Comments by "dbergerac" (@dbergerac9632) on "Big Think" channel.

@ThomasSorensen1 And came of age in Hyperinflation, a wage/price freeze, stagflation, interest rates that would make your hair fall out to think about. And boomer unemployment in the mid/late 70's was worse than anything in modern experience. The first boomers did get absorbed into the economy but the bulk of boomers were left out, as in a giant economic game of musical chairs. That's WHY there were hippies, the world had really no room for us.
7
Tuition rose because the government started giving out grants and loans willy-nilly and inflation is the natural result. The Greatest Generation did that to you. I paid for college with a part time campus job before grants became a big thing, followed closely by loans. Colleges are monolithic institutions who organically cannot pass up a buck.
3
@cmtmj2006 Conservative baby boomers fought this silliness for over 50 years. We warned that someone would get the bill and here you are, voting in more progressives than ever before ( as conservative boomers die out ). It is time to join the fight or just STFU.
2
@globalfamily8172 In 1972 I attended a state four year college and tuition was $187.50 tuition and fees. Not books ( those were about 20 bucks each). I commuted so no party dorm. I paid for with a campus job paying $1.60/hr. By 1975, the government was offering big grants and loans and inflating the tuition.
2
We did not bankrupt our way out of student loans, we did not have them. College was affordable if you worked ( and did not insist on an out of state school to party for four years ). Then the government guaranteed loans and offered grants so the prices rose to unbelievable heights, blame the greatest generation which was in congress at the time for that. I paid $187.50/yr for four year state college/tuition and fees. When the government offers help, expect disaster. You guys got screwed but it was not by boomers.
1
Those damned boomers. They got the voting age lowered to 18, and campaigned for the EPA so that your rivers would not catch fire. Boomers opened opportunities for women in the Universities and the workplace like had never before been seen. (Harvard admitted women in Fall '72). Boomers got women in fire stations and police cars. Who do you think BUILT this digital world we live in? Who created video games and the internet? Boomers were born into a world which had no room for them, crowded schools, no spaces in college. No place in the job market, but boomers soldiered on and turned the stagnant pre-plastic, pre-transistor world around. Most of the things that you take for granted every day were either created by boomers or created to supply the demands of boomers. The world now belongs to the next generations, stop kvetching and show us what you've got. Boomers remade the world, some for the better, some not. Do more, whine less. Boomer children were taught that girls would grow up to be housewives or nurses or teachers, but Boomers made them astronauts, professors, doctors, soldiers, financiers and entrepreneurs. You should be ashamed to curse boomers while enjoying everything they built for you, socially and technologically.
1