The first two world wars were started by old cunts born in the 1800s who still viewed the common class as cattle. You have to realize that World War 1, for the most part, was literally just a wargame being played between nobles that got out of hand. World War 2 was just the aftershock.
Realistically, no generation has had it easier than boomers. There's a reason that in Europe, we call the 1950s to 1970s "the glorious years". Life was never easier than it was in the 1950s - and you might say that it hasn't been easier since.
Here is what boomers benefited from that we do not benefit from today:
>cheap housing
>post-war economy, meaning cheap shit everywhere and next to no unemployment
>employment that doesn't require a lot of education or qualifications
>employment that across the board will pay for a house and a family easily
>actual freedom - though personal freedoms mostly died after 9/11, so more than just boomers got to enjoy it
What we have now that boomers did not have:
>personal computers
>the internet
I don't want to sound like a leftie, but the world we live in, that boomers did not live in, is an overpopulated world where capitalism has grown utterly fucking rampant.
To ensure stability and security, personal freedoms and free speech just keep on fucking dying, to the point where the only actual freedom you have is your choice of entertainment which, honestly, fucking peasants had that freedom as well.
Ethnicities and culture are torn apart for "the GDP" and people are just treated not as individuals but as resources.
Life has become so expensive and unstable that actually raising a family is too expensive to be done. All you are expected to do now is work on your career from the cradle to the grave.
So as much as boomers like to pretend, no, they did not work more than we will in our lifetimes. They did not spend their entire lives being good little worker bees who don't make a fuss.
