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That's nothing new. Pensions are for Boomers. You're talking about Baby Boomer myths that GenX knew were lies eons ago. The Silent/GenX/GenY bloodline is always dealing with bullshit from the Greatest/Boomer/Millennial bloodline. Millennials are not GenY's allies.

I generally agree that GenX who don't understand that Boomers will never leave and that they're going to pass everything to their own kids (Millennials) are clueless. Most of GenX generally has known this since before Millennials could walk.

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lol Millennials are the fortunate generation now? how the turn tables - all I remember growing up was the same narrative Gen Z plays now about how their generation was screwed over. But then Milennials grew up and now are the villain lolol.

Millennials only care about GenY to the extent they can milk GenY suffering for their own gain.

That was not Gen X saying that—we don’t say anything, like our Silent parents—we just sulk in our rooms playing grunge to relieve the overwhelming dread and to root out whatever ear-worms Clear Channel has been feeding us. Baby Boomers were the ones who put out the narrative of the avocado-toast eating Millenial, to which we just said, “Whatever.”

In case it was not made abundantly clear, that was stereotypical GenX sarcasm, but as a Gen Xer I cannot figure out how to write a sarcasm tag into this stupid machine.

That's why they called them "echo boomers" until about Y2k rolled around and the millennium became fashionable. Generational cohorts are as throwaway as they sound. Gen X,Y,Z... A? Just another lazy tool of oppression.

There is a fairly elaborate pop-psych theory behind it all (Strauss-Howe, "Four turnings" theory with generational archetypes: Boomers=prophet, Millennials=hero; GenX=nomad, GenY=artist)

Seems like the pandemic threw a wrench into the generational cohort theorizing game. We should focus on learning to connect with the people entering the workforce that experienced their high school years over zoom.

This kind of generational analysis is bizarre and, frankly, brain dead. Completely ignores class and what people have gone through the past 20 years.

Most people born at any point in this country are not rich or well off and will not have things to pass down.

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