I work at a nursery/lawn and garden/patio and grill furniture type retail place. A lot of our staff was older people just working there for fun, and while some of them are great some of them have been kinda pissy about certain changes that were made after we changed ownership, to the point some quit or moved to part time over it.
So we had a bunch of teens and 20 somethings move into their roles and there’s been a massive morale boost. There this one 17 year old immigrant kid who can assemble like a half dozen grills a day, a 20-something girl who took over the house plants department and has been doing gangbusters, some 22 year old guy became our delivery truck driver and he’s been totally on point. It’s been a relief for me cuz I’m an assistant manager and we used to get so many complaints about assemblies and deliveries being fucked up but now that these two whipper snappers took over I’ve barely gotten any calls from angry Boomers wondering why there fucking ceramic egg grill didn’t show up on time.
Turns out when you give kids something more stimulating to do than standing at cash register all day they actually can thrive.
I’ve anecdotally noticed that “generation war” bullshit has been increasing on social media.
I genuinely believe it is billionaire-funded “think tanks” astroturfing to redirect anger about billionaires not being taxed into a more vague “the boomers stole your inheritance” thing.
Millennials are being told “you are the smartest generation because you grew up digital native but without the brain rot of Gen-Z.”
Gen X are being told “you’re the last generation that weren’t a bunch of pussies.”
It’s all bullshit designed to make people tribalize against each other instead of seeing the obvious fact that about 10,000 extremely rich people are plundering everything and crashing the economy in the process.
It’s just triangulation done to billions.