@MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agoGen X is in charge now, and boomers are being shown the doorwww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square207fedilinkarrow-up1810arrow-down144file-text
arrow-up1766arrow-down1external-linkGen X is in charge now, and boomers are being shown the doorwww.businessinsider.com@MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square207fedilinkfile-text
Boomers are having their last dance in charge. Gen X leaders are stepping up to replace the last of them. Younger leaders are taking charge of politics and corporate giants such as Boeing, HSBC, and Costco.
minus-square@PunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink12•5 months agoWarm bodies outnumber the dead, news at 11.
minus-square@pyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•edit-25 months agoyou’d think so, but boomers had it so good they hardly ever die. the amount of stress they left the newer generations while not giving a fuck themselves made them likely to outlast some millennials let alone xers.
minus-square@Akasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilink2•5 months agoI’ll take your comment at face value and see it as a comment on the theory that ‘there’s more people alive today than have ever lived’. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-living-outnumber-dead/ However that seems not to be true. The dead are more numerous. However they are unlikely to vote (unless the republicans find a way).
minus-square@PunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•5 months agoI do appreciate this clarification. Granted it wasn’t my intent, as I was more focused on modern history. But hey, learn something new every day!
minus-square@Akasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilink2•5 months agoNo I didn’t read that in your comment, but found it too interesting a tidbit not to share !
minus-square@CulturedLout@lemmy.calinkfedilink1•5 months agohttps://youtu.be/y2dFN_UVmBg?si=OKcxwIdLM0OVCL2C&t=3m20s
Warm bodies outnumber the dead, news at 11.
you’d think so, but boomers had it so good they hardly ever die. the amount of stress they left the newer generations while not giving a fuck themselves made them likely to outlast some millennials let alone xers.
I’ll take your comment at face value and see it as a comment on the theory that ‘there’s more people alive today than have ever lived’.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-living-outnumber-dead/
However that seems not to be true. The dead are more numerous. However they are unlikely to vote (unless the republicans find a way).
I do appreciate this clarification. Granted it wasn’t my intent, as I was more focused on modern history.
But hey, learn something new every day!
No I didn’t read that in your comment, but found it too interesting a tidbit not to share !
https://youtu.be/y2dFN_UVmBg?si=OKcxwIdLM0OVCL2C&t=3m20s