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Gen X is in charge now, and boomers are being shown the door
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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.
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.
Technology keeps creating new problems. The problems don't stay still and wait to be fixed.
Not to be contrary, but the problems aren't technology's fault. That's all on us.
It's almost like generational distinction is meaningless and it's actually about class.
And life stages
I'm worried about the Alphas and younger Zs who weren't paying attention until after Covid. The news doesn't talk about Trump's laundry list of controversies or extremism. They just yell about the economy and the border and point at Biden.
As usual, they make rationalists look alarmist.
There's apparently 65.2 million Gen Xers vs 75 million millenials. Smaller, but "too small to matter" seems like a really weird take.
Spoken just like the boomers. Heads up your own asses just like them.
65 million X compared to 72 millennial. Wow. Carry on.
Whatever.
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Fair to middling?
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I am not, but I think that's unrelated. Mostly. Or not at all.
In an existential sense?