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’

"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

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.