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Older generation complains about newer generation's work ethic and goals, news at 11. Seriously, this has been done since forever, and it's such a tired trope.

Older generation complains about newer generation's work ethic and goals, news at 11. Seriously, this has been done since forever, and it's such a tired trope. And why the hell shouldn't they want to be influencers? They're responding to the world they've been handed. Why is that different than "I want to be an NBA player", or rock and roll singer before that, or baseball player before that? Gen Z will be just fine, even if Gen X doesn't understand how.

sometimeshuman 4y ago
This is the first comment I have read where "Gen X" is dragged into the generational culture war. The generic brand of that generation made me think it would fly under the radar and we'd break this tired pattern.
- karakot 4y ago
  IMO, all generational labeling is just for clicks and rage (which brings more clicks).
pleb_nz 4y ago
Generations isnt even real. People change year on year little by little not once in 20 years. It's a gradual shift not some shift that happens new years eve one year.
- prottog 4y ago
  The pace of change quickens due to technology enabling our interconnected world today.
- Raidion 4y ago
  It's a gradual shift that's no so gradual when looking at the block of population. Gen X are those that didn't have any digital connectivity while growing up. Millennials grew up connected through text/chat/email/very early social media, but without being constantly connected to the internet. Gen Z has grown up being connected and with information and entertainment available the time. Generations share a "core" of experiences that happen during some of the most impactful years of their lives. First geopolitical event I remember was 9/11. For some it was the Great Recession or COVID. Those big events end up exerting a lot of influence on age groups. I think Generations can be overused in the sense that it's used like a monolith when it's not. The clickbaity "Generation Z doesn't want to work" is actually the less clickbaity "Many in Generation Z find working a less attractive option because of these specific shared experience/values..."
  - dragonwriter 4y ago
    > Gen X are those that didn't have any digital connectivity while growing up. My (parents’) CompuServe and (due to living in the Central Valley but most of the BBS’s I had info on being in the Bay) phone bills fron the 1980s tell a very different story.
    - ttymck 4y ago
      I think the OP was referring to majority or plurality of Gen X, not necessarily dragonwriter's, or Central Valley's experience.
    - t-writescode 4y ago
      Cool story. My family didn't have internet until around 1998

sometimeshuman 4y ago

This is the first comment I have read where "Gen X" is dragged into the generational culture war. The generic brand of that generation made me think it would fly under the radar and we'd break this tired pattern.

karakot 4y ago
IMO, all generational labeling is just for clicks and rage (which brings more clicks).

pleb_nz 4y ago

Generations isnt even real. People change year on year little by little not once in 20 years. It's a gradual shift not some shift that happens new years eve one year.

prottog 4y ago
The pace of change quickens due to technology enabling our interconnected world today.
Raidion 4y ago
It's a gradual shift that's no so gradual when looking at the block of population. Gen X are those that didn't have any digital connectivity while growing up. Millennials grew up connected through text/chat/email/very early social media, but without being constantly connected to the internet. Gen Z has grown up being connected and with information and entertainment available the time. Generations share a "core" of experiences that happen during some of the most impactful years of their lives. First geopolitical event I remember was 9/11. For some it was the Great Recession or COVID. Those big events end up exerting a lot of influence on age groups. I think Generations can be overused in the sense that it's used like a monolith when it's not. The clickbaity "Generation Z doesn't want to work" is actually the less clickbaity "Many in Generation Z find working a less attractive option because of these specific shared experience/values..."
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  > Gen X are those that didn't have any digital connectivity while growing up. My (parents’) CompuServe and (due to living in the Central Valley but most of the BBS’s I had info on being in the Bay) phone bills fron the 1980s tell a very different story.
  - ttymck 4y ago
    I think the OP was referring to majority or plurality of Gen X, not necessarily dragonwriter's, or Central Valley's experience.
  - t-writescode 4y ago
    Cool story. My family didn't have internet until around 1998