Category: Boomers

Fewer and fewer older Americans are working

Fewer and fewer older Americans are working

Nobody talks about why Gen Z’s refusal to overwork triggers boomers so deeply – it’s not laziness they’re seeing, it’s a generation making a choice they never felt they had

Nobody talks about why Gen Z’s refusal to overwork triggers boomers so deeply – it’s not laziness they’re seeing, it’s a generation making a choice they never felt they had

Millions of boomer small business owners will soon retire. Will their companies just disappear? | Gene Marks

Millions of boomer small business owners will soon retire. Will their companies just disappear? | Gene Marks

AI’s Generation Gap, Living Room Families, Gen Z’s Side Hustle, and The United States of Debt

AI’s Generation Gap, Living Room Families, Gen Z’s Side Hustle, and The United States of Debt

Two generations are currently arguing about work ethic when what they’re actually arguing about is whether suffering should be a prerequisite for dignity. One generation believes it is because that was the deal they were offered. The other is trying to renegotiate.

Two generations are currently arguing about work ethic when what they’re actually arguing about is whether suffering should be a prerequisite for dignity. One generation believes it is because that was the deal they were offered. The other is trying to renegotiate.

Most people don’t realize that the boomer work ethic and the millennial rejection of hustle culture are responses to the same wound viewed from opposite ends of a fifty-year economic experiment.

Most people don’t realize that the boomer work ethic and the millennial rejection of hustle culture are responses to the same wound viewed from opposite ends of a fifty-year economic experiment.

Nobody mentions that the Boomers who worked themselves into the ground also had unions, defined-benefit pensions, affordable housing, and single-income households — the ethic was real, but so was the infrastructure underneath it

Nobody mentions that the Boomers who worked themselves into the ground also had unions, defined-benefit pensions, affordable housing, and single-income households — the ethic was real, but so was the infrastructure underneath it

5 Frugal Habits Boomer Americans Never Gave Up — and Why They Work

5 Frugal Habits Boomer Americans Never Gave Up — and Why They Work

Behavioral scientists found that the generation gap between boomers and millennials isn’t actually about values. It’s about emotional dialect. Both generations care deeply about family, loyalty, and hard work, but they express it in languages so different that love from one side registers as control or indifference on the other

Behavioral scientists found that the generation gap between boomers and millennials isn’t actually about values. It’s about emotional dialect. Both generations care deeply about family, loyalty, and hard work, but they express it in languages so different that love from one side registers as control or indifference on the other

Are Generation Z employees truly lazy?

Are Generation Z employees truly lazy?