• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They could fix that sentence by specifying that it’s elite baby boomers that will pass it on to elite Gen Y.

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      That’s right. All the Baby Boomers had kids at the exact same time. They totally didn’t give birth to Gen Xers or Millennials.

      All their money will go to one generation.

      It’s a well-established pattern that, as soon as generations come up for discussion, shit gets dumbed down fast.

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        In general, I value Adam’s take on the notion that generations don’t really exist and view it mostly as a tool of marketing and the elite.

        The corporate media narrative of the Boomer-Gen Y division is a classic case in point. Looking back, there was the Boomer vs. “Greatest” Generation narrative. Watching the current narratives of Boomer vs. Gen Y and more recently Gen Y vs. Gen Z is like watching re-runs.

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          Generations only exist for marketing companies categorizing everyone so they know how to market to you.