Okayyyy. This is based on what? GEN-X is one of the most educated generations turned out by this country and one of the most productive. In the 80s, Americans were called lazy by the japanese. Now they say we're obsessed with work, and we have almost the lowest vacation rate of the industrialized world.
It used to be board executives were in their 50s and 60s. Now we're seeing more and more in their 40s and even late 30s.
Hard working? Absolutely. Cynical? Perhaps. But "babies with credit cards"? Hey, at least we weren't a bunch of lazy hippies who never grew up.
right on... to quote a boomer phrase
boomers are the biggest sell outs in modern history with their hippie anti establishment ideas continuing into modern day self indulgence.
X'ers meanwhile had no choice but to be educated as they are the first generation that had to buy into astronomical real estate growth as well as financing their own retirements. To top it all off they will also be responsible for cleaning up social security and reigning in the latest boomer giveaway, perscription drug benefits.
Its as if the rest of the generations have eaten and the Xer's will be stuck with the check.
Wonder if this will turn into another bash GenX thread. Oh wait, of course it will.
Yep...in fact, we're going to get the distinct of pleasure paying the Boomers' credit card bill (and Medicare and Social Security...)
Gen Xers have plenty of hard working overachievers-- like Theo Epstein (Red Sox GM who broke The Curse by trading "face of the Red Sox" Nomar and acquiring Schilling) and Bobby Jindal (congressman and future governor and likely future VP nominee) and Lisa Madigan (current IL AG and first woman to be IL AG) and two guys that invented something called "Google" (you may have heard of it-- it's a verb now!) and now can wipe their asses with $100 bills for the rest of their lives: Larry Page and Sergey Brin. We're representing just fine.
Gen Xers have plenty of hard working overachievers-- like Theo Epstein (Red Sox GM who broke The Curse by trading "face of the Red Sox" Nomar and acquiring Schilling) and Bobby Jindal (congressman and future governor and likely future VP nominee) and Lisa Madigan (current IL AG and first woman to be IL AG) and two guys that invented something called "Google" (you may have heard of it-- it's a verb now!) and now can wipe their asses with $100 bills for the rest of their lives: Larry Page and Sergey Brin. We're representing just fine.