Millennials outnumber baby boomers for first time: Statistics Canada
Millennials outnumber baby boomers for first time: Statistics Canada
OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says there are now more millennials than baby boomers in the country, ending the 65-year reign of the post-Second World War generation as the largest cohort in the pop...
"In other news, gen x continues to be ignored. Are those guys even still around?"
We've mostly grown used to being ignored—why change now?
That's why they're the least worst generation, they've managed to mostly stay out of the general conversation
I think the original nickname was the Baby Bust Generation, as birth rates severely tanked following the Baby Boom period of ‘45 - ‘65.
As a result, they never out numbered the preceding generation, and were pretty quickly overtaken in population by Millennials/Gen Y (kids of Boomers).
Basically, the reason they’re ignored is because they never had sufficient power to make as drastic an impact on society as their surrounding generations.
I like to be called latchkey generation, thank you.
And that's also how the world sees this cohort: they don't.
Shhh. Things go badly when they notice us...
What's Gen X? Are those the people who invented X (formerly twitter)? /s
We've never had a numerical majority and never will so at least when we're older they'll have to blame the millennials and boomers for our messed up reality.
Vote, vote and vote.
Proportionally ... not economically .... those old people are going to hang on to every penny until their last breath
Yes and no, they will help their own children indenture themselves to the housing market.
No, they'll spend all their money on end of life care. Nursing and retirement homes have skyrocketed in price just like everything else. Their money is going back up the chain to the billionaires, not to our inheritance.
Yay, the conservative old people are finally dying!
Get out and vote folks. This is the time when we finally have progress.
Gen X is still bigoted af, and millenial/zoomer white males are still disputed. Not to mention the self-sustaining rural/urban divide.
I'm excited too but not too hopeful.
This is the time when we finally have progress.
hahaha woudnt count on that
When our turn comes, we shall make no apologies for the terrors (we're gonna kill boca raton timeshare schemes)
GenX here. So, I get to be suppressed by the Boomers my whole life and, just when the pay-out is due to arrive, it will switch to persecution by the millennials as payback for the crimes of my abusers.
Awesome.
....were you hoping for a Boca Raton time share?
Middle child syndrome for an entire generation
Don't worry, you likely won't be persecuted by millenials; because everyone always forgets about Gen X, remember? ;)
I take it that means boomers are dying? Last I checked the youngest millennials are over 30 and neither faction can increase their numbers.
Immigration is a thing but yeah probably mostly boomers dying.
Now they just have to vote.
What about Gen X? Seriously, there's an entire generation in the middle there.
Who?
The generation that made coffee and Bill Murray the foundation of their personalities
We never had the numbers to outnumber either of the giant generations on either side of us
My dad is a weird mix of voting for an obscure explicitly communist party while complaining how socialism ruined everything.
He expresses literal anti fasicm on principle but thinks of antifa as a violent mob.
He believes there is a woke agenda trying to manipulate society but he cant explain what woke is besides refering to cases of forced political correctness or brands changing their profile pictures to pride, he has no issues respecting lgbt, nature and is so much not a christian, he went out of his way to get debaptized.
I cant get him of Facebook, he is addicted. I told him i was probably going to delete mine this year, he told me he is certain id be back in a few weeks like his genx mates.. i havent visited my profile in over 3 years, its only the familie groups chat messenger left on it. I told him but it doesn’t compute that anyone can exist without.
In all seriousness i think there better of as the forgotten generation, technically they are allies and i am certain they have roles, positions and effects on society just like every generation. But we need a real change, a break with the old, we cannot do that by lething the brainwashed lead us.
You should feel sorry for the Gen Xers. Think of how hard it is to deal with Boomers now. Now imagine being a teenager and having your thirty- to forty-something Boomer parents completely crush you over their political beliefs.
the future is now old man
Excellent! Once their numbers are low enough, we can just drown the rest.
If we wanted.
I shall make an exemption for my mother and shelter her in my attic, but the rest of them will swim.
The American sphere of influence is palpable here. Trudeau, Poilievre, and Singh are all gen-x. The average age of politicians here is not as geriatric as American congress.
Soylent green is people?
We must hold a vote: Do we liquidate the assets and organs of everyone over 60?
✅ YES