It's an accurate description of my childhood growing up in the 70s. Boomers have done well over time and there's no denying it, but what she's describing is that it was pretty grim in the post war years right up until the mid to late 80s. Any Boomers who bought a house and joined defined benefit of final salary pension scheme will be quids in now but a lot of them will have died young from industrial diseases, been injured at work because there was virtually no Health and Safety, and will have lived through privations like the three day week and regular black outs and power cuts.