Gen X, the meh generation

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A community for Gen X, those born between 1965 and 1980. Boomers, Millennials, and Gen Z are welcome as long as the topic is Gen X or related. Abusive, racist or anti-LGBTQIA+ commentary/users will be removed.

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Who let Gen X off the hook? (youtu.be)

submitted 7 months ago by Crackhappy to c/genx

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[–] mojo_raisin 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't talking about threatening capitalism exactly, but ya you got a point. Some past generations had their cool ones too.

The lack of impact from GenX is mostly due to it's relative size. For us to have the impact of other generations we'd have to be 5x more radical then them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There were ~71 million boomers.

There were ~65 million Gen X.

There are ~72 million millennials.

[–] mojo_raisin 5 points 7 months ago

Interesting, fine I recant