Sorry Gen X, we’re doing what you should’ve done decades ago…
We literally did not have the chance. The greedy Boomers held onto the power & money until well past their own expiration date (see the average age of the past couple presidents, for example).
This is the case in politics and in business as well. Boomers refuse to retire, forcing Gen X to take lower paying jobs with little chance of promotion.
Look it up. “Baby Boomers held onto leadership roles longer than past generations, which delayed Gen X from taking power.”
I think eventually we sort of just gave up. Boomers were handed the country on a silver platter from their parents, and then they ran it into the ground (by doing shit like electing Reagan), and simply refused to pass it on when their time was supposed to be up.
Hence GenX’s slogan; “oh well, whatever, never mind.”
You guys got the shaft, it’s okay. We Millennials only got half-shafted because we’ll still have time to scramble to do something after the last boomers die, while you Gen Xers are all old and decrepit. Maybe Gen Z will have a chance, if humanity doesn’t cause its own extinction first.
Lay your weary head to rest, we’ve got it from here. No more pain, only dreams. Shhhhhhh…
In my experience Gen Xers have allowed Boomers to stay longer. Obviously this isn’t Gen Xers’ fault entirely and I’m not trying to paint with a wide brush here, but from what I have seen growing up Gen Xers have been useful to Boomers in that there are token Xers who have been allowed power as long as they enact the policies that allow Boomers to stay longer.
I am taking about the Hakeem Jeffries of the world, or people like the HR administrator I know who worked to allow retirement to accrue longer so that people wouldn’t feel forced to retire as soon and now finds herself in her 50s without having made it passed HR administration.
I’m not even sure that things could’ve turned out differently if Gen X had tried something, I’m just saying that in my experience “oh well, whatever, never mind” isn’t exactly the whole story.
Little of both probably. Boomers heavily outnumbered GenXers too, and held all the money, so GenX were sort of left in a bind. Hakeem and that HR rep aren’t doing those things out of spite for their own generation or later generations. Boomers still run the show upstream.
Not spite for the whole generation, but it definitely speaks to something that I’ve seen in every generation. It’s the same conversation that comes up when we talk about developers who work for Google or Microsoft. There’s always somebody who’s willing to fuck over other people for money. Even if they don’t exactly see themselves as fucking over other people. And there’s always somebody who is in a desperate situation enough to hold their nose. I even commented a couple of weeks ago that currently being unemployed I don’t know if I could turn down a job from Google or Microsoft. As with everything there’s always lots of nuance.
This isn’t a contest, but it’s worse for millennials as a whole because the line is, waaaay backed up. Gen Z has it one step worse than us, too. It’s a cascade of bullshit from these assholes.
Yes. Boomers really fucked us all. “The ‘me’ generation“ indeed. It’s why I get so irked when the younger generations lump GenX in with Boomers. We’re not them. They fucked us over too.
We literally did not have the chance. The greedy Boomers held onto the power & money until well past their own expiration date (see the average age of the past couple presidents, for example).
This is the case in politics and in business as well. Boomers refuse to retire, forcing Gen X to take lower paying jobs with little chance of promotion.
Look it up. “Baby Boomers held onto leadership roles longer than past generations, which delayed Gen X from taking power.”
I think eventually we sort of just gave up. Boomers were handed the country on a silver platter from their parents, and then they ran it into the ground (by doing shit like electing Reagan), and simply refused to pass it on when their time was supposed to be up.
Hence GenX’s slogan; “oh well, whatever, never mind.”
I know, I know. I was being tongue-in-cheek.
You guys got the shaft, it’s okay. We Millennials only got half-shafted because we’ll still have time to scramble to do something after the last boomers die, while you Gen Xers are all old and decrepit. Maybe Gen Z will have a chance, if humanity doesn’t cause its own extinction first.
Lay your weary head to rest, we’ve got it from here. No more pain, only dreams. Shhhhhhh…
Such a polite burn. I’ll go and rest my weary head now. ☺️
Hey, I resemble that.
In my experience Gen Xers have allowed Boomers to stay longer. Obviously this isn’t Gen Xers’ fault entirely and I’m not trying to paint with a wide brush here, but from what I have seen growing up Gen Xers have been useful to Boomers in that there are token Xers who have been allowed power as long as they enact the policies that allow Boomers to stay longer.
I am taking about the Hakeem Jeffries of the world, or people like the HR administrator I know who worked to allow retirement to accrue longer so that people wouldn’t feel forced to retire as soon and now finds herself in her 50s without having made it passed HR administration.
I’m not even sure that things could’ve turned out differently if Gen X had tried something, I’m just saying that in my experience “oh well, whatever, never mind” isn’t exactly the whole story.
Little of both probably. Boomers heavily outnumbered GenXers too, and held all the money, so GenX were sort of left in a bind. Hakeem and that HR rep aren’t doing those things out of spite for their own generation or later generations. Boomers still run the show upstream.
Not spite for the whole generation, but it definitely speaks to something that I’ve seen in every generation. It’s the same conversation that comes up when we talk about developers who work for Google or Microsoft. There’s always somebody who’s willing to fuck over other people for money. Even if they don’t exactly see themselves as fucking over other people. And there’s always somebody who is in a desperate situation enough to hold their nose. I even commented a couple of weeks ago that currently being unemployed I don’t know if I could turn down a job from Google or Microsoft. As with everything there’s always lots of nuance.
This isn’t a contest, but it’s worse for millennials as a whole because the line is, waaaay backed up. Gen Z has it one step worse than us, too. It’s a cascade of bullshit from these assholes.
Yes. Boomers really fucked us all. “The ‘me’ generation“ indeed. It’s why I get so irked when the younger generations lump GenX in with Boomers. We’re not them. They fucked us over too.
Gen Z even calls Millennials boomers. The word is losing meaning…
You grew up with “children of the corn” to learn from… but you didn’t listen.