‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations

Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by tyre on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:32AM (#21441957)

I don’t think the boomer generation “earned” cheaper college. That was given to them either by circumstance or by the previous generations. Similarly, post-war prosperity wasn’t something they had earned or worked for.

The contention is that the world left by boomers has less opportunity than what the one provided to them. It’s not entirely true (if you’re black in America, the civil rights movement sure changes a lot for the better), but that’s the argument.

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Re:‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations by fuzzfactor on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:53PM (#21444258)

>I don’t think the boomer generation “earned” cheaper college.

Exactly. Later generations simply inherited expensive college after the devastation of Nixon.

If Nixon wasn't stopped, they would have continued until all Americans had been returned to lower opportunity levels equivalent to many minorities before Civil Rights, other than those whose significant capitalist privileges had already been well established before the early 1970's.

EDIT: more rapidly returned to lower opportunity levels

Edit: It's still too easy to underestimate Nixon Youth.

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