>We created the Pax Americana of the 80s and 90s
>We destroyed the Soviet Union.
You were kids during the hot years of the Cold War, and Reagan was no Boomer.
>the greatest decades in human history
With biggest lines of credit and the hugest economic bubbles in human history. Generation X and the Millennials are worse off by every economic measure than you are. You ran up the credit cards of every country around the world, you had a great run
>muh nest egg
>muh reverse mortgage
>muh financed boat
>muh quarter century retirement plan
>muh Social Security shekels (gambled away at the Seminole Casino every weekend)
"As with any group at any time, some have a lot of money and some don’t, determining what kind of inheritance, if any, they will transfer to their kids. In total, though, boomers are the nation’s wealthiest-ever generation, with a 50.2 percent share of net household wealth projected for 2020, according to a 2015 Deloitte Consulting study.
Almost 20 percent have investable assets of about $500,000, and 37 percent have about $50,000 in liquid cash, the study says."
"Whatever Gen Xers and millennials inherit in the coming decades, they could use the financial boost. Some are still paying off student loans as they raise families, according to Pew. Their salaries haven’t increased much — 23 percent of Gen Xers received no raise in 2015, the Economic Policy Institute says — and about 38 percent of Gen Xers have more debt than savings, more than any other generation, reports a Northwestern Mutual survey."
nypost.com/2017/11/18/you-can-count-on-getting-squat-when-your-parents-die/
>Everything turned to shit when Gen X and Millennials came around.
Gen X and the Millennials weren't in positions of power in the 00s/10s - you were. Gen X are barely entering the middle years.
