It’s survivorship bias. The folks who survived from 1946 to 2025 were in the economic cohort with the least stress, the most accumulated wealth, and the most egregious consumption habits. Can’t blame all the Americans who died of black lung in the coal fields or were left destitute after midwestern industrialization or got wiped out during the AIDS epidemic or from heart disease or smoker’s lung or COVID or the 40k car fatalities/year, cause they’re not around anymore.

Safe to assume anyone still around does, in fact, carry a disproportionate share of the blame.