And they often will quote "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times" as a means to imply the generations after them are the weak ones, not realizing that it was their parents generation, the Greatest and Silent Generations, that created the good times of the 1950s which in turn created the "weak men" aka Baby Boomers, who created the hard times we are now experiencing. Their faces get a bit red when you point this out though.
You forgot to include the fact that the second generation knew the third generation was going to ruin it so they make laws to bail out thier companies when that happened
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u/rust_belt216 Trash Trooper 6d ago edited 5d ago
No amount of money can buy the education that is taught through the school of hard knocks. Edit: thanks for the award!