boomers

The difference is generational: the ultra-bright and creative Boomers used Tinker Toys and Erector Sets; the comparatively dull bricklaying Lego generations followed in the Boomers' wake.

Gen X is middle age now, and they eventually got low paying jobs working for the baby boomers.

They just seem to get universally lumped into the Baby Boomers now, if they get mentioned at all.

How many of those are retired seniors (pre-boomers) who have no real need to use the internet?

Of are they just worried baby boomers won't vote for them if they're subjected to this shit?

We best get used to it, the baby boomers will be with us for a while.

This is maybe the 5th or 6th GenX vs Boomers vs Millenials, entitlement/economy/future/past/politics thread that I've seen today.

There is also a sampling bias issue where scientists in academia as a whole are getting older because the boomers still have a death grip on institutional positions, and academia as a whole is shrinking.

I'm curious to see the effect of the baby boomers moving through the age pipeline.

The elites ruling over the boomers were terrified of domestic communists.

(Baby boomers should be worried about this.) These are bitter pills to swallow.

Unlike the boomers who expected to work for a while and then retire on a nice nest-egg, and the Gen-Xers who struggled to meet an ever elusive goal of retirement, millenials don't have any expectation of retirement through normal means.

I honestly think we will get to the stage where boomers are riding the young around and shouting "giddy up!".

The high support Millenials evince for "socialism" in polls is a hint: we feel screwed-over, and we blame it on the system the Boomers keep saying they run.

("viral" review shows targeted at baby-boomers who still watch T.

Then the boomers hear about the millenials not even bothering to try to get under the bar and say "they're just fooling around, they aren't thinking about their future, they're never going to get under that bar unless they stop fooling around and try." But the fact that the bar has moved is so often ignored.

I have more in common culturally with people 15 years younger than me than I do with people 5 years older (late Boomers).

Boomers see that as an irresponsible happy-go-lucky delay of retirement, while millenials feel that that retirement idea is not really feasible, and if you're going to be working forever, you might as well enjoy it.

However, I think that, in general, we live in a world which is still largely skewed in favor of the Baby Boomers, despite the fact that most of them are shifting into fixed incomes and/or continuing to work full-time well into retirement age simply because they do not feel they can retire (sometimes because they're still supporting their Gen X or Millennial children).