everyone living in "walkable cities" 0 0points reply Sheila Stamey Sheila Stamey Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago (edited) I had to work three jobs as a single mother and accept food stamps in order to raise my the kids and take care of my mom. I kept my mom with me at home for as long as I possibly could because I loved her most of all, and honestly, her income made a difference. It still fell short of many things. My husband had been put in jail for being very stupid sad and drunk, but it still made our family a single parent household. It's extremely difficult if you are only feeding and housing yourself. My children are now successful. I am proud of them. None of them have college debt because they didn't go to college. They all have 50k+ incomes in an area where that's middle class. They are blessed and tough. 26 26points reply Gillbella Gillbella Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago You did a great job! 9 9points reply Load More Replies... Klara Lorinczi Klara Lorinczi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago You are to be admired for your strength and courage! Women like you make a country great, not men!! I male bash but yes, men deserve it! Always! -2 -2points reply Leonardo Kinach Leonardo Kinach Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Woman does something, she must be praised. Man does the same the same thing he must be bashed. Hmmmm... Bad men are a minority, proved by the fact society survived long enough for feminism to be created. Also historians claim societies were originally matriarchal but we're changed to patriarchal as the former wasn't working 0 0points reply Jerry Mathers Jerry Mathers Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago If you factor in healthcare, the disparity is much worse 18 18points reply Liam Lowenthal Liam Lowenthal Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Don't even get me started on "small" emergencies like your car breaking down or needed a sitter all of a sudden. Small... Ha. 2 2points reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments POST Step Step Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Let's call it what it really is, greedy rich people hiking prices up because they want more money than they already have. It's intentional what these companies are doing. They don't have to raise prices and in fact could lower prices and raise wages and still maintain the extreme generational wealth they already have. It's a choice they are making to deliberately keep people at a disadvantage and struggling for basic needs. They lie and say it has to happen when it doesn't. There's enough resources that reproduce constantly for us all to exist. You're being convinced that it has to be like this when these people can literally still live a life of luxury with what money they already have for the next 400 years. I'm tired of the lies and b******t covering up what is really cruel and intentional suffering. That's what they are doing and it's inhumane and wrong. 45 45points reply Jax Jax Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago The “they” your talking about has always been the lies the government tells us. There is always billions of dollars for special interest groups, and worthless projects thought up to bring money to certain people. Our government has to stop sending our tax dollars all over the world. Our current administration is doing exactly what it said it would and it is a total disaster. 8 8points reply Load More Replies... ChickyChicky ChickyChicky Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Government is not the problem. The corporations who have manipulated the government into giving them tax breaks, actually calling corporations people (in the US), loosening regulation, etc etc. Rich people have been telling you that "government" is the problem for decades, because they don't want to be regulated. 11 11points reply Abhinc Abhinc Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago They are on the same team. The government doesn't regulate because lobbying ... They make money to protect the billionaires and corporations. They are just puppets. They are to blame since they are the one responsible for legislations and regulations. They forget they are the people's employees and just profit from them instead 10 10points reply Lily Francis Lily Francis Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago (edited) I hate to tell you this but our government has become a corporation unto itself. And they also get kickbacks. 4 4points reply Peter Hawk Peter Hawk Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago (edited) I think we are on the same page. The government plans to help people usually end up as welfare for billionaires and giant corporations because of corruption 10 10points reply Lily Francis Lily Francis Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago It's a vicious cycle. 0 0points reply Step Step Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago It both the government and corporations and anyone who has a c**p ton of money. They make it the way it is and don't be fooled by what they say. It does not have to be the way it is. Us regular folks could very much so be living a decent comfortable existence. While the rest of the rich folks carry on in a life of luxury. Most people are not out to live an extravagant lifestyle and there's nothing wrong with that. Our needs and existence is a constant struggle and uphill battle because of the decisions those people make. It's an intentional act to see other people suffer and struggle while they stay on top wanting for nothing. I think what bothers me the most is the fact that they take from us to live that lifestyle. All the while changing things to make our lives harder. So we are not only struggling to take care of our own families but they take our hard earned money and we take care of theirs as well. They want for nothing because of us. Healthcare, housing, education you name it. The same cannot be said for millions of us, the American people. It's wrong, cruel, and hardworking decent people are suffering at the hands of their own kind. 3 3points reply Krixl Duke Krixl Duke Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago You are right on the nose of the issue 1 1point reply Step Step Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Jax, you're right! It is also the wealthy elite or the men and women that own these corporations that control how everything is. We live in a world that has already provided everything all humans need to exist, thrive, create, and carry on. Money has no barring on our survival during our lifetime. Money is and has become the complete destruction of our some of our existence. Using it to literally play with people's lives and deny humans the things they desperately need to exist in life. Even though everything we need is plentiful and available for us all. Food, housing, and water are things everyone of us have to have to maintain ourselves. It is beyond cruel and unusual to place conditions such as money or labor on people and deny them those things as if we are not worthy of a decent existence without being forced to do something for it. I honestly cannot believe how so many folks have been conditioned to think living like this is normal. Some animals treat their own kind better than we do. It's not hard to figure out how messed up it all really is in this country or world. I just think people are in denial about the extreme inhumane treatment of our people. Because they've been fed a lie for so long and it took hold over time to just be the awful way it is. There was a time when it was the best of the best and people actually thrived and were comfortable. That is no longer the way it is because of a small percent of very wealthy powerful people intentionally turning this place into the majority doing everything gaining little. While the rich implement how they want it to be with them controlling everything from the food we eat to the hours we work. Running every aspect of our lives making us think it has to be like this. All the while they live it up on the same planet , with the same resources saying we somehow did this to ourselves and don't do enough as it is. A disaster is an understatement, more like an evil oligarchy forcing others to slave away getting nowhere. Then having the audacity to say we are lazy and the system works just fine. Total b******t lies they tell to keep people thinking it just might be our own damn fault. That's the definition of some sick twisted manipulation and control tactics. That's the raw truth of everything going on and it's only getting worse. Anywho, I think I've typed/said enough. I hope you have a good evening, very nice chatting with you Jax. :) 1 1point reply Step Step Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Kris, the only person here that is delusional is you. People are out here killing theirselves busting their asses and they're being taken advantage of. People are literally doing everything they can and everything right and still not being able to put food on the table and be able to afford the things they desperately need to literally stay alive. The government and corporations are at fault and we are blaming the right people. It's unfortunate that you're to blind or willfully ignorant to see exactly what's going on. You're sitting here acting like people are asking for handouts. When they are already working hard and just wanting to live a decent life and have the bare minimum of their needs met, as it should be. Yet it's not that way because of government and corporations greed and expecting people to work hard but can't even afford basic human necessities. No one's talking about a life of luxury like they have. Just a simple life without struggling and going without. The 1% loves people like you because you will blame your own neighbor and defend the very people in power doing those people dirty. 0 0points reply Kris Kris Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago People seem to be delusional about how the free market works. Supply and demand control prices. You don't need to purchase all the extras (designer clothes/ shoes, $1000 cell phones, tvs, video games, expensive cars, expensive housing, etc.). There is a reason that first and second generation foreigners prosper in this economy. They have different values and don't tend to waste a much money. As long as you think that it's someone else's fault that you can't get everything you want, you'll never put the effort in to changing your situation. It might be harder than it used to be but it's still possible -2 -2points reply Jax Jax Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. When the corporations go woke or some other nonsense to “buy” favor with groups of people that is also part of our downfall! I’ve never worked for a poor person! -5 -5points reply Bayou Billy Bayou Billy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Woke just means not being sexist and racist dude. Grow up... 1 1point reply Ray Arani Ray Arani Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago In the case or corporations they actually legally can't just lower prices and increase wages. If they try, their shareholders can and will sue them and win. They have to do what's in the best interest of the shareholders, that's literally the law. In America anyway. Not to say the CEOs and upper management of those companies aren't perfectly happy with the situation, but the law backs all that up, sadly. 1 1point reply Honest Bob Honest Bob Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Buyers raise home prices, not sellers. Young people keep out-bidding each other. Boomers aren't doing it, we'll sell for the market price set by buyers. Don't blame boomers. Our home purchase 40 years ago isn't driving up prices now. 1 1point reply Krixl Duke Krixl Duke Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Blackrock (the governments) is who is buying the houses to put condos or apartments on to get everyone living in "walkable cities" 0 0points reply Sheila Stamey Sheila Stamey Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago (edited) I had to work three jobs as a single mother and accept food stamps in order to raise my the kids and take care of my mom. I kept my mom with me at home for as long as I possibly could because I loved her most of all, and honestly, her income made a difference. It still fell short of many things. My husband had been put in jail for being very stupid sad and drunk, but it still made our family a single parent household. It's extremely difficult if you are only feeding and housing yourself. My children are now successful. I am proud of them. None of them have college debt because they didn't go to college. They all have 50k+ incomes in an area where that's middle class. They are blessed and tough. 26 26points reply Gillbella Gillbella Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago You did a great job! 9 9points reply Load More Replies... Klara Lorinczi Klara Lorinczi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago You are to be admired for your strength and courage! Women like you make a country great, not men!! I male bash but yes, men deserve it! Always! -2 -2points reply Leonardo Kinach Leonardo Kinach Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Woman does something, she must be praised. Man does the same the same thing he must be bashed. Hmmmm... Bad men are a minority, proved by the fact society survived long enough for feminism to be created. Also historians claim societies were originally matriarchal but we're changed to patriarchal as the former wasn't working 0 0points reply Jerry Mathers Jerry Mathers Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago If you factor in healthcare, the disparity is much worse 18 18points reply Liam Lowenthal Liam Lowenthal Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago Don't even get me started on "small" emergencies like your car breaking down or needed a sitter all of a sudden. Small... Ha. 2 2points reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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