Citations Needed, Episode 38: The Media' Bogus Generation Obsession

LIFE magazine, January 1, 1970 “Baby Boomers are bloating the social safety net!” “GenXers are changing the nature of work!” “Millennials are killing the housing market!” The media endlessly feeds us stories about how one generation or another is engaging in some collective act of moral failing that, either explicitly or by implication, harms another generation. It’s a widely-mocked cliché