• TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    Millennials are the largest generation in the workforce, they were born to the boomers the largest previous generation before everything went to piss and birth rates dropped. Millennials are the next boomers, they won’t be culturally irrelevant for a long time. Sad too, as popular culture has basically broken down to just remakes and reboots of properties from our childhood

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      Even worse, there isn’t a next generation near the size of millennials. Part of the reason that millennials took over while Gen X didn’t was because of the size of the relative generations.

      You’re also running into the issue that culture has become a lot more fragmented due to the Internet. You can present a millennial culture where most people may be aware of other subcultures even if they weren’t a part of them. I don’t know if that is going to happen for Gen Z or Alpha.

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      22 hours ago

      Some of us had too much of the booze coping with being completely ineffectual as a voting block. I’m good now, though. Sobered up in time for the real nightmare.

  • ninjaturtle@lemmy.today
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    Wouldn’t the generation be dead by the time that happens? Look at the oldest generation currently, the boomers, they still seem to be culturally relevant, good or bad.

    So I guess to answer your question, probably dead.

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    Culturally irrelevant in terms of what? I think we’ll be culturally relevant until we die, just like previous generations. For example, despite their age, boomers have dominated politics for almost my entire life.

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        Probably at least try lol. But I’m not sure we’ll have quite the political monopoly the boomers did as we’re proportionately smaller and also I think more diverse, so we have less of a singular vision for politics.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    Still enjoy the culture that I have while accepting that I’m old as fuck.

    Sadly, I expect millennials to be more annoying than boomers when this transition happens.

  • Ziggurat@jlai.lu
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    2 days ago

    The same as Gen-X before us, watch Zoomer and Alpha shit on boomer, while trying to finish to pay the one bed room appartment mortgage before entering the hospice

  • rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    So Boomers will finally stfu about me destroying anything and everything? I think I will start living.