You're saying that we've reached peak automation?

The four most recent generations all have around 70m people currently (depending on exact years of cutoff). So this is simply false.

I'm not disagreeing with your premise about Boomers. The youngest Baby Boomers (birth year 1946-1964) are in their late 50s, although the oldest have been retirement age for 10 years. It's likely that many had postponed retirement, but health and economic issues have forced them into retirement. On a tangential note, everybody always forgets Gen X. Or, maybe 'Boomer' has become a term for 'someone older than a young adult'?

> health and economic issues have forced them into retirement

For many too, they held on because their job was fun. My neighbor was a shipping container captain… he was eligible for retirement for many years. What finally made him retire was all the rigamarole the pandemic introduced. It stopped being fun.

The same thing happened with a local family-owned Agricultural store near me that’s been around for 70-odd years. Dealing with everything in the past 2 years sucked all the joy out of running the store, so they decided to retire.

>everybody always forgets Gen X.

Isn't that their entire schtick? The New Zealand of generations.

Every single time I hear millennial I think avocado toast. And every time I hear boomer I think of strong perfume.

The words meaning sure hadn't changed, but I imagine the longer its mainstream the more it will morph. Soon we won't be allowed to say it at all, lest we offend somebody with the slur.

It's a generational thing. Just like Gen-Z hates the boomers for exploiting real estate the children of Gen-Z will complain their UBI pays too little because millennials exploited massive tech salaries to automate away burger flipping joints and software development

Re baby boomers;

this seems likely the cause (compounded by the pandemic - people shifting industries, online ordering skyrocketing), unfortunately we still have another 10 years of baby boomers.

Curious to what “Gen Z are much smaller than Boomers” is in reference to. Population size or literally physically? (Which neither is true from what I can tell?)