Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned: ‘Most boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’
Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned: ‘Most boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’
One Gen Zer went viral for explaining how much easier life was for boomers.
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Hey Gen Z, first time being gaslit by boomers? Heh, yyeeeaaaahhhhhhh.......they do that. Now imagine having them as your parent, and you're 5, and you have to just live with their bullshit.
~Sincerely, Gen X and the older millenials.
"it'll all make sense when you're an adult"
well. i'm an adult now. some would even say old or middle aged. it still doesn't make sense
My parents were Gen X but they faithfully followed the boomer mindset
I know many people in their 50s who are Boomer as fuck.
40s as well for me
The real Boomers were the assholes we met along the way.
I'm so glad as I'm close to my 40s I know so many fellow millinials who still thinks utter bullshit.
That’s because pidgeonholing people into “generations” has always been stupid. The common thread is an absolute lack of empathy. Let’s just call them “late boomers”. And if there are decent boomers, just call them “early Xers” or “late silent” accordingly.
Unfortunately, a lot of Gen X went that way.
Nuance is hard. It's all just binary, isn't it?
Never said it was?
However, I'm old enough to remember watching the boomers getting gaslit by the "Greatest Generation".
But yeah, as an Xer, it seems like we got the short straw. The boomers sucked all the air out of the room for so very long, that if the (mostly boomer- and Greatest Generation- led) media stopped giving them all the attention for a moment, it was to only label us the "slacker generation".
By the time the boomer narcissism's grip was loosened, the focus was mostly on to Gen Y, and if we are being honest here, due to their numbers, the media narcissism around Gen Y reminds me very much of the boomers, with Gen Z quickly catching up.
I suspect that's very much due to a numbers game - if advertising dollars figure they can center a particular group enough, they can scoop up all those $$$ by selling a certain age range a story about themselves...
my parents were silent generation.
I'm Gen Z and my fathers are boomers... Making fun of our situation as a "First time? We had it much worse than you!" just feels horrible, I'm sick of this kind of conversation were we are being more divided because of "differences between generations" when the problem is a bunch of assholes who had a great time in a great economy making present look like hell and then blaming us for that, it's not about "generations", it's about abuse.