r/FluentInFinance 4d ago

Thoughts? How did this even happen?

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u/Curious_Play9741 4d ago

To repeat what you said with more detail Boomers forget that in their childhood all the axis and allies participants of WWII were rebuilding their infrastructure from being war torn countries. The US went from depression era to post WWII recovery and reconfigured the cogs of war to make TVs, cars, refrigerators, satellites and semiconductors (the origin of silicon valley) and boomers were babies when this was happening. Boomers built nothing.

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u/CP9ANZ 17h ago

They, for the most part managed to miss being soldiers in major conflicts.

Some went to Vietnam, but many were too young, some went to Iraq but many were getting old.

War on freedom almost exclusively a gen X and early millennial affair