10-27-2020, 03:33 PM
(10-22-2020, 12:47 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(10-21-2020, 02:29 PM)jleagans Wrote: Gen z has to include folks being born now as we are indisputably still in the 4T
Early-wave Missionaries were born in the Civil War years (including 1860, which had the first skirmishes in Bloody Kansas). Children born in 1943, 1944, and 1945 are in the Boom Generation even if they arrived in small numbers (the huge number of children of the Boom Generation started to be born in 1946.
I see the COVID-19 plague defining the Homeland generation by disrupting many of the normal rites of passage of youth from First Communions to the tirst day of kindergarten, senior proms, including Cub Scout and Brownie activities, bar mitzvahs, quinceaneras, debutante balls, 4H fairs, Scouting events, and high-school graduations. They are also sure to see the craziness of the current 4T (mostly a rearguard defense of the worst traits of the bad habits of the Culture Wars and the collapse of some prominent characters). The Homeland Generation may not remember 9/11 but it will certainly hear much about the "Enrob" scandal as a model of how to not do business.
I expect large organizations to make drastic reforms of themselves just to survive the next round of an economic meltdown. I would not be surprised that President Trump tanks the economy on his way out as revenge upon people that he considers to have 'betrayed' him; he is that vile and vindictive a person. Political choices will decide what troubled entities survive and which ones fail. There won't be enough resources to prop up pathological organizations, and I can easily see plenty of corrupt organizations deemed "too big to save" instead of "Too Big to Fail". Such will heavily reflect the values of Generation X (yes, Generation X has values!) that favor small business over entities that gave few of them any reasonable chance to get ahead within them. Consider that small business lacks the means for buying political influence that monopolistic, vertically-integrated companies have.
Boomers do not start until the end of WWII, period. 1946 is the first undisputed Boomer year. Strauss Howe don't even get to decide that date as history and society etched it out.
Agreed on the rest, Zoomers have been in classic Artist generation stance since their start (9/11).
Trump won't have the power or the attention span to tank the economy. The Republicans refusing to do anything in the Senate is a bigger concern that will probably be fixed in Feburary ASAP, but time is of the essence and we're gonna lose two months.