A slightly different experience

Not not only their second home, but with a stay at home wife, three kids named Junior, a family dog, two cars, two weeks of vacation a year, and a retirement plan, all for 40 hours a week uneducated labor repairing vacuum cleaners.

two weeks of vacation time a YEAR?? What hellworld are you yanks living in?!
- I get one business week, 40 hours of vacation accumulated a year at my current job.
- I get 3 but it's accrued
two weeks of vacation a year
2+ weeks of time off is still normal isn't it? That's not that much
- My state is one of the few that guarantees paid time off. At minimum we get 1 hour of PTO for every 40 hours worked, so that works out to about a week and a half of combined sick leave and vacation.
- Yes, but most places have gone to accrued time because that way most people will use a good chunk of it before summer on various other things.
Funny, most Boomers in the UK are dirt poor and live in a tiny rented terrace.
And a girlfriend and a mistress, don't forget those.

Ha! You think some kid can afford a luxurious staircase studio on minimum wage? That's prime real estate!

No kidding. That's gotta be at least $2200/mo rent

Boomers in their 20s were also hoping that WW3 wouldn't start tomorrow.

Welllll... Neither the US nor the Soviet Union had complete lunatics running the country at the time.
- I think that the multiverse exist and we're the 1% of timelines that the cold war didnt go hot.
  Imagine Stannislav Petrov tripping on a banana peel and ending up in the hospital instead of going to work and monitoring for nukes, or if Vasily Arkhipov suddenly develops caustrophobia right before that submarine mission to Cuba.

Genuinely curious why progress toward a society of similar potential/qualities of the boomer gen is so beyond impossible please help

Because people let them.
- You mean people (?) let them (boomers) permanently impede progress somehow? I'm not doubting you, just questioning the means and any specifics that can be spelled out

No boomers were much more likely to be plunged into a third world war. They also had something to lose, unlike me with fuck all.

They more likely to be plunged into an accidental nuclear war. We're more likely to be plunged into ww2 part 2: electric boogaloo.

Boomers had the cold war to worry about though

Well then, it's a good thing nuclear weapons aren't a thing anymore. Phew.

Something something by my bootstraps...

Sure, older people aren't worried about WW3 at allllll.

You know one of the reasons we're on the brink of WW3? Because of devisive shit like this.

Zoomers all have internet. Enough of them study economics or politics. There is not another Occupy Wall Street. Do all the clever people already have well-paying jobs?