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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I remember being a teen in the 90s and seeing a lot of media coverage of the "slacker generation" (Generation X).  Now nobody says anything about Generation X: it is all about the Special Snowflake generation.  What happened?[/quote]

[b]Those that called you slackers were your parents and grandparents generation. They retired and you assumed the throne and the role of complaining about the spoiled younger generation and the selfish and clueless generation before you, ignoring your faults and focusing on the good aspects.[/b]

It's what everyone does. Well not everyone I think yours is the first generation to complain about not being noticed enough.   The cycle will continue. You generation will be replaced  the  generation after you will complain about how selfish and clueless you were and the damage you caused the planet and economy and rant about how spoiled the generation after them is.[/quote]

Wrong. The "slacker generation" is Gen X, not "your parents and grandparents [sic] generation." Please figure out what people are talking about before posting ignorant rants.[/quote]

I completely disagree.  DH and I are both Gen X, he is the hardest worker ever, and I work just as hard.  [b]We have worked and accumulated more than our parents, baby boomers,[/b] and I can see that we will have more than our Millennial kids will ever have.[b] Baby Boomer parents all worked a lot too, but didn't have much drive to advance and seemed content with ok jobs and average houses and such.[/b]  I have to admit that looking at how much we worked and still work, I am at fault for my lazy millennial kids. One part of it is both DH and I provide too much for them and enable them to be lazy and entitled. Baby boomer parents never did any of that for us, even if that was for selfish reason, that made us hard workers and earn everything we have.  There is a group of wealthy Gen X that brought on the "all about me" culture and while they couldn't quite enjoy it as they had to work, they introduced it to millennials with vengeance. In my opinion, it is a paradox that we created, we worked hard and often failed to install the same work ethic to our kids.[/quote]

Huh. I know a lot more baby boomers who ended up far better off financially than their parents than I do Gen Xers. But maybe that's because I mostly know older Boomers (born in late 40s/early 50s) who bought homes & had kids before housing & higher education costs started far outpacing pay inflation & younger Xers (born in the late 70s) who were too young to really benefit from the strong economy/tech bubble of the late 90s.[/quote]

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