How boomers will 'hand over the reins' to the younger gens

Saved the rainforest... invented language...
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[thelaughingrouge]

Literally my boomer uncle: "We had it rough when we were starting out too."
Me: "I'm 47."

[illumi]

“Hand over the reins”

“Promote to captain while the ship is sinking”

[laracroft]

"We've tried to leave the world nice and tidy for you"
"no but okay"
the relationship between boomers and younger generations could not have been summarized in a better way

[caesarstrings]

“Weak men create hard times.”
“YOU WERE THE WEAK MEN!”

[Zilch.]

Boomers looking at achievements of their parents:"-We did that!"
Boomers looking at the mess they've made:"-Millenials did that!" *points to a group of Gen Z:s*

[VIadlV]

So tired of paying to clean up after a party I was not invited to.

[RedTTHayo]

'When you see a coral reef teeming with life. Think of me."
Such a great line.

[jeffpv]

These old people don't understand, you can work as hard as they did, if not harder in a lot of areas, but your crops won't grow if the farmer before you salted the soil after sucking all the nutrients out.

[whatbreaksthesilence]

Hands over resume…
Immediately falls into the “you need experience to get experience” loophole

[Love_Crafts_HP]

“ Kids today have it so easy, why don’t they just pay their college tuition with a summer job like I did?”

[michaelg]

Your entire inheritance is just the memory of them telling you to your face that they “need to use up this money.. can’t spend it when we’re gone”…

[Lore-mczw]

Boomers are the personification of pulling the ladder up after climbing it.

[myroc]

Years ago my mother insisted i drive around and apply for jobs in person. Everywhere i went they ushered me to some half alive computer connected to the internet and had me apply on the website.

[billbadson]

All those homes getting reverse-mortgaged so the kids can inherit literally nothing lol

[GijsTheDog]

The Boomers are a generation that wants to do better than their children.

[FirstLast-cgnk]

"Your generation was given participation trophies."
"Who were the ones who insisted their children get those trophies?"

[BigPatFenis_]

Boomers: "I'm so glad we bought this house for 12K and a bag of potatoes."

GenZ and Millennials: "I think I can afford to buy eggs this week!"

[Pluralofvinylisvinyls]

It isn’t a dialogue with a boomer without unsolicited career advice 😂

[obsessionmine]

The other day I mentioned to my dad in passing how the only reason I could see for buying a house at this point is so you could leave something to your children and the whole concept of thinking about your children's future must have been such a novel idea to him that he went on this whole side-tangent about how he is "not going to limit himself in life to leave something to us" and if that doesn't perfectly encapsulate the boomer spirit idk what does lol

[Pythonhier]

"I worked hard all my life for what I have"
"Mom working one minimum wage job and never getting a raise, but still affording a home, car, vacations, children, and life does not mean you worked hard. I'm sorry to break it to you"
"AFTER EVERYTHING I DID FOR YOU, YOU TALK TO ME LIKE THAT?!"