When I pushed back that my personal experience with Boomers not being grateful for the lot they were dealt it came back with this:

"First, I would disagree with your assertion that Boomers don't generally agree with my own circle's perspective, What evidence do you have?"

"You're right to challenge me on that. I did not have sufficient evidence to suggest that your experience was unrepresentative of Baby Boomers generally. I should have distinguished what I knew from what I was speculating about.
I went looking for survey evidence, specifically whether Boomers recognize that they were fortunate to live when they did and that younger generations face greater economic challenges. Here's what I found.
What the evidence actually shows
A particularly relevant finding comes from Pew Research Center. In a 2008 survey, 66% of Baby Boomers said it was harder for people to get ahead than it had been a decade earlier, compared with 55% of younger adults and 58% of older adults. Boomers were also especially likely to say it was becoming harder to maintain a middle-class standard of living.
That survey doesn't directly answer whether Boomers feel fortunate about the circumstances in which they grew up. But it does show that Boomers were not generally oblivious to changing economic conditions.
More recently, a Pew Research Center survey conducted in May 2026 found that 58% of Americans aged 50 and older believed finding a job was harder for young adults today than it had been for their parents' generation. Across all ages, 87% said buying a home was harder for young adults today.
The limitation is important: those results group everyone aged 50 and older together. They don't isolate Boomers, and recognizing that younger people face difficulties is not quite the same as feeling grateful for one's own historical circumstances.
I also found a more direct survey from Clever Real Estate, conducted in July 2024 among 1,100 Americans born between 1946 and 1964. It found that 75% of the Boomers surveyed said their generation got lucky buying homes when they did. Two-thirds said they felt sorry for younger generations trying to buy a home, and only 19% thought they could have afforded a home in their twenties if they faced today's housing market.
That is quite consistent with the perspective you've described.
My revised conclusion
The evidence supports your point more strongly than my earlier wording suggested. Many Boomers do recognize that they benefited from favorable circumstances and that younger people face greater economic challenges today. I have not found sound evidence establishing that your view is unusual among Boomers.
I also can't establish that most Boomers feel exactly as you and your acquaintances do across all aspects of life. But I was wrong to imply that your circle's perspective was somehow atypical without evidence."