05-30-2019, 02:01 PM
(05-30-2019, 11:42 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(05-30-2019, 10:15 AM)David Horn Wrote:(05-30-2019, 09:35 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote: It seems like they get all of the bad. Is there any good side that extends to our lives, not the life of some hypothetical children in the future?
Civics tend to bear burdens in youth and collect their due in later life. That certainly beats the opposite, where a soft beginning leads to an unmanageable elderhood. Many Silents suffered when the market went south just as retirement loomed, though others where well protected by pensions. Boomers are less protected by pensions, and an economic crisis might leave a lot of us in poverty, just when recovery is impossible. We still have to see this play out.
FWIW, I think I'm in decent shape, regardless.
Also -- Civic youth rarely get the opportunity for flamboyant expressions of self (Liberace is the most flagrant exception), and they usually reach economic adulthood after they have saved the world and put more emphasis on quality than on display in such things as real estate, cars, etc.
Late-wave Boomers started a trend of job-jumping in which they took 'survival' jobs that they did for six months to a year while looking for something else. Long-term employment became a rarity, and most businesses abandoned pensions as a reward.
How don't they have the opportunity? It seems strange looking at all the possibilities around. Anyone who wants to express themselves can it's just they have to make the choice whether or not to do it.