Baby Boomers vs. Generation X vs. Millennials

89? you are still just a baby. the real aging comes later

I'm four years younger than the "geriatric" cutoff date, it's true. It is surprising how quickly you can slip from being a "vaguely young person" to a "generic adult".

you are at your peak right now and for the next several years, at least as I remember it

I'd say people ascend to a series of peaks of various types. i'd wager treesh has more and better peaks to come than he has yet in the rear view.

I'm bullish on treesh futures

https://i.imgur.com/SRDTuZ4.jpg

Boomers thinking it was their generation that landed on Utah Beach is one of the best ongoing bits in history.

I'm sick of twitter pwnage in general but that is a near perfect specimen to which I must bow

https://genx-or-not.glitch.me

I'm not clicking some random looking site, what am I, a boomer?

I was wondering today, how have old people changed over the last few decades? The world changed enough during each of their lifetimes that someone born in 1901 (80 in 1981) would have had a very different perspective than someone born in 1941 (80 today).
But the very old tend to be tarred by the same brush, and I don't know where to go to read further about this.

IME the record collections they’re selling off are getting better. Less Mantovani and more Black Sabbath.

Sure, but are people raised on Black Sabbath a different kind of old person than the Mantovani fans? Or does conservatism always reassert itself in the aged?

This reminds me of my dad talking about his grandfather, complaining about "bloody Ben [i.e. Bing] Crosby" on the radio.

Which are you? pic.twitter.com/nsL7ZxiawX

— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) July 6, 2021

Love that, haha.

i totally have that boomer sweater

Faced with a shortage of workers, a small army of seniors in Sechelt is volunteering to cover shifts at restaurants and other small businesses, rather than see them close their doors because of a lack of workers. @Aaron_GlobalBC reports. https://t.co/xnoe97nBpc pic.twitter.com/3WmO3eChHo

— Global BC (@GlobalBC) August 21, 2021

"My Army of Seniors", a classic track by Army of Seniors.

Maybe they should try paying higher wages.

I was about to post wondering why they don't just work at the businesses rather than volunteering, but then I realized that would mess up their retirement/pension benefits... so yeah definitely the right thread, christ

you guys seem to really hate older people

i don't hate all older people, for instance i love your mom!

:)

I like you but fuck you map

counterpoint: man alive sucks despite being younger than me

I like you but fuck you map

― Dan S, Monday, August 30, 2021 3:07 AM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hahahaha, touche

Dan's mom = one of the good ones iirc

some boomers still got it

lmao

was born in the middle of the 46-64 boomer time period. my high school class was the biggest in my town ever, before or after

The sunshine coast is really unaffordable if you're not an older transplant from the city, there's a decent amount of poverty and drug addiction in Sechelt.

I just Airbnb'd the downstairs of a semi-retired boomer couples house nearby for my wedding anniversary. So I've helped ruin the place for year round working class people I guess lol

https://archive.md/2021.10.28-121933/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-28/florida-baby-boomer-wealth-influx-risks-pricing-out-younger-locals

https://64.media.tumblr.com/bac734dc93ded8e1133eaaa6d64eca46/7cc9662330821461-56/s540x810/b4f67586f95569bbc64522db56f8eac923e69cae.jpg
https://sarahcandersen.com/page/20

Gen X reading that comic:

https://i.imgur.com/JmK29hh.jpg

We publish a magazine geared toward high schoolers, about college scholarships, budgeting money from your first job, etc.

The last issue had a feature comparing the habits of Boomers, X, Millennials and Z. Representing them were celebrities from each generation.

And they had TOM CRUISE and MICHAEL JORDAN representing Boomers, which, yeah, might be technically true, but C'MON.

she has a few more comics where millennials and z and boomers make an appearance. haven't found one with gen x yet!

That’s how we like it.

xxpost

this is a good point, most boomers are in their 30s these days

And they had TOM CRUISE and MICHAEL JORDAN representing Boomers, which, yeah, might be technically true, but C'MON.

― pplains, Tuesday, March 29, 2022 10:41 AM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink

its the anger

Nah, those guys are definitely not Boomers. I will always maintain that the early '60s babies are a transitional generation. After all, a a baby boom cannot last 18 years, that is absurd.

Similarly, people born in the late '70s are not Gen X, they are an in-between generation.

Yeah, my baby sister was born in 77, she neither identifies nor acts like a Gen X-er.

*identifies as

I believe the term is Xennials

I used to think gen x were the coolest ever but their whole whatever man thing is so played out (no offense) and these days I'm more interested in weirdo fringe boomer survivors who tend to get left out of this discourse. as a millennial our differently-bullshit approach isn't hitting as hard as it used to either and we all have back pain and mental health problems

every post on this thread should be assumed to have an "obviously we all know this is bullshit" disclaimer at the bottom

Whatever, man.

I identify pretty strongly as Gen X, but I acknowledge our politics overall are shitty. We are the Trumpiest generation: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/20/cherie-westrich-alt-rock-gen-x-maga-00033769

In retrospect, this isn’t surprising. In particular, white dudes my age were in their teens and 20s when the whole backlash against “political correctness” started, when Rush Limbaugh started, when Fox News started. It was attractive to be snarky and cynical in the Clinton era. And then a bunch of those bros got all jacked up on flag waving bullshit after 9/11.

I will always maintain that the early '60s babies are a transitional generation. After all, a a baby boom cannot last 18 years, that is absurd.

Generation Jones

I guess that's my parents - who always seemed vaguely haunted by missing the peak of the counterculture and only encountering it in its disintegrated forms (most notably for them it was west-german stalinism and radfem separatism respectively)

I think more millennials could easily have gone hard right if the financial crisis hadn't hit who it did in the way it did - and hey we still could if they want to buy us out. boomers/pundits who complained about us having been indoctrinated by radical ideology have it all backwards - all you have to do is give us houses and we'll fall in line