• SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
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      The dates are fuzzy, because generations are more cultural than clinical.

      If person born in 1984 grew up thinking “I could get a good job but what’s the point” and worried about nuclear war constantly, they might ID as genX.

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        Millennials: “I could work forever and die with nothing, the environments going to kill us all painfully, but fuck it memes”

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          Yes, genX is kind of characterized by ‘boomer class betrayal’ apathy, growing up in the reggae/punk/goth and oldskool hiphop music era, and Pong to Quake gaming.