For all the crap Boomers take, no one wants to blame Generation X, who are the ones in power now. The Boomers are retiring.
It seems their chief sin is a lack of understanding of how the world is today. That's something that's been an issue between generations for decades. So they may be misguided on some things but that's true of anyone, and that doesn't mean they're to blame for millennials' plight.
But who are the mega-billionaires who have rewritten the system? Mostly born in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. Marc Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, the Google guys... in politics, Barack Obama. Generation X took their pervasive daddy issues and put the screws to everyone around them. It was Generation X that taught the millennials in the public schools, especially high school.
Sort of. Gen X is mostly conservative with a heavy libertarian streak.
But as with any generation you have that percentage, in this case the nihilistic, perpetually depressed, Seattle grunge plaid contingent that came of age in the era of Bill and Hillary Clinton. They are just as commie left as any college educated, vagina studies SJW you got running around today, or in the 60's.
And they gravitate to the same areas: tech, govt, 501c3 activist groups, and least lucky of all - our education system to brainwash you generation.
Probably the only things I really criticize the younger generations for, now having been around quite a few of them as adults, are that they tend to be waaaaay overconfident with unrealistic, rock star dreams, and everything with them is social, social, social, social, and online.
What they need is more individualism, less groupthink, more practicality, less self promotion, less cockyness, more substance and depth, more analog and most of all more clarity of thought combined with some strong critical thinking. They seem to want to turn everything into a 60's style, trendy, mass feelgood movement.
Which is the irony I spoke of above, because that was one of the worst qualities of Boomers, and they are recycling it into the same old mistakes.