Know Your Worth

My name is Charrease Berry and this blog is necessary because I am a baby boomer and lately being a boomer has become a national joke.  The next two generations have decided that we are old, outdated, in the way, and are to blame for all of the world’s problems.  I have even had a couple of younger people say “Ok, Boomer” to me and I don’t appreciate it.

Guess what, young one, I have knowledge that you don’t have, knowledge that can’t be googled, that’s not learned in school or gained by talking to your clueless friends. It’s called life experience and if you were smart you would ask me a lot more questions and take notes with your expensive IPhone. Yes, the next two generations have made technological advances that we only saw in The Jetsons, but we are vital because of the following:

1.   The software language used to make web pages possible for the world wide web (aka the internet) was created by a baby boomer name Tim Berners-Lee, who was born in 1955.  Also, personal computers were created by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Ed Roberts, all baby boomers.  The next two generations just improved on products already conceived. https://bestlifeonline.com/baby-boomer-positivies/
2.   According to the U.S. Census, there are 73 million baby boomers, the second largest age group after their children, the millenials, born between 1982 and 2000. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/12/by-2030-all-baby-boomers-will-be-age-65-or-older.html
3.   Baby boomers hold $2.6 trillion in buying power and are considered one of the wealthiest generations to date and are still economically powerful.  This is due to having more time to accumulate wealth than previous generations and staying longer in the workforce. https://www.lexingtonlaw.com/blog/credit-cards/baby-boomer-spending-habits.html

This blog will continue to dispel all of the myths about how outdated baby boomers are (yes, I built the website, uploaded pictures, attached links, etc. by myself) and give us a place to read, contribute and comment on issues important to us, for us and about us.

See you soon!