Why Gen X is the real loser generation

[fsagx]

https://archive.is/NtgHe

[treetalker]

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

[andy99]

I think GenX gets largely absorbed into millennials and boomers when people make generalizations. The birth year cutoff for millenial has crept increasingly downward, subsuming what I remember as GenY, and I think for marketing purposes, a childless 47 year old renter would probably be lumped in with millennials while a 51 year old with a kid in university would be called a boomer.

Not that I agree with it.

[clipsy]

> The birth year cutoff for millenial has crept increasingly downward, subsuming what I remember as GenY

The term "millennials" was coined before "Generation Y," and the initial definition was children born during or after 1982, which is more or less where it stands now (I've seen the definition of millennials get extended back to 1980, but rarely if ever into the 70's.) Generation X is actually the one that absorbed the originally defined Generation Y, which comprised children born from 1974-1980.

Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials#Terminology_and_et...

[ludicrousdispla]

At one point the distinction between Gen X and Gen Y was defined as which side of the end of WW2 one's parents were born on (within reason) which would make Gen Y children of boomers, and Gen X not children of boomers.

My 6th grade teacher (in the early 80's) asked our class once which of us thought that the world would end in nuclear armageddon, and all of us raised our hands. I mention this as it's likely a baseline for how Gen X'ers view the state of the world.

[drob518]

Boomers screwed us.

[ksaj]

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