Why Gen X is the real loser generation: the Economist

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Anonymous wrote:Gen X are life losers. I remember thinking when the TV show Thirty Something came on, never watched it btw, that Gen X were thirty nothings.
Sure they are Trumpers to blame somebody else.

Wrong generation.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a Gen-X. Being honest, that article bored me. No I haven’t become more conservative. No I didn’t vote Trump, ever.

Anyway, I will eventually leave this earth knowing that my generation produced and experienced the best music ever.

I couldn’t make it through the article either. She was focused on throwing in Gen X cultural references but not really analyzing the actual issues.

This is the second shitty NYT author on DCUM this week.

The economist article was much better. But hard to post.

GenX has had a rough hand, especially later GenX that were too young to get in on explosion in housing prices but too old to be part of the post-FB tech scene. We had the lot decade of investment, basically dot.bomb to GRC jobs drought and when things finally improved were muscled out by the larger Millenials.

True, but most GenXers didn't learn anything they could use for their advantage from the lost decade or the explosion of housing prices.

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Anonymous wrote:Gen X are life losers. I remember thinking when the TV show Thirty Something came on, never watched it btw, that Gen X were thirty nothings.
Sure they are Trumpers to blame somebody else.

Wrong generation.

Yeah thirty something premiered in 1987 so the characters would have been burned between 1957 and 1948—very clearly baby boomers. I watched it in HS!

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More overseas "generation" propaganda, to keep Americans and westerners in-fighting eh?

You spies are really way behind the times with your tired old PSYOPs.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a Gen-X. Being honest, that article bored me. No I haven’t become more conservative. No I didn’t vote Trump, ever.

Anyway, I will eventually leave this earth knowing that my generation produced and experienced the best music ever.

More GenX voted for Trump than boomers. We totally suck. I’m ashamed of my fellow white GenX. What happened to live and let live? A damn shame.

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GenX voted for Trump so of course they are going to whine about their lot in life. Their generation stayed on Facebook with the Boomers and went down the Fox News/Qanon hole.

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I was born in 1980 and I am a late Gen X. I think we are the worst generation ..we are extremely pessimists and spend a lot of time criticizing every other generation.

What I find bizarre about many of us late GenX is that many of have Gen Z kids and yet we can't stop criticizing this generation..anyways I love my Gen Z kids. And frankly I agree with them about a lot of things.

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We are not White, we are first gen immigrants and we are not Christians. Nothing of the generational stereotypes are true for us. We are Gen X and we have done well in every sphere of our life. Our kids are Gen Z and they are the most motivated kids I have seen.

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Anonymous wrote:I was born in 1980 and I am a late Gen X. I think we are the worst generation ..we are extremely pessimists and spend a lot of time criticizing every other generation.

What I find bizarre about many of us late GenX is that many of have Gen Z kids and yet we can't stop criticizing this generation..anyways I love my Gen Z kids. And frankly I agree with them about a lot of things.

Fellow 1980 baby and this rings true for me. Gen X is always so obsessed with being cool and cynical that we fail to see things clearly. In the end, the cynical eye is no more accurate than the nostalgia Boomers wash everything in. We have too little empathy for other people.

As someone born close to the Millennial generation, I know many of them. They have their own issues, everyone does, but something I appreciate about them is their earnestness. They take things to heart. Gen X likes to keep everything at an ironic distance. It's not always for the best, even if it might help us feel more in control.

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Anonymous wrote:We are not White, we are first gen immigrants and we are not Christians. Nothing of the generational stereotypes are true for us. We are Gen X and we have done well in every sphere of our life. Our kids are Gen Z and they are the most motivated kids I have seen.

America is amazing! I'm enjoying the comments in this thread from successful immigrants of color. Goes to show that despite all the fashionable claims to the contrary, the USA is truly a land of equal opportunity, regardless of skin color.

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Anonymous wrote:I was born in 1980 and I am a late Gen X. I think we are the worst generation ..we are extremely pessimists and spend a lot of time criticizing every other generation.

What I find bizarre about many of us late GenX is that many of have Gen Z kids and yet we can't stop criticizing this generation..anyways I love my Gen Z kids. And frankly I agree with them about a lot of things.

You’re a millennial, in age & spirit

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a Gen-X. Being honest, that article bored me. No I haven’t become more conservative. No I didn’t vote Trump, ever.

Anyway, I will eventually leave this earth knowing that my generation produced and experienced the best music ever.

More GenX voted for Trump than boomers. We totally suck. I’m ashamed of my fellow white GenX. What happened to live and let live? A damn shame.

I do not know any GenX that voted for Trump beyond the guy that fixes the sprinklers. Boomers did not vote for Harris.

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I am a Black gen X woman and have an amazing career, make way more than my parents, went to amazing schools. And the Trumpers didn't like seeing it.

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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.

SAME! I always hear people saying that Millennials are the complainers. I don't remember anyone my age ever hating on their parents or older people as much as I hear 30-40 year olds doing right now. My generation never blamed anyone else for their troubles, they just dealt with it.

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Anonymous wrote:GenX voted for Trump so of course they are going to whine about their lot in life. Their generation stayed on Facebook with the Boomers and went down the Fox News/Qanon hole.

I don't think this is true outside of a subset of white men. My 60+ year old neighbors all voted for Trump but the 40 and 50 year olds all had Harris signs/whispered about how much our older neighbors suck.