Boomers who believe facing discomfort has a significant benefit may be right.

I was gonna say lol at boomers “facing discomfort.” You mean the blowhards who pretended to be hippies for a few years because they didn’t want to fight for their country? Bunch of selfish narcissistic shit heads. Worst in the history of this country and really underscored by how great their parents were.

As the late great Tom Wolfe referred to them - the “me generation”

 

Actually, we pretended to be hippies for the chicks.

 

lol
I have some cheese for your whine.

 

Yeah, I've been reminded of my gaff. Born in '43, I'm in no man's land with no designation.

 

If you are going to rage about inflation on savings, you should also acknowledge that older people with such assets were able to experience huge assets gains to low interest rate policies for a couple of decades.

 

Is this something you're seeing in person, or reading about in studies or what? My personal experience has been the opposite.

 

I think you're a member of the Silent Generation, people born from 1928 through 1945 or alternatively during the Great Depression and World War II.
Silent Generation - Wikipedia

 

As was anyone of working age those years.

 

Hey I didn’t start the ridiculous thread. A boomer did.

 

You were born during the War. You're a Kaboomer. Wear it proudly. You're welcome.


(Otherwise, people will make you be silent.)

 

I recall the Florida Alligator calling this group on the border of Gen X and Y the “Saved by the Bell Generation”.

 

It is interesting that it is more of a generation battle, I think we’d also find that it lines up with political viewpoint. That said, it doesn’t really need to be generational at all. This idea goes way back. Here’s Seneca from circa 64 AD:

“Let them be exercised by labours, sufferings, and losses, so that they may gather true strength. He who has waged an unceasing strife with his misfortunes has gained a thicker skin by his sufferings, yields to no disaster, and even though he falls, he continues to fight upon his knees.”

 

Was Seneca a disciple? That read like an excerpt from the good book…lol.
Seriously, good find!

 

Its all because Boomers let their kids go to Woodstock '99

 

I’m referring to those with limited savings but have pension and SS.

Even for those who do have some decent size savings they would have had to have the stones to commit the bulk of that to the stock market to realize any sizeable asset gains. This goes against most reputable financial advice for a senior to have a sizeable portion of their limited savings in stocks.

 

No doubt at all. I'd come home from school, watch back to back episodes on NBC and then I think it was back to back episodes on TBS.

 

I will agree that its hard to deny your children things that they "desperately need" when you can easily afford them. My teenage daughter desperately wants an iPhone, and is "severely humiliated" in middle school by having a flip phone. I tell her that I went through middle school without a cell phone, and with a big toe popping out through my sock and shoe, because my parents couldn't afford the latest in non-destructible footwear.

 

He was a Stoic philosopher, but some Christians liked him so much, they supposedly did indeed claim some of his writings.