There was a period of time in the 70s as I recall that you could get hired on
the assy line in Detroit and pretty quickly make your way to a job paying
$25/hour. I am sure that is equivalent to double or triple that today. And
that was right out of high school. Of course you had to be a union family and
some nepotism would probably have been involved. But kids out of highschool
will never again see an opportunity like that.
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2020 2:53 PM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT good to be a boomer
Yah. Even though I'm a boomer, I think attributing the current state of the
economy entirely on boomers is missing the mark somewhat. There are a whole
raft of issues that are squeezing millenials like globalization and extreme
automation. You keep adding barriers, and getting or creating a good paying job
just gets more difficult. If all you can do is flip burgers at Micky D's or
pour coffee at Starbucks, maybe you need to think a bit more creatively.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>On 10/11/2020 11:52 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Obviously I’m prejudiced, but I don’t think this whole trope about all the
problems young people today face being the fault of the baby boomers (and
wishing they would die and stop hogging all the good jobs) is quite accurate.
Yes we had a long recession starting in 2008 (but of course there were
recessions back in the 1970’s as well), but I saw a lot of parents dipping into
their 401K savings and taking out loans on their paid-off houses so their adult
children could live with them, or to pay for their kids to go to college
instead of being unemployed.
Baby boomer 401K plans were a big cushion for millennials and the economy in
general during the “Great Recession”. I think what will actually hit the
millennials is when the boomers do die, they won’t be inheriting as much money
because those retirement funds got drained. Also, don’t kid yourself that 70
year old boomer greeting people at Walmart or bagging groceries at Kroger is
just continuing to work for the fun of it, or that a millennial wanted that job
anyway. As far as the “good” jobs, age discrimination kicks in around age 50.
I don’t think Google and Facebook have a lot of boomers writing code. How many
boomers does Elon Musk have designing Teslas and SpaceX rockets?
Still a funny skit, but I run into millennials who totally blame all their
woes on boomers screwing their generation over. And the “why don’t they die
already” viewpoint spills over into Covid discussions. Lots of anti-maskers
say things like “if they don’t feel safe going out, they are free to not go
out”. Or there aren’t that many deaths if you ignore the old people who were
going to die anyway. People at least didn’t used to say stuff like that out
loud.
From: AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com On Behalf Of Robert
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2020 12:25 PM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT good to be a boomer
very apropos...
On 10/11/20 10:04 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/millennial-millions/3867395
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