It seems like there's a lot of dislike and contempt for "boomers" from "millennials"

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49. I think part of it is a lack of understanding of the difficulties millenials face.

Boomer parents tell their millenial kids "you could get a job if you really wanted one" after they spent a whole morning reading rejection emails, "just work at McDonalds until things turn around" after they've already been turned down for dozens of crappy fast food jobs. They make jokes about "boomerang kids" as if the actual choice their child was facing wasn't homelessness or mom's sofa. They turn their child's despair into something that is all about the inconvenience to them- oh dear... when will Johnny finally grow up and move out so I can get a new iPad?

Meanwhile, Johnny sees very clearly that he will never be able to attain the lifestyle his parents take for granted. He will literally be expected to work ten times harder just to survive - not even to get ahead or to build up a savings buffer. His parents weren't competing with 1.5 billion Chinese people straight out of the gate. They didn't graduate college $60,000 in debt. For the majority of their working lives, they were able to find jobs that let them buy houses and start families. How many people in their 20s now can afford to have kids at the same age their parents did? And yet how many of them have pressure from their parents to "grow up, get a job, settle down, give me grandkids"? How many of them have to put up with comments about what a late start they're making to their career and how they should really be saving for retirement now (nevermind they're living paycheck to paycheck off two "part-time" jobs)?

I'm not sure it's a question of blaming boomers so much as resenting the lack of understanding from them that millennials are growing up in a very different world and have problems that can't be solved the same way they have been in the past.