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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why are the Baby Boomers considered the worst generation?
gpt
Generally because they inherited a hard-won and prosperous welfare state but then proceeded to dismantle it in the name of short-term profit at the expense of their children. This current generation are the first who, on average, are going to be worse off than their parents, and the policies of deregulation and privatisation pursued in the 1980s are directly responsible for that.