The last leaders of the boomer era look set to cede their power to younger Gen X leaders across the political and business worlds.
  • 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.
  • ZaktorEnglish
    52·
    5 months ago

    What’s the fact you’re objecting to? The only thing wrong is Trump as a Silent as he’s born in the very first year of the Boomers. Everything else is following the common definitions.

    • computerscientistII@lemm.ee
      51·
      5 months ago

      You might be right there. I’m German. And many a man did come back later, after the war, here. A lot of refugees were forcefully relocated from what is today Poland. Also a lot of POWs came back long after the war was over. So the baby boom was a bit delayed over here.

      • Akasazh@feddit.nl
        21·
        5 months ago

        Then again, you’re a computer scientist, not an historian, and therefore excusable :p

        • ZaktorEnglish
          4·
          5 months ago

          It all depends on whether you start counting from 0 or 1!

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      41·
      5 months ago

      Where does the common definition of ‘Boomer’ say it starts after 1946 (the year Trump was born) and stops with the birth control pill (1960)?

      I have never seen such a definition anywhere. Certainly not one that says it starts at least two years after the end of WWII.

      • ZaktorEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        Huh? I’m saying Trump is Boomer because Boomers start in 1946. And it goes to 1964, which is when the birth control pill was recognized as a contraceptive. I don’t know if X is defined by that in the same way Boomers are defined by a specific event, but it lines up precisely.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers

          • ZaktorEnglish
            3·
            5 months ago

            You literally just asked about where the common definition came from. Read the first fucking paragraph man.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              15·
              5 months ago

              I did not ask anything. I certainly didn’t ask that:

              Pretty amusing that you’re accusing me of not reading though.

              • ZaktorEnglish
                4·
                5 months ago

                You’re in the wrong fucking thread. Get it together before you go randomly aggro.

                You, in the post I originally replied to:

                Where does the common definition of ‘Boomer’ say it starts after 1946 (the year Trump was born) and stops with the birth control pill (1960)?

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                  13·
                  5 months ago

                  Okay, sorry about that, but you’re still wrong because it’s anywhere between 1943 and “mid-1946” as per that Wikipedia page.