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Boomers in their twenties were mostly working. Gen Z in their twenties is finishing college, working towards a master's or even a PhD. EDIT: No value judgments

Boomers in their twenties were mostly working. Gen Z in their twenties is finishing college, working towards a master's or even a PhD. EDIT: No value judgments here. This is just a fact, people entered the active workforce earlier.

battery_glasses 4y ago
Makes sense, a Boomer in their twenties could buy a house and support a family of 4 with a high school education.
- throwaway0a5e 4y ago
  They also weren't competing with a bunch of people with college degrees so except at the highest end a college degree was less of a necessity therefore they could get away without wasting 4yr on it.
- elzbardico 4y ago
  The joys of an industrial economy without too much automation.
  - gruez 4y ago
    and the fact that US is the only major economy isn't in ruins from ww2
  - colinmhayes 4y ago
    an industrial economy without too much competition there’s plenty of cheap labor to be had in the world. The us was prosperous because there was the right combination of labor and capital.
falcolas 4y ago
My mother, a baby boomer ('48), worked as a waitress part time to pay her way through college in her 20's. My dad worked for ma'bell, and earned somewhere around $150k in today's dollars as an high-school-educated lineman when he retired (and was then hired back on to train). And that's with a fully funded pension plan. So, even if they were in the workforce earlier (they weren't, I (as a genX) was working part time in college at 18, my wife full time), the workforce was very different. The times, they've changed.
- elzbardico 4y ago
  Sorry for nitpicking, but 48 is not a boomer. She is a Gen X. Boomers are the folks born after WWII and before the oil crisis.
  - falcolas 4y ago
    1948 is actually roughly within the OG "baby boomer" group, since it represents babies born to WWII veterans when they returned home to their wives. WWII ended in September 1945. And while there are variations on the years per generation, here's the breakdown per Wikipedia. The baby boomer generation runs from 1946 to 1964, X from 1965 to 1980, Millenials 1981 to 1996. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation As an aside, the "First Oil Crisis" was in '73, so even by your definition she's a boomer?
    - elzbardico 4y ago
      I misunderstood. I thought you were saying she was 48 years old, but she was born in 48.
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battery_glasses 4y ago

Makes sense, a Boomer in their twenties could buy a house and support a family of 4 with a high school education.

throwaway0a5e 4y ago
They also weren't competing with a bunch of people with college degrees so except at the highest end a college degree was less of a necessity therefore they could get away without wasting 4yr on it.
elzbardico 4y ago
The joys of an industrial economy without too much automation.
- gruez 4y ago
  and the fact that US is the only major economy isn't in ruins from ww2
- colinmhayes 4y ago
  an industrial economy without too much competition there’s plenty of cheap labor to be had in the world. The us was prosperous because there was the right combination of labor and capital.

falcolas 4y ago

My mother, a baby boomer ('48), worked as a waitress part time to pay her way through college in her 20's. My dad worked for ma'bell, and earned somewhere around $150k in today's dollars as an high-school-educated lineman when he retired (and was then hired back on to train). And that's with a fully funded pension plan. So, even if they were in the workforce earlier (they weren't, I (as a genX) was working part time in college at 18, my wife full time), the workforce was very different. The times, they've changed.

elzbardico 4y ago
Sorry for nitpicking, but 48 is not a boomer. She is a Gen X. Boomers are the folks born after WWII and before the oil crisis.
- falcolas 4y ago
  1948 is actually roughly within the OG "baby boomer" group, since it represents babies born to WWII veterans when they returned home to their wives. WWII ended in September 1945. And while there are variations on the years per generation, here's the breakdown per Wikipedia. The baby boomer generation runs from 1946 to 1964, X from 1965 to 1980, Millenials 1981 to 1996. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation As an aside, the "First Oil Crisis" was in '73, so even by your definition she's a boomer?
  - elzbardico 4y ago
    I misunderstood. I thought you were saying she was 48 years old, but she was born in 48.
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