Knowing history well is sort of a superpower. When you’re well-educated and skeptical, you’re less likely to fall prey to misinformation, weird gossip, and blatant propaganda. However, it’s a bit of a shock when somebody from a younger generation starts lecturing about historical events that you lived through. Inspired by a post on X (formerly Twitter), some members of Generation X took to the eponymous r/GenX subreddit to share the times that younger people told them inaccurate things about historical events. Just because someone’s convinced that something’s true doesn’t make it so! Scroll down to see why overconfidence isn’t a good look when you’ve got your basic facts wrong.
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Gen X precedes Generation Y (aka millennials, born from 1981 to 1996), Generation Z (aka Zoomers, born from 1997 to 2012), and Generation Alpha (born in the early 2010s to the mid-2020s).
Different researchers might suggest slightly different birth year ranges for each generation, so there’s a bit of disagreement here and there. For example, the moderators of the r/GenX subreddit argue that Generation X includes anyone born between 1961 and 1981, which is the broadest perspective on who might fit the bill.
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In 2021, their numbers dropped slightly to around 65.8 million Americans. It’s estimated that there will be around 63.9 million Gen Xers living in the US by 2028.
While it’s easy to assume that older generations ‘had it easy’ when it came to employment and buying property, it’s not all rosy for Generation X.
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How well someone will fare in retirement depends not just on their lifestyle, budgeting, and personal approach to savings and investments but also on the company they work at, along with any relevant pension plans.
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“The shift from defined-benefit pensions to defined-contribution plans left Baby Boomers and Gen X with less time to accumulate savings,” researchers from Morningstar’s Center for Retirement and Policy Studies pointed out that there is a retirement crisis.
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