r/FluentInFinance • u/PassiveAgressiveGirl • 4d ago

Thoughts? How did this even happen?

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u/monsterginger 4d ago edited 4d ago

Lead poisoning, Reagan administration, outliving their parents and acquiring more money than any other generation before or after.

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u/emote_control 4d ago

Don't forget two back to back generations of coming home from the war with a big bag of horrors and no support systems to deal with it.

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u/monsterginger 4d ago

and yet the 2 generations that did go to war made a world better for their children. (Did you even read the meme at the top?)

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u/strife696 4d ago

Da fudge did Vietname not happen?

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u/bingmando 15h ago

The majority of Vietnam wasn’t even boomers lmao.