I think a couple years later, they posted one that included us. As a fellow GenX noted, this kind of erasure is totally on brand for us.
No one was born in the United States between 1964 and 1981.
The 17 year birth gap.
USA all burrowed into the earth for 17 years like cicadas.
Certainly no one I care to know.
I wonder if I should let my wife know she doesn’t exist, this’ll be interesting.
Hey if that means not more taxes for genx, then I think I’m fine with being forgotten.
We’re the last lead generation. Just let us fade away.
Just boomers trying to desperately ignore the fact that the generation after them is not only adult, but hitting the middle age. That can’t be true, right? That’d mean that boomers are the objectively becoming old farts? Naah, the whinge must go on!
I’m alright with being forgotten. All they did when we were in our 20s was shit talk us and call us slackers who never left home, so it’s better this way.
Yeah, it’s fine. Birth rates were just above 2 per woman for a couple decades before dropping again to current levels, but with a larger population there are still more births happening than in the 1970s. That decade, low birth rates combined with a smaller population resulted in a small number of GenX members. I am totally OK with continuing to fly under the radar.
I’ve since noticed they continue to shit-talk whoever is in the 15-30 year range, asserting this group is lazier and more slackery than their elders.
And so I point it out, noting we don’t buy it this time either.
It’s been amazing seeing the millenials, then Gen Z dissed exactly the same way we were!
And what’s really surprising is seeing people my own age doing so without a shred of self-awareness!
Every new generation becomes the new scapegoat.
I don’t blame anyone generationally anymore. Boomers are too senile for their own good and everyone else is too burnt out to step up to the plate.
the forgotten
