How much television watching does it take to fantasize that the boomer generation received gifts of homes, $$$, etc. from their parents?
Most boomers have elderly parents still living that we are assisting - that's where our discretionary money is going. Additionally, boomers' grandparents scraped lives together out of a depression and war years - if there were scraps left over (almost never) they were whittled down into tiny pieces distributed among multiple children/grandchildren. Then, as now, many mortgaged and over-extended themselves an overly optimistic lifestyle so their children could live the "good life". Maybe some "1 percenter" families passed something on, but throughout history most generations received nothing from previous generations other than life, training and direction.
I doubt if any of these complainers would ever care for an elderly parent without full payment for doing so.
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