Detect a resurgence of relations between generations that starts to worry me. An absurd confrontation between those who deny young people their ability to promote change, and those who deny the elderly what their experience and temperance can contribute. Both positions they tend to despise or ridicule the other. Expressions like ‘ninis’, old cocks, ‘perroflautas’, ‘ok boomer’ & mldr; All so offensive that they only increase this new form of generational hatred that socially breaks us and it makes us waste talent.
For some reason that I don’t understand many boomers blame the millennial generation of the seven plagues. If they go out they are irresponsible, if they stay at home they only know how to be in front of a screen, if they do not work they are lazy, if they work they only have the right to be precarious because don’t know anything yet & mldr; and so on until boredom. They are not recognized as being the best-trained generation in history, the one that has had the most difficult crises, the one that is already in adulthood and must take over the tasks of this time. No, they are green, they must wait. Boomers have a very long life expectancy and, feeling fully empowered, they simply refuse to give up space.
For its part, many ‘millennials’ enjoy insulting and despise the boomers. For them, anyone who was born before 65, whether they paint gray hair or are not technologically advanced, is useless, has expired, is no longer useful and must be put aside. Millennials are a generation that was born into a democracy, has been trained more than any other and, therefore, wants everything. They want their space, they want power, they want to decide Her future. But after the crises and a very temporary adverse labor market, they cannot. So some, from their arrogance, may have concluded that they have too many people to achieve what they deserve. They live in a contradiction between claiming “young & rdquor; until 40 and feel that they deserve the center of the board long before they reach that age.
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But if one is young until 39 and too old after 56, missing adults. Gen Xers – those of us who were born roughly between 65 and 82 – are in the middle and, it seems, we would be the only adults in the room. To our generation Z children – under 15 – all this makes them laugh, for them those over 30 are not young, “They don’t even know about the weather & rdquor ;, all of the previous ones are loading their planet and their future. It is surprising that, being able to live to be 90, we pretend that adulthood lasts only 16 years of our life. If we are also women and have decided to stop coloring our hair, this could be drastically reduced.
My generation is the one that today occupies the power, the central space, the one that decants an election –Not only because we are the widest strip of the population pyramid, we are also the ones who mobilize the most and the ones who vote the most–, today we decide and, in addition, we are the ones who are going to work the longest (from very young to what Escrivá wants). But this central space should not only reach such a narrow age range.
In the crisis of 2008 the grandmothers’ pensions helped the grandchildren, many children returned to their parents’ home, and we understood that without this intergenerational support we would not have been able to endure. During the COVID crisis, it was the young who helped the elderly. Willingly giving in the beginning of the vaccination queue the oldest, from their precarious but essential jobs, helping their neighbors to keep them protected at home, the children took care of the parents and adolescents were secluded to stop the contagion still being of lower risk. The intergenerational agreement always makes us better.
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Multinationals have already discovered that the diversity of their workforce it is an element of competitiveness. Gender, racial, and generational diverse environments are much richer. But today generational diversity is trading down. It’s stupid. It is unfair that young people are ready for an adult job at 25, but not get it until 35. It is dramatic that those who lose their job after 52 find it almost impossible to get a new one. A large adult population should work together to make the most of your potential, learning to take care of ourselves in a long-lived, diverse and tolerant society.
If adulthood lasts 16 years instead of 45, if each generation plays for save himself who can, crushing those who have excess to occupy the central space, we all lose. It is smarter to learn to share the space without insults or contempt and thus widen it. Allow young people to take responsibility having decent living conditions, recognizing all the creativity and drive they can bring. Respect the space of the elderly, appreciating what their experience and temperance can add. Sharing the space, learning from each other, would allow us to progress better as a society.
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