There were friendly generational relations? o.O
‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations
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#42Really? i thought i ended when everyone was talking about how millennials are ruining companies by not buying affordable products. Or saying millennials are poor because they like avocados. Or saying millennials are entitled for demanding a living wage.
wait, what's the problem with avocados?
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#43Really? i thought i ended when everyone was talking about how millennials are ruining companies by not buying affordable products. Or saying millennials are poor because they like avocados. Or saying millennials are entitled for demanding a living wage.
This is pretty much it. My generation has been called entitled, lazy, selfish, etc, for wanting the same things our parents were given, like a living wage, affordable college, or career stability. In what world is that friendly?
Mmm there's that word again, "given."
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#44Really? i thought i ended when everyone was talking about how millennials are ruining companies by not buying affordable products. Or saying millennials are poor because they like avocados. Or saying millennials are entitled for demanding a living wage.
People selling OK Boomer stickers like Pepsi selling the "Pepsi Generation". Old dog, same tricks.
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#45shout out to the other gen xers out there ignored by every generation before or since.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is pretty much it. My generation has been called entitled, lazy, selfish, etc, for wanting the same things our parents were given, like a living wage, affordable college, or career stability. In what world is that friendly?
Mmm there's that word again, "given."
Perhaps just replace it with “had access to”. Or perhaps just focus on the spirit of the statement and not pedantries over word choice.
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#47Look, you know what has to be the reply to this, right? Ok, Boomer
I think this just has to be the clearest instance of "old man yells at cloud" in the history of publishing.
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#48This is silly. The only party here marking the end of "friendly generational relations" is the NY Times itself. Drawing lines through society is the cheapest and easiest way to look wise without making any meaningful comment.
Actually this phrase started around October 15th on TikTok. The phrase’s use in related videos grew rapidly and had not existed before. It’s real sentiment. The fault with this article is that it focuses on merchandise. Edit: here’s the first video I saw it trend in comments: http://vm.tiktok.com/553g7w/
> Actually this phrase started around October 15th on TikTok.
I highly doubt this. I've seen this phrase for months on both Twitter and Discord. Searching one discord server I'm in yields several instances going back to April. It was just a meme in the beginning. Perhaps evolved from 4chan's "30 year old boomer"
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#49Really? i thought i ended when everyone was talking about how millennials are ruining companies by not buying affordable products. Or saying millennials are poor because they like avocados. Or saying millennials are entitled for demanding a living wage.
On a side note related to this idea, I wonder if Millenials overcompensated by going to the extreme on the opposite side of the triangle (quantity, price, quality). On Saturday I went to a beer/wine store that's in a predominately young professional/student neighborhood. When I lived in the area about 8 years ago there were maybe 20 craft beer brands. Beer came in 6-packs, and was priced at about $11-15. Today, there…
$15 for a 4 pack is insanely expensive
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is pretty much it. My generation has been called entitled, lazy, selfish, etc, for wanting the same things our parents were given, like a living wage, affordable college, or career stability. In what world is that friendly?
Mmm there's that word again, "given."
Can't tell what point you're making, but when my brother left his job at Google our grandmother asked what that was going to do to his pension. As if companies paying pensions was still a thing.
These people grew up when a factory job could support a family of four, and companies hired people with no experience and then paid actual benefits.
Boomers benefited from very generous circumstances. To suggest they earned the postwar economic boom is laughably misguided.