It could also be correlation without causation. Moneyed interests love to depower the working poor - using a generational boundary coinciding with the grotesque expansion of corporate autonomy and authority over society minimizes the risk of a social upset while you ransack society and normalize poverty in the future generations.
Despite all the rhetoric to the contrary "boomers" are not a hive mind of universally conservative tech illiterate bitter resentful retirees who want to destroy the planet. In the same way Milennials are not some collective unified anti-capitalist anti-authoritation avocado toast pot huffing borg collective, people act in self interest and often irrationally so. Few are operating on substantial let alone complete information. Before you look at systemic societal change and pin it on a subconscious predisposition of millions you might want to look at those informed and empowered to cause such change without the cooperation of a disparate group representing almost a hundred million persons. Those with power and authority have long learned optimized techniques to divert culture and society towards their own ends and have been machinating such policy for centuries.
If you are paying more for education, housing, and getting paid less there is probably someone swimming in a Scrooge McDuck money pit on the weekends that with intent wanted that outcome to happen and aligned vast capital resources in participation with the capital resources of thousands of other plutocrats to see it done. The Fox News obsessed obese retiree blaming immigrants for all ills while being jealous of youth and a life unfulfilled is not organized or educated enough to affect national economic and political forces to inflict their will. But the millionaire boss at their last employer with close ties to all levels of government and the executives of all other corporations in their market certainly is.
We need class consciousness in opposition to power seeking to exploit and abuse. I don't expect those of older generations to embrace it - they have vested interests in defending the status quo and are thus erected as the vanguard of the moneyed interests that both make them miserable and make them feel safe and secure in their station. They are not an ally, but they are not the enemy - they are a symptom and victim of systematized propaganda meant to turn them against their own self interest.
Despite all the rhetoric to the contrary "boomers" are not a hive mind of universally conservative tech illiterate bitter resentful retirees who want to destroy the planet. In the same way Milennials are not some collective unified anti-capitalist anti-authoritation avocado toast pot huffing borg collective, people act in self interest and often irrationally so. Few are operating on substantial let alone complete information. Before you look at systemic societal change and pin it on a subconscious predisposition of millions you might want to look at those informed and empowered to cause such change without the cooperation of a disparate group representing almost a hundred million persons. Those with power and authority have long learned optimized techniques to divert culture and society towards their own ends and have been machinating such policy for centuries.
If you are paying more for education, housing, and getting paid less there is probably someone swimming in a Scrooge McDuck money pit on the weekends that with intent wanted that outcome to happen and aligned vast capital resources in participation with the capital resources of thousands of other plutocrats to see it done. The Fox News obsessed obese retiree blaming immigrants for all ills while being jealous of youth and a life unfulfilled is not organized or educated enough to affect national economic and political forces to inflict their will. But the millionaire boss at their last employer with close ties to all levels of government and the executives of all other corporations in their market certainly is.
We need class consciousness in opposition to power seeking to exploit and abuse. I don't expect those of older generations to embrace it - they have vested interests in defending the status quo and are thus erected as the vanguard of the moneyed interests that both make them miserable and make them feel safe and secure in their station. They are not an ally, but they are not the enemy - they are a symptom and victim of systematized propaganda meant to turn them against their own self interest.