@ShadSterling

Could be. Gen X were mostly too young to vote against the new wave of neoliberalism in the 80s, but still hung onto some of the benefits before they were completely stripped away for the Millennials.

Gen X is also much smaller than both the Boomer and Millennial generations so that might be a factor.

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@Fasgadh

Suspect that much of the interest comes from the Strauss Howe generation theory, which claims to explain historical periods from a generational perspective.

It kinda works (if you squint a bit).

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@nartagnan

It was Gen Y afaik, followed by Gen Z(oomer).

Not sure why it changed, maybe a millennium thing?

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@hajni

Ha! Fair point, I was just thinking of leaders of global blocs. Antonio Costa is also a boomer.

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@contrasocial

I believe the Boomer generation is also referred to as the 'Me' generation, and in the West it was certainly a good time to be born.

Full employment, good pensions, health and social care, affordable housing, free education, historically low levels of wealth inequality and historically high levels of social mobility were common before the eighties.

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@phils

They were mostly brought up by boomers.....

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@hajni

GenX is largely ignored, quite possibly because it's much smaller than both the Boomer and Millennial generations to either side, but it's interesting that so many of the world's leaders are still Boomers (Xi, Trump, Putin, Von Der Leyen, ...), even as they slip into senility.

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