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Which Generation Has Struggled The Most?
Dear Millennials — Let’s settle this debate.
Bueller. Bueller…Bueller?
Yet again, Generation X is absent from the latest generation debate on who has it worse — Gen Z, Millennials, or Boomers? According to a recent Pew Research Center study, Millennials are more depressed and anxious than any other generation.
But Boomers and Gen Z aren’t buying it.
As a card-carrying member of the ignored generation, this Gen Xer wants to help settle this debate.
In case you have ever wondered (we know you have not), we got the “X” in Generation X (1965-1980) because we refused to be defined by labels. We are the unknown generation. Invisible. Inconspicuous. Mysterious. Gen X is more enigmatic than the sunglass-wearing crypto bros that Millennials love to admire and hate. (Except we will refrain from smothering you with boozy pop-psychology advice or hackneyed Maya Angelou quotes.)
I know, Millennials, you don’t care what we think. That’s ok. No one does. We are the smallest generational group — Gen X represents only 33% of the workforce.
We just quietly trade in our skinny jeans for bell-bottoms, knowing marketers will never ask our opinion.
