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The 37-Year-Olds Are Afraid of the 23-Year-Olds Who Work for Them

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I'm torn. Is it cool - or not - to comment on this?

As long os it is...

‘We can actually do whatever we want and be just as successful..."

Regardless of age / generation, you can't simply speak successs. By definition, that's not how it works. It is a result. A result of decisions and actions. It's not an oversimplify social media post.

This statement makes an assumption, and a false one at that. This is probably uncool to say but there's more to success than proclaiming a particular emoji is out of style.

Sure. Rules are made to be broken. Of course. But let's not be so shallow as to overvalue skinny jeans, or any decision associated with them.

Or maybe The Onion has a guest post on NYT?

> Regardless of age / generation, you can't simply speak successs. By definition, that's not how it works. It is a result. A result of decisions and actions. It's not an oversimplify social media post.

After we started to mistake the Internet for reality, this became entirely possible.

I mean, the NY Times will never run an article where the thesis is “Millennials are working hard at similar jobs as boomers and slowly improving their financial stability”, even if they found it was representative of the data.

Because that won’t get clicks and sell ads.

So instead, you find some weird edge case, talk to a few people to get their take, filter out the common sense viewpoints then call it “a new trend”.

People furiously tweet it, spend a couple days talking about it and NYT gets a bunch of clicks and some ad revenue to do it all over again.

Correct. The mechanics of the advertising industry and the incentives it imposes on other industries are some of the greatest evils our society has created in recent memory.

The sad irony is, that feeds the false narrative around this issue.

I hope the NYT is mistaken. I hope we don't have generations that base their understanding of reality on bogus paradigm of social media.

This article is everything that is broken in media and it honestly pains me to see NYT printing this stuff. However, I am also a capitalist and I suppose I can’t blame NYT for doing what it has to do to earn a profit. It’s the incentives we have.

There is clearly a market for it, but I guess my issue is that it’s passed off as “news” and the NYT benefits from a reputation as a “paper of record” so people think they’re reading a well researched article when it would be better characterized as opinion or fluff.

The only saving grace is the internet now allows one to quickly research past news articles.

It’s pretty hilarious to get a reminder about some trend that caused an uproar in 2007 that the NYT started that turned out to be completely false. Serves as a good reminder to be very skeptical about everything you read no matter the source.

So, capitalists get a free pass, do they?

Something this 32-year-old Millennial has been wondering for the past 15 years since I first took notice of this avocado toast genre of journalism crossposted to places like Metafilter: does the NYT only cover intergenerational conflict within the confines of ultra-trendy startups? I can't relate to any of these people nor could I imagine myself or my collegues at any of the places I've worked across the country ever engaging in any of these conversations.

For the record, most of the 37-year-olds I know who didn't go to work in comp sci, engineering, trades, or medical device sales have been in more or less the same sort of career purgatory since 2009 that Gen Z can look forward to in their immediate future. In a way I envy them because they get to skip the emotional rollercoaster of starting from a position of hope and lofty expectations. I think.

I know for sure that the 59-year-old executives calling the shots at the biotech company I work for aren't afraid of the 37-year-olds or the 23-year-olds, as it's long been made clear that everyone is equally disposable.

It's the New York Times, an esteemed institution in the advertising industry. I'm sure they have done their journalistic due diligence in accurately representing the myriad of individual opinions and zeitgeist of these broad demographic groups.

They are after all a left-leaning publication, and thus are woke to the dangers of making overly broad generalizations.

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