> In the early 1990s, Slacker was widely considered an accurate depiction of Generation X because the film's young adult characters are more interested in quasi-intellectual pastimes and socializing than career advancement.
Millennials and later were brought up in the brainwashing "No Kids Left Behind" era[1] where they were told they had to excel in order to meet artificial standards, and were told they had to go into debt through college education in order to have a decent career, while the old people jacked up college tuition and refused to keep minimum wage up to where it effectively was when they were young.
Of course Millennials are more focused then we were - we had it easy by comparison.
([1] This is an Australian publication, while I speak from the US experience. Thatcherism, Reaganism, "economic rationalism", Rogernomics, whatever - it's all part of the neo-liberalism philosophy that benefits old and rich people and cuts the legs off young people while laughing at them.)
But since I'm Gen X, I'm used to people ignoring us so, like, whatever.
> In the early 1990s, Slacker was widely considered an accurate depiction of Generation X because the film's young adult characters are more interested in quasi-intellectual pastimes and socializing than career advancement.
Millennials and later were brought up in the brainwashing "No Kids Left Behind" era[1] where they were told they had to excel in order to meet artificial standards, and were told they had to go into debt through college education in order to have a decent career, while the old people jacked up college tuition and refused to keep minimum wage up to where it effectively was when they were young.
Of course Millennials are more focused then we were - we had it easy by comparison.
([1] This is an Australian publication, while I speak from the US experience. Thatcherism, Reaganism, "economic rationalism", Rogernomics, whatever - it's all part of the neo-liberalism philosophy that benefits old and rich people and cuts the legs off young people while laughing at them.)
But since I'm Gen X, I'm used to people ignoring us so, like, whatever.