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by VLM 4046 days ago
"They're used more as labels of pride and prejudice"

Accurate, but also consider the idiom "divide and conqueror"

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"Baby boomer" became a thing when advertisers needed to hawk advertising. If advertising was pointed at the "youth market", then you would have forty years of sales of Marlboros to that person, so invest more.

I suppose with GenX it's bicycles and Mountain Dew, which became ever related through all those ads.