Thank you for this. To the asshats who said look in the mirror, you are just as shallow as any boomer.
I'm a boomer and I agree in large part with this post. I watched idealism turn into hedonism and blow past that into stone cold selfishness. But it's the smugness that's the worst. These are people who already know everything worth knowing, therefore there is no reason for discussion.
But I have to say I think Gen X has a lot to do with workplaces of Lords and Slaves. They saw the Boomer take all the gravy from our dominance post WWII and realized if they wanted a piece they had to crack the whip and otherwise do what it took to climb up. They were raised by hedonistic parents who didn't give a shit about traditions like a stable home life and concluded they had to look out for number one.
Now we've got a generation coddled and enabled in every possible way who have somehow concluded that winning life's lottery is a matter of being born white. Perhaps because they were given things without having to earn them, they feel guilty over their "priviledge."
Well, it's a shitshow all around. Guess I'm just cheerful today.