‘When we got out of college, we had a job waiting for us’: 80-year-old boomer says her generation left behind a different economy for her grandkids
https://fortune.com/2025/12/23/80-year-old-boomer-says-economy-worse-for-grandkids-affordability/
Posted by FUSeekMe69
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Colleges used to have actual standards. Now they’re leftist indoctrination mills pandering to mediocrity.
Thanks, Boomer! Totally appreciate you pulling up the ladder on us.
well, how time has changed, grandma!
If she’s currently 80-years-old she’s a member of the Silent Generation.
This 66 year old boomer graduated into unemployment over 10% nationally. I’m in Michigan, it was over 17%.
Like 1 in 20 boomers went to college though. I would bet 1 in 20 people today have a job when they get out of college.
When Boomers left high school, they had a job waiting for them too
Yawn, the whining is getting boring.
I didn’t do this. Just think of all the people who still don’t know that Reagan started this. He was dumb, like trump and the Kleptocracy they created goes completely unnoticed. FYI – Oligarchs own all forms of media. All of them.
It all depends on when you actually graduate and the economic conditions at that moment. For example, if you graduated in 2022 during the post Covid boom, any warm body got a job. Now the economy is entering a slower part of the cycle so jobs are harder to come by. No generation experienced constantly good job prospects for 20 straight years. Its a lie.
Her child looks like a dweeb or didn’t show an ounce of confidence in interviews
Boomers have been a massive voting block for a long time and they have absolutely been courted by Republicans for a long time which has led to policy that directly benefits boomers, while making it more difficult for the generations behind them. That said, to say that boomers are solely to blame for this is disingenuous. The billionaires pilfering from us shoulder nearly all of the blame.
I lay awake at night worrying out the future of my 21 & 19 year old sons.
We really handed the a pile of cow dung.
This is what end stage capitalism looks like.