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Can we stop falling into the long-standing [1] tradition of acting like this is all the fault of a particular generation. It stems from a multitude of things,
by jonesb6 11y ago
Can we stop falling into the long-standing [1] tradition of acting like this is all the fault of a particular generation.
It stems from a multitude of things, like a political climate that caters to the vocal minority, the PC movement that has everyone on edge, and the 24-hour news cycle that lives for a tragic story they can cycle over and over for an entire day/week.
I'd love to have hacker news without all the "rabble, rabble, rabble".
[1]: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=398104 http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=398104
- gtk40 11y agoYes, my company is constantly talking about millennials as a group. I feel like way too much is ascribed to my being in the 20-36 year old age group.
- sanderjd 11y ago36 year olds have about as much in common with 20 year olds as 20 year olds have in common with 4 year olds.
- gerbilly 11y agoThese pseudo 'generations' like Millenials, Gen-Y, Gen-X etc are really just marketing demographics that have become mainstream. Probably 36 year olds shop similarly to 20 year olds. Food for thought: Some say capitalism distorts and invades our language. This is why church groups have annual general meetings, and why ministers wear suits. It's why terms like 'cost benefit analysis' creep into settings like child care and recreational activities. It's why teachers say to kids: 'Can you not hit people going forward?' It's why on the news 'people' are referred to as 'consumers' and so on.
- marshray 11y agoIt made a lot more sense to talk about 'boomers' which was (and still is) a large demographic bulge. It worked so well that people got used to the idea that there should be a term for each successive generation. But obviously it's been extended beyond meaningful utility.
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- gtk40 11y agoI'm not sure how true it is even from a marketing perspective. 36 year olds tend to be parents (anywhere from newborns to teenagers), whereas 20 year olds tend to be in college or living at home.
- gtk40 11y agoExactly. I work as a developer for a company that could broadly be described as retail, so our company portal has articles targeted to individual locations. I see titles like "Should you hire millenials?" and wonder how they could possibly get around this. My supervisor at the time was encouraged to take a class on managing millenials. He was born in the early 80s, married for a while, and has a kid in middle school. He thought it was very weird to take the class as a "millenial."
- rayiner 11y agoExcept in this case it is the fault of a particular generation (or a successively greater failing of each successive generation): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-belkin/how-far-children-can-wander_b_1704366.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-belkin/how-far-children-c.... Of course it's not just millennials. I suspect there is a strong socioeconomic disparity in helicopter parenting, with it being much more common among the demographic that reads CityLab than the one that does not.
- sanderjd 11y agoI'm really confused as to how your link associates this phenomenon with millenials. It doesn't contain that term, nor does it talk about children in any time period where millenials could be their parents. If anything it is talking about the parents of the millenials. Making this about a particular generation is just silly in general, and the trend toward blaming everything on "the millenials" in particular is ugly and misguided.