Do you think the "Baby Boomer" generation had it cheap and easy compared to generation X and Y?

A dollar went a lot farther back then, but that doesn't mean it was cheap. They had to do the same amount of work in worse conditions for less money.. It does kinda upset me though that my grandparents' house and land was so cheap when they bought it and now it's easily worth half a million dollars. I'll probably never have anything nice like that cuz it's all too expensive. And we probably won't be able to retire either.

Psh YES. We of generation Y in the US have a lot to complain about. We're the only generation where the most college graduates are unemployed and have trouble finding jobs. I mean we have people with Masters degrees who can't find a job...that's just crazy! Even USA Today stated that because of the mistakes of the "baby boomer" generation, generation Y has a more difficult future. The public education system REALLY sucks right now, the economy sucks, and college is much MUCH more difficult than before. I mean sure generation Y has it easy as in we have everything available to us...but our job security, money, and future is unpredictable compared to all the past generations... ESPECIALLY because the US is going down pretty fast.

I don't know if it can be easily generalized like that. There are people who've always had to struggle regardless of generation and still do. I will say from the Baby Boomers and on there has been a larger wealth of opportunity for people readily at their disposal, whether or not some people have/had it easy is debatable.

My parents gave birth to the "baby boomers". I am #3 of the 7 my parents had that survived. Had they known about the RH factor earlier, I would have had 2 sets of twins and another brother and sister to contend with when I was growing up. Cheap and easy is a wrong thing to assume; life was NOT cheap and easy, but hard and the parents tried to shield their kids from the hardships. Being shielded from the hardship meant that these kids felt "entitled" to something they had to EARN instead of being GIVEN. There is a big difference between being entitled and earning your own way.

No generation has it easy, just different. Boomers worked hard for their money. I'm seeing a lot of Y-gen expecting everything to be handed to them. I'm an X-er and we all seem to be struggling to hang onto what we have. IMHO

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Hi Space,

I am one of those baby boomers,nothing was cheap or easy back when..

Your Friend,

poppy1

do you think generation x and y had it cheap and easy compared to those growing up in the depression

No, We baby boomers work hard.

No I don't think so...they grew up just as "X" & "Y" have. It is always a brave new world...You cannot compare one to another fairly.....