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Is There A “Great Resignation”? Basically its just boomers retiring

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Right as boomers finally start to give up the reigns, millennials realize they don't want them. I hope that leads to a time of big opportunities.

Just skipping right over gen x?

Man, my dark older brothers that I never had. I love those crazy bastards, but they really got the shit end of the stick, and there just isn't that many of them compared to the generations that sandwich them.

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Right as boomers finally start to give up the reigns, millennials realize they don't want them. I hope that leads to a time of big opportunities.

>Right as boomers finally start to give up the reigns

English major?

1946 + 65 = 2011.

The boomer vanguard is going to be in their 80s soon.

And the millennials are starting to turn 40.

"...then one day you find ten years have got behind you"

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It's clear enough that the particular form of society we're used to follows the demographics of its largest generations. For the US, that means the Boomers have defined the conversation since the 70's when they started to vote and have careers, and a lot of foundational sociocultural premises about "how the world works" were set back then and remained untouched until just now. I can see it in my parents: they're incr…

No, older people aren’t axiomatically conservative any more than young people are axiomatically liberal or radical. It might be a reasonable bet, but I see young people at right wing rallies and old people at left wing ones. Don’t assume.

Some people give a shit about others. Some do not. If you don’t like how things are or how they’re going, act to change them. Other people are.

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