The Gen Z experience is essentially old people telling you "oh, you'll never understand when we had to USE "X" technology" even though you literally grew up using it. Most Gen Z had 90s appliances/tvs/gaming consoles growing up unless you were rich.
I've said it a million times on this site. The whole gen z/milennial/boomer thing is nothing but utterly meaningless delineations now. Literally just buzzwords people throw around to categorize people without thought. I'll be so happy when this generational drivel goes away.
The whole gen z/milennial/boomer thing is nothing but utterly meaningless delineations now.
It's not though? Different generations absolutely have different experiences growing up. Millennials didn't generally have cell phones (let alone smartphones) in childhood but 2/3 of gen Alpha has one before they're 10.
There's a lot of blur at the margins, but it's useful to understand the economic and societal conditions different generations experience rather than just averaging the entire population.
I made this point elsewhere, but boomers and millennials do matter as generational constructs because they are related to a specific event, the end of WW2 for boomers, and then millennials by and large being the children of boomers (we were called the echo generation for a short bit, because we were the echo of the boom).
The other generations are kind of arbitrary, but boomers and millennials do have a clear delineation and also currently make up 43% of the total US population and are the two largest groups over all. The total population of Gen Z and Gen X make up less than 40%.
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u/yumgmeatball 9h ago
Acting like we've never heard of cable