What’s behind ‘OK boomer’?

The phrase “OK boomer” has been popping up all over social media recently. It’s a way for members of younger generations to dismiss the attitudes of baby boomers, people born between 1946 and 1964. The term also symbolizes a popular view among critics of baby boomers: that they came into adulthood at a time of relative prosperity and opportunity, capitalized on those advantages, but didn’t maintain them for future generations. As a result, those critics say, younger people have been burdened with low wages, expensive education, growing income inequality and a rapidly deteriorating climate.