. >> reporter: bruce gibney, author of “a generation of sociopaths: how the baby boomers betrayed americae elderly first made perfect sense from a public health standpoint. >> the challenge is that after years of abusive behavior on the part of the boomers, this might be the straw that breaks the camel's back. >> reporter: gibney says the pandemic has fueled a growing resentment of baby boomers, which he marks a bit earlier- those of us born between 1940 and 1965, rather than after the war. it's a resentment among millennials, ¡81 to ¡96, whose economic prospects have been sacrificed to help supposedly greedy, ungrateful boomers, oblivious to the realities facing the young. >> the millennials and generation z have the peter pan syndrome. they don't ever want to grow up. >> reporter: this 2019 tik tok video helped popularize the phrase “ok boomer” as a retort to the boomer critique: >> you're going to mature and you're to realize that nothing's free, that things aren't equal, and that your utopian society you've created in your youth is simply not sustainle. >> reporter: how do real life m

paul: for bruce gibney, writer and jackpot winner as an early investor in paypal and facebook, it's ase yo pathic choices made by boomers who grew up in a booming america. >> they had an enormous tailwind and made decisions that only benefited themselves. paul: you mean me and my friends. >> i do. >> every stretch of farm and factory to market roadarns profits for all the nation. paul: he said boomers benefited from investments in roads, new school, education, paid for with taxes on previous generations. but when it was the boomers' turn to give we continued to take. tax cuts. expanded medicare and social security. an imbalance that led to an explosion of debt. gibney points out when he was born in 1976, the national debt was a third the the size of the annual economy. after decades of boomers at the helm it's now some 130%. while millenials are the largest portion of the work force the federal reserve just reported they have less than 5% of the country's wealth. the boomers, meanwhile, have four times that percentage at around the same age. do you blame my generation for the difficul