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Millennial hate it, boomers are clueless about it, its time to playyyyyy Bill Roulette! Which bill will get paid this month? Remember Boomers, you created this world.
I don't think that's strictly true. Maybe some have forgotten about it, both both my boomer parents went through it, as did several others I know. Maybe it's regional or people later in the generation, but it definitely wasn't unknown. Especially women as, until the mid-to-late-seventies, they couldn't even do certain financial stuff on their own IIRC.
I remember an episode of Roseanne from the early '90s where she did a move I was very familiar with growing up: mail the rent check to the power company and the electric bill to the landlord. "Oh no! I must've mixed up the envelopes!" And now you've bought another week until the next paycheck hits.
Capitalism only works when some people are incredibly broke, so, yeah, OP's Bill Roulette has been around for a long as bills.
My boomer parents played bill roulette when I was growing up. My parents would put the check and remittance for the electricity in the return envelope for the water in order to give them a few more weeks to pay both. We ate many vegetarian meals because we couldn't afford meat every day.
They were very aware of income inequality and the financial struggle of raising a family in the US.