My Generation Is F***ed

Major props to Gen Z for getting this right

Boomers and Gen X love to tell Millennials and Gen Z everything they are doing wrong, how easy they have it, and how lazy they are.

I have to chuckle when a Boomer righteously exclaims, “We respected our elders!” conveniently forgetting they were the generation who said, “Don’t trust anyone over 30!”

There’s some truth to the entitlement and work ethic criticism they dish out, but I’ve been questioning the societal expectation to take a job you hate, work 40+ hours a week, and numb yourself all weekend to make it back to Monday since I was a teenager.

That’s an old machine that I never wanted to be a cog in.

Funny, but the Boomers were the first generation to challenge that notion.
They sought to expand their minds (legally and otherwise), questioned the establishment, protested the draft, and made some of the best music in history.

Unfortunately, they jettisoned many of the traits that made them great.
They’ve become the cranky “get off of my lawn” generation that all generations do.

Bob Dylan once said, “The times they are a-changin,” but the more things change -you know the rest.