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The Boomers’ Final Chapters Now Look More Grim

What all is going on here?

Ted Bauer
5 min readJan 8, 2024

We’ve had jokes about the Boomers and how great they’ve had it for literal decades now, with this being a good, funny take:

Paul Millerd even made the case a while back that there was a “Boomer Blockade” that was causing leadership and community involvement erosion:

And then there’s “OK Boomer,” etc.

But now there’s a different reality emerging, and again, it’s a subset of Boomers, not all of them. As with most things in America, it’s along class/money lines. I first became more aware of it in this video:

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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