Frustrating Thread Reveals That Boomers Are Still Disgracefully Out of Touch

We're sad to report that the boomers still don't understand that things have changed in the past fifty years. It's as if nothing has happened outside of their lived experiences. "I made $10 an hour in 1970 and bought my own house by the time I was 30! If I did it, so can you." You can try and explain to grandpa the concept of housing price inflation, or that $10 in 1970 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $77 today (which would be an annual salary of $148,379), but there's a strong chance that he won't even try to listen to you. He might even end the conversation by calling you a lazy millennial. But at least we have Reddit threads like these that make us feel less alone in this crippling economy.

Posted by Mel Dawn

“My boomer grandparents, whom I live with, just told me I’ve ‘failed to launch’” Posted by u/sadz6900

The comment section

Redditors replied with their own anecdotes and complaints about out-of-touch boomers.

“I did this with my dad when he thought making $10 an hour was somehow magical. $400 a week before taxes, when I had an apartment that was only $400 a month that was fine, but those prices didn’t last that long.” said u/IntelligentMeal40.

“$10 an hour was a good wage when I made it. At 16. In 2000.” said u/SolomonCRand.

“Because if there's a cheap house in a nearby neighborhood, then THEY can't flip their 3000 sq ft garish McMansion that they bought for a handshake in 1982 for a quick million. Investments only go up, dammit!” said u/agnostichymns.

“I missed boomer by 2 years, so I'm pretty close to your age. I've had this discussion with my in-laws. They live off the stock market and think if young people today aren't making it, it's because they aren't taking advantage of all the opportunities to get extra income. And also they wonder why people aren't starting families while they work two jobs and deliver food on what little time they have left.” said u/EnqueteurRegicide.

“The boomer generation is famous for ‘if I did it why can’t you’ attitude. Drives me crazy.” said u/rob6110.

“If I climbed the mountain when there were paved roads and easy weather, ample food and it really just fell from the sky as long as I worked hard there was almost no way to fail… why can’t you? What do you mean the path up the mountain is now 97 degree vertical covered in false paths, traps, legally enshrined blockers, no resources, inability to climb more than an inch a day, frequent collapses that make you restart, and even when you do put in the exact same work I did, you only get 1% of the progress? Lazy, these kids today, right?” said u/ckh27.