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‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you really believe the article's premise that boomers don't believe in global warming? If so, is it all of them, or just some of them? Of course another purpose of this "culture war," is to take the blame off the politicians who had a chance actually make the regulations and laws and lay it on a generation of citizens. What has Generation Y and Z actually done to stop global warming? I don't see anything but talk.…

I think that a much larger percentage of Gen Z believe in global warming than boomers do. Of course, politicians are elected by people so if everyone believes in global warming and votes that way everything will work out. GenY and GenZ tend to vote for more pro-climate policies, many more of them protest for the government to do something. Many more of them on environmental conscience. The big thing you seem to be mi…

>The big thing you seem to be missing is governments should be doing the will of the people, and the will is there for GenZ, but not for the Boomers.

I think the main thing you seem to be missing is that's not how it actually works. The will is there for the energy companies but not the people because energy companies pay for campaigns. Do you think boomers really want ridiculously high health care costs? At their age? Or perhaps it's the insurance companies and the AMA pushing that? Do you think people like paying tax preparation companies every year, even though the government knows what most people owe, or do you think the tax preparation industry pays for that inaction? Do you think people like getting arrested for smoking pot, or the politicians are maybe being influenced by the police and prison unions to keep that sweet, sweet paycheck coming?

When the politicians ignore the will of the people during the your generation, are you going to lay the blame on your generation as well? Will that mean your generation doesn't believe in global warming, or maybe it's something else?

Re: ‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations

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Really? 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…

I don't think those are remotely related.

Price increases may just be inflation and even 10 years ago you could find tons of craft beer stores with huge selections in cities big and small. (Beer is one of the easier small businesses to get into; still expensive but they tend to be less likely to fail if you get the consistency of batches right).

Maybe that store just decided to expand from a small selection to attract more craft beer people. That's a really freaking weird conclusion to draw over the history of one bottle shop.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it feels that instead, old men have been demanding that young people cut down the trees for the old men to burn.

There are old people who've been arrested for pro climate actions, there are young people who are in charge of cutting down the rainforest. It's complicated, and reducing it to old men vs. young people only removes focus from the actual problems at hand.

The results of elections across USA and Europe are pretty much telling though: There's a big divide between older cohorts and younger cohorts about climate change, housing and other sustainability policies.

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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."

Yes, it would be more appropriate to say "not robbed by their employers."

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The idea that climate change and financial inequality concerns are generational divided is ludicrous. To me this framing reeks as just another divisional front the promoters of identity politics, who btw are also not generational divided, would like to inflict on us all. P.S. I'm not Gen Z by a long shot and deeply concerned about climate change and financial inequality.

The real war, as always, is class war. There are plenty of poor boomers and there are plenty of rich millennials.

But in general I'd say that "Ok Boomer" works.

Re: ‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations

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Really? 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.

It's like how class warfare is only when the poor fight back.

Generations are not classes. They span classes.

Re: ‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations

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The idea that climate change and financial inequality concerns are generational divided is ludicrous. To me this framing reeks as just another divisional front the promoters of identity politics, who btw are also not generational divided, would like to inflict on us all. P.S. I'm not Gen Z by a long shot and deeply concerned about climate change and financial inequality.

Generations are ideologically divided. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/20/a-wider-par...

https://www.people-press.org/2018/03/01/the-generation-gap-i...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/09/the-politic...

Re: ‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations

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This 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/

October 15 of what year?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ok-boomer identifies it being used on Twitter as early as April 2018, with a surge in popularity in Jan 2019.

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