#generational differences

[uboat53]

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]

#finance #economics #personal finance #worker pay #generational differences #this is why boomers don't think there's a problem #their price point is still stuck in the 80s or 90s #and they cannot fathom how much inflation has changed things since then

[bli-o]

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.

#saying this as a person who’s just nearly old enough to be a zoomer #zoomers are actually pretty old lmao #its weird cuz all the zoomers i interact with are teenagers n shit but some of yall are near THIRTY lmao #couldnt imagine #personally #anyways #officially adopting gen alpha as my younger siblings. #all of them. #gen z #gen z culture #zoomers #millennials #boomers #gen alpha #generation alpha #generational differences #millenials

[st4r-t3ars]

WHY IS THIS SO TRUE

#where is the original???? #this must be shared #this is accurate #we love it #lol memes #funny #gen z #millenials #gen x #boomers #generational differences #humor

[highperfix]

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.

#if its a generational thing maybe he should try to get an older audience #georgenotfound #gnf #caiti #caitibugzz #video #youtube #generational differences #millennials vs gen z #consent #hooking up #party culture #body language #george not found

[sophiainspace]

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.

#queer elder #I’m claiming it #this is mostly about discord conversations I’ve had recently #did I mention I’m nearing ‘done with discord’ stage :D #and the kids are still all right #queer culture #queer history #(barely but you know) #generational differences #asexuality #demisexuality #microlabels #gender nonconformity #queer #lgbtqia+

[alwaysbewoke]

#robbie scott #tiktok #viral video #generation z #baby boomers #work ethic #economic disparities #employment #salary #housing #education #financial stability #societal expectations #criticism #attitudes toward work #millennials #generational differences #work commitment #financial struggle

[unimatrix-420]

#memes #politics #political memes #generational differences #amerikkka #anarchy #anarchism #anarchist #communism #socialism #lol #funny #lol memes #funny memes

[canonically47]

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

#“here's how we can solve gen alpha's issue! [ABUSE]” #are you dumb #gen alpha #gen z #discourse #generational differences

[englishmagic]

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 ❤️

#polls #generations #gen x #millennials #gen z #texting #generational differences #soz life

[liskantope]

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.

#relationship drama #conflict resolution #generational differences

[millennialsargueback]

#millennials #millennial #generation y #millennial problems #millennials vs boomers #millennial woes #generational differences #millennials employment #millennialsargueback

[parva-noctua]

[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]

#eddie diaz is too old for this XD #generational differences #just kidding #eddie diaz #evan buckley #buddie

[rosethornewrites]

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.

#millennials #generational differences #generational divide #midlife crisis #burnout

[i-merani]

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

#idk what to tag this with #politics #generations #generational differences #generational divide #millenials #gen z #gen x #mine

[bameme]

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.

#Im not being condescending here I genuinely love this #generational differences #boomers #meme humor #memes #lol #comedy #looney tunes #the monkees

[uboat53]

Hmm, the Israel-Hamas conflict has exposed yet another of our generational fault lines. Maybe time to talk about it? I guess this is probably a SHORT RANT (TM).

THE SPLIT

One of the biggest and most obvious things one can notice about the reaction in America to the conflict between Israel and Hamas is that there is a huge generational split. Young people overwhelmingly disapprove of Israeli actions while older Americans largely approve. Like most generational splits, this is partially explained by race: white Americans overwhelmingly approve of Israeli actions while minorities overwhelmingly disapprove and, well, young people are far less white than older people. See this set of polls, for example.

Still, from my own (subjective) experience, that's not all of it. Young Jews, for example, seem far less willing to give Israel carte blanche in military actions than older Jews. The same seems to be true of almost every group that I've looked at. So there's a racial component there, but that's not all there is to it. We are truly looking at a situation where young people, across demographics, are seeing a situation very differently, in general, than older people, and it's not the only one.

THE REALM OF POLITE DEBATE

One of the things we really don't spend enough time talking or thinking about is what is often called the 'realm of polite debate' or something to that effect. What that means is that there are certain points of view that are considered outside the limits of polite debate, and those points of view do not need to be taken seriously; they can simply be dismissed.

"The Nazis were good", for example, or "African-Americans deserve reparations for slavery" were long considered outside the realm of polite debate. If you expressed those opinions, you wouldn't be debated with, you'd either be shouted out of the room or simply shunned. On the other hand, opinions like "Medicaid and Medicare are inefficient and our efforts should be redirected to private insurance", while many might disagree with that opinion, were considered worthy of polite debate and not dismissed out of hand.

What's been changing over the last couple of decades is not just what the realm of polite debate is, but also who gets to define it. The realm of polite debate has changed a lot over the course of American history but, until recently, largely due to demographic and cultural weight, it was almost exclusively white men who got to define what ideas belonged. Now, for the first time in American history, women and racial minorities are having a say.

THE PROBLEM

Have you ever heard of "Loss Aversion"? This is the name for a phenomenon in which human beings value things they already have over things they have the potential to get. Even in the case where what they have is less than what they have the potential to get, people will often choose what they already have because possession exerts that much influence on our decision-making process.

I bring this up because this is the exact problem we are seeing in the Israel debate and in similar debates where generational, gender, and racial shifts are being seen. White men, particularly the older white men who grew up with the expectation that people like them would get to determine the realm of polite debate, or those who generally agreed with the opinions broadly held by them are having difficulty with this transition.

THE ISRAEL DEBATE

In particular with the debate over Hamas' attacks and Israel's actions in Gaza these last few months, we've seen a clash between younger, more diverse, people who believe that Israeli occupation and military action in Gaza, along with the decades-long occupation and blockade, are not fully justified by the actions of Hamas and other violent resistance by Palestinians and older, largely whiter, people who believe that it is.

Criticism of Israel's actions with regards to Palestinians, particularly in response to any form of violent resistance, did not used to be part of the realm of polite debate in America, largely defined by older white men over the last several decades, and many people still hold the view that it should not be. Meanwhile, most younger people, even if they disagree with that opinion, do not believe it to be beyond the bounds of polite debate.

This misunderstanding between groups is the basis for conflict. When people respond to an opinion as if it were beyond the bounds of polite debate, by loudly shouting it down or shunning those who hold it, it engenders anger and resentment in those who are being shut down or shunned. When those people are few and/or generally without power, either political, social, or cultural, this method of limiting public debate is generally accepted (This statement makes no comment with regards to the morality of declaring an opinion outside the bounds of polite debate. I would say that, in the case of those who support Nazism, pushing those people outside of polite society is probably a good thing, while pushing those who favor reparations for African Americans outside of polite society is probably not.). If those people are numerous and/or hold enough political, social, or cultural power, then they will use what power they have to reject that rejection of their views and demand that they be a part of the realm of polite debate.

This is what we are seeing now, with organized groups of young people and minorities protesting against Israel's campaign in Gaza, some people in positions of power attempting to silence them, and those people and groups then reacting with anger.

CONCLUSION

This isn't the last of these kinds of conflicts we are going to see. Women and minorities are gaining more and more power to set the terms of polite debate and ideas that were not previously considered at all must now be at least addressed; a positive development in my opinion.

What this means, though, is that the people who previously held that power to set the terms of polite debate are now about to have to seriously consider opinions that they were able to simply dismiss not that long ago and I don't expect that that adjustment is going to happen without at least a little bit of discomfort.

#politics #us politics #israel #israel palestine conflict #public opinion #generational differences #short rant (tm)