Hey, Gen Z, are you all lazy? Are millennials entitled and boomers out of touch?


Humans are always looking for ways to separate each other. It’s called tribalism. We feel safer in a group we can call our own. — 123rf.com

We talk a lot these day about different generations. (Well, the Americans do and the world has followed along, as it tends to do with a lot of American culture.) Millennials, Gen Z, the dreaded Gen Alpha, the terrible Baby Boomers, and of course that forgotten generation, Gen X – which includes yours truly.

We’re now living in a world where someone is dismissed as out of touch by being called a Boomer, or is automatically judged as entitled just by being Gen Z, and I’m thinking, do we really need more categories to separate us? OK, I get it, it’s a fun thing I suppose, though maybe it’s not so fun for me since I tend to get lumped into the Boomer category, meaning I’m older than dirt to young people. But more and more we speak about each other using these broad generational categories.

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