Why did Generation X fail, Jow Forums?

While some individual X'ers have succeeded, on the whole, they are poorer and unhealthier than the Boomers were at the same age (in 1998). Their rates of things like suicide, drug-abuse, and homelessness are all higher. And worst of all, they failed to take power from the Boomers, and we are still living under the same Boomerocracy that began in the 1980's. What went wrong?

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while I bask in my house, maybe go polish my motorcycle collection in the attached 3 car garage. hell, I might even go bang my wife in your honor.

sorry you failed. haha not really. eat a dick kid

Boomers. They ruined all our lives.

Nonresponsive. I notice that X'ers also aren't too good at things like argumentation and logic. They have the same tendency the Boomers have to confuse the personal with the general.

I just don't care about your failure. have mommy make you some tendies

Nonresponsive. I'll try to educate you a bit, though, since I'm a charitable guy. You see, a GENERAL claim is one which applies to a large group, rather than to an individual component within that group. If I were to say that "Pygmies are generally short," this claim is valid even if we find several tall pygmies, since the claim represents a sort of distribution curve in which tall pygmies are outliers (an "outlier" being a member of a group with atypical characteristics for that group).

Now, I am speaking in the general mode. However, all of your responses are written as though I were speaking in the specific mode, addressing you as an individual member of a larger cohort. This is wrong; I am not. I hope this has been edifying for you. I can educate you on other such matters as well, if necessary.

China, India, and Mexico started developing and Europe recovered from WW2 while the gen Xers entered the workforce. This is when outsourcing occurred and led to fewer jobs and lower wages for Americans. Keep in mind that America was the only real economy immediately following WW2 (Europe was in ruins). It has nothing to do with "boomers fucking up the economy."

nobody cares kid. go make something of yourself. quit living in moms house or the pathetic 1 bedroom apt your kind seem to infest

user, I have a stack of Omni magazines that would disagree with you.

on second though, keep doing that, my buddy rents them to you scumbags and makes bank

Gen x was kinda meh. They grew up when the societal programming of nihilism and carte blanche drug use, and no internet. They're not stupid but they're not particularly bright either. They have some interesting insight, and do some things better than us. Like being sociable enough to throw a random party, or go drinking whenever.they pull more pussy than the average millennial that's for sure, because they have experience with it, because porn was something you had to go out and buy, lol

kys boomer scum

The X'ers were in their working years during the 1990's internet boom, though. Even if things tightened up later on, they should have gotten fairly rich from that era by itself. What did they do with all that wealth? How did they lose it?

lose it? kid, I can retire right now if I wanted to. you just suck. change that

Boomers are our misfortune.

Well for one thing there was a HUGE cultural push to encourage young people to take drugs, drink, smoke, drop out, 'live for the moment', disregard 'boring' stuff like securing a good future etc, it was a relentless media / cultural campaign sold to us by the 60s generation, you don't really see it that way at the time because young people are generally gullible, lacking in life experience, but looking back on it as an adult, yeah it was a sustained campaign of propaganda & lies really.

I just had a terrible thought...
What happens when gen-x'ers get old?

MTV is what happened. That and gen x is a bunch of cock suckers.

>nihilism
yeah that's the word, what a shitty concept to sell to teenagers

we chill out around a campfire, drink some beer. guess you faggots have to make your own way. like everyone else

The impotent fat retard you're arguing with does not represent genXers at all. We're the original nerds, autists, outcasts. We listened to Cure, Echo and The Smiths when Madonna, Wham and some shit called Kajagoogoo were pushing the kike agenda.
We're like you, only older. The world belongs to you now, just remember that your generation will be shat upon one day.

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The oldest ones are already 53, so it's not far-off that they will become actual senior citizens. A dozen years, in fact.

another loser spotted

How small is this guy’s dick? And how broke do u think he really is anons? Also do not not give me a (you) just get off my board.

Gen X’rs are worse off than milenials. Milenial masterrace and gen Zyklon will fix this shitheap left by boomers and gen x.

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pathetic. when you finish puberty, you might be able to make something of yourself

>shitheap left by boomers and gen x.
implying that gen X ever had any power to screw anything up for anyone other than themselves

>argumentation
You funny man. You make up funny word.

GenX saw the world and thought "yeah, fuck that shit."

argumentation though. Ha!! Funny.

TFW gen z will admonish you for not starting the race war sooner.

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That answer to what went wrong is nothing. You're just a fucking loser neckbeard faggot. Don't worry. The Chads are in control pussy.

It's almost as though they're less successful precisely because the Boomers so stubbornly cling to their positions instead of passing the torch

I'm sorry for you, lil one parent kid

they're hopeless cynics who criticize everyone but are forgiving with themselves

they didnt.

Yeah going back to my earlier point that x-er's aren't too bright, one of the reasons is that they aren't very big picture. They don't see larger problems, only what exists inside their circles. To be fair you didn't have deal with white genocide.. you grew up in a mostly white community, and had white friends, white girlfriends, etc, it wasn't obvious to you as it was what you knew. Sure you had a few beaners, but now there's 40x more than before. You were able to work a shitty job at McDonald's, afford rent and food, and still have enough leftover to go on dope benders every weekend. If you work a min wage job here(just out of highschool as an example) you would have to live three McDonald's workers to a single apartment and that's eating ramen noodles. You felt the beginning effects of globalism, but we're suffering in it. And this "just fix your shit bro" attitude is the same as the boomer "pull yourself up by the bootstraps". It's wholly inefficient and betrays your small picture view of the world, and no I'm not purposely being derisive.

Because we looked up to the hippies for guidance. We were aimless in a way because we didn't have a cold war to fight or a great recession to hold us back. We just never found a purpose because there was no real turmoil or conflict. In the US, anyway.

Also, we're called the prince Charles generation because we got overlooked. We had a moment in the 90s, but after the WTC demo shock wore off it was all about gen Y, soon renamed the millennials. Boomers and millennials are both much larger demographs who out number us by millions. When the state is run by votes and buying power that really puts us at a huge disadvantage.

layne staley was a junkie faggot

Another Gen-Xer here. Can confirm

>Gen X’rs are worse off than milenial
Many of us bought our first house right before the great recession and then lost our job just as our mortgages went underwater. And had to struggle to change careers because the work we specialized in was outsourced by boomers. At the same time we had to complete with younger millennials who were fresh out of college with the same amount of experience in the new work environment that we had.

While millennials did get fucked right out of college, xers got screwed by boomers all the same.

But we did create Google..... Oh dear lord what have we done???

And another thing, we were actually literally told that liberal arts was a valuable college degree by guidance counselors.

This. Gen X woke up too late to save themselves. Now the last of Gen X are the ones waking up the younger generations. The lost generation may be the one that saves us when its all said and done

Early Millenial here (1982) and it feels the same to me. It seemed like the Boomers wanted all young people to turn into James Dean (their ideal) but without having the structuring environment to say "no, not really" like they had.

Double this. But, add what another user added to this. Just as were getting into the game solid, the dot com crash. Recover and smack in to the 9/11 recession. Get over that, and get flattened by the 08/09 crash. And, we were pretty cynical fucks before all of that. Now? I'm __ close to full nihilism. Even thought I actually am successful.

What do you call Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Macron.

There aren't many of us and we are only just starting to get into power (Boomers) so give it a bit will you.

I dominated my boomer parents. But it was not that hard, they were good people and I would sell your soul to the devil for a buck.

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HAHAHAHA go eat your tendies

Very true. Money can't buy the kind society and monuments of a civilization that the sons and daughters of Europe deserve but have been denied. We can only take solace in trying to create it for those that come after us

Hmmm. That's one of the things that struck me when I saw the movie "Clerks" a few months ago - the main character being able to afford a place of his own on the salary of a part-time slacker convenience store clerk. If you tried that nowadays, you'd have to live in an outright ghetto.

half the Xers were wiped out due to aids, Xers obsession of frequent casual sex with multiple partners was their downfall.

basically they hit me so much that I had no fear of anybody at all, and eventually I decided that living in their basement was better then living in prison, which is the inevitable result of me exposing myself to the outside world for any appreciable amount of time.
Oh and also, they tested a bunch of shit on me.
Here's one of the things I was on before they started that regiment: Dexedrine, 70ml at breakfast lunch and dinner.
I used to go to the hardware store and take drawer handles and fuse them ting ether with duct tape and beat the shit out of my classmates, I mean mutilate them, 30+ years later you can see the shit that I did to them.
And that's not even fucking close to the shit that I actually got in trouble for.
That's gen x we were out of hand. Cities literally bought helicopters because of shit that we did as individuals.

We got turbo fucked, plus we were the first latch key kids. They didn't even give us kid's car seats. I have many many dead friends. anyone who thinks these are decadent times didn't grow up in the nineties though. I'm on the perfect timeline user

> Gen X saw the world and said "Yeah, fuck that shit".

This. To quote a famous movie from our childhood:

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

yes.
don't have kids the planet doesn't need more children (especially your white kids.) that was the message I got from those times.