My life experience would say the same thing.
My observation has been that they are obedient to a fault, and also they seem to have grown up during a time when all their mainstream messaging served them well, and when to be informed meant watching an hour of evening news instead of no news at all mean you were informed.
They followed the, high school to college, to job with big company, do that whole life, get promoted, retire in house you own thing. All worked for them. They are completely detached from what the real world is like after the internet began to exist.
Boomers don't realize they are the generation of "Good times create weak men." They genuinely don't recognize that they are the beginning of that part. And they'll never admit they kicked it off.
They'll just keep telling themselves that they were pulling every boot strap they could get their hands on.
What really blows my mind is that boomers today will be broke and blame it on voters and/or this generation, but in the same breath tell you that you just need to get your shit together. Anyone can be successful.
Seriously? You went through the best economy the world has ever seen and came out broke. Now you're giving me life advice?
Yes. They are selfish too. Narcissistic in my experience.
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