At a retail business based in New York, managers were distressed to encounter young employees who wanted paid time off when coping with anxiety or period cramps. At a supplement company, a Gen Z worker questioned why she would be expected to clock in for a standard eight-hour day when she might get through her to-do list by the afternoon. At a biotech venture, entry-level staff members delegated tasks to the founder. And spanning sectors and start-ups, the youngest members of the work force have demanded what they see as a long overdue shift away from corporate neutrality toward a more open expression of values, whether through executives displaying their pronouns on Slack or putting out statements in support of the protests for Black Lives Matter.
Boomers are like the only actual generation that exists as a discrete phenomenon that can be observed and measured. Everything else is bullshit.
boomers are a creation that began with the boomer generation but whose specific type of brainworms will carry forward into the future for a long time. it's like a new strain of the same old settler-colonialist brainworms, and it will be around as long as the system that incentivizes those beliefs is still in power.