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"In other news, gen x continues to be ignored. Are those guys even still around?"
They seem happy to be ignored. In my experience they act either like boomers or millennials; depending on which group they are closer to.
You can't just go around denying generation theory like that! We must have in groups and out groups! The media won't stand for this insult!
/s
I was born in 81, so which group I "belong" to seems to change depending on who I'm talking to.
An older person will usually say I'm a Millennial and accuse me of being a bleeding heart liberal who's trying to bankrupt the country, but a younger person will often call me a "boomer" and accuse me of being a right wing conservative who is destroying everything America stands for and is worse than Hitler lol
It's exhausting quite frankly
hey that's me! or am I you?
but yes, same. Old people at work shake their head at me. Young people at work shake their head at me.
That said - more and more I find myself relating to the younger ones, even the fresh Zoomers entering the workplace.
Yeah I'm kind of the same lol! Although the Zoomers get really irate when I point out that they've over used "boomer" so much that it effectively has no meaning any more lol
Well that became apparent when people started calling Biden a Boomer over student loans or whatever at the time. He's older than Boomers.
Xennial: came of age in X but adulted as a millennial.
This is me. I have younger siblings who are fully Millenial and one becomes actually offended if you say it. He hates millenials and was basically born a boomer. I have learned that age is biological but becoming old is psychological.
I liked the Oregon Trail Generation. It fits pretty well for this 80's baby. I also fell like I get along with x and millennial equally.
Working in tech, I've been shoulder to shoulder with both a while now. Each generation has it's quirks, but both want to be seen as individuals with their own motivations and boundaries. Like every other human, those can be wildly different but neither of these two groups seem keen on intentionally shitting on someone's day.
80 here. I claim xennial. I like the social progress millennials gave us but I can't stand their culture, especially their comedy. It's painfully bad. "Gee my life sure does suck!" yeah real funny Hunter, good job.
There are only two genderations!
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We've mostly grown used to being ignoredβwhy change now?
I think the original nickname was the Baby Bust Generation, as birth rates severely tanked following the Baby Boom period of β45 - β65.
As a result, they never out numbered the preceding generation, and were pretty quickly overtaken in population by Millennials/Gen Y (kids of Boomers).
Basically, the reason theyβre ignored is because they never had sufficient power to make as drastic an impact on society as their surrounding generations.
That's why they're the least worst generation, they've managed to mostly stay out of the general conversation
Aren't Gen X-ers basically managerial age right now? Like they're the ones making the decision for capital that's owned by the boomers right?
The generation that came of age in the peak of the "greed is good" era?
The generation that came of age in the peak of the βgreed is goodβ era?
I can't speak for all of Gen X, but speaking for myself and everyone I personally know from my generation: we never liked that shit. That was our parents' bullshit. We just couldn't do anything about it, politically speaking, when we came of age because we were firmly outnumbered by boomers. We still are actually, except now we're also outnumbered by millennials. That's why all the media discussions of this topic are framed as "boomers vs. millennials." Gen X is rendered politically invisible by its comparatively small size.
The product of low birth rates and smaller population size. Birth rates are a little lower now, but from a much larger population.
Some of us are just hanging around with old age looming and no money to afford a house or for retirement. We have to keep working until we die, but no one's going to give us a job until then. The only question seems to be whether death gets us before or after homelessness and starvation.
Normally when I say this someone comes out of the woodwork to say it's my own fault I haven't saved up a bunch of money or bought a house. I assume these people are either young or lucky, because life can take unpredictable and expensive turns.
Politically, being financially screwed after growing up with Reagan and Thatcher, and seeing the globally destructive consequences of neoliberalism playing out over decades exactly as expected, actually kills all doubt that greed is bad and more than ever we need a radical left turn.
Gen X is a mixed bag. While some went cheerfully into corporate management and others are established capitalists, a good number are living lives of insecurity while watching the capitalists destroy the world our children already live in.
...gen X here: finally managed a modest house in my mid-fourties but i'll be working until the day i drop...still fighting the powers that be to little avail, but at last they're starting to die off...
This is me as well. My sibling is older X, but is much more successful than me, but it wasnβt a hand out by any means.
The youngest are roughly 45 or so and the oldest close to 60.
I like to be called latchkey generation, thank you.
And that's also how the world sees this cohort: they don't.
Vote, vote and vote.
Proportionally ... not economically .... those old people are going to hang on to every penny until their last breath
Yes and no, they will help their own children indenture themselves to the housing market.
No, they'll spend all their money on end of life care. Nursing and retirement homes have skyrocketed in price just like everything else. Their money is going back up the chain to the billionaires, not to our inheritance.
Yay, the conservative old people are finally dying!
Get out and vote folks. This is the time when we finally have progress.
Gen X is still bigoted af, and millenial/zoomer white males are still disputed. Not to mention the self-sustaining rural/urban divide.
I'm excited too but not too hopeful.
This is the time when we finally have progress.
hahaha woudnt count on that
When our turn comes, we shall make no apologies for the terrors (we're gonna kill boca raton timeshare schemes)
GenX here. So, I get to be suppressed by the Boomers my whole life and, just when the pay-out is due to arrive, it will switch to persecution by the millennials as payback for the crimes of my abusers.
Awesome.
....were you hoping for a Boca Raton time share?
Middle child syndrome for an entire generation
What payout?
If your a conservative gen-x then you've been winning this whole time, if you're a progressive genx then things are about to go your way.
Plus I've never heard anyone make fun of genx anyways, millennials mostly blame boomers and recognize that genx never had a chance.
I take it that means boomers are dying? Last I checked the youngest millennials are over 30 and neither faction can increase their numbers.
Immigration is a thing but yeah probably mostly boomers dying.
Now they just have to vote.
the future is now old man
What about Gen X? Seriously, there's an entire generation in the middle there.
Who?
The generation that made coffee and Bill Murray the foundation of their personalities
We never had the numbers to outnumber either of the giant generations on either side of us
Excellent! Once their numbers are low enough, we can just drown the rest.
If we wanted.
I shall make an exemption for my mother and shelter her in my attic, but the rest of them will swim.
The American sphere of influence is palpable here. Trudeau, Poilievre, and Singh are all gen-x. The average age of politicians here is not as geriatric as American congress.
Soylent green is people?