IMO the wealth inequality which exists now never existed during my childhood. Sure, executives were well paid, but never the ridiculous amounts they are paid now. No one is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

 

In the early 70's I was a small cog in a mining company. I paid off my house mortgage in 18 months. That is impossible for the average worker now.

 

I agree with the OP, we lived in a golden age where honesty, integrity and hard work were rewarded. It does make me wonder what went wrong.

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

IMO the wealth inequality which exists now never existed during my childhood. Sure, executives were well paid, but never the ridiculous amounts they are paid now. No one is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Most/all earning hundreds of millions built the companies.  

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

In the early 70's I was a small cog in a mining company. I paid off my house mortgage in 18 months. That is impossible for the average worker now.

And it was impossible for the average worker in the early '70s as well. 

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

 

I agree with the OP, we lived in a golden age where honesty, integrity and hard work were rewarded. It does make me wonder what went wrong.

You voted left.

6 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Most/all earning hundreds of millions built the companies.  

And it was impossible for the average worker in the early '70s as well. 

You voted left.

Here we go again  

3 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Most/all earning hundreds of millions built the companies.  

And it was impossible for the average worker in the early '70s as well. 

You voted left.

And benefited from tax cuts brought in by right wing parties.

 

You weren't even around, sonny. How would you know?

 

Of course I voted left. Trickle-down economics never worked with Reagan, and it certainly is not now. Simple greed has seen to that.

 

You are probably too dumb to understand reforms such as Medicare and the PBS in Australia were all brought in by what you call leftists. Right wing fascists never would, they are too busy creating wealth inequality.

1 hour ago, MalcolmB said:

Nup

 

Guillermo González Camarena (17 February 1917 – 18 April 1965) was a Mexican electrical engineer who made a color-wheel type of color television.

No commercially viable....

1 hour ago, MalcolmB said:

Nup

 

Guillermo González Camarena (17 February 1917 – 18 April 1965) was a Mexican electrical engineer who made a color-wheel type of color television.

Not commercially available... would you really want to watch a color wheel spinning?

4 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

No you didn’t.

If you're really gonna go that way....Physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld proposed the concept of a field-effect transistor (FET) in 1925, but it was not possible to construct a working device at that time.

1 hour ago, MalcolmB said:

Transistor was invented in 1947.

So are you claiming a three year old Boomer invented it?

Kids were smart in those days... 🙂

4 hours ago, connda said:

Ever serve in the military, or were you a coward?  I'm guessing the latter.
Enjoy wallowing in your self-sanctimonious drivel. I've no time for fools like you.

You mean a coward like Donald Trump?

On 3/22/2025 at 10:18 AM, blaze master said:

Thank you for also selling out my generation and future. We really appreciate it. 

 

You've got bootstraps, pull yourself up.

Just like us boomers did

9 minutes ago, kwonitoy said:

 

You've got bootstraps, pull yourself up.

Just like us boomers did

 

Ahhh the good old boot straps talking point. Did you also walk up hill both ways 10 000 miles in the snow ? You're comparing to a world that no longer exists.

 

I'm good thanks. Im talking about how you have destroyed our nations and societies. But keep addressing it any way you want.

OP is exactly right excepting the VN war thing for US boomers.  They ended the draft the year I was eligible.  We have enjoyed an incredible age of prosperity and security and opportunity.  I know I have benefited being a HS drop out who has amassed enough wealth by age 42 to retire and play golf around the world.  Not many places or times have offered such opportunity to one not from the inner circle or highly educated.

 

 

These "generational war" threads/posts always amuse/confuse me. Given the time period of your birth, the society of your parents, your own society, events of the period, science of the time, blah, blah, blah, the younger/older generations would have made the same generational choices. Hindsight is 20/20 as they say. 

 

For this reason, I fail to accept blame, nor expect older/newer generations to feel blame nor be shamed.

 

Have a wonderful day, everyone,

Frantick the thread-killer. 

20 hours ago, blaze master said:

 

By the time I was 18 the major effects were already in full motion. Manufacturing was already being shifted overseas. Governments and pensions totally bloated. Etc etc.

Am I still detecting some blubbering and a bit of sniffling lol typical of the magga types allways blaming others for problems,I’m more interested in solutions fair and equitable ones not ones designed to hurt others all achieved within the framework of our democracy not by decree.

13 minutes ago, Tug said:

Am I still detecting some blubbering and a bit of sniffling lol typical of the magga types allways blaming others for problems,I’m more interested in solutions fair and equitable ones not ones designed to hurt others all achieved within the framework of our democracy not by decree.

 

Stop it with your pathetic grandstanding. I've also made it clear on so many occasions that I not a Trump supporter. Yet people like you seem unable to comprehend such a basic concept. 

 

Leave it to you to bring Trump into everything as well. You have the syndrome indeed.

 

The forum was better when your kind ran away.

On 3/22/2025 at 11:36 PM, MalcolmB said:

Most boomers will be dead by next decade

 

OR....

 

Some are already dead...INSIDE.....

 

For example....

 

 

 

THANK YOU.....

 

JESUS....!!!!

 

10 hours ago, Lacessit said:

No one is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

 

I am.

 

10 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I paid off my house mortgage in 18 months. That is impossible for the average worker now.

 

Single income families were the norm even when I was growing up in the 80s. All but impossible now. The income to house price ratio for my parents was 1 : 2.5

 

10 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I agree with the OP, we lived in a golden age where honesty, integrity and hard work were rewarded.

 

Long gone. Employers and employees ghosting each other is now the norm. No loyalty on either side. Hard work means nothing except it shows you're a chump and the boss knows who to bully.

 

Gig work and side hustles have been normalised, as if work had always been that way.

 

When the decent blue collar work got offshored to China and the rest that was the beginning of the end.

The only hope that young people will have to retire is bitcoin

34 minutes ago, Woke to Sounds said:

Single income families were the norm even when I was growing up in the 80s. All but impossible now. The income to house price ratio for my parents was 1 : 2.5

Not even that, I bought my first home in Melba (ACT) in 1984 for 1 year combined gross income. Paid it off after 2 and a half years. Arrived in Australia with a few pennies, owned two cars and a house after three years. All fully paid after 5.

6 hours ago, blaze master said:

I'm good thanks. Im talking about how you have destroyed our nations and societies

Your are hammering this idiocy, with nothing to back it up. 

 

But your not the only one, seems like a new way to communicate... So easy on the Internet, legacy of the Boomers.

14 hours ago, connda said:

How did you manage to miss Vietnam?

More didn't go than did. They were the lucky ones. It was a bad war for bad reasons and a lot of people died that should not have. In the end it was for nothing anyway as the North Vietnamese won.

1 hour ago, Woke to Sounds said:

Long gone. Employers and employees ghosting each other is now the norm. No loyalty on either side. Hard work means nothing except it shows you're a chump and the boss knows who to bully.

When companies only care about profit, why should any worker care about the bosses? They don't care about us.

Nursing was ( is? ) rife with management bullies. Now they have a hard time getting western people to become one. I'd never recommend it as a job for anyone except a masochist.

7 hours ago, blaze master said:

Im talking about how you have destroyed our nations and societies.

The younger generation are doing just fine at destroying society with their pathetic social media BS, lemming like need to behave like everyone else, and their stupid fads like multiple genders and wokeness. They are also the ones destroying the environment with overpopulation- us oldies are not still breeding.

10 hours ago, placeholder said:

You mean a coward like Donald Trump?

Or Joe Biden, and Bill Clinton?

53 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:

Your are hammering this idiocy, with nothing to back it up. 

 

But your not the only one, seems like a new way to communicate... So easy on the Internet, legacy of the Boomers.

Three out of the four fathers of the Internet are pre boomer. 

14 hours ago, connda said:

Don't you dare discount that war as something trivial. 

It was not trivial, as it ended the golden age that Kennedy promised. The human race has since spiraled down in an orgy of warfare, violence, crime, unemployment and drug taking.

I'm glad I didn't produce any children to suffer in the coming disaster.

 

The Vietnam war was wrong, bad and a disaster for western society.

11 hours ago, Lacessit said:

 

 

You are probably too dumb to understand reforms such as Medicare and the PBS in Australia were all brought in by what you call leftists. Right wing fascists never would, they are too busy creating wealth inequality.

And Medicare is a massive driver of the deficit.  

 

https://www.cato.org/blog/cbo-update-medicare-social-security-are-key-drivers-exploding-debt

 

• Medicare was responsible for $449 billion in deficits (including associated interest costs), or 27 percent of the entire 2023 federal budget deficit.

Golf Clap for the liberals. 

3 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

It was not trivial, as it ended the golden age that Kennedy promised. The human race has since spiraled down in an orgy of warfare, violence, crime, unemployment and drug taking.

I'm glad I didn't produce any children to suffer in the coming disaster.

 

The Vietnam war was wrong, bad and a disaster for western society.

And it was pointless. The world gravitates towards communism no matter the US does

On 3/22/2025 at 10:58 PM, Ben Zioner said:

You haven't got your facts right.

maybe he is Swiss? 

2 hours ago, Tug said:

Am I still detecting some blubbering and a bit of sniffling lol typical of the magga types allways blaming others for problems,I’m more interested in solutions fair and equitable ones not ones designed to hurt others all achieved within the framework of our democracy not by decree.

Word salad.