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Uriel238 [all pronouns] @lemmy.blahaj.zone

1y ago

Classic Rule-X erasure

I think a couple years later, they posted one that included us. As a fellow GenX noted, this kind of erasure is totally on brand for us.

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No one was born in the United States between 1964 and 1981.
- Certainly no one I care to know.
- Hey if that means not more taxes for genx, then I think I'm fine with being forgotten.
- I wonder if I should let my wife know she doesn't exist, this'll be interesting.
- The 17 year birth gap.
  
  USA all burrowed into the earth for 17 years like cicadas.
- TIL I was never born

I'm alright with being forgotten. All they did when we were in our 20s was shit talk us and call us slackers who never left home, so it's better this way.
- I've since noticed they continue to shit-talk whoever is in the 15-30 year range, asserting this group is lazier and more slackery than their elders.
  And so I point it out, noting we don't buy it this time either.
  
  It's been amazing seeing the millenials, then Gen Z dissed exactly the same way we were!
  And what's really surprising is seeing people my own age doing so without a shred of self-awareness!
  Every new generation becomes the new scapegoat.
- Yeah, it’s fine. Birth rates were just above 2 per woman for a couple decades before dropping again to current levels, but with a larger population there are still more births happening than in the 1970s. That decade, low birth rates combined with a smaller population resulted in a small number of GenX members. I am totally OK with continuing to fly under the radar.

Best bit, we don't care.
I have a theory that we were designed to create a break. When the boomers finally die off, instead of taking power we just sort of step out back for a smoke and let the younger millenials take over, setting things right a bit.

Just boomers trying to desperately ignore the fact that the generation after them is not only adult, but hitting the middle age. That can't be true, right? That'd mean that boomers are the objectively becoming old farts? Naah, the whinge must go on!

But also yes we are the burnout generation

the forgotten

1981 - 1996 would be 43 until 28 years old, they miscalculated by quite a lot huh?
- The news report is probably from 2018..

We're the last lead generation. Just let us fade away.

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