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Millennials outnumber baby boomers for first time: Statistics Canada
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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.
There are only two genderations!
/s
They can be the forgotten generation 2 electric genXaloo
We've mostly grown used to being ignored—why change now?
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?
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.
This is me as well. My sibling is older X, but is much more successful than me, but it wasn’t 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.
What's Gen X? Are those the people who invented X (formerly twitter)? /s
Shhh. Things go badly when they notice us...
We've never had a numerical majority and never will so at least when we're older they'll have to blame the millennials and boomers for our messed up reality.