A small minority of young people in the sixties were hippies or activists. Many younger writers make comments like "You’ve had a good run, flower children..." when actually being a flower child in the sixties was very, very uncommon.

Most boomers have led ordinary middle class lives, victims of TV and consumerism like most people in generations since. Many boomers are poor. Some are in prison and some are homeless.

The working people who have built our cars and houses and paved our roads for the past few decades-- most of those have been boomers. They don't know anything about this discussion and would have no idea what the author of this story or the retirement writers he quotes are talking about.