• Gurei@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    I’ve got no skin in the game on debating the older cap for millennials, but the agreed upon criteria for my social group for younger millennials is “Where you able to remember 9/11 as a kid?”

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      5 days ago

      Yeah that’s a pretty good marker, the shared trauma response had a serious effect. Gens Z and Alpha really just grew up in the new world created as the political response and I hope they don’t have to have a similar shared trauma like we did, though maybe COVID qualifies.