Vox: How the baby boomers — not millennials — screwed America

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

JFK said "ask not what your country can do for you" but the rhetoric of the liberalism of that era promised people a lot, an end to war, an end to poverty, the moon. Well we got the moon.
There was a lack of understanding that you can't have it all that long preceded the boomers, and in a way Gibney falls into the same fallacy. So you want to have invested in the world's best infrastructure, the world's best education, health care system, pensions, etc. with ever increasing demands on what we expect from all these areas.... meanwhile we are first in a Cold War struggle then find ourselves the world's policeman. So we need a to spend a lot for that, so we need a lot of prosperity to support that spending, which means growth, deregulation, tax cuts, getting out of this stagflation of the late 70s that's happening just as boomers are starting their careers and families. But that engine of prosperity is financed with debt, and is also contributing to environmental degradation.  And it's dependent on mobile populace, with rapid changes in what industries exist and where, and all sorts of 'redevelopment' projects to promote growth - all with the effects that has on the social fabric, on people living in places far from any intergenerational community while they try to  build the lives for themselves and their children that they have been told they can have.
The reality is we could never solve all this by depending on 'the system' or 'the nation' to solve ever greater and larger questions, rather than facing the honest truth that we might have to sacrifice some of our expectations in order to keep the whole thing from crashing.