Agreed. While many of them likely couldn't read, they were just as human as we are and many likely had more experience and passed-down knowledge for practical living and surviving off the land.
TFR has been below replacement in the US since the 70's. In the same period of time, the country has grown by about 80 million. It's mass importation of the third world driving up housing prices and reducing effective wages, as predicted by any supply-demand curve theory of housing and labor. Boomers started their professional lives at the start of the mass importation of third worlders and before offshoring had hit the tech sector (it had already wiped out textiles). Boomers give you ridiculous advice that can't possibly work because their formative experiences were from a nation and a world before globalization and mass immigration.