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Everyone likes to bash millennials. Were spoiled, entitled, and hopelessly glued to our smartphones. We demand participation trophies, cant find jobs, and live with our parents until were 30. You know the punchlines by now.
But is the millennial hate justified? Have we dropped the generational baton, or was it a previous generation, the so-called baby boomers, who actually ruined everything?
Thats the argument Bruce Gibney makes in his book A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America. The boomers, according to Gibney, have committed generational plunder, pillaging the nations economy, repeatedly cutting their own taxes, financing two wars with deficits, ignoring climate change, presiding over the death of Americas manufacturing core, and leaving future generations to clean up the mess they created.
I spoke to Gibney about these claims, and why he thinks the baby boomers have wrecked America.
A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows.
https://www.vox.com/2017/12/20/16772670/baby-boomers-millennials-congress-debt