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This illustrates how this whole generation labeling concept is a divisive and self-serving media construct.

It maybe had some validity where there were big social changes post-WW2 and a baby boom. I think of it like a diffusing wave, becoming less relevant over time.

It's even worse when you look at the big picture. The generational construct originates with Karl Mannheim in the late 1920s who drew from among others upon Marxism. Contrast that to today when generational identity has become one of the biggest distractions from class consciousness.

In 2015 when this was written, 90's kids with their millennial problems were now adults and became part of the problems they spent the last 20 years complaining about.

They also found out they're not any better at solving them.

So the rant is an attempt to kick responsibility to the next generation, while pushing the blame onto the previous one.

You'll find the aughties doing the same thing in like 5 years as the cycle continues.

True, but the entire concept of named generation is designed to allow the media to create narratives in which generations are set against each other in some kind of blame/envy game.

It’s evil stuff.

What problems do you refer to?

I think of things like lack of affordable health care, widening wealth inequality, and police brutality.

Millennials won't solve any of them as long as half of them still think their vote won't change anything, so they stay home and allow the boomers to elect Republicans and centrist Democrats (Which are essentially DINOs).

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