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What the Fuck happened with Gen X? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by NONE_dc@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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All I hear about is "boomers" this, "Millennials" that, "Gen Z" that, etc.

Why no one talk about Gen X? What happened to them? They just vanished like in Infinity War? Or are we mistaken Gen Z by Boomers?

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Boomers" has been misappropriated by younger generations to mean anything from older people they disagree with, older people they feel have undue privileges they don't have, or older people who were born before the internet became widespread.

The scapegoating mostly points at gen-X'ers though, not true boomers. The boomers are hitting the retirement homes at this point.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Boomers are generally tech illiterate, gen-x grew up with consoles, the commodore 64 and then the web and the mobile era then smartphones and withspread internet and so on and on. We were there when things started.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Elon Musk & Sergei Brin are Gen X, but Bezos, Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Wozniak, and most of the people who built the technology GenX grew up with are Boomers. Zuck is a Millenial, but just barely. You could make a decent start of life as GenX knowing nothing about the technology, but they were still young enough to learn new developments easily.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yeah that's why I said "generally".

Of course the tech built in the sixties-seventies-eighties was built by boomers.

Edit: fuck Gates btw, he didn't build anything as much as steal and buy. Like elon.