Because it's clearly not how they did things. Therefore it's lazy, or selfish, or "trendy" *major eye roll*. What makes me laugh so often about it is that I think we as a generation have more in common with our parents parents than the boomers have with anyone. Sandwich generation, indeed.

I love my mother. I've met and respected many boomers. But as a generation, I find them self-absorbed, self-congratulatory and generally disdainful of anyone not of their value-set. Because for them, life was one great burden of working yourself to death to acquire success (in whatever they chose to do) and That's The Way It Ought To Be.

Or that's how my theory goes.
