Here's how I feel: suckered. I was raised to believe that a college education was the main thing you needed to succeed in life. With that, you could land a good-paying job at a big company that offered great benefits, and you could work at that company for the rest of your life and retire with a fat pension. You could buy that house, and send your kids to private school. Oh, it worked for a while, but then, as we aged, those big companies began phasing out pensions and breaking unions. They started scrambling to find ways to unload us and replace us with cheaper labor and automation. We built these lives based on rampant consumerism and suddenly, we were cut loose and nobody was hiring. Hard working, well educated people who lost their jobs in the wake of the 2008 sub-prime mortgage bust never found another job that paid as well or offered benefits as good. In the 1980s, a woman who had never worked outside the home could find a decent job answering phones and typing when her husband dumped her for a younger model. Try finding a job like that now. Boomers dipped into retirement savings to avoid foreclosure. They sold their houses and moved into condos or apartments. If they do work, it's at something below their skill and intelligence level. That's not everyone's story, of course, but the reality is that the Boomers have mostly gone bust. Try getting an IT job at 60. Journalism, marketing? Companies are getting people to do this for free with social media posts, reviews, and star ratings. There's a small portion of the Boomer generation that deserve your distain, but I would argue that most of us deserve your sympathy.