Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?

Codey McCodeface

Hamish Buchanan

Funny thing is that all those good things were the product of the Boomers' parents generation. The Boomers just took them for granted like they naturally just happened, got greedy and frittered them away in the name of living their best life right now.

@ReggieHere @contrasocial @hajni @thordis

Reg

@hamishb

Yes, many (not all) were certainly happy to kick the ladders away in the 80s, and that generation's luck has continued with triple-locked, final salary pensions.

I read something recently about European counties where Boomers had higher incomes in retirement than the average salary of working people, but this seems to be changing for more recent retirees thanks to retirement age increases and taxes.

@contrasocial @hajni @thordis

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@thordis@theforkiverse.com bruh i know multiple gen alpha why they haved to get lumped in

Kamiten, Cursed Feral Clown 🔜 NFC'26

@thordis *extreme nerdy voice* aktschually I'm a cusp year that's Xennial, but I identify more with millennials than gen X so that's what I chose.

Bert Koorengevel

@thordis
I hate having to google the definitions of these nonsense labels.

Flittermouse 🎸🥁🎹🏳️‍⚧️🐩

@thordis
Yeah, I decided you must think you're addressing only forkiverse people. I actually had to look up forkiverse, and ended up looking at the transcript of the first episode of the NYT's Hard Fork podcast. There are millions of currently active fediverse users so the spread of responses you get will depend on how well federated the forkiverse is.

@leffe

brother

@thordis just a bunch of old farts fartin around

🌎 Don Meltz

@thordis

Generation Jones

NLBRT

@thordis genuinely disappointed to see there aren't as many zoomers (like me) on the fediverse.

I mean, I know the reasons why, but it's not as bad as some of them make it look like

Comrade Weez

@ETARD_The_LifeCaster mmm nope. Booxers invented this shit, chief. @thordis

Batsify

@thordis It's a misconception. To make people believe that they are all born with common traits, a bit like a way of putting them in little boxes, is an illusion.

I could understand it for major changes (the war in particular and what shortly followed). But today... Do we have to have a name worthy of the Apple brand on our backs?

☑️ Cath

@thordis Don't know, don't care.

Aaron

@FuturisticRobert @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis

First I have to survive. I have lost my job *again*, at the worst possible time *again*. I have no savings, because I used them all up last time I was laid off, and didn't get the chance to build them back up. I don't even know how I'm going to feed my kids tonight. And the job market is *destroyed* for people in my field. (Non-LLM machine learning) Add the tariffs and the oncoming economic downturn they're projecting, and we are screwed.

Clem Fandango

@hosford42 @FuturisticRobert @szczurtorebkowy @thordis there's always money in the banana stand chk-CHK

Edit - I should explain. I wasn't trying to be trite about your situation at all even though it looks like I clearly am in retrospect. That was more pointing out how generational wealth breeds the inability to notice others struggles. If you always have a banana stand in your family, you don't have to worry about the day-to-day of people without a banana stand

Eniko Fox

@thordis not all millennials but definitely all old >_>

ThePurpleOctopus

@thordis This here is a 1976 model, GenX, living tissue over a metal endoskeleton. Or something like that

Jared

@thordis Voted Other since I squarely fit into the dead middle of Xennial.

not obscene, just deeply concerning

@futurebird @thordis i think we're born in the same year or at least within 1 year of each other, which means most people i've seen born 2-3 years before us who talk about the x/y boundary tend to identify either as millennials or xennials...

Aaron

@Clem

Thanks for explaining

@FuturisticRobert @szczurtorebkowy @thordis