I've never heard anyone say a positive thing about Xers. We even hate ourselves.
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Hussar
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Well, yeah, but since the boomers are largely dying out now, give another decade or so, it's like the Xer's, my fellow X'ers anyway, seem to be lining right up to fall in step. Something about turning 50+ seems to do something to people. People I grew up with and talked to regularly have taking this sharp right turn and it's just so mind blowingly weird to see.
Mezuka
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I would say most people are conservative by nature. A lot of my high school buddies didn't become conservative, they were conservatives by default. They just didn't realized it until they became afraid to loose their pension plan if the economic system changes too much.
People look and talk differently at me now that I look visibly older (57). They assume I'm an right wing old fart because I'm older. I often have to repeat what I say twice because they don't actually hear my left wing stance on issues on the first attempt to communicate with younger people.
Waves hand when it comes my turn at the meeting of the side that's really bad at game-theory in real life situations not-so-anonymous:
"Hi, I'm an X-er who would like to be able to retire around, say 68."
"There are these things called math and history. <Insert rant on social democracy vs democratic socialism>. <Insert rant on the vast differences in living wages by metro area in the US and the effects>. <Insert rant on what half of the total amount could do if divided among the rest of that generation>. <Insert rants on everything else getting on my social media lawn from the others in the room.>"
And then the meeting is over and we missed <Insert probably agreement on a lot of pretty big things> and so still have no unity on anything economic in this group that would apparently be mostly labeled center-left (if not center) in lots of other countries.
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It feels like the policies that help one's selfish needs change over age and means. And some combinations of what help selfish goals for different combinations of age and means are better at masquerading as, or overlapping with, charity at one end and greed at the other.
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I've thought it would be neat to have a TV show where everyone on earth has three numbers appear on their heads and no one knows what they signify at first. Through the course of the season they're discovered to be something that represents circumstance of birth, luck since then, and hard work. You could do different numbers for a second season (compassion, greed, and stress?).
It doesn't help that we have one political party in the US that couldn't sell ice water in the Sahara. Without getting into politics, and just discussing the messaging, I was watching a video from a prominent politician. It was geared specifically for "normal people, to explain economics for them."
And right off the bat he starts throwing around terms like "oligarchy," lecturing the audience like he's a college professor.
Now I would be amazed if 5% of Americans know what "oligarchy" means, but I can tell you that 99% wouldn't like the condescending tone. And this is from probably the most celebrated politician on one side of American politics.
And right off the bat he starts throwing around terms like "oligarchy," lecturing the audience like he's a college professor.
Now I would be amazed if 5% of Americans know what "oligarchy" means, but I can tell you that 99% wouldn't like the condescending tone. And this is from probably the most celebrated politician on one side of American politics.
payn
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Really? Since when did us xers even care enough to hate ourselves?
J.Quondam
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In high school, my graduating class tried to officially name ourselves the "I don't care class of '91," but no one bothered to vote on it.
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