Society/Culture Things blamed on Boomers generation which aren’t

[peetoo]

Big 4 accounting firms management? Boomers would have been retired from these firms a few years back
Amazon etc same gen x management

Stop trying to make the return to the office happen — it's not going to happen

No matter how many years at the grindstone one has under the belt, no one, it seems, is impervious to those insidious tentacles of the back-to-work January blues. There’s the pit of despair at having to set an alarm again, the anxiety of feeling as though you’ve completely forgotten how to do...

www.standard.co.uk

 

[peetoo]

Albanese and Dutton are not boomers (well technically albo is, just. Born 1963)

Greens condemn passage of boomers’ social media ban bill | The Australian Greens

The Greens have condemned Labor and the Liberals for smashing the Social Media Age Ban Bill through parliament this week.

greens.org.au

 

[Carringbush2010]

Albanese and Dutton are not boomers (well technically albo is, just. Born 1963)

Greens condemn passage of boomers’ social media ban bill | The Australian Greens

The Greens have condemned Labor and the Liberals for smashing the Social Media Age Ban Bill through parliament this week.

greens.org.au

Yeah I don't think terminology is the point here.

 

[faible]

Not understanding that the specifics of the era isn't relevant to boomer behaviour.

This thread is peak boomer.

 

[kranky al]

Not understanding that the specifics of the era isn't relevant to boomer behaviour.

This thread is peak boomer.

Needs a jolly good ok boomering

 

[peetoo]

It’s Gen X stupid. Boomers have had our time and are moving on.

By all your logic things for younguns should be getting better. They arent

Only Putin, Xi and trump remain as boomers in power



Generally there’s a chasm in attitudes between those born 1946 and those in 1964.

So is Boomer an attitude not an actual generation? That makes more sense.

Australian PMs

Albo. Boomer 1963
Scomo Gen X 1965
Turnbull Boomer 1954
Abbott Boomer 1957
Gillard Boomer 1961
Rudd Boomer 1957
Howard Silent 1939
Keating Boomer 1944
Hawke silent 1929
Fraser silent 1930
Whitlam ???? 1916

Looks like we are going to get 4 x Gen X PMs in a row after Albo

 

[Gethelred]

Only Putin, Xi and trump remain as boomers in power

... I mean... that's three of the most powerful men on earth, in charge of three of the most influential and economically strongest nations on earth. "Only" is carrying an awful lot of weight there.

 

[faible]

Boomers have had our time

Explains a lot

 

[peetoo]

Explains a lot

I’m pretty late boomer. In some ways more aligned with Gen X attitudes.

But the boomer (like the Karen and woke) tag is pretty lazy these days. ‘Everything I don’t like’ it’s losing meaning and focus

 

[faible]

I’m pretty late boomer. In some ways more aligned with Gen X attitudes.

But the boomer (like the Karen and woke) tag is pretty lazy these days. ‘Everything I don’t like’

Much like being a Karen is a state of mind, so too is being a Boomer.

You could be outside the boomer generation but still be a 'boomer' when it comes to behaviour and attitudes.

 

[Sinjin Smith]

It’s Gen X stupid. Boomers have had our time and are moving on.

By all your logic things for younguns should be getting better. They arent

Only Putin, Xi and trump remain as boomers in power



Generally there’s a chasm in attitudes between those born 1946 and those in 1964.

So is Boomer an attitude not an actual generation? That makes more sense.

Australian PMs

Albo. Boomer 1963
Scomo Gen X 1965
Turnbull Boomer 1954
Abbott Boomer 1957
Gillard Boomer 1961
Rudd Boomer 1957
Howard Silent 1939
Keating Boomer 1944
Hawke silent 1929
Fraser silent 1930
Whitlam ???? 1916

Looks like we are going to get 4 x Gen X PMs in a row after Albo

What's the cut off or demarcation from boomer to Gen x?

 

[peetoo]

What's the cut off or demarcation from boomer to Gen x?

1964 apparently. But of course those born around 64 are similar in lived experience

For mine, oil and employment shocks around 1975 mean anyone born after around 1960 did not have it as easy as mainstream Boomers when becoming adults

 

[faible]

1964 apparently. But of course those born around 64 are similar in lived experience

For mine, oil and employment shocks around 1975 mean anyone born after around 1960 did not have it as easy as mainstream Boomers when becoming adults

There'd be a pretty big gap between those who bought houses up to around the mid 90s and those who bought later, the sweet spot looks to have been buying pre-87, then to a lesser extent pre-96. People buying then are likely to have been selling into a more recent market with the insane price increases - if they've sold yet - and would have a fairly poor understanding of the challenges of people under 35 today.

Even people in know in their 50s currently are pretty different to those in their mid 40s and under in terms of life experiences. People under about 45 are likely tech natives, having grown up alongside computers becoming mainstream, are likely to have bought houses post GFC where that growth had already accelerated drastically since the mid 90s, those are some pretty major differences in life experiences.

 

[FIGJAM]

Is there any mechanism where us Gen Xers can trade out ScoMo to the Boomers?

Happy to trade down from the first round.

 

[FIGJAM]

Even people in know in their 50s currently are pretty different to those in their mid 40s and under in terms of life experiences. People under about 45 are likely tech natives, having grown up alongside computers becoming mainstream, are likely to have bought houses post GFC where that growth had already accelerated drastically since the mid 90s, those are some pretty major differences in life experiences.

For a number of reasons, there's a clear difference between early Gen X and the latter Gen X (aka. Xennials), but I love and accept us us all (except for ScoMo apparently, who can **** right off!).

 

[Gough]

What's the cut off or demarcation from boomer to Gen x?

1964, problem with Gen X is we're just comparatively small in number we're already outnumbered by Millennials and still outnumbered by Boomers according to this.

Australia: distribution of population by generation 2021 | Statista

Millennials and Baby Boomers each made up around 21 percent of the Australian population.

www.statista.com

 

[peetoo]

1964, problem with Gen X is we're just comparatively small in number we're already outnumbered by Millennials and still outnumbered by Boomers according to this.

Australia: distribution of population by generation 2021 | Statista

Millennials and Baby Boomers each made up around 21 percent of the Australian population.

www.statista.com

Currently have the most wealth per capital and dominate upper levels of organizations