Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis
Late GenX with Xenial lived experience -
Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis very late millennial -
Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis Just a reminder that all this Gen-whatever labeling is myth.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis gen Z reporting in!
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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@thordis yet another Xennial checking in. Voted Gen X cause I'm an elder Xennial lol.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis I never remember which is which
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@tieandjeans Interesting! I do enjoy this kind of analysis, as long as people don't get too obsessed with it. (My Gen Z daughter makes a huge deal out of being a different generation from her Gen Alpha brother, three years her junior....)
@thordis I've been in the classroom with middle and highschool students since 2001.
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@Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis I don't feel lucky. I feel like I'm watching all my hopes and dreams be torn down for good, just as they were about to finally be within reach. The stuff I worked toward my whole life... I worked toward it for nothing. All the angst, trying to be good enough for my parents and then my children, only to find out it was pointless because it doesn't matter what I do or did. The world has turned to a giant dumpster fire, and I don't know how we will ever climb out of it.
@hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
how are you doing fellow Xennial? Take care yourself. I'm where you are right now and I sometimes have to pull away from it all and dive into something completely unrelated to the world around me. I've watched most of my friends and family struggle. It is bleak right now and I'm not going to sugarcoat it. It is very scary.
But you're not alone. Stay strong. Once history turns over again, we'll be needed to help with our unique insights and wisdom as children somewhere between two arbitrarily defined albeit unique generations.
Apes, together, strong.
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@hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis this encapsulates what I consider the defining feature of us xennials.
It's not as simple as technology - I spent large amounts of my single digit childhood on a 48k Spectrum, while many of my peers barely touched a computer until late teens.
It's more about us living on the edge of a cliff. We are the tipping point between GenX who could reliably do the career-house-kids-stability thing, and Millennials who had that future ripped from them. Whether any individual of us managed to cling onto the cliff is largely due to chance.@jetlagjen @hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
me and my hand-me-down TI/99/4a computer agree with you!
Chance has a lot to do with it.
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@david_megginson @thordis It's strange, I remember being told the Beatles broke up by my father. I can even remember the expression he used!
@nickb333 wrote
It's strange, I remember being told the Beatles broke up by my father. I can even remember the expression he used!
I heard it at from other kids at kindergarten recess. I didn't know what "Beatles" or "broke up" meant, but I could tell it was supposed to be important (I'd already memorised the answer "Bobby Orr" if anyone asked me my favourite hockey player).
Those kids must have heard it from older siblings.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis Jones
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I believe the Boomer generation is also referred to as the 'Me' generation, and in the West it was certainly a good time to be born.
Full employment, good pensions, health and social care, affordable housing, free education, historically low levels of wealth inequality and historically high levels of social mobility were common before the eighties.
Funny thing is that all those good things were the product of the Boomers' parents generation. The Boomers just took them for granted like they naturally just happened, got greedy and frittered them away in the name of living their best life right now.
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Funny thing is that all those good things were the product of the Boomers' parents generation. The Boomers just took them for granted like they naturally just happened, got greedy and frittered them away in the name of living their best life right now.
Yes, many (not all) were certainly happy to kick the ladders away in the 80s, and that generation's luck has continued with triple-locked, final salary pensions.
I read something recently about European counties where Boomers had higher incomes in retirement than the average salary of working people, but this seems to be changing for more recent retirees thanks to retirement age increases and taxes.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis@theforkiverse.com bruh i know multiple gen alpha why they haved to get lumped in
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis *extreme nerdy voice* aktschually I'm a cusp year that's Xennial, but I identify more with millennials than gen X so that's what I chose.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis
I hate having to google the definitions of these nonsense labels. -
@leffe Interesting!
I'm still figuring out the federated aspect of it all, so I actually thought I was directing the question only at the fork-people (the forks? the forksters?)
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Yeah, I decided you must think you're addressing only forkiverse people. I actually had to look up forkiverse, and ended up looking at the transcript of the first episode of the NYT's Hard Fork podcast. There are millions of currently active fediverse users so the spread of responses you get will depend on how well federated the forkiverse is. -
Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis just a bunch of old farts fartin around
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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Generation Jones
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis genuinely disappointed to see there aren't as many zoomers (like me) on the fediverse.
I mean, I know the reasons why, but it's not as bad as some of them make it look like
