The article stresses that baby boomers worked hard for their money, but they didn’t really work hard. They just worked. Boomers were in ideal work situations that many of us can’t even imagine.

It was possible for them to get decent white collar jobs with just high school degrees. And they got decent pay and good benefits that everybody talks about, but today we work in skeleton crew situations where one person is forced to do the job of multiple people.

There are often situations at workplaces today where four or five people will quit, and they don’t rehire anyone to replace them. They just expect everyone to take on more and more and more responsibility.This did not happen when baby boomers were working. There were ample people working.They had large staffs and everybody had specialized jobs.

Boomers often worked in very relaxed workplaces that operated at a much slower pace than the workplaces we have to deal with today, and some of them would even drink at work socially during lunch. They got long lunch breaks. They had a lot of these types of daily benefits that we can’t even imagine.

Of course, I’m overgeneralizing a bit. It wasn’t like this for all baby boomers and some of the trade type work like in factories or plumbing or repair stuff could be kind of grueling. Restaurants were always an exception too. I’m mainly talking about white collar, middle class jobs in offices. These jobs were in abundance too. They didn’t have to fight for them the way we do.

So pardon me if I roll my eyes at how hard the baby boomers worked. Some of them did, but a lot of them had it pretty easy. They were literally spoiled by their parents and their society, and that’s why they act like such selfish brats that are unwilling to sacrifice for their own children.