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I wrote an eight paragraph response and then deleted it and condensed down the highlights.
Millennials and Gen Z have to pay many times over what it cost the Gen X for a quality education but they still have more than twice as many four year degree holders as Gen X had in their 30s.
The Boomers aren't running anything anymore, they're median age 66 ffs. Gen X are the new corporate overlords. Their first act as voters was either Reagan or Bush Sr, both of whom gutted most systems of oversight.
They've devoted their lives to sex, drugs, and alcohol.
They still share the boomer view on gender roles, that only men wear pants and go to work, that girls like pink and boys like blue. Anything outside of that very specific framework is viewed as creepy and immoral.
In the nicest way possible, the world will be much better when Gen X is gone.
Due to decades long processes set in motion by boomers and older while Gen X were still children if born at all.
Half of Congress (54% of Republicans in Congress) is 65 or older. The president is too old to even be a boomer
The first presidential election where they were old enough to vote, the only other realistic challenger was the VP of the president who had been successfully smeared in the media as the most inefficient in modern history and the alternative in 88 was Dukakis. In both cases, the Republican won by a landslide in a media landscape of intense gaslighting and other propaganda in their favor, so you can hardly blame Gen X for them.
Not even remotely true and even if it was, that would be a hell of a lot better than devoting your life to work and money
Also false of the majority. In their youth, Gen X were pretty much DEFINED by rebellion against the societal norms of previous generations, including outdated and restrictive gender roles.
Sounds like there's more of a YOU problem than a Gen X problem tbh..
Exactly right. @doctorcrimson is either completely ignorant of reality, a total dumbass, or a troll.
Fortune 500 Company CEOs median age is 58, the same as the Median Age of voting House Members! It's very close but that's Gen X.
You said "the boomers aren't running anything anymore". Stop moving the goalposts.
The goalpost sits where it was placed.
Which isn't where you originally put them. Either argue consistently and in good faith or stop arguing.
Boomers don't run shit, Gen X is the median CEO and federal House Legislator, and the vast majority of authority in general.
Seeing that they and the generation before them are half of Congress in spite of being only 25% of the population, that's a patently ridiculous claim. Repeating a lie doesn't make it true, it just makes you more obnoxious.
Jealous?
I used to do that stuff back in the old days. I still do too.
Life is good
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The dichotomy of admissions like this and outright refusals like the wall of text above.
And if we keep this up your grandkids will say the same about you.
I worry my singular grandchild will think of me as someone wasteful who had every opportunity to fix things but did nothing. I worry that I may never have the opportunities needed to do net good in the world because the generations before did everything in their power to consolidate wealth and keep us all under their thumbs, even at the expense of their own majority because their idiocy placed more value in short term satisfaction than knowledge and freedom. Worst of all is I can't even be truly angry at them, because they will suffer the most of all, abandoned in low budget homes waiting for the failing system of medicine to let them die.
My Nephew thinks I'm cool, though, so I've got that going for me.
Only 90% of our lives, but the rest we just wasted.