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That's where I fall. My life was a Millennial life, not a Gen X life. All the stuff Millennials complain about happened to me first!
I managed to catch the dot com bubble within a year of getting a steady job, got laid off, worked overseas because there was no work where I lived, finally decided to move back and took the mortgage crisis straight in the nads. That was nearly a decade of my employment life that was interrupted/nerfed.
Make no mistake, Gen X has not been well served by the boomers. I'm sure there are greedy fucks in every generation, and the greedy Gen Xers probably got rich earlier and faster than Y and Z, but the systemic shit is a boomer badge to wear.
Yeah, the boomers (most, anyway, though there are always allies in every generation) spent their whole life pulling up the ladder. Gen X was the last generation that had people who could grab on before it got out of reach, and certainly a few with enough grip caught the same lack of empathy that boomers cultivated (like Musk).
I think that even the youngest boomers got shafted but didn't realize it.
Yeah, 79 here. I kind of used to think Inwas Gen X but I am way way more millenial aligned in almost every view and way.