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Re:Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity by jibal on Sunday August 17, 2025 @07:08AM (#44930750)
The boomers have retired.
Re:Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity by mr_toad on Sunday August 17, 2025 @07:13AM (#44930777)
Gen X usually gets lumped in with boomers because they’re basically invisible. But Gen X DGAF either way.
Re:Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity by jibal on Sunday August 17, 2025 @08:55AM (#44931249)
That makes no sense and isn't relevant.
Re:Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity by forgotoldacc on Sunday August 17, 2025 @09:53AM (#44931555)
Boomer is now used to refer to a mindset and not just a generation.

Gen X very much became the boomers they hated. Half of the millennials I've known for years have become identical to the boomers they complained about 10 years ago. The millennials I know complain about zoomers being lazy and not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and using strange lingo and being addicted to things their generation wouldn't have tolerated. And they things they like suck but the thing millennials liked were "good".

Basically, boomer is anyone older than you and acts like a grumpy or entitled old person. Zoomer is anyone younger than you who makes you uncomfortable with your age.

Re:Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity by cootsnuck on Sunday August 17, 2025 @12:04PM (#44932578)
I'm a millennial and I think you summed it up pretty well.
Re:Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity by jibal on Sunday August 17, 2025 @08:04PM (#44936035)
The ironic thing is that boomers--the generation that threw off dress codes and produced the anti-war, civil rights, environmental, women's, and LBGT+ movements didn't have that mindset, but their parents and grandparents did.
Re:Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity by HSO on Sunday August 17, 2025 @07:13AM (#44930775)
are retiring

lots of phenomena that get incessantly overtheorized and misattributed these days can be simply explained by this

Re:Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity by jibal on Sunday August 17, 2025 @08:54AM (#44931244)
50-60% have retired. The rest soon will. In any case the claim I responded to is absurd.

Your second line is a non sequitur.