The last leaders of the boomer era look set to cede their power to younger Gen X leaders across the political and business worlds.
  • Boomers are having their last dance in charge.
  • Gen X leaders are stepping up to replace the last of them.
  • Younger leaders are taking charge of politics and corporate giants such as Boeing, HSBC, and Costco.
    • folekaule@lemmy.world
      505·
      4 months ago

      As a Gen Xer I’m heartened to see Gen Z stepping up to literally save the world. Seeing the swell in support for Harris and in voter registration numbers, I for once am feeling hopeful. I hope they can accomplish what the forgotten generation couldn’t.

      • FireTower@lemmy.world
        35·
        4 months ago

        Gen Z reporting in. Above comment’s point was not to generalize an entire demographic as ‘doing good’. & it was a good one. Don’t assume that of us either.

        Judging entire groups of people as a monolith is always bad. I’ll add ‘good’ is subjective of an individual’s values. Expect future generations to mock us for what we believe acceptable.

        • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
          28·
          4 months ago

          Expect future generations to mock us for what we believe acceptable.

          I sure hope so. If future generations aren’t making fun of me for how backwards I am then we’re not progressing.

          • FireTower@lemmy.world
            18·
            4 months ago

            I’ll caveat that not all changes are ‘good’ changes too. The future generations might not value the things we hold dear, like the jury trial. One day maybe they’ll sadly see that as us wasting ordinary people’s time.

            People in the future are not automatically our betters, but our equals, (hopefully) armed with the knowledge of our failings and armed with that of our successes.

            • Supervivens@lemmy.world
              11·
              4 months ago

              I feel like the judge cannon stuff is a very good example of why jury trials are a thing. Corrupt judges are real yo

              • barsoap@lemm.ee
                1·
                4 months ago

                Coming from a completely legal tradition: Jury trials are scary. Jurors can’t be nailed to the cross for perversion of justice, there’s no accountability. Also any more serious cases are not tried by judges, but panels of judges, often including lay judges.

        • folekaule@lemmy.world
          7·
          4 months ago

          Very good point, and I did not intend to make an argument about generations being different. Generations indeed consist wholly of individuals with their own opinions. On an individual level, age is no better an indicator of personality than your zodiac sign.

          In my comment I just wanted to express that, after a long period of dread, I am feeling more hopeful after seeing so many members of the young generation getting engaged and making a difference where I personally feel we failed.

          It was also meant to express appreciation and gratitude to those who are getting involved and as encouragement to those who are yet to do so.

          • 4am@lemm.ee
            5·
            4 months ago

            Just remember there was leaded gasoline everywhere before 1995, and av-gas mostly still is

        • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
          42·
          4 months ago

          Gen Z unfortunately seems to have stepped back on the gender equality front. I hope it shifts back but self-identified feminists are down compared to millenials and misogyny is up. I’d be happy to attribute most of that to economic stress though.

        • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          4 months ago

          Yeah, people act like there aren’t progressives and conservatives in each generation. My retired Boomer parents still think a lot of bigoted and reactionary old people are the reason we can’t have nice things. My Silent Generation grandparents were happy to label Republicans as mostly irredeemably evil even when the political zeitgeist favored treating them as intellectual adversaries with earnest beliefs about the best ways to run society for the good of everyone.

          • merc@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            4 months ago

            And on the other end, the proud boys were a Gen Z / Millennial phenomenon.

            It’s true that people tend to become more set in their ways as they get older. OTOH, that sometimes means that the militant socialist just gets grumpy and complains instead of remaining a hopeful activist. It doesn’t always mean that people start becoming right-wing and conservative.

    • Orbituary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      231·
      4 months ago

      Yeah. X/Mil cusper here. The elder Gen X are more like Boomers than anything, but have more anger and technical acumen.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      191·
      4 months ago

      If I’m not mistaken gen X is the first generation to become more progressive as it ages

        • Nastybutler@lemmy.world
          41·
          4 months ago

          Same. Grew up in a conservative household and shared many of the same views when I was younger. But the more the conservatives have shifted towards hating “the other” the more I’ve realized that was always what they, and their policies, were. They’re just not subtle about it now.

          If you’re so confident in your world view, you shouldn’t be afraid of it being challenged, whether by speech, or people being free to be who they are, want to be, or were born into. If it doesn’t harm you, why should you care?

          The fact that neo Nazis align themselves with the GOP, Trump,and MAGA, should tell you all you need to know. I’ve never donated to a Democrat’s campaign… Until today.