Reply #23: I think the early Baby Boomers basically got what they expected to get

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There was tumult and change during their teenage and college years, but the social institutions were still pretty much intact, and the early baby boomers, like my sister (born 1946) still got their share of the pie and got the life that they expected to get when they were in school. The Gen Xers had different expectations because by the 1980s the world had changed a lot. Us Jonesers had the expectations that the Boomers had, yet got stuck with the world that GenX got. So it was kind of a bait-and-switch for us. I still feel like we sort of just passed by unnoticed and had to adapt on our own.