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I was linked to this editorial, and just had to do a takedown

  Baby boomers who cried “Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30” during the Vietnam War should be scared to death of millennials. Because, at least among the Twitterati, they hate us — they really, really hate us. Last week I took a beating from younger readers over an essay I wrote lamenting the decline of the “power lunch.” Although it only partly blamed the phenomenon on millennial habits — e.g., preferring avocado and kale to beef and baked potatoes — hundreds of thousands on Twitter either posted or retweeted such insults as “Old man yells at lunch table” (I’m 69), “What’s it like to be an antique?” and “We’re the ones doing the actual lunches while you’re having three-martini lunches.” You lament the decline of the power lunch not because it doesn't exist, but because instead of the privilege of getting to take one being assigned to a particular rank  in the corporate hierarchy...boomers decided it should stay with the indvidual (them) instead.  They drug that privilege up the hierarchy