I understand and mostly agree.

But I try to look from an individual point of view as much as I can. There are for sure boomers that built stuff that brought (by that time) unseen levels of prosperity. You focus on your field of expertise and make world a better place. And you can't influence everything. There are boomers and there are boomers.

Also from european point of view, the pre-boomer generations were responsible for ww1, ww2 and communism. In czechia in 1950s commie mobs just took other people property en masse, sometimes made the owners flee, sometimes they killed them, sometimes they made them the lowest ranking "employees" on their former property while still forcing them to pay the mortgages even after there was a money reform. They even sent parents to a prison and left their little children to take care of themselves while robbing them of everything. Imagine being an individual on one or the other side of this.

A big chunk of 20th century was so bad in europe, esp. if you ended up on the red side of the iron curtain. Things got better at the end of it in "boomer prime years".

Of course there is a lot of to criticize, A LOT.

Goldbugs - agree 100%, but some of them are switching out of doomerism to bitcoin, so there's that too.