That's absurd. Life has gotten easier for each succeeding generation. Boomers are resilient because they, like generations before them, took on the usual challenges and responsibilities of life at early adult ages, and had less or no recourse to everything taken for granted by succeeding generations.
I get dragged into this argument with my daughter too regularly - "your generation - your generation - your generation".
Every period in time, and location on this planet, has different characteristics.
Much of the pre-Boomer generation went through rather sucky times, those that survived them created a better world (or at least that part with which we are familiar), and some things continued to get better and some things went the other way. Those of us in the "privileged" generation had to work a little harder than most kids today, but lacked the once-luxuries that so many now take for granted. The grass is digitally greener than on the other side now.
I'm still glad that I was born "back then" and not now, because I know what I'd have missed, and would probably have been more envious and lazier.
There are plusses and minuses to everything, including time periods. Nothing was the same, is the same, or will be the same - or necessarily better or worse, just different.
And the pendulum continues to swing.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And weak men create hard times.”
- G Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
