My wife is 28. I am 35 — She has an IPOD, I do not. I have no degree — only about 90 credits toward a History degree. My wife has a bachelor’s in speech language pathology and is on her way to a Master’s. She graduated summa cum laude and currently has a 3.9 GPA — she has less than a year left. All while working full-time with our child who is now two years old.
Dumb? Disinterested? Swamped by digital media? I don’t think so! People need to be careful when they paint with such broad strokes. There are slackers in all generations.
Slackers are not exceptions when their numbers rise to the level of pandemic. I admire you and your defense of the nuclear family you have built but based on my own annecdotal sampling, you are the exception, not them. Sorry.
Broad strokes here? At F.R.? Surely you jest.
I'm a retired union member. Wanna see broad strokes? Just wait.
I absolutely agree. All these Boomer, Joneser, Gen X generalizations annoy the heck out of me. Studying demographic cohorts is important, and a range of verifiable data can be ascertained, eg, educational degrees, income, marriages and divorces, etc. But it’s laughable to apply vague labels — greatest, dumbest — to large groups of people just because they share a range of birth dates.