worth noting, anecdotal of course with the taint of 'murica, that none of my local millennial friends went on two foreign holidays a year growing up with their boomer parents (leaving the country at all not really that common for many families, actually!), and their boomer parents aren't going on holiday today, let alone frequently. people are firmly in the precariat, a check away from homelessness, and the old people are budgeting for cancer evaluations, if things go their way, not trips to europe. if a (/n american, at least) boomer didn't win the financial game in their 20s and 30s for whatever reason, they probably aren't winning now. there's this constant buzz of media expectation that boomers have millions lying around and i just don't see it when some frail grayhair is holding back tears because even the coupons aren't enough for groceries. don't worry though, politicians like trump are focusing on what really matters. legislating oppression of trans! fixing the non-existent problem of widespread voter fraud! you know, stuff that really matters to a person sleeping on hard, damp concrete in below-freezing weather.

gg and to a lesser degree, x, seemed to have a better degree of spending power success in their adulthood. i think lots of boomer families started wiped out if they didn't get financial assistance from their elders.