Dividing us all alongside generational strains is compelling, however difficult
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Generations
Jean M. Twenge (Simon & Schuster)
ZOOMERS are anxious and attuned to injustice. Millennials are self-obsessed and dangerous with cash. Child boomers broke the world. As for Technology X, who even remembers them?
These labels are as acquainted as an outdated pair of denims – no matter whether or not they match. Despite the fact that we’re frequently cautioned in opposition to such considering, reminded that it’s reductive, divisive and sometimes primarily based on patchy proof, generational traits appear too handy a shorthand to surrender. …