I’m glad my wife was never brought up that way. If I did something wrong, and I KNOW it was wrong, she’ll call me on it and kick my ass up between my shoulder blades (metaphorically, of course) if I don’t stop and realize it.

Well, it does lift all boats. However (and this isn’t a dig at you), some people don’t even have a boat to be lifted by, so they drown.

The best way I heard it described was, the Boomers parents put into place the ability to make decent money & raise a family for them & their future. The Boomers then mortgaged their own futures so that they could live the high life, and then left the bills to Gen X and future generations.