It's wonderful to see more class discourse come to the fore. Long may it continue.
"The most advantaged individuals born around 1980, for example, have accumulated housing wealth at an even faster rate than their wealthy predecessors. But for the most disadvantaged, the opposite trend is true. Privileged members of younger generations are doing better than ever; they are insulated from the woes of their peers. But the worst off are doing worse."
Then you'll probably be happy to know that there's a growing number of statisticians changing how they gather and report on data in generational cohorts entirely, precisely because it's a metric that often hinders more than it helps.
Pew Research Center, for instance, is reframing key research around decade or age during a major historical event, whenever more appropriate. More room for nuance in the findings that way!
We have so much more that binds us.
@MLClark so much!!!
@MLClark it’s an easy lift for my black and brown students to see the artifice of these divisions and how it serves to uphold class divisions
@MLClark I’ve had really good luck discussing ageism with highschool students by pointing out the way it divides us. I thought maybe that we experience agism twice, old and young would work, but nope. What captured them was a story about my 80 yr old mom agreed with them, but how marketing/capitalism, seeks to divide us.