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>We need to bear the brunt of it and be the sacrificial generation. Who is "We" here? I'll take a guess: Gen Z, and Gen A. Gen Z because they went through co
by ProfessorLayton 17d ago
>We need to bear the brunt of it and be the sacrificial generation.
Who is "We" here?
I'll take a guess: Gen Z, and Gen A.
Gen Z because they went through covid during college, and now this AI boom that's completely wreaked the entry level job market.
Gen A is looking increasingly grim, unfortunately. If any of you know any school teachers, you'd know how disheartening it is to try and teach someone that has a homework and entertainment machine in their pocket at all times.
Millenials went through everything Gen Z has and more ('08), but there was at least a few years of relative normalcy growing up. I don't know what's next, but I'm not very excited about it.
/rant
- breezybottom 17d agoAs always, named "generations" are completely arbitrary and meaningless. They're made up by marketers to sell products.
- foota 17d agoA generation is a time that people were born between and useful because it embodies much of the cultural context that people share.
- breezybottom 17d agoNo, it doesn't. The baby boomers represented an actual demographic change, that's why they're tracked by the Census Bureau. Everything since then is marketing and astrology.
- AIiscoming 17d agoyou are just nitpicking. People get used to understand what generation 'name' they got from society, thinktanks and co and its not that hard to know what the younger generations are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#List_of_social_generations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#List_of_social_gene... Astrology is just garbage.
- breezybottom 17d agoIt's the same, you're just substituting years for months.
- AIiscoming 17d agoThe name of the generation gives you birth years. It also tells you "hey the generation 2010-2020 are getting hit by AI a lot more than the previous ones. This not astrology at all. Astrology is 'magic thinking'.
- harimau777 17d agoThe difference is that named generations don't claim that any differences are due to supernatural influence. Instead they are arguing that the differing circumstances in which people grow up and live influences their experiences and how they see the world. That is a MUCH more defensible position.
- breezybottom 17d agoIt would be defensible if it worked that way. Instead they work backwards: define the groups for marketing purposes, and then try to identify the similarities.
- harimau777 17d agoThat's irrelevant to what I wrote. Whether it was made up by marketers or anyone else doesn't change the fact that unlike astrology it doesn't make an appeal to magic.
- dgellow 17d agoNamed generations are a marketing tool, it’s a concept as garbage as astrology
- AIiscoming 17d agoIts a name for a generation a decade wide. I really don't get your hate for it?!
- hn_throwaway_99 17d agoBS. While I agree the cutoffs are arbitrary, marking a cohort by, say, "people who graduated highschool before the advent of smart phones" or "people who went through childhood in the early years of social media" are valid groupings. As a Gen Xer my childhood was soooo different from what kids today experience. And literally every single Gen Xer I know is glad and feels relief (sometimes mixed in with remorse) that our childhood was before the consumer Internet took off.
- dgellow 17d agoIf you want these cohorts to have statistical significance you have to add more details, such as the geographic location, language, etc. But you can create cohorts with pretty much anything, in itself that doesn’t validate the concept of generations as pitched by marketing agencies
- harimau777 17d agoLuckily for us, the cohorts don't need to have statistical significance because people aren't talking about statistics. They are talking about the broad shared experiences of most people born in a given range of years.
- rvz 17d agoCorrect. It is another way to divide people again, just like people who are pro-AI vs anti-AI. Do not fall for it.
- harimau777 17d agoYou are conflating "divide people" in the sense of "turn people against each other in order to divide and conquer" with "divide people" in the sense of "define groupings so that it is possible to have conversations about differing experiences". One is discussing a goal while the other is discussing a tool. Notably that tool does not necessarily need to be used for evil and often isn't.
- harimau777 17d agoJust because something is arbitrary doesn't mean it is meaningless or useless. In this context named generations are useful because they allow us to discuss the experiences of people born at different times. Certainly there are alternatives like going back to dividing things up by decades ("80s kid", "child of the 90s", etc.); however, that doesn't make named generations useless.
- breezybottom 17d agoNo it doesn't. I have little in common with a Japanese rice farmer born in the same year.
- harimau777 17d agoThe named generations are generally used in the context of specifically American culture or at least English speaking culture. They were never intended to say you have generational similarity to someone in a completely different culture.
- breezybottom 17d agoSo now it only refers to Americans? The arbitrary goal post shifting continues.
- harimau777 17d agoIt's not goal shifting, that's what it has always meant. I'm sorry that you didn't realize that.
- breezybottom 17d agohttps://www.emerald.com/books/edited-volume/17969/chapter-abstract/98682659/Generation-Z-in-Italy-Living-in-a-Soap-Bubble https://www.emerald.com/books/edited-volume/17969/chapter-ab... Wrong.
- dyauspitr 17d agoProbably late millennials, early gen Z