You know one thing the Millennials didn't learn from the Boomers?
The surge in crime in the 1960s-80s happened when the massive cohort of Boomers aged into their most violence-prone ages.
Know when the Millennials--almost = to the Boomers in number--hit those ages?
The 2000s.
The surge in crime in the 1960s-80s happened when the massive cohort of Boomers aged into their most violence-prone ages.
Know when the Millennials--almost = to the Boomers in number--hit those ages?
The 2000s.
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1379072654582415362
Yes, there are lots of explanations that tie into cohort-differences. Lead! Abortion! Cell Phones! Video games!
(All surely mattered, but all to a lesser and more complicated and less-well understood than their evangelists would like.)
But it's a major, striking difference.
(All surely mattered, but all to a lesser and more complicated and less-well understood than their evangelists would like.)
But it's a major, striking difference.
The Millennials ate more avocado toast but killed and attacked and robbed a lot fewer people.
Which is why I'm Team Millennial whenever the Boomers lamely try to wage generational warfare.*
Which is why I'm Team Millennial whenever the Boomers lamely try to wage generational warfare.*
* And yes, any sort of "this cohort vs that cohort!" analysis is rife with arbitrary lines that group all sorts of relatively disparate groups together with false commonality.
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