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Personally I was more fond of the silent generation (my grandparents) than the boomers (my parents). They grew up during the depression and lived through WW2, and largely had the metal to pull themselves up from the bootstraps, and to stay married and support a traditional family (back when that was still possible). The boomer's generation were the ones who really kicked off the wholesale disintegration of the family unit, which during the 1970's was roughly 2/3 of marriages ending in divorce.
It's just one factor, but in my view the future stability and prosperity of a society has a lot to do with the stability of the family unit. High divorce rates, especially when children are raised in the absence of their fathers, empirically has serious negative consequences for their prospects of success in life in every other regard.
As to inheritance, my dad refused to give me a dime, even for college/university, and my mom stole most of the money my grandparents left me (and my other relatives) for that purpose to spend on herself. Gen X are the black pill generation who often grew up without healthy family role models, and saw the tale end of the hippy dream fading into a dystopian nightmare of self absorbed sell outs. Hence goths. If those who've come after have inherited some of that systemic dysfunction, it's hardly a surprise.
Personally I was more fond of the silent generation (my grandparents) than the boomers (my parents). They grew up during the depression and lived through WW2, and largely had the metal to pull themselves up from the bootstraps, and to stay married and support a traditional family (back when that was still possible). The boomer's generation were the ones who really kicked off the wholesale disintegration of the family unit, which during the 1970's was roughly 2/3 of marriages ending in divorce.
It's just one factor, but in my view the future stability and prosperity of a society has a lot to do with the stability of the family unit. High divorce rates, especially when children are raised in the absence of their fathers, empirically has serious negative consequences for their prospects of success in life in every other regard.
As to inheritance, my dad refused to give me a dime, even for college/university, and my mom stole most of the money my grandparents left me (and my other relatives) for that purpose to spend on herself. Gen X are the black pill generation who often grew up without healthy family role models, and saw the tale end of the hippy dream fading into a dystopian nightmare of self absorbed sell outs. Hence goths. If those who've come after have inherited some of that systemic dysfunction, it's hardly a surprise.