Boomers, Gen X, millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha aren’t real, but do you know what is? Racism, sexism and income inequality.
Source: My Generation Was The Scapegoat For America’s Failures — And So Is Yours
Of course someone, somewhere will bring up the boomers — the apparent standard all modern generations must be compared to, due to all the accomplishments, gains and wealth they amassed thanks to the GI Bill and actual social safety net meant to lift people out of poverty after WWII and the Great Depression. Everything from Social Security to welfare to Medicaid and Medicare to low tuition costs and benefits for returning soldiers, as well as public works programs and other numerous blue-collar union jobs, led to a boom unseen before in American history. For some dumb reason, we all get compared to this — as if this were the standard instead of a magical blip in time, a fluke from people actually giving a shit about the poor and putting standards and protections in place after banks had run amok and ruined everything during the economic collapse of the late 1920s.
