Just something I've been thinking about now that I'm 40. A complete lack of leadership and mentoring from the boomers.
Parents were just focused on academic success and getting me off to college. Never learned to use tools, tend to plants and animals, do sports or hunt.
In my career, I was just given lots of responsibility and risk. No mentoring or leadership. No actual control to go along with the responsibility.
Was it like this for anyone else? Now that I'm middle aged and see the problem, I'm trying to be different for the younger generation.
Late boomer here (born in '62). It was much the same with the late Boomers, the older ones made damn sure to squash competition. There's a few of us out there that mentor the next generation, but we're few and far between. The Beatles wrote a song that sums up most of the boomers "I me me mine". Personally, I see your generation as being much smarter than the boomers and I think you'll be just fine. I've had a multifaceted approach to raising my kids and grandkids. I think an education is great because it lets you see who is lying to you. I also spend time teaching them techniques using my tools, gardening and general maintenance work around the house. I don't think the economy will collapse, but eventually it will and the family that stopped teaching the basics of survival will fall out of existence. I teach my family to have a fall back plan, but push forward as if everything will be ok.
I think this is the most accurate, the older boomers had kinda a selfish, competitive, and in many cases what we would describe as a "pharo complex" at work.
The ones I worked with used to "legacy build" by exclusively NOT training others, to maintain their need around the workplace.
They also stayed way to long in their jobs and tried to make sure nobody had it better than them.
As my boss said when I started, "a six figure salary and the corner office was the goal when I started (70's) and it still is" (until today, w/ inflation 🥴) -> they made sure salaries for younger workers were never adjusted for inflation, because it made them bitter.
You don't know how accurate that is. I grew up with them and I damn well know how they are. I also believe that a very small percentage of each generation actually understands what is going on around them