Jeremiah

I like to watch old sitcoms from the 80s.

And it is hilarious how much boomer indulgence goes on.

Murphy Brown reminiscing about her time in The Revolution, in quotes.

Howard Hessman on The Head of the Class kicking Dan Schneider out of class for making irreverent jokes about the 60s.

Kate from Kate and Ali forbidding her daughter from dating a boy who didn't support 60s peace protesters.

Just watch the opening credits of Family Ties.

It's a nightmare.

but I bet it was fun to be a boomer.

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Vizsla Kanu writes, quote, You forgot to mention another transformation that hurt people who weren't able to plan for it, nor did they have time to pivot.

The boomers shipped their parents off to old people's homes and defected from the compact where your parents take care of you when you're young and you do the same when you're old and frail.

Boomer homes didn't have olds hanging about.

No time for wiping old people's butts.

There are films to see on the telly.

My grandparents didn't know this was coming and didn't have any idea they'd need to save the money to pay strangers to do what family members had done for every single generation up to the boomers.

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Scott writes, I don't know much about this part of history, so I'll assume this is true.

So, since you're so against this, you're going to reverse it by taking great care of your own elderly parents in your house, attending to their every need, right?

I think most people will wave this off with a, well, since the boomers destroyed the social contract, now I'm no longer bound by it and this is totally fine.

But it was still totally unjustifiable when they did it.