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I think a couple years later, they posted one that included us. As a fellow GenX noted, this kind of erasure is totally on brand for us.

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm alright with being forgotten. All they did when we were in our 20s was shit talk us and call us slackers who never left home, so it's better this way.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've since noticed they continue to shit-talk whoever is in the 15-30 year range, asserting this group is lazier and more slackery than their elders.

And so I point it out, noting we don't buy it this time either.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's been amazing seeing the millenials, then Gen Z dissed exactly the same way we were!

And what's really surprising is seeing people my own age doing so without a shred of self-awareness!

Every new generation becomes the new scapegoat.

[–] LoamImprovement@ttrpg.network 2 points 10 months ago

I don't blame anyone generationally anymore. Boomers are too senile for their own good and everyone else is too burnt out to step up to the plate.

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it’s fine. Birth rates were just above 2 per woman for a couple decades before dropping again to current levels, but with a larger population there are still more births happening than in the 1970s. That decade, low birth rates combined with a smaller population resulted in a small number of GenX members. I am totally OK with continuing to fly under the radar.

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 39 points 10 months ago (5 children)

No one was born in the United States between 1964 and 1981.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

Certainly no one I care to know.

[–] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

Hey if that means not more taxes for genx, then I think I'm fine with being forgotten.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I wonder if I should let my wife know she doesn't exist, this'll be interesting.

[–] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 5 points 10 months ago

USA all burrowed into the earth for 17 years like cicadas.

[–] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

TIL I was never born

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Best bit, we don't care.

I have a theory that we were designed to create a break. When the boomers finally die off, instead of taking power we just sort of step out back for a smoke and let the younger millenials take over, setting things right a bit.

[–] umbraroze@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just boomers trying to desperately ignore the fact that the generation after them is not only adult, but hitting the middle age. That can't be true, right? That'd mean that boomers are the objectively becoming old farts? Naah, the whinge must go on!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

But also yes we are the burnout generation

[–] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

the forgotten

[–] Papercrane@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

1981 - 1996 would be 43 until 28 years old, they miscalculated by quite a lot huh?

[–] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 10 months ago

The news report is probably from 2018..

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We're the last lead generation. Just let us fade away.