Millennials didn't kill the 'organization man' after all. Federal data reveals it was the boomers all along

Long before quiet quitting, boomers rejected "working for the man," says UNC sociologist Arne Kalleberg, "which is exactly what’s happening now."...

https://fortune.com/2023/09/02/job-hopping-millennials-boomers-switching-careers-disloyalty-organization-man-bls/

Millennials didn’t kill the ‘organization man’ after all. Federal data reveals it was the boomers all along

The supposedly disloyal millennial really followed in the steps of younger boomers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds.

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Age is apparently a very easy wedge issue to exploit. Rather than baby boomers blaming millenials or millennials blaming baby boomers, people should be complaining at the upper class who exploited baby boomers to the point they had no option but to job hop and the same upper class who guilt trip millenials into not doing it.

Objectively speaking, boomers have caused pretty much everything, though. Corporate leadership, it kind of depends, but most large corps use (or used,) boomer ceos.

Boomers also dominate politics etc, meaning they’ve had a disproportionate impact on current us society…. And a lions share of the blame. This has been true for as long as I’ve been alive, more or less.

Yes but those boomers had CEOs with the same age difference. There’s a correlation with age, but I don’t think there’s a causal link with generation. Like with politics, it’s typically dominated by people that are older - but also people of a certain social class. Different generations feed through but it’s primarily the same class of people dictating things and making things shit for everyone.

Most boomers are just people like everyone else, they’re trying to get by, the only difference is the opportunity afforded to them. They had more opportunity, and it’s the people in charge of their generation that are causing a problem now, but it was the people in charge of the generations before them that caused them problems. The problem isn’t the different generations, it’s the people in charge, regardless of generation.

They dominate politics because they more or less out numbered everyone. Only now that they’re starting to die off are they starting to slip. This is why we’ve been setting records for oldest-everything.

Further, in corporate life, boomers never retired in the way that the silent generation did. They’ve stayed in positions of power far longer than prior generations.

Finally? In politics- which enables most of the corporate douchebaggery- boomers dominate. This is why the civil rights movement happened; their political will had to be followed as they were voting in “their”. And that has continued to day. This wouldn’t be true if your assertion that they’re the same as me is true.

I reject the notion that “most” boomers are “just people”- not because it’s wrong per se, but because they retain that political power. The boomers really are the generation of “got mine, fuck you.” And you see that as a voting bloc when they were gen z’s age pushing for things that benefited that age, and now that they’re old pushing for things that benefit- as a whole- people of that age.

Which is why you see assholes blocking and cutting welfare but not social security, for example.