Boomers have been looking down on the younger generation for years. If I had a nickel every time I heard one spout about the lack of hard work, I’d be a wealthy man. But why is that? Is it age? Well, a Washington woman explains her (correct) take on the matter. Simply put, boomers feel boxed in by this perceived notion that younger generations are lazy. After all, they had to work hard, so why should newer generations benefit from a better system they didn’t have? They honestly sound jealous!
TikToker user Breezleweezle started her video by asserting boomers “weren’t allowed to do that specific thing,” referring to the changing times. Breeze gives an example by sharing a conversation she had with an older person who was bad-mouthing her daughter-in-law. The reason? The daughter-in-law is pregnant and is no longer working, and is becoming a stay-at-home mom. The boomer mother-in-law asked Breeze, “Why can she not work? Why can she not contribute?”
“Can they afford how things are going?” Breeze asked, refusing to humor her. The woman said, “Well, yeah,” to which Breeze then asked where the problem was. Her answer was: “I worked all the way up until my 40-week appointment. Nobody said that I was not gonna work.” Breeze told the woman that maybe she should have been treated with the same tenderness and care as her daughter-in-law.
Breeze also stated she’s heard boomers say “you’re just gonna have to be miserable sometimes” when it comes to your job. Though Breeze agreed that you will experience hardships in life, your work shouldn’t intentionally make you miserable. We do, after all, have limited time in this world and deserve to make it what we want it to be.
“YES. I feel judgment often comes from jealousy. ‘I struggled so everyone else has to struggle,’” one commenter correctly stated. Another person agreed, “I’m so sick of punishing younger generations for the pains older generations have to go through. Shouldn’t we want the people that come after us to have an easier time? Isn’t that the whole point of advancing society?”
See, it’s some weird sense of injustice to boomers. Perhaps they need to recognize that they weren’t being treated fairly, and it’s not the fault of the younger generation. Unfortunately, boomers fail to see it that way. Echoing what Breeze said: they want people to be miserable, plain and simple.
