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chocoboaus3 | 11 days ago

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Aeglaecia|11 days ago

well there's nothing special about any batch of humans in particular. what changes is the environment in which they function. so what exactly about the post ww2 environment led to this scenario?

amanaplanacanal|11 days ago

As a person in that cohort, I suspect it was the booming economy that led us to think that growth would go on forever, so we could vote ourselves infinite riches on the back of our children and grandchildren, secure in the knowledge that infinite growth would bail them out.

We are the worst generation.

jgalt212|11 days ago

It's easy to say this, and I am definitely down on the boomers, but I'd say the folks running Europe before WWI were probably a worse generation than the boomers.