About this source
Tom Nicholas, the YouTuber behind the documentary film Boomers: The Rise of the Gerontocracy, unpacks how the post-war Baby Boomer generation became the template for a 'normal life' — and why that template is now structurally unreachable for younger cohorts.
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Thumbnail-as-Product Test
If most people only see the package, the package IS the message.
SELFweeks
Agency vs. Era Attribution Audit
Take credit honestly: separate what you did from what your decade did.
MINDdays
Cheap Luxuries vs. Expensive Fundamentals Diagnostic
Standard of living is a tale of two baskets — and they moved in opposite directions.
STRmonths
The Voting-Bloc Policy Lock-in
Large cohorts don't need to conspire — they just need to vote.
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Cohort vs. Conveyor-Belt Financial Planning
Median-by-age data is a snapshot of one era's rules, not a forecast of yours.
STRongoing
The Universalised Boomer Life-Arc Trap
We rewrote 'a normal life' around one cohort's exceptional decade — then locked the rest out.