I am done with the boomer hate. I will no longer subscribe to, read, or interact with any account that promotes this.
Oh my God. Your parents were mean to you. They gave you bad advice based on how the world worked when then were in their prime and it just hurts you so much. You can't even. They don't understand that you can't afford an apartment on the wage on offer after you sucked up $150K of student debt pursuing your dream.
Well guess what, buckwheat. Boomers took it from our obnoxious parents too. They never shut up about how we should arrange our romantic and sexual lives, never recognizing that the invention of the Pill had forever upended the power dynamic between men and women. They kept lecturing us about "an aspirin between your knees" and abandoned us to the wolves of libido unleashed from any sense of responsibility. They were grateful they didn't have to worry about their daughters getting pregnant and never gave a thought to what their daughters might have been enduring instead as they navigated, without a chart, this new landscape.
Oh dear, you have to work in an office where mean women talk trash about you and impede your advancement. You blame it on "the longhouse" and "the Karens." Fuck off. We didn't want to be here any more than you did. But the economy rotated and our labor in the home was no longer valued.
A household is the smallest sustainable economic unit. Until recently (in evolutionary scale) a household accommodated a woman of childbearing age caring for her children and simultaneously producing economic output that benefitted the household -- she spun, she knit, she brewed, she tended the garden, she tanned hides. These are all activities that produce positive economies for the household and can be performed while simultaneously tending children. In fact, the children are put to use very young helping with these activities.
This arrangement was demolished during the Industrial Revolution. Not only were men stolen from their households, the women and children were upended. We've never since then figured out how to reintegrate the family with the economy. The fact that various efforts to adjust didn't work should not be used as fuel for the now seemingly endless war that has been engineered to keep men and women at odds.
if a malevolent entity wanted to destroy a world, the fastest and easiest path would be to sow enmity between the parties responsible for perpetuating the world. How is that different from what has happened to us?
"A household is the smallest sustainable economic unit. Until recently (in evolutionary scale) a household accommodated a woman of childbearing age caring for her children and simultaneously producing economic output that benefitted the household -- she spun, she knit, she brewed, she tended the garden, she tanned hides. "
I agree in general. But also disagree with the specifics.
In general you are absolutely right that the industrial revolution and all the subsequent aftershocks totally changed our way of life and we are all still adapting to it.
But ...
Agriculture has only been around for 8000 years. Call it 200 generations. At best. Before that for humans were hunter gatherers in small groups. That is likely the way it was ever since some human ancestor decided not to be a monkey in the trees, and possibly it was the case before then too. That's millions of years. Agriculture (and pastroralism) is a recent development in evolutionary terms.
And agricultural villages were not nuclear families (are not if you go visit the more primitive ones that still exist all over the place today) of just two parents and their children. Typically they are siblings + spouses + parents + children. And your cousins live next door and your other cousins live at the end of the village and so on. It's not quite the same as the hunter gatherer band but it isn't that far off.
The two parents and their children on their own thing is an industrial age development.
To push back a little, I think what generations X and later are pissed at the boomers about is they started out as idealistic hippies in the 1960s and by the 1980s became "the wolves of Wall St." I think it's a fair point that it wasn't your fault, and that there were larger forces at work, that a leftist would call late capitalism, and a right winger would call Spenglarian decline.
We could all generations stand to benefit from rejecting urbanism and office work, and reground in a more agrarian and small home business oriented way of life IMO. It will be harder though for later generations as the price of land has risen more quickly than wages, due to the inflationary nature of post industrial societies.