To tell the truth, the OP was intended as a light-hearted troll. I didn't think that there'd be so many people taking it in other directions and making it a serious debate about the publishing industry. I'm more than willing to go 15 rounds. I just didn't expect that.

It's important, intellectually speaking, to know how much easier the Boomers had it so that, when we get into full de-Boomerization in the 2020s to '40s and it's our job to fix the country, we know what to aim for. Obviously, I don't want to go back to 1975 in terms of gender or race relations. However, the fact is that Boomers had a lot of things easier. I'm a programmer, and about a third of software engineers will develop open-plan syndrome (which is a tech euphemism for panic disorder induced by hellish office spaces) within 10 years. Boomers, when they went to work, got semi-private offices for having a college degree and were bumped to private offices after 5 years. If you had to work "in the pool" (i.e., you were visible to others while working) and you had a college degree, that was the Boomer version of being fired. Millennials get stuck in loud open-plan hellscapes forever, and the Millennial version of being fired is actually being fired.

As a Millennial-- that is, a member of the first truly post-apocalyptic generation-- I've developed a taste for dark humor. I don't like "trolls" who are just assholes, like people who harass women on Twitter. Hurling racial invective isn't "trolling" in the classical 1990s/2000s sense-- it's just being an asshole and a horrible human being. They give the white-hats like me a bad name. High-art concept trolling, where no one gets hurt, can be fun, though.