Every Gen Xer I've ever met are the most apathetic people in the world. They do not give a single shit about what happens outside of their immediate vicinity, no matter what it is. The youngest ones are all middle aged now so they do the "when you get older you'll get more conservative" shtick to millennials and zoomers too.
And the message is never just "you don't need a corporate career to be happy." It's always "you can only be happy by following your extremely individualistic dream, which will be fulfilled in an explicitly self-serving manner."
Like how this logic blew up in their kids faces and suddenly they were like “actually just white knuckle your way through a STEM degree and get and IT job, you can do your artsy shit on the weekends”.
And now their kids are in their mid-20s and thinking "Wait, wasn't I supposed to get weekends off?"