Are Millennials the New Boomers?

[wolfcat87]

Baby Boomers won their name due to the sheer size of their Generation, but Millennials have passed them in population size. Now, some media outlets have tagged Millennials as the New Boomers.

Thoughts?

Yes

No

Unsure

[TaureanBull81]

They're definitely not the new boomers especially when some have terrible attitudes, work ethic and expect everything to be given to them on a silver platter.

I should clarify that not all are like this.

[bingbongbangbung]

lol that pretty much describes baby boomers in their youth and now in their retirement

[Jersey2]

No. The Boomers are the Boomers AND they created and raised the Millennials. Millennials are a product of the Baby Boomers… some call them a baby boom echo.

[abc3643]

No. The Baby Boomers were just that; a boom in the baby population due to WW 2 veterans coming home and finally having sex with their wives! Combined with "The GI Bill", many veterans were better off once they came home and could afford to have larger families and did so. This is a significant reason why the economy was relatively well in the 1950s.

Meanwhile, don't look too much into these definitions of generations. That's mostly horseshit - about as reliable as astrology. For instance, according to this graph, I am a "Baby Boomer". My parents didn't fight in WW2. My GRANDFATHER did. My parents were BORN during WW2. I didn't have to fear going to Vietnam like Baby Boomers did; I was busy in elementary school when the war ended.

[exitseven]

the baby boomers were the real greatest generation. They developed the internet and created most of the music and movies that we enjoy today. the baby boomers have taught us not to blindly trust the government and that war is not good for anyone but the arms dealers.

[Juxtapose]

A lot of major corruption happened under the supervision of the baby boomers and it was a lot of baby boomers who told me not to trust Alex Jones.

At this point Alex Jones is just calling it ahead of time.

[exitseven]

@Juxtapose Who is Alex Jones?

[Juxtapose]

You didn't hear about one of the most canceled men on the whole planet?

[Juxtapose]

https://youtu.be/2BIlwnYzkZg?si=1jo-n65S6nFEwqUB

[bingbongbangbung]

pretty sure it was the silencers that created the original internet during the 1970s when it was just a secret military project

[exitseven]

@bingbongbangbung Bolt, Beranek and Newman developed the Arpanet in the 70s as a way for colleges and the military to communicate. The internet really did not get going until the early 90s when the World Wide Web came about.

[Unit1]

In what understanding? Aging and getting middle aged/old? Yeah. And soon enough the Gen Z and Gen Alpha will become the new boomers. And their kids will become the new boomers but that's when I'm already dead.

In any case I feel absolutely disgusted at my generation with their vaping, social media addictions, having absolute no respect for their own privacy, getting their brains fried by tik tok and excessive sugar consumption, giving money to "women" on OnlyFans/Fansly/Twitch and funding their meals (encouraging gold digging behavior) and trending tastelessly industrially produced hardcore porn (nobody has sex with their sister, that's stuck in a car or a washing machine). Absolutely disgusting degeneracy!

[EnglishArtsteacher]

No, because the only reason we've passed them in population size is because they're dying off due to old age. That doesn't mean we were born from a "Baby Boom".

When we get older, and die off due to old age, does that mean Generation Alpha will become the "New Millennials" since they've finally surpassed us in population size? No.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I don't think so. From my stand point there's not much difference between millennials and my generation. There's a little bit difference but we have a lot in common.

[genericname85]

nope. millenials are the poorest generation yet. i'm not sure that next generation can beat that. just to be clear. it's not the fault of the millenial. it's the fault of a financial decline that is present in pretty much the entire western world.

[Dargil]

Nope. Boomers may have been coddled to death but they still had the ambitions that their Depression/WW2 era parents imbued in them. Some (not all) Millennials have become dependents but others inherited ambition from later Boomer parents.

[NamerOfStars]

I don't see how this could have been a recent development, since the last Millennials were born 23 years ago.

[NathanDavis]

Boombox Boomers...

[Nikki1989]

I WISH I was a boomer.

[wolfcat87]

Why?

[Juxtapose]

The silent generation and the boomers were the ones who trusted the government too much and look at where that got us.

[Unit1]

And then they still argue about politics 😆

[Juxtapose]

@Unit1 yeah they don't know what they're talking about at all. They just believe whatever they see on cable because surely a corporate journalist would not lie 🤣

[Unit1]

That or it's a facade to give the commoners the illusion of being able to make real changes with a small one. I'm sure those inventors of politics have had their big laughs about the commoners like "hahaha, look at all these idiots fighting among themselves, not knowing we actually run this country". I'm pretty sure they got bored fast after a little while.

[RingOfFire]

Yes, in fact every generation will become the new boomers. Each generation takes its place as the older generation at some point.

[AnusNdaPainus]

They were definitely the last boom due to our current dropping birth rates

[OddBeMe]

Are we really that bad?

Boomers are most karens right?

[Anonymous]

I hope not, baby boomers have way too much entitlement.

[dolemite58]

I would never identify as a boomer in any way, the Boomers are deeply selfish narcissist monsters that were sent to destroy humanity 🤣 I think millennials are a bit more well balanced

[wolfcat87]

Why do you think we are different?

[dolemite58]

https://youtu.be/vNW_0eekLO0?si=OEkoSTvtRUV5-W27 Please watch this 😂

[wolfcat87]

Seems ironic and hypocritical. They are being callous about others and their struggles while complaining about those same people not doing more. A prime example is when the woman shares her own experience and they immediately dismiss it. 😅 And, in all of what they said I didn't hear any abuse. Their parents supported them, to care of them, and actually cared. They only seem upset that their parents didn't react more upset or detached? First world problems right there... They are incredibly fortunate. Funny stories though.

[dolemite58]

I was just trying to send something funny not have an over analysis of it, but ok

[wolfcat87]

Ohh, phew haha

[robhazelnut]

We're all individuals.

[Anonymous]

I almost want to say that they're worse.

[douride2]

I seriously doubt it.

[Anonymous]

hahaha No. New bloopers.

[Jamie05rhs]

Bloopers haha. That's awesome. So accurate.