Oddly enough, in the majority of these articles (and related discussions), I don't see much mention of Gen X. It's like nobody was born between the late 60s and early 80s.
This might be a bit optimistic. Boomers have been arriving early and overstaying their welcome in any and every situation for the entirety of their existence. With our luck, the great biotech transition will take place just in time for us to be stuck with them forever.
If your essential argument is that Millennials have not succeeded in life because they have not worked hard enough, the very last thing you want to do is call attention to Gen X, who has worked hard for decades already, and is still living paycheck to paycheck.
Maybe every other generation should be called the Forgotten Generation. I suppose we should be grateful we didn't have a Forgotten War to go along with it.
Ummm.... ISTM we've had at least three wars (Gulf I, II, Afghanistan, with fair arguments to include other conflicts as well), and at least one comment seems to have forgotten...
Using the '62-'80 (inclusive) definition the very youngest Gen X'ers was 20 on 9/11, and the oldest was 39. The bulk of the people that ended up fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq were millennials. Admittedly you get a somewhat different result if you use the 1985 endpoint.
The first gulf war was definitely our war, but it wasn't much of one. Total US causalities of less than 1,200 (KIA + WIA). The Korean War had more than 125,000, WWII more than 1M, Vietnam 210k, Afghanistan + Iraq more than 55k.
I don't think the Gulf War shaped our generation in the same way that those other wars shaped their generations. YMMV.
Since my brother has always considered himself Gen-X I never realized that the cutoff could be considered that early. I would expect a generation to be twenty years long at least. Keep in mind that many officers and noncoms (and enlisted, for that matter) are older than 20yo.
