8 things Millennials and Gen Z think are essential but boomers know are a waste of money

This right here is why people don’t like boomers. 1. We used to spend a fortune on CDs/records. I spend less on music streaming than I would on CDs. Buying music is a waste of money 2. My boomer mom pays $120/mo on cable. I pay $40 on streaming services like Netflix. She is the one wasting money. 3. A $10 t shirt you wear once and gets destroyed in the wash, costs you $10 per wear. A $30 t shirt that you keep and wear regularly for a year costs you less than $1 per wear. Cheap clothes are a waste. 4. A gym membership is again, paying more upfront but pays off in the long run. Enjoy your burgeoning healthcare costs and crippling retirement, boomer. And jfc, it’s just the unreal judgmental bullshit in this article. I know I’m giving it right back in this comment, but I’m just reacting to the general bitchyness here. Let. People. Live. Their. Lives. Boomers enjoyed unprecedented prosperity and opportunity. No matter how many subscription services these generations sacrifice, they are facing a life without affordable housing or retirement. And you want to strip them of what small pleasures and boys they CAN find in life? And the ones you are most focused on is your own kids?  “Sorry kids, no joy for you. Instead save these meager pennies in a futile attempt at a life that came very easy to me, but even if you sat in a basement eating nothing but ramen for the next 40 years will be forever out of your reach because my generation prioritized itself over its children. lol k bye!” It’s easy to look at their behaviour that’s different, and blame the gap in their opportunities from what you had on these differences (like phones and subscriptions). It is much harder to fully understand the opportunity gap is systemic and the subscriptions and phones are self medicating and in no way does that reallocated money close that gap. Not even a little.