Your Friend's Yacht is Probably a Rental
Keeping up with the Joneses. It's a sickness, and my generation may have been patient zero.
Let's be honest. We Baby Boomers got really into accumulating stuff. Part of it was noble, I suppose. We wanted to build a secure retirement and leave something behind for our kids. But a huge part of it—the part that now causes sleepless nights for many—was about the show.
The Vindication of the Visible Sock: A Boomer's Tale
Enter the Millennials, who took one look at the remaining visible socks of the world and said, "Hold my craft beer."
They escalated the war. It wasn't just sandals anymore. Oh no. Now, it was a crime to show even a sliver of sock with “sneakers”. The sight of a cotton cuff peeking above the rim of a shoe was deemed a horrifying faux pas.