Highlights From The Comments On Boomers

[original post: Against Against Boomers]

Before getting started:

First, I wish I'd been more careful to differentiate the following claims:

Boomers had it much easier than later generations. The political system unfairly prioritizes Boomers over other generations. Boomers are uniquely bad on some axis like narcissism, selfishness, short-termism, or willingness to defect on the social contract.

Anti-Boomerism conflates all three of these positions, and in arguing against it, I tried to argue against all three of these positions - I think with varying degrees of success. But these are separate claims that could...