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I Knew This Boomer Comment Was Coming

6 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube segment, Ramit Sethi prefaces a viewer comment by predicting the typical "boomer" response that will dismiss the commenter's experience. He then reads Simon Harding’s comment, which details a life of frugality—working hard, avoiding eating out, living on cheap meals during grad school, managing mortgage and childcare costs in the 1990s‑2000s, and eventually downsizing after the children left home. Harding explicitly asks not to be blamed for his generation’s financial choices. Sethi’s delivery is sarcastic, highlighting the generational blame game and the contrast between older‑generation advice and the lived realities of younger families.

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I already know what the rest of this comment— I haven't even read it, but it's going to be a boomer saying how hard they worked and how they restricted themselves and now they're fine and you need to do the same thing, you poor loser. Let's take a look. Simon Harding from Portland says, I worked and scrimped, didn't eat out and still pack lunch, never buy coffee out, lived on ramen and fried egg sandwiches in grad school, saved, struggled with house payments and the childcare realities of the '90s and early 2000s. Sold my large house when the kids were gone and moved into a small house with my partner. Don't blame me or my generation.