Generations have been stereotyped in so many ways—from being quiet quitters to narcissists. But maybe it isn’t a generational thing after all.
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And link to the actual blog post from pew that this fortune article is reporting on.
Dividing people into labelled generations is such a Boomer thing to do.
There’s two things i hate in this world: people who are intollerant of different generational age brackets, and the boomers.
Finally! The generations are so sloppily and arbitrarily defined anyway. Yeah, there’s a difference between me at almost 40 and someone in college. There are some things I had more in common with “Gen-X” and some that I had more in common with “millennials,” but then they’d try to define my group as if they were a separate thing on the cusp between the two. Misses the point entirely, there may be tendencies based on age group but everyone’s somewhere on a spectrum of all that stuff.
There are people same age as me that I feel like I share more in common with toddlers (or alternately, geriatrics) than them despite that age similarity.
I agree with you. Flailing around to find some kind of value in generational definitions, the best I can come to is more about eras— times defined by significant events, cultural touchstones, or technologies that influenced, in whatever way, directly or indirectly, the people alive at the time, or perhaps the people coming of age at the time.
Even then, how much does it tell us to think of people in those contexts?
Great, now when will the advertising industry lose generations as a prime demographic?
Yes! It’s not generation vs generation. We need to think in less divide terms.
Maybe this kind of division was massively adopted because it allows to easily categorize groups of people for different purpouses, positive or negative. Makes for easy labelling and blaming without critical thinking or analysis. I hope this generation meme dies off, but I think it will take a while, it’s very convenient, mainly to advance certain agendas.
That would be great if we could get certain generations on board; at least one of those generations seems to hold a grudge against the following generations because said generation got a lot of benefits from the prior generation, cut off any chances of legally accessing those benefits from the following generations, while also blaming the following generations. Make it make sense!