[Darmody]

While I do think we went kind of downhill since gen x, I wrote that comment as a joke.

You actually could argue that new generations are worse because we're lazier, hedonists, more disrespectful, etc or you could argue that boomers and gen x are actually the bad ones that left everything in such a bad state that following generations spent decades to make everything right again.

[throwaway6734]

>You actually could argue that new generations are worse because we're lazier, hedonists, more disrespectful, etc

None of this is true

[Darmody]

I didn't say it is, I said you could argue that. And depending on your point of view it could be true for you.

[Clubber]

GenX isn't even in power yet for the most part. Most of the people representing us in government are the Boomers.

>because we're lazier, hedonists, more disrespectful, etc

Also, "they" said the same stuff about GenX.

[ryandrake]

GenX will never be in power. There aren’t enough of us. They’ll just skip us and once the Boomers die off, we will be a handful of elderly kooks watching Seinfeld reruns and dealing with Millennials making all the rules for themselves.

[rmah]

"they" said the same thing about boomers too. and the silent generation before them. and ...