I'm a late boomer myself (1961) and formerly leftwing. This is also a class thing. The working classes, and the cube classes too, simply refuse to see that the other side is not and will not play fair. It's a couple or three decades past time to use the other side's rules on them.
Gerontocracy is coming to a head thanks to the many in the leadership class of Boomers having been born in a concentrated period of the mid to late 1940s. I'm working on an argument that Elder Millennials (born in the mid 1980s) might be the cohort to displace the Boomer elite. Elder Millennials are just old enough to remember how high functioning the extended 1990s were, but were too young to fully benefit from late-peak US before the 2008 financial crisis hit. Civic mindedness and idealism turned to ruthless pragmatism to get along in this environment. Elder Millennials will have also witnessed Core Millennials divided and conquered by peak wokeness, and will know how to manipulate the later. The primal fear that any success they've accrued could be built on quicksand and easily blown away might make them a little more open to piracy later in life, relative to other demographic cohorts.
Key allies could be Boomers born in the mid 1950s. Too young for Vietnam or crazy hippies, but just old enough that they were torpedoed by early Affirmative Action efforts if seeking government jobs. And the parents of many Elder Millennials.
"...and in most situations will instinctively empathize with your manager or employer instead of you."
Not quit right, Xers tend to be cynical and above it all, this does not mean we will empathize with Boomers at all. Quite the contrary, we hated hippy shitwits before it was cool, we just chose not to engage with them, in order to not become them. If push comes to shove though we will help you gather rope and inviting lamp posts if you actually have a force to topple them. Otherwise piss off from our hermit shacks to your walk up urbanite apartments.
This all seems quite accurate. It really is a shame that some of the Boomers/Silents refuse to voluntarily retire or provide a succession plan, and instead it doesn't happen til they have a stroke and at that point it's rather chaotic. Though after the initial chaos, it turns out that succession was so much easier and quicker than imagined and that actually no one needed them there, lording it over everyone and "transitioning" and overseeing nearly as much as they assumed.
Gen X really just never had the numbers. Right now there is a fairly disastrous situation in virtually all of the professions where people actually do want someone more experienced -- lawyers, accountants, doctors, etc. -- where there was a huge cohort of Boomers and there's a huge cohort of millennials, but only a few stray Gen Xers aged 45 - 60, and all of the sudden the Boomers are just dropping dead or suddenly retiring bc of health reasons, and there simply are not enough Xers and older millennials to fill the slots. There are plenty of younger millennials but they don't have enough experience. There is a huge shortage of senior/experienced people to fill those roles and an excess of junior associates and no one can find an experienced CPA once their Boomer CPA retires after his stroke.
For all the other many professions where grey hair and beards aren't valued, this should be a huge opportunity.
Force...or entrepreneurship. The legacy big corporations are throwing away billions of dollars of branding for the cause of making Blackrock happy. They have pissed off a third to half the country through going woke. Opportunity abounds! Century old business plans can be reused. It's an opportunity on par with the opening of China under Deng.
But some things are even more powerful than money. In our decadence we have forgotten there are other means to power. The Boomers won’t get it, but I think the Zoomers are getting it.
I'm a late boomer myself (1961) and formerly leftwing. This is also a class thing. The working classes, and the cube classes too, simply refuse to see that the other side is not and will not play fair. It's a couple or three decades past time to use the other side's rules on them.
Gerontocracy is coming to a head thanks to the many in the leadership class of Boomers having been born in a concentrated period of the mid to late 1940s. I'm working on an argument that Elder Millennials (born in the mid 1980s) might be the cohort to displace the Boomer elite. Elder Millennials are just old enough to remember how high functioning the extended 1990s were, but were too young to fully benefit from late-peak US before the 2008 financial crisis hit. Civic mindedness and idealism turned to ruthless pragmatism to get along in this environment. Elder Millennials will have also witnessed Core Millennials divided and conquered by peak wokeness, and will know how to manipulate the later. The primal fear that any success they've accrued could be built on quicksand and easily blown away might make them a little more open to piracy later in life, relative to other demographic cohorts.
Key allies could be Boomers born in the mid 1950s. Too young for Vietnam or crazy hippies, but just old enough that they were torpedoed by early Affirmative Action efforts if seeking government jobs. And the parents of many Elder Millennials.
"...and in most situations will instinctively empathize with your manager or employer instead of you."
Not quit right, Xers tend to be cynical and above it all, this does not mean we will empathize with Boomers at all. Quite the contrary, we hated hippy shitwits before it was cool, we just chose not to engage with them, in order to not become them. If push comes to shove though we will help you gather rope and inviting lamp posts if you actually have a force to topple them. Otherwise piss off from our hermit shacks to your walk up urbanite apartments.
This all seems quite accurate. It really is a shame that some of the Boomers/Silents refuse to voluntarily retire or provide a succession plan, and instead it doesn't happen til they have a stroke and at that point it's rather chaotic. Though after the initial chaos, it turns out that succession was so much easier and quicker than imagined and that actually no one needed them there, lording it over everyone and "transitioning" and overseeing nearly as much as they assumed.
Gen X really just never had the numbers. Right now there is a fairly disastrous situation in virtually all of the professions where people actually do want someone more experienced -- lawyers, accountants, doctors, etc. -- where there was a huge cohort of Boomers and there's a huge cohort of millennials, but only a few stray Gen Xers aged 45 - 60, and all of the sudden the Boomers are just dropping dead or suddenly retiring bc of health reasons, and there simply are not enough Xers and older millennials to fill the slots. There are plenty of younger millennials but they don't have enough experience. There is a huge shortage of senior/experienced people to fill those roles and an excess of junior associates and no one can find an experienced CPA once their Boomer CPA retires after his stroke.
For all the other many professions where grey hair and beards aren't valued, this should be a huge opportunity.
Force...or entrepreneurship. The legacy big corporations are throwing away billions of dollars of branding for the cause of making Blackrock happy. They have pissed off a third to half the country through going woke. Opportunity abounds! Century old business plans can be reused. It's an opportunity on par with the opening of China under Deng.
https://rulesforreactionaries.substack.com/p/rule-2-dont-just-boycott-compete
Money is power.
But some things are even more powerful than money. In our decadence we have forgotten there are other means to power. The Boomers won’t get it, but I think the Zoomers are getting it.
Relevant
https://youtu.be/Q3Mr2A7MpYk?si=3Fda2ue3nez_DKOg