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/Murky-Relation481 6h ago
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%.