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In reply to the discussion: It seems like there's a lot of dislike and contempt for "boomers" from "millennials" [View all]RobinA
(9,886 posts)about this generation doing this or that are giving the "generation" concept way too much power. Any group of people alive during the Depression would have endured the depression. It's not like one group of people would have all jumped off a bridge while another group of people would have plodded stoically onward. Every generation plays the cards they are dealt.
It so happens that the greatest economic boom the western world has ever seen started slowing down in the '70's. Boomers didn't cause the boom, nor did they cause the end of the boom. They benefitted from it for awhile and are now being hurt by it. It so happens that a severe depression hit in the late '20's. If the greatest generation is to be credited with surviving that depression, they should be credited with causing it. But all this is way too simplistic. Generational similarities are results, not causes.