• ezmack@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’ll paraphrase a twitter comment: man I did not give a single fuck about gen x as a millenial, these posts are so weird. Maybe we’re just more exposed to each other now because of social media

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      1 year ago

      Demographically there were way more millenials than genx.

      The cohorts that are demographic bulges (boomers, millennials) get a lot of media attention (because advertising) and it plays out.

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      1 year ago

      I’m convinced that news outlets and big tech intentionally push ageism / generational-warfare to substitute for class warfare, and divert criticism away from capitalists.

      Like who decided to mark off these year ranges and put labels on them anyway, it’s completely arbitrary and meaningless.