Baby Boomers vs. Generation X vs. Millennials

they seem to have more of a generational consciousness than the millennials, who always seemed vaguely embarrassed or defensive about being millennials. i wonder if this is a positive -- like can it be channeled the way class consciousness can into meaningful political action?

iirc the class of 2000 started getting promoted as such when they were like kindergartners so maybe the drumbeat of millennial zeitgeistery wore those kids down

also newspaper editors liked to torture us for sport in the early 2010s, commissioning all those op-eds wondering why we weren't buying houses during the worst job market in a generation

best is still the horrifying amount of sex we were having, until we suddenly weren't having enough

classic. zoomers are getting ahead of this by going on the offensive right away.

millennials could never really bring themselves to disparage a whole older generation. we recoiled from generalizations and lacked a revolutionary consciousness.

we were just like a massive punching bag essentially

I think you all kinda enjoyed it.

yr like the Cindy Brady of generations

it's over though now. the zoomers are the ones to watch.

I think you all kinda enjoyed it.

poor perverse bulb

I don't buy the wonderful zoomer narrative. Plenty of them would volunteer to be the foot soldiers of the Fourth Reich if a Twitch streamer told them to.

can it be channeled the way class consciousness can into meaningful political action?

climate change is rendering generational divides unusually material but nothing like as material as class. don't mind the occasional deployment of generational consciousness for the sake of gretaist rhetoric but soon of course the boomers will be gone and here we will all still be, not on the same side.

"ok boomer" otoh i must confess i have been waiting for my whole life. too old now to indulge in it myself but god bless.

if all the zoomers agreed to not get any tattoos they could effortlessly tag and outdate the millennials

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-less-wealth-net-worth-compared-to-boomers-2019-12

When boomers were roughly the same age as millennials are now, they owned about 21% of America's wealth, compared to millennials' 3% share today, according to recent Fed data.

some of us are like 40 i thought. and we own a measly THREE percent of the nation's wealth?

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-less-wealth-net-worth-compared-to-boomers-2019-12🕸

_ When boomers were roughly the same age as millennials are now, they owned about 21% of America's wealth, compared to millennials' 3% share today, according to recent Fed data. _


some of us are like 40 i thought. and we own a measly THREE percent of the nation's wealth?

millennials (born between 1981 and 1996)

hey buddy, we're a youthful 38 over here!

Gen Z is better than all of us. The end.

too early to tell

Expect disappointment.

Zoomers are going to find a way to elect Pewdiepie President.

No way. I work with Gen Z kids every day, and they are definitely conscientious and committed in a way I haven’t seen before.

i have limited contact with kids so I'm probably basing my somewhat negative judgement of gen z on seeing stoned teenage boys calling each other fags on the bus recently and them seeming basically identical to the youth of my day 20 years ago

soda OTM

gen z is v queer

Driving home it occurred the gdamm world was looking a whole lot like a William Gibson novel these days. Thing is that the internet and stuff like that has been around for a while and at least to me, it turned out different than I thought it would by a HUGE margin. Future is here. These kids are growing up in The Incal or at least a step towards it in a way.

My daughter scripts her own discord chatbots, she’s 8

she doesn’t have a concrete bird for a companion yet though

The boomers were the generation that made a best seller out of I'm OK, You're OK. Now it is coming back to bite them in the ass.

the children will save us

until they have to cover rent

every generation needs to shut the fuck up, this shit makes me want to shoot myself, stop talking forever

Shout out to Gen X, the only generation who can keep our asses at home without being told, the motherfucking latchkey kids, the generation used to being neglected by fucking everyone. We’ll be the only ones left.

— Lauren Hough (@laurenthehough) March 15, 2020

otm

The responses are even worse somehow.

if i believed generations were real it might be enough to convince me gen xers are all narcissistic delusional toddlers. good thing i don't believe that

thinking about jumping ship and joining gen z. they seem to have fun on tik tok.

They Are Something Else.

Caught sight of one my 10-year-old son's text conversations with his best friend.

BF: H, If you ever died, I wouldn't be at your funeral. Know why?

H: why

BF: I'd be in jail.

BF: for shooting the guys who killed you.

H: ok

H: but what if i died of cancer?

BF: then I'd still be in jail.

BF: for shooting all your doctors.

I mean this sincerely, they are hilarious.

A fun read to start the day.

Millennials overtake Baby Boomers as America’s largest generation
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/28/millennials-overtake-baby-boomers-as-americas-largest-generation/

Fun fact: if you were born on Dec, 31, 1964, you are a Boomer. If you were born the next day, Jan 1, 1965 you are a Gen-Xer. This means, that you could have been in the same classroom every year in school, graduated the same year, participated in all the same fads, watched the same shows at the same age, entered the workforce the same year, and still be of two different generations! It's magical.

Lemme know when millennial voters overtake boomer voters.

Aimless, demographic slices are abstracts projected on to groups by age, but it's really about shared cultural references and life experiences

I was born on around a similar generational cusp but I was mostly unaffected by the 2008 recession and the job market crash, although my peers who went to grad school and were entering the workforce a few years later really felt it. On the other hand, I was an internet early adopter and can relate to a lot of late-period Gen X'ers as far as that goes, but I didn't capitalize on it.

There's a lot of variation among groups but it's, again, a general abstraction that has some relevance when it comes to trend analysis. It's less useful than analyzing, say, people born in a particular suburb across a small number of years, but a hell of a lot more useful than astrology

lol

^^ short version and what I should have said

but yeah, main point is being "wow, what a difference a day makes" about what's meant to be a statistical abstraction is fun

fwiw the main way I really noticed generational marketing in the past was a free weekly publication that used to be dropped off in front of stores and restaurants (rip free weeklies) that was sold to advertisers as targeted at "people in their mid 20s" but what they really meant was "people who will look at ads for cheap townhomes in nearby suburbs"

so there's really a very late gen x/early millennial demo that is definitely easily identifiable as "people who owned cheap townhomes" and I can think of maybe a dozen people that were peers that fit that

but it's really about shared cultural references and life experiences

yeah. I know. but by this standard generations blend imperceptibly more often than not, and the standard labels promoted by marketers and feature writers confuse matters more than they illuminate.

the boomers started at a great dividing point, where WWII had kept young men and women physically apart and children very few, then suddenly the men came back and mating exploded almost instantly. but that sharply defined beginning point gives a false sense of unity to the boomers, because no one can say when that generation really ended or the next began.

ok boomer

(Aimless clutches chest and falls, twirling, to earth)

oops. I mistook that for *finger guns*. how about a "GET OFF MY LAWN!" instead?

lol i am not actually that much younger than you (i am 48 ffs!) and yet somehow it is you, in every thread, endlessly restating the obvious