• LordBullingdon@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    There would be some change but generally the shift is not occurring in the way it did with boomers. The reason people get more conservative as they age is that their wealth/material conditions improve, which has pretty fucked implications for humanity under capitalism I guess, but also Millenials are not getting their share of the pie and the truth is they never will (there will never be a mass transfer of wealth from boomers to Millenials - watch house prices crash as soon as the boomer grip on society disappears). Gen X moved right to a lesser extent than Boomers, Millenials are shifting right far less than Gen X did.
    Millenials in the late 90s wouldve been children, it sounds like your referring to Gen X

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          11 months ago

          do you have a well respected independent 3rd party that agrees with this or is this your own world view?

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          I’m surprised to see this counterfactual argument here and wonder if you’re acquainted with the history of the word:

          Members of this demographic cohort are known as millennials because the oldest became adults around the turn of the millennium. Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, known for creating the Strauss–Howe generational theory, are widely credited with naming the millennials. They coined the term in 1987, around the time children born in 1982 were entering kindergarten, and the media were first identifying their prospective link to the impending new millennium as the high school graduating class of 2000.

          I remember this very well because I was a member of the class of 2000. 🧓 and yes, I do remember the 80s.