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The main advantage boomers had wasn't that everything was abstractly cheaper, there is inflation and there was a much bigger effect at play.

The generation before theirs died VERY fast because of mediocre health care and war while their generation started getting good health care.

Basically they inherited the wealth of the world at a very young age (usually at 30 or even younger) and now they live to be nearly 100.

Gen X and Millennials wait to be 50+ and 60+ to inherit boomers.