Generation X isn't doing so well

Why has Gen-X failed to become as successful as the Baby Boomers, Sup Forums? The oldest X'ers are 51, but have nowhere near the power that Boomers did in 1996 when THEY turned 51.

Gen-X also suffers from higher rates of homelessness, heroin addiction, and crime than the Boomers did at the same age. The "prime crime" years are considered 14 to 34 or so, but many Gen-X'ers in their 40's continue to get into trouble with the law, long after they should have pulled their lives together.

To make matters worse, top Gen-X leaders and politicians like Paul Ryan are mostly Boomer bootlickers. Look at any "budget plan" by a Gen-X politician - they all want to slash benefits for their own generation and below in order to keep the Boomer gravy trains running.

Why is this? While there are INDIVIDUAL success stories within Gen-X, the generation as a whole is increasingly looking like a failure.

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Boomers were that bad.

Boomers were and are horrible in many ways. But Gen-X seems to be quitting the game altogether. They're not even "in the fight" anymore - large numbers of them are simply giving up via self-destruction.

That's pathetic, to be honest.

They grew up during the 70s & tons of conflict, the same for millennials

> They failed
ftfy

no its not pathetic its culture marxism

Gen X here Nobody ever gave me anything. I worked for everything I got,which isn't much.

I got 62k in my 401k,probably 1500/ month pension plan,and 50k equity in my house. High school grad. I guess it could be worse,but I can't complain.

22$/hr Union job,work as much as I want.

It's pathetic to give up on life and turn to heroin or meth instead of doing something more productive.

How old ? Only 62k saved up is pathetic bro, did you start working late?

Because the boomers were a shit generation that started the divorce epidemic and raised a bunch of single-parent children.

Lol Jesus Christ

Gen X failed primarily as parents

gen x here, ama because why not

They didn't make enough of us. Then half of them got divorced when it became fashionable and fucked up our families.

Now we have to help one or the other or both of our aging parents and we are all busy trying to save up for a retirement that increasingly looks like it will have to happen without all the money we paid into Social Security and then make it twice as hard if we have kids of our own.

Also, the boomers are benefitting from medical advancements and are holding onto power longer. You guys will run into that with us, btw.

All that said,we know that everybody has some kinda' sob story, so we don't let self-pity stop us. We're out here running our own shit and as our folks (Boomers) die off, we'll take the reigns and get some shit done.

Patience, young un'. You'll get your chance.

Gen X blamed all their failings on the boomers, while generally doing the same things.

The Millennials and the Gen Z faggots aren't much better.

Age?
Ready for retirement?
What do you think of Jews?

How much you got,boy? I got a fucking $50 Seiko watch when I graduated HS at 18 and kicked out.

I'm doing fine.

if you think x is bad, just wait until igeneration comes of age to be kicked from parents house

>White on White Crime#22 Another Cop Killed, As Usual By a White Man
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Gen X was raised by television to the point where it was the goal to be a burnout do-nothing loser. A forgotten generation who was their own undoing.

But hey, at least they're not millenials who are characterized by being a bunch of whiny pussy faggots.

How much did you hate disco?

Gen X raised the millenials to be a bunch of pussy faggots.

Well you'd think someone working sincev18 would at least have saved up at least 100k after working 20+ years.....

So what will the pussy faggots raise? Or will the government raise their generation for them?

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Not really, I like to work. Financially almost ready.
Most Jews I've dealt with have been fine. Only one was a crook.

They had the full expectation of boomer wealth & entitlement and didn't have the cynicism of realizing it wasn't going to work out that way. As a result most were brainwashed into thinking everything would be fine without even trying.

They were also on the cusp of change and exposed to degeneracy at its "coolest" in the form of nihilism and drug abuse when it was still chic, from their teens to 20s. They didn't grow up seeing it phase out.

They didn't stand a chance.

>being a whiny pussy faggot in his 20s
>still blaming his parents

Not to mention by depending on your definition a lot, if not the majority, of millenials were raised by boomers.

Pretty much this. Too concerned about their own leisure and didn't put in the hard work parenting. I've seen it dozens of times.

Millenials had helicopter parents, which were bad in the other direction and didn't allow kids to become self-sufficient.

Right when Steve Dahl blew up those records is when I became aware of music, so I hated disco for a long time.

Lately I've been fine with it. Happy, low-stress dance tunes are good.

Because they were raised by the Baby Boomers.
Same logic applies to millennials/Generation X.

Least you got a watch and somewhere to stay until you finished HS, my fat fucking boomer mother kicked me out on the street 3 months before graduation, because I wouldnt walk 3 miles to the store to get that fat fucking cunt a chocolate bar and scratch tickets.

FPBP. Boomers completely ruined everything. All the wealth and power the West had accumulated over the centuries shat away in a single generation by a bunch of entitled simpletons deceived by the Jew. Fuck I can't wait until the boomers are dead.

Listen up faggot,I got 62k in my 401 and 50k equity in my house. Do you even math,faggot?

That's 112k

Thank god for Kiss Arrowsmith and Foghat.

>62k
I'm sorry lad.
The glob insists really fucked you over when they changed the immigration laws in1970 and tripled the work force. You should be making $50-60 an hour

we just sat at home in our pyjamas eating cornflakes and 'membering old times

Life's a bitch son.You need to lead,follow,or get out of the way. Only the strong survive.

i'm gen-x, i'm doing great, most of my peers are too, i think things may be worse back east, in the shitty cities and states, missouri eastward

though i will say, i'll always hate the hippies

I know, right?
>112k
I know that sounds like a lot but....
Something like this. We were born just in time to experience the aftermath of the boomers' Sexual Revolution. Yay, divorce!

Cold hard truth for sure, I managed to stay out of trouble and make something of myself and buy a house.

I do. Pension 401k Health insurance.

I did ok. Because I was on parole when O got the fucking job,for dumb shit I did when 19.

It gets worse every generation. Break up of the Union in 2 more generations, just in time for greater Israel

If anybody is really Gen X here,write a code we put on all the first computers that came out. The display models on the store floor.

what

I could write a program in BASIC that would repeat whatever.

Had a Commodore PC hooked up to a TV with an old flat wire to cable adapter if that means anything to you.

Don't totally remember,but it was something like

[10] print "fuck you"
[20] go to 10

I have a c64 in my closer.

neat, they're actually worth something nowadays iirc.

My parents got me one hoping I would become some kind of computer expert. They were really disappointed when all I'd do on it was play games. At least I got something out of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VICE

Fugg, my knowledge of BASIC from the days of the Apple IIE are long gone. I just know there was always a GOTO involved to keep that shit looping like a mofo.

The best game I ever played on a C64 was some kind of Bruce Lee Kung Fu game,besides Blue Max.

not the same as loading cassette tapes and waiting.

yeah, i had the cassette too, and the vic-20, after i grew up i bought a c64 and the 1541 disk drive, hot shit

not a complete failure

they did give birth to Generation Zyklon

Generation X, Y, and Z have all been fucked by boomers. They sold out all of their countries to globalists in exchange for lavish retirements at our expense. We're going to be stuck with the consequences of their stupid decisions for at least another 50 years or so. That's assuming, of course, we actually avoid WW3 and don't all die in a sea of nuclear fire.

>They sold out all of their countries to globalists
>Z

What? The oldest gen Z are 16 years old and they look increasingly more based by the year (compared to X and boomers that is)

You ever just blown away by a smartphone?

Every once in a while I'll look at mine and be amazed. Like, holy shit, 30 years ago rotary phones were still everywhere and if someone told me that the day would come that I could hold a cheap supercomputer in the palm of my hand I wouldn't have believed.

I used to work at Radio Shack, I remember selling 40mb hard drives for like $800.

10 PRINT "Gas the kikes."
20 PRINT "Race war now."
30 GOTO 10

You can all fuck off. Gen x is the only reason any of you are are read pilled. It was us that woke up first. We snapped the rest of you out of your slumber.

>tfw your parents actually love you
>tfw you're free to work and save up money at your leisure before moving out
>tfw knowing even if you lost your job and became a NEET your parents could easily take care of you for the rest of your life
>tfw life on easy mode yet somehow not spoiled and unwilling to purposefully let parents down
>tfw barely anyone in the world seems to know this feel
>tfw growing up and literally everyone you know has something wrong in their lives either at home or in the mind

Why is the world so fucked up for everyone, bros? I know I couldn't possibly even begin to sympathize, but I hope those of you in this thread who are forced to experience hardship overcome it someday, I really do.

They'll be even worse off than X and Y.

Yeah I had some spider game that took 20 minutes,then it sucked ass. It all evolved though. I'll never forget when I got the Turbograpix-16 and was blown away.

The boomers played a zero sum game.

If you dropped out of the vagina after that you're basically fucked unless you
Have (((connections)))

Boomers alone are what has destroyed western civilisation. They broke its knees so they could live like spoilt children forever.

And now they have the nerve to demand respect for the elderly like their parents WW2 survivors. It's the single most disgusting, short-sighted, me me me generation that has ever EVER existed.

They literally sucked the blood out of half of the world and have left only economic stagnation behind.

The only true industry growth in the last 20 years has been by a handful of savvy Gen Xers and Gen Y's. The rest are all
just creative management/bookkeeping or boomer gravyvtrain.

Yeah its crazy, man...I look at my phone with its gigs and gigs of music on it, and remember how shitty it was to always be dickin around with mixtape cassettes and batteries for my fuckin walkman.

Best game is neuromancer. it's like inception but funny

My nigga.

No fucking idea. The only remotely 'computery' thing I did was figure out how to change the names and prize money in my Spectrum horse racing game.

I don't know what you are talking about,but I did have Pong in 1975.

>batteries
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Batteries used to fucking suck so hard. 1st gen rechargeables were a joke, and pre-lithium batteries were practically useless.

I know your feel user. We are the rare breed whose parents didn't get fucked over hardcore, fuck each other over, and/or still have a sense of decency and morals.

We came out the better for it and the only things we can do is try and keep that standard up, and help those who need it.

yep, keep projecting the failures of your life onto an entire group of people.

If you want to do a nice, white-person job of it:
10 TEXT : FLASH
20 HOME : VTAB 10: HTAB 13: PRINT "GAS THE KIKES"
30 VTAB 12: HTAB 13: PRINT "RACE WAR NOW!"
39 REM PLACEHOLDER
40 GOTO 39

Some are, but look at the broader trends. Where are all the Gen-X'ers who are standing up and telling the Boomers to fuck off with their entitlements and other unaffordable expenses?

We mostly just see the opposite from Gen-X.

The Boomers had WILLPOWER. They used it toward shitty ends, but they didn't just allow their elders to boss them around. They shoved their elders out of the way and did what they wanted.

Gen-X seems content to bear the Boomer yoke well into its own middle-age. Why? You guys need to REVOLT. Cast the Boomers out of power. Stop obeying them.

Ok then.How much $ did you make at Atari?

What do you want us to say. I had an Amiga with the classic Shadow of The Beast game that was ahead for its time because of paralax scrolling.

Same here. Got decent parents, have decent kids, living a nice life in the posh suburbs. It's all really quite pleasant and not very difficult. I hope some of the disillusioned amongst us eventualy get this feel of genuine cozy living.

I tell them to duck off everyday. They are dropping like flies but it doesn't matter. The death tax will put all their money towards gibs,unless you vote Trump.

Lazer Squad and Syndicate Wars were the best Amiga games imo

The struggle was real man, haha....those shitty 1st gens rechargeables had something like a 100 recharge cycle on them before they crapped out...regular disposables were fucking expensive!

Who's the lady in the pic?

Because their parents were boomers. The greatest generation gave their kids a virtual paradise. The boomers gave their kids the wrapper.

Gen-x is all the worst parts of the boomer counter-culture with none of the inherited success.

>Gen-X seems content to bear the Boomer yoke well into its own middle-age. Why?

Gen X'rs are a tiny group who are also the lowest reproducing generation in all of US history.

We were born in the middle of boomer bullshit—early Boomers were the shitty 60s and 70s hippies, late Boomers became the fucking yuppies of the 80s.

We’re basically irrelevant, hence having almost no impact on politics.

Boomers stuck it hard to every generation who followed, for fuckssakes BOTH current presidential candidates are still Boomers. And the next few will likely be as well.
Obama? Boomer.
George W. Bush? Boomer.
Bill Clinton? Boomer.
George HW Bush? Greatest Generation.
Ronald Reagan? Greatest Generation.
Jimmy Carter? Greatest Generation.
Gerald Ford? Greatest Generation.
Richard Nixon? Greatest Generation.
Lyndon Johnson? Greatest Generation.
John F. Kennedy? Greatest Generation.

The Greatest Generation birthed the Boomers who birthed the Millennials.

Gen X is stuck in the middle, and greatly outnumbered in both directions. Millennials are quickly becoming as bad as their parents with their cancerous SJW bullshit: purple hair, slutwalks, safe spaces, 37 genders, dog fucker rights, pedo rights, white people are ebil raciss, etc.

Lemmings and Turrican as well was based.

I really believe Boomers are easy. My Dad bought his house for 115k in 1999 and its worth nearly 400k. They simply cannot grasp how hard it is for anyone else to get in the housing ladder.

Fuck most of them could leave school with sweet fuck all and get an apprenticeship. Seems like you need a degree just to get a job scrubbing toilets now a days.

So wait who did Gen X birth again? And why did they move the goalpoasts so much. Back when I was a nipper gen x ended in 1966 and now it starts in 1970.

They are the product of the Baby Boomers.

Gen-X goes from 1965 to 1982 or so. Some say 1985.

>Millennials are quickly becoming as bad as their parents with their cancerous SJW bullshit: purple hair, slutwalks, safe spaces, 37 genders, dog fucker rights, pedo rights, white people are ebil raciss, etc.

Gen Y will never be as bad as boomers. There are retarded leftists among them but there is also a large conservative movement among them as well. Boomers dropped acid, had sex in parks, advocated for rampant socialism and "diversity", and it all went unopposed. Gen Y has at least partially woken up to this BS and there's growing amounts of them who call it out for what it is.

>it's a Gen X fag shifts the dates to avoid taking blame episode.

You faggots are always going on about the boomers, but what did you do?

>That Face
JUST

I wrote Fortran on an IBM 360

>they look increasingly more based by the year

they're a bunch of faggots who believe in 31 genders.

Gen X were apathetic, blue-pilled fucks.

10 cls
11 print "fuck you."
20 print "kill all fucking boomers";
30 goto 20

Gen X is too cynical for its own good.
They knew tha system is rigged but instead of fighthing to tear it down they just accepted their fate.

Defeatism took over.
Like the kind of guy thay says hey why vote and why MAGA if Trump has mo chance and shuts himself from the system.
Even the millenials are doing more to change the world, unfortunately for worse though.

Seriously Sup Forums? Who do you think is leaking, hacking, and working behind their latchkeys? Do you think Assange is a Boomer? Or Trey Gowdy? Or Sup Forums - the next gen of GenX irc?

>There are retarded leftists among them but there is also a large conservative movement among them as well.

It's insignificant. Millennials are easily manipulated by SJW appeals to emotion.

>Well you'd think someone working sincev18 would at least have saved up at least 100k after working 20+ years.....

Well, you're thinking wrong, little boy. If you want to have some semblance of a normal life and not living every moment like a penny pinching kike.

Generation X is the one that's most into cuck porn. Chances are if you read the comment section of Pornhub, there is X generation complementing how black men are superior to white men.

They didn't have war-spoils to mooch on nor unquestioning allies to call on, effectively the fall of the soviets ended a large part of the privileges on which american succes gloated.
And every recession more and more of that myth or dream sustaining prvilege is lost and they end up back where they started: a mildly interesting place just along the fringes of the civilised world.
Maybe one day those cosmically improbable odds that once allowed you your 5 minutes of fame will occur again.
But let's be realistic: probably not gonna happen.

>So wait who did Gen X birth again?

I can't speak for everyone, but my kids and most of my friends' are all Gen Z. Most of us wanted to have them earlier, but didn't feel financially secure enough until our 30s.

>Back when I was a nipper gen x ended in 1966 and now it starts in 1970.

Gen X never ended in 1966, it starts there. For some reason, it's a short generation--15-16 years, while the Greatest generation is a long one lasting 25 years.