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They all came out on top. Even the poorest boomer right now today living in the street had a better shot at the American dream than all but the most lucky of youth right now.
Yes some fucked up or got screwed over but as a vast majority even these people supported and continue to support the same people who have put them there in the first place.
Trying to explain to a sharecropper born in 1945 and dead from cholera or smallpox in 1965 that he had just as good a shot at the "American Dream" as someone born after modern sanitation, public education, and highway mass transit was installed in their municipality forty years later.
But I can't, because that sharecropper was illiterate and also dead.