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Re:The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials by DebtDeflation on Monday August 26, 2019 @02:29PM (#20802404)
The millennial age cohort is defined arbitrarily. Why 1981-1997 and not 1980-1996 or 1982-1998 or perhaps a range that's narrower by a few years?
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Re:The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials by joenot443 on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:46PM (#20803583)
"The Pew Research Center defines millennials as born from 1981 to 1996, choosing these dates for "key political, economic and social factors", including the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Great Recession, and the Internet explosion.[36]"

I wouldn't say it's arbitrary. People who've spent their lives studying the sociology of generations came up with those ranges.

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Re:The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials by FreakLegion on Monday August 26, 2019 @07:40PM (#20804826)
It's arbitrary in the sense that it's not grounded in anything objective or measurable. This is an old historiographical problem you can find argued about at length under the heading 'periodization'.
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