I’m early GenX and must admit I don’t get the obsession some GenXers have with Boomers. My sis falls into the Boomer years and I worked with some older musicians in my youth so maybe I have some weird crossover mentality. I just don’t get it.
Boomers, must be nice
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Me too. Gen X is actually the only age demographic that Trump won. Must have also been the biggest in voter turnout, because I think we’re actually the smallest of the voting age generations.
it's more like millennials have an obsession. gen X like myself, who fall more in the parameters of boomer.... we just say, "call us whatever but don't call us late for dinner"
yes but we lived thru reagan and stuff. carter. ford. two bushes. obama. we got way more experience at voting and politics. millennials are too green still. even though they are like 40 something now. they act younger. I even think JD vance acts a little young for his age.
And my parents were luckier than me. It's not that boomers don't recognize the price of things have gone up, we're just living life. What baffles me is that people like you are so stuck on trying to blame the boomers for what you perceive is a raw deal. My kids are doing just fine, maybe you need to be mad at yourself or your actual parents, not at all boomers.A piece of crap 585 sq foot trailer is now $69k in Iowa City. It's baffles me why boomers don't recognize how lucky they got with housing.
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I absolutely have my issues with Boomers, and in many ways they are the worst generation.
However, this is the stupidest part of the discourse right now. The interpretation of what life and the economic position of boomers or Gen X is so far overboard and reflects very little of reality. The lifestyles people are describing as "average" reflect like the top 5% households in like Orange County or suburban Boston. You know, the same people that basically have it made in the shade now, or at any other time in history.
The vast majority of boomers scraped by, had one car, didn't buy a home until they were well into their 30s, had one pretty old car, worked a manual labor job, etc.
Both my boomer parents were college graduates and my father was a white collar worker and my mother was a stay at home mom. We didn't own a house until I was 13, it was a very modest house, we only ever had one shitty car. My mother clipped coupons like her life depended on it (because it did), and sewed all of her own clothes and most of our clothes. We all had to take loans out to go to college. My father is still working at 70, and won't retire to any wealth or a pension.
There are some very legit economic access issues, needless obstacles around credentialing and requirement of college degrees, that make things more challenging today. But also, none of the people complaining about this want to go work on the assembly line, in the carpet store, for the utility company, etc. They pine for the never-were days when anyone could just go get a job as a journalist or a screen writer or a "financier" etc. Those days never existed.
You know how many people born in 1960-1964 have a college degree? 16%. Pretty remarkable when supposedly anyone could get a degree for the university of their choice for $150.
In all times ever, 80% of 20-35 year old people have had to hustle, scrape, sacrifice, put in heavy hours, work jobs they don't like, etc for a very unremarkable standard of living. That's what your 20s and 30s are.
I definitely feel like we need to reckon with some things, but let's not completely fantasize about the world was like.
However, this is the stupidest part of the discourse right now. The interpretation of what life and the economic position of boomers or Gen X is so far overboard and reflects very little of reality. The lifestyles people are describing as "average" reflect like the top 5% households in like Orange County or suburban Boston. You know, the same people that basically have it made in the shade now, or at any other time in history.
The vast majority of boomers scraped by, had one car, didn't buy a home until they were well into their 30s, had one pretty old car, worked a manual labor job, etc.
Both my boomer parents were college graduates and my father was a white collar worker and my mother was a stay at home mom. We didn't own a house until I was 13, it was a very modest house, we only ever had one shitty car. My mother clipped coupons like her life depended on it (because it did), and sewed all of her own clothes and most of our clothes. We all had to take loans out to go to college. My father is still working at 70, and won't retire to any wealth or a pension.
There are some very legit economic access issues, needless obstacles around credentialing and requirement of college degrees, that make things more challenging today. But also, none of the people complaining about this want to go work on the assembly line, in the carpet store, for the utility company, etc. They pine for the never-were days when anyone could just go get a job as a journalist or a screen writer or a "financier" etc. Those days never existed.
You know how many people born in 1960-1964 have a college degree? 16%. Pretty remarkable when supposedly anyone could get a degree for the university of their choice for $150.
In all times ever, 80% of 20-35 year old people have had to hustle, scrape, sacrifice, put in heavy hours, work jobs they don't like, etc for a very unremarkable standard of living. That's what your 20s and 30s are.
I definitely feel like we need to reckon with some things, but let's not completely fantasize about the world was like.
Proud to be a boomer as we learned from the best, even if we didn't pass it down so well. Didn't know beans about technology (because there wasn't any), but our music was way better than any subsequent generation.
Socrates, an ancient Greek philosopher, for those generations who don't recognize the name, complained that the youth in his day had bad manners. How would you convince me that any generation is going to believe their generation is worse than the next.
Socrates, an ancient Greek philosopher, for those generations who don't recognize the name, complained that the youth in his day had bad manners. How would you convince me that any generation is going to believe their generation is worse than the next.
I know the "X-games" do not mean genX but I always thought genX should be into x-games, grunge rock, hand held vid games controllers, not the stand up kind....and late 80's or 90's toys and 90's cars and such. millennials were right after that. I have trouble relating to a lot of what millennials think and do, but then,so did my grandparents probably have trouble with my mindset.
This! This is the blueprint for Making America Great Again!
Just curious why you consider yourself a boomer but “they” (conventional wisdom?) call you Gen X. I was born late 60s. My brothers were born late 50s. They don’t really fit the mold of either boomers or Gen X. They were “disco ducks” who became “urban cowboys” a few years later.
55-60 range . closer to 60. man, I always thought I was 14 years old inside-even when in my 40's. I was crazy and youthful. getting close to 60 really freakin' makes me feel old.
my wife has 38 years with the same freaking company. 38 gosh dang years!!! crazy. next year will be 40 years since I got my first insurance license. 40 freaking years. making me feel old. we definitely talk about retiring all the time.
yes this me too, born in the late 60's. I think "they" are the people who make this crap up. wiki says 1946-64 for boomers. I do not think anybody cared to make the next generation have a name. until later like in the 90's then they called us X or something. I dunno who these people are, probably college professors. if you don't fit either - do you just consider yourself a non conformist or outlier? I have felt that before
