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Should Rich Boomer Parents Help Their Struggling Millennial Kids?
A post on Reddit took the internet by storm this past week with a polarizing question.
Are rich boomers greedy assholes selfishly clinging to their lifelong gains, or prudent individualists responsibly preserving their wealth to endure the unknown storms of old age and life in general? Were they simply the beneficiaries of better economic times, cheaper cost of living, and a jobtopia American culture, who bootstrapped their way to financial security through their own gumption, or did they cruelly pull the ladder up behind them and say, “Suck it, kiddos!”
Are Millennials lazy, entitled brats looking for freebies from mommy and daddy instead of doing the hard work necessary to build their own lives? Or ar they the victims of “late-stage capitalism” and all its ills: high cost of living, obscenely high real estate prices, and high college tuition costs? Are Millennials truly just fucked by the economy they inherited from their boomer parents? Are they working their asses off and still getting nowhere through no fault of their own?
And what about Gen-Xers? Do they even still exist? Or did they all just become Millennials when grunge rock died?
