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uboat53 · 1 year
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If you want to know why there's a generational disconnect when you talk about pay, here you go. In 1982, the average starting salary for a college graduate was reported to be $22,449/year. [1]
In 2023, the median salary (not even just starting) for a college graduate aged 25-34 was $59,600. [2]
Now that sounds good, right? More than double? Well, let's take a closer look.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflation Calculator [3], $22,449 in 1982 had the same purchasing power as $71,617.79 in 2023. In other words, that "more than double" in nominal terms is actually almost a 17% DECREASE in real value.
If anyone is wondering what those dang Millennials and GenZ kids are complaining about, this is it.
[1], [2], [3]
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bli-o · 8 months
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Ok. ok. fellow Gen Z’ers. guys. gen alpha is like. 13? now. They’re starting to join the internet and we’re experiencing the first taste of not being “with the times”. but guys. We have a mission: BE NICE TO THEM. DONT BE DICKS TO THEM. TREAT THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS GOOD.
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highperfix · 1 month
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He brings up a discussion on verbal consent vs body language. I just want people's opinions on it. Is this a generation difference thing, or a twitter thing? Or something only within the fandom?
I saw a similar thing to him, the tweets people had made me think they were 13, and I was shocked to see most were in their early 20s.
I'm an older fan who hasn't been on this side of the mycft community until the controversy, just a casual Philza fan here. For me body language is actually a normal thing in hook up culture.
It's just a bit sad that his fans bullied him into having to act like this from now on.
Because I will tell you as women this would suck if a guy has to verbally ask for every little thing.
Trigger Warning: Sexual Situations.
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st4r-t3ars · 7 months
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WHY IS THIS SO TRUE
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sophiainspace · 3 months
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Young queer folks. I love you. I love how you play with gender and sexuality, how you embrace identities. Your definitions and microlabels have saved my life, maybe literally. Growing up in a world where there was no word for ‘demisexuality’ was a very lonely experience for me. It was when I arrived on tumblr (for fandom!) in my early 40s that I learned a word that would have changed my life at 18-21. And that’s before we start talking about what it was like not to know ‘gay’ was really a thing till I was 17. Or that when I came out as bi in my 20s I got some serious stigma for it (including from friends who told me I was greedy and meant lesbian and should say it). Just to start with.
Things got (a little) better. The queer kids are all right.
So here’s the caveat.
I guess I’ve aged into the ‘queer elder’ space, and I didn’t notice till recently. And I’m okay with it. But I would like younger queer people (who have given me so much) not to victim blame me for the world I grew up in and the queer generational culture I move in. I’d like more younger queer folk to listen and not judge me by their own generation’s standards.
Don’t tell me I should have known the word demisexual in 2011. You were on tumblr then - I was not. I was marching and meeting with my queer groups. Some of whom may have known the word. Many who did not.
Don’t weaponise folks my age for an exclusionist agenda. “You can take the word ‘queer’ out of my cold dead hands,” my friend in his 50s said, when I told him about the revisionist history some kids are associating with the term.
Don’t share misinformation and wrong history about the AIDS era/generation and then tell me I don’t know anything when I try to tell you about what happened to my friends and their friends.
Don’t tell me your generation invented gender diversity/nonconformity when you weren’t there reading Gender Outlaw and Stone Butch Blues and organising the trans group meetings and starting the conversations that shaped the world you live in now. If you weren’t there when my spouse (and many others) trailblazed ‘they/them’ pronouns in the 2000s, you won’t know how they got pushback inside and outside of the queer movement, and how far we’ve - and you’ve - come.
And while we’re here, I’d like you to remember that there *are* queer people among the Gen Xers and yes, even the Boomers. We need to be humble about how much we still have to learn, but we built those foundations that you’re standing on, looking down on us. If you tell me queer folks my age should be quicker to embrace the concept of asexuality, for example, you’re right - but you might not know about the activism some of us are doing among our generation’s queer culture to change mindsets, building on an activist history that we’ve been part of.
You may not know how hard we fought and how far we stumbled so you could pick up the baton and run.
One day, you will.
Be good to the younger generation when you get there. I hope they’re good to you in return.
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501st-rexster · 6 days
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Just had a kid ask me what a CD-Rom is and damn I've never felt so old.
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alwaysbewoke · 1 month
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unimatrix-420 · 1 year
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canonically47 · 2 months
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i started watching a video about gen alpha and this mf said something like "you should be a little afraid to have your phone at the table, you should be a little afraid of your dad - the mom will be caring, that's fine - but the dad, you should be like, 'if i have my phone and play during dinner, dad is going to beat my ass'" like. wdym you SHOULD. are you okay in the head. do you need to be checked. are you sure you should be judging this generation when you are clearly in no way better
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bameme · 1 month
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People joke about what it will be like someday when you reference an old meme in front of an elderly millenial, but you can already do this with boomers. You just mention like, an old ad jingle or The Monkees and their faces light up. It's adorable. Try saying "g'night Ralph" to your boomer coworker when you leave for the day and see if they don't laugh and say "see you tomorrow Sam", it's a good time for everyone.
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englishmagic · 3 months
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My sister and I have been discussing text messages, and I have a hunch that our differing generations might affect our point of view.
One side of the conversation prefers sending long paragraphs addressing everything they have to say about a topic, putting thought and time into each response. They find multiple text messages in a short time annoying, preferring to read all you have to say in one go instead of splitting it up.
The other sends shorter messages split thought by thought or by where they would pause in spoken conversation. When seeing their conversation partner’s “typing” indicator active for a long time, it makes them nervous because they expect a rant or a very complex message.
So I am asking this question for science:
Using the old name for millennials because of option length restrictions.
I’m well aware that doesn’t cover all possible generations or opinions - just pick whichever is closest to yours! I’d be chuffed if you reblog for sample size ❤️
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liskantope · 1 year
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Growing up, to my knowledge the default way for two adults to argue was to have an angry fight -- I mean raised voices if not outright shouting at each other, constantly interrupting each other, anger and aggression generally taking over, which I assumed to be the universal definition of fight. This was certainly the way of my parents, even if they didn't like it and made some efforts to mitigate their communication breaking down into this mode; as long as there were strong enough disagreements that needed to be aired, it seemed inevitable that such an unpleasantly hostile scene would eventually take place. And as far as I could tell, there was nothing at all unusual about my parents or the amount of shouting fights that took place in my house: I assumed (and I still think probably correctly) that this kind of event took place with some regularity in most other households as well.
But when I think now to my friends' relationships (and even my own close roommate or practically-living-together relationships, platonic and otherwise), for some reason I have a harder time picturing much of this happening. It's not that I have any kind of direct knowledge of how my friends and their partners interact behind closed doors, it's just that in the cases of people I know really well, I simply don't imagine them resorting to handling disagreements in this way. (In the case of one couple I know really well, who I am still close friends with, I was actually in the room for their "first fight" as well as at least one other one, and neither of them at any point so much as raised their voice or quickened their speech -- they might have even slowed down.) It's not that all of my generational peers hash out contentious social issues in the carefully analyzing and qualifying and very wordy way that I tend to write about such things in blog posts, nor that they don't get angry or otherwise emotional. It's that they (I think) generally have better tools for confrontation at their disposal and prioritize avoiding the perhaps more traditional, nasty, screaming-at-each-other brand of conflict resolution, even if that's possibly what they grew up with.
I can't help thinking this is a generational thing, like people who grew up around the same time as I did (or later) are generally more in touch with how to process feelings and differences with others in intimate situations, and are even perhaps more emotionally intelligent and/or self-aware in general, I don't know. I definitely don't shy away from criticizing some of the values, mindsets, and tendencies of my generation and younger on this blog, but this is a very positive trait I'm inclined to hand to them for sure.
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parva-noctua · 1 year
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[at the train station]
Some stranger: So I just saw this TikTok challenge where you have to try to write your name without lifting the pen off of the paper---
Eddie [not so quietly]: Congratulations, Gen Z, you've discovered cursive.
Buck: [death by laughter]
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rosethornewrites · 3 months
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Apparently the people in charge of our late stage capitalism have realized Millennials are approaching middle age and are asking if we’re “really worried” about it or just faking.
Bitch, please. We’ve been experiencing world crisis after world crisis to the point where our nervous breakdowns and midlife crises started in our mid-20s. By now we’ve all realized many of us aren’t likely to make it to 80 because of the falling life expectancy, and we certainly won’t have the money to retire. We’ve never had the luxury of NOT worrying.
Our midlife crises aren’t taking the form of sports cars and blow because we can’t afford it. We’re instead attempting to enjoy life with things like lattes and avocado toast, two things you’ve pilloried as reasons we’re broke when it’s really late stage capitalism. We’re getting “too” into our hobbies and refusing to fully grow up because god the experience you showed us was bullshit.
Also, as much as they want to manufacture some sort of divide or animosity between millennials and Gens Z and A, apparent just because we have creaky joints and are supposed to wave our canes and yell at the kids in our yard, we mostly know it’s bullshit to keep us from coming together to oust the idiots that are marginally “in charge” so we can affect real change.
Apparently we’re also known as the burnout generation. Can’t fucking imagine why.
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i-merani · 19 days
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I love how in America generational divides are essentially arbitrary while in my country (and generally ex soviet countries and countries that have experienced some sort of conflict) its like 1. were you born before or after the fall of ussr 2. were you born before or after the civil war 3. do you remember militias and orginized criminals running the country + the drug epidemic 4. were you born before or after the revolution (and I guess the last would be how old were you when Russia attacked us but this is like very recent compared to others)
Im not saying that Americans didn't have their troubles (vietnam war, aids epidemic, drug epidemic too, 9/11) but they just don't differentiate generations based on the events they remember and i think thats interesting what divides a generation and how it all works
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