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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.

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LoamImprovement@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Best bit, we don't care.

I have a theory that we were designed to create a break. When the boomers finally die off, instead of taking power we just sort of step out back for a smoke and let the younger millenials take over, setting things right a bit.

[–] umbraroze@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

But also yes we are the burnout generation

[–] Papercrane@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

1981 - 1996 would be 43 until 28 years old, they miscalculated by quite a lot huh?

[–] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 years ago

The news report is probably from 2018..

[–] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

the forgotten

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We're the last lead generation. Just let us fade away.