• Boomers are having their last dance in charge.
  • Gen X leaders are stepping up to replace the last of them.
  • Younger leaders are taking charge of politics and corporate giants such as Boeing, HSBC, and Costco.

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[+] 306 points 2 years ago (12 children)
  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As a Gen Xer I'm heartened to see Gen Z stepping up to literally save the world. Seeing the swell in support for Harris and in voter registration numbers, I for once am feeling hopeful. I hope they can accomplish what the forgotten generation couldn't.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Gen Z reporting in. Above comment's point was not to generalize an entire demographic as 'doing good'. & it was a good one. Don't assume that of us either.

    Judging entire groups of people as a monolith is always bad. I'll add 'good' is subjective of an individual's values. Expect future generations to mock us for what we believe acceptable.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Expect future generations to mock us for what we believe acceptable.

    I sure hope so. If future generations aren't making fun of me for how backwards I am then we're not progressing.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'll caveat that not all changes are 'good' changes too. The future generations might not value the things we hold dear, like the jury trial. One day maybe they'll sadly see that as us wasting ordinary people's time.

    People in the future are not automatically our betters, but our equals, (hopefully) armed with the knowledge of our failings and armed with that of our successes.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    If I'm not mistaken gen X is the first generation to become more progressive as it ages

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    [–] 132 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Considering the nature of linear time, I dont know what the alternative could be.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Biden is actually the first and only president from “The Silent Generation”

    (Side note: Trump, Dubya, and Bubba were all born in 1946)

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    [–] 101 points 2 years ago

    Took way too long. Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out.

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  • [–] 74 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm fully in support of Kamala, but she's not Gen X. Close, but no cigar. She was born in 1964.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    She's Generation Jones. So am I (b. 1963)

    Damn, they even have her picture on the page 😆

    Generation Jones is noted for coming of age after a huge swath of their older siblings in the earlier portion of the Baby Boomer population; thus, many note that there was a paucity of resources and privileges available to them that were seemingly abundant to older Boomers. Therefore, there is a certain level of bitterness and "jonesing" for the level of doting and affluence granted to older Boomers but denied to them

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This reminds me of the Xennial generation that fell between X and Millennial. This also sort of shows how little we can really actually equate from these 20+ year generational spans. Really I am just happy she's not old enough to collect SSI yet.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can't tell if she looks young for her age, or if she looks super young compared to everyone else on stage wirh her

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Probably a combination of three things. First hate ages you terribly, example Laura Loomer, Alex Jones. Second she is a child compared to Biden/Trump. And third and finally as clichè as it is black dont crack

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    The dates for these generations are not set in stone. Lots of organizations use 1965 to 1980 but the US SSA uses 1965 as the start.

    People born around the transition points are going to have more in common with each other than with people born earlier in the date range. Especially when you consider families having kids a few years apart but each is apparently a different "generation".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X#:~:text=U.S.%20news%20outlets%20such%20as,born%20between%201965%20and%201980%22.

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago

    The median age of the senate is 65. The article is just cherry picking.

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago* (17 children)

    As a member of Generation X, I would say that it's not going to be much better.

    Just look at, say, Elon Musk as an example of the kind of people from my generation who get to positions of influence.

    Most GenX are the product of the Neoliberal era, so have interiorized the whole "lookout for numero uno" idea of how to be in society and whilst commonly aware of things like Climate Change, they're usually unwilling to inconvenience themselves for the sake of fighting against it, quite the contrary even (just look at how well SUVs sell), and similarly when it comes to Consumerism, they seem to be the most prone to wasteful consumption (the kind of people who replace their mobile phones every year or two).

    In summary, Gen X generally are more well informed than Boomers but even less principled than them.

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    [–] 58 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Even if Harris were Gen X, this would be premature.

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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Kamala was born in the last year of what is considered boomer, but still a step forward to Biden's silent generation

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Generational cohorts are all just made up nonsense. It just exists to distract the working class from what we have in common with each other and what separates us from the working class. I, a millennial, have much more in common with a working class baby boomer, than I do with a rich and powerful millennial.

    Stop encouraging these artificial divides. Build solidarity across the working class of all ages. And stop playing into the media’s narratives.

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's cool you'll get like four years then we millennials will take over.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As an aging millennial, I am surprised by how the process of time works.

    Like you spend your life acquiring skills and using your knowledge in an ever expanding cornucopia of experiences.

    Then followed by a gradual decline to be left only with your memories of who you once were. But then you realize you were only a small part of the existence of others, and ultimately the universe. Yep, the thought of faculties diminishing over time is enough to put the one into an extensional crisis.

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (16 children)

    Gen X is too small to matter. Millennials are stepping up and will compete with Boomers for a little while until they finally take over. Thing about Millennials though is that it is a very K shaped generation. About half have had decent success and are conservative/liberal and the other half have been absolutely crushed so it's kind of a mixed bag and as long as the Boomers have any influence not much is likely to change. GenZ is bigger than Millennials though and should be right behind them. They are very different and much more politically radical, on both the left and right. Things are likely to change with them.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    One thing I'm looking forward to with millennial leadership is just people that finally fully understand the power of the internet, big data and what truly distinguishes the information age. If you didn't grow up with it, it's hard to grapple with just how much it truly upended ... fucking everything. They mostly still don't understand that a computer can basically read their mind now, just through indirect data gathering and comparing them to all of the other people. We all get that at a more intuitive level, we've spent too long around these algorithms and seas of semi-anonymous others.

    Of course we'll be in some quantum AI room-temp-superconductor age by then, so, y'know how it goes. But we should at least have a better handle on the information age problems, so that'll be nice.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Boomers? Biden wasn't even a Boomer!

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm amused with all the people who think there's some hard line where you have to be born before or after some exact year to be of a named generation as if this wasn't all made up. A baby didn't get labeled Gen-X if they were born after midnight on a certain day.

    As far as I'm concerned, she's Gen-X. She was 13 when Star Wars came out.

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