Not just Gen X. 5 years or so ago (would likely have been younger millennials or older gen z participants) or so I posted a comment to a thread on Reddit saying that everyone should vote and participate. I was voted down to the negative triple digits with dozens of responses about how voting doesn’t work and is unimportant.
To your point, I’m Xillenial myself and definitely recall that defeatist bullshit when I was in high school.
I also think that older generations who weren’t wealthy just accepted that life sucked and there was nothing they could do to make it better. I believe that Millenials to an extent (depends on age) and pretty much all Gen Z have determined that life sucking isn’t a good thing and they are going to fix it.
Not just Gen X. 5 years or so ago (would likely have been younger millennials or older gen z participants) or so I posted a comment to a thread on Reddit saying that everyone should vote and participate. I was voted down to the negative triple digits with dozens of responses about how voting doesn’t work and is unimportant.
To your point, I’m Xillenial myself and definitely recall that defeatist bullshit when I was in high school.
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I also think that older generations who weren’t wealthy just accepted that life sucked and there was nothing they could do to make it better. I believe that Millenials to an extent (depends on age) and pretty much all Gen Z have determined that life sucking isn’t a good thing and they are going to fix it.