Hi, Dana.  

I read with great interest your article "Why today's economy is working for millennials (and not so much for boomers)"  I'm a boomer, and I very much appreciate your insights.  I would like a little help, if you would, with a question that continues to bother (I can't think of a better word) me.

My question is essentially a reconciliation of the math (I'm a CPA by trade!) of productivity.  Are the millennials more productive than the boomers? If so, the math might work, but if productivity/efficiency is the same or similar, it seems that the boomers are being asked to do more for less to, if effect, support the millennials demands for more.  What happens when the boomers ask/demand more?

It would seem the either a company's profits must suffer or it's prices must rise to make up  for a gap in work hours, and its willingness to accept less from the millennial worker.  (E.g. if productivity is the same, and, say a boomer is working 2500 hours per year and a millennial only works (and is willing to work) 2000 hours per year, it would take 5 millennials to do the work of 4 boomers.)  Either the boomer (who is working more) should be paid more or the millennial paid less for the same job.

I am very interested in your help, here, to reconcile my math.  Thanks so much.

Dan Powers, CPA