Thread: The Boomers Viewed from GenX
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The popular view of the Boomers, captured in a picture. This is not a “Defense of Boomers” thread, but an anecdotal account of things I’ve seen.
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I am a member of GenX: the kids of Boomers who were lucky enough to have survived newly-legalized abortion and the shrinking of the nuclear family after mothers entered the workplace en masse. We’re known primarily for our cynicism and comprise the last analog generation.
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I was raised by Boomer parents in the Rust Belt. I saw Boomers struggle, badly, during the stagflation of the 70s, and all of the industrial offshoring of the 80s & 90s.
Boomers get no "credit" (for lack of a better term) for this.
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Entire towns, and swaths of large cities, died from the 70s-90s. Some of this was via relocation elsewhere in the US, but most was because TPTB decided offshoring to foreign countries was a better option than employing their fellow citizens.
carnegieendowment.org/2018/12/10/how…
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Offshoring/relocation caused a chain reaction. Factory jobs left, and then the ancillary jobs followed: diners where workers ate closed, so waitresses and cooks were out of work. Stores, barber shops, gas stations, house builders, etc, all followed suit.
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