Why Gen X is the real loser generation: the Economist

[Anonymous]

Anyone have a gift link for this?

[Anonymous]

Not that one but this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/gen-x.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.UMA6.No0Xj6Q9Rmjp&smid=url-share

[Anonymous]

Thanks! OK read I guess. Gen X’s complaining as a generation doesn’t really track. We have always been too small for that, no one would listen. I’ve known us as the generation that just shuts up and gets it done.

But I suppose anyone who nears retirement age and hasn’t accomplished what they wanted to would have complaints.

[Anonymous]

It’s completely on brand that we’re the loser generation. I love it.

[Anonymous]

I think we’re the best! We don’t have the drama like Boomers and Millennials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not that one but this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/gen-x.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.UMA6.No0Xj6Q9Rmjp&smid=url-share

This article is so true but so flipping depressing.

[Anonymous]

Saving all your food stamps and burning down the trailer park

[Anonymous]

Its talking about the American White Male.

- Female, Brown, Non-Christian immigrant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks! OK read I guess. Gen X’s complaining as a generation doesn’t really track. We have always been too small for that, no one would listen. I’ve known us as the generation that just shuts up and gets it done.

But I suppose anyone who nears retirement age and hasn’t accomplished what they wanted to would have complaints.

I also don’t recognize my generation as being a bunch of complainers. Everyone I know was raised to be independent, non-whiners who got sh@t done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s completely on brand that we’re the loser generation. I love it.

In the shape of an L on her forehead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its talking about the American White Male.

- Female, Brown, Non-Christian immigrant.

It's true. I'm pretty proud of the life I've scraped together, even though I do recognize that we haven't been dealt the best hand as a generation.

[Anonymous]

Gen X has been parenting themselves since they were 7. Sure they’ll figure it out.

[Anonymous]

Whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever.

Touche.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gen X has been parenting themselves since they were 7. Sure they’ll figure it out.

This is so true! My mom used to leave legal sized notepad for us with chores to do afterschool - we'd find it by our cheerios when we woke up in the morning. She was already at work ...