The irony is that Boomers ARE the participation trophy generation.
They lucked into the best time in human history to be born. After large scale industrialized warfare, before technology induced mass psychosis.
They were alive at the exact pinnacle to buy homes for cheap compared to their income, before mass regulation killed affordable cars, all to sit on these assets and receive a mass equity boon in them.
Boomers did the bare minimum and have more wealth than any generation in human history.
Boomers catch way too much flak from the participation trophy generation.