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you 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 y

• breezybottom 10d ago
  It's the same, you're just substituting years for months.
  • AIiscoming 10d ago
    The 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 10d ago
    The 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 10d ago
      It 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 10d ago
        That'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 10d ago
  Named generations are a marketing tool, it’s a concept as garbage as astrology
  • AIiscoming 10d ago
    Its a name for a generation a decade wide. I really don't get your hate for it?!