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Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

They’re just place holders until the generation gets a shared culture to refer to. Millennials saw the millennium. Boomers were products of the baby boom but they also saw their economy boom. Gen X are missing, their letter was fitting.

My prediction is one of them will become gen algorithm, as they never knew a time when their media wasn’t decided for them. Maybe, gen android, few of them know how to use a file system after Chromebooks became ubiquitous. Or they’ll be the second greatest generation due to ww3. This stuff is entirely unpredictable.

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garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
GenX are also known as the invisible or forgotten generation, for the same reason.

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CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
What name does GenZ get? Born just in time to be power users, born too late to have any power to stop the enshitification. Same non-existent economic prospects as GenX.

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- pleasestopasking@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  They really aren’t power users though. Tech is a) generally more reliable and b) so locked-down that so many young people never learned how to troubleshoot
  
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  - CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The earlier half of GenZ typically grew up with mass adoption of computers and phones all over the place so we got to learn how to fix XP every 5 minutes and get cracked games working.
    
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- iglou@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Gen Z is already named “Zoomers”, but it’s not aticking as much as “Gen Z”.
  
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- Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I dunno, the second silent generation? Born into hard times, don’t know any better. Defined by their fiscally conservative ways and “none of my business” outlook?
  
  They haven’t been to silent though, and more power to 'em. The un-silent generation?
  
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WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Boomers were products of the baby boom but they also saw their economy boom.

I though boomers were the producers of the baby boom

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- captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  No, the products. World War 2 ended in 1946, and then EVERYBODY FUCKED and 80 years later we’re still cleaning up the mess.
  
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- Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Maybe. Their generation starts 1946 so I thought they were the product. One way or the other they are involved in a baby boom.
  
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  - LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You are correct. After WW2 ended there was a “boom” of babies being born.
    
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