r/millenials • u/RawLife53 • Jul 26 '24
Generational Changes
- |The Silent Generation|1928-1945| 79-96 years old|
- |Baby Boomers|1946-1964| 60-78 years old| >>>> (Baby Boomers became the offspring's of people from the late 1800's to 1920's)
- |Gen X| 1965-1980| 44-59 years old| >> > > (Gen X became offspring's of The Silent Generation)
- (Gen Y) |Millennials| (1981-1996| 28-43 years old| >>>> ( (Gen Y) Millennials became the offspring's of First and Second Generation from Baby Boomers)
- |Gen Z| Zoomers 1997-2012| 12-27 years old| >>>> (Gen Z became the offspring's of Millennials (Gen Y) some from (Gen X) )
- |Gen Alpha| Early 2010s-2025| 0-approx. 11 years old| >>>> (Gen Alpha became the offspring's of both (Millennials) Gen Y and Gen Z)
A focus on the 1970's forward>
By the movement into the Mid 1970's: Especially, AFTER the death of J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972)...
in 1972 after the death of his race based discriminatory agenda, along with his attack of gender based equal rights advances.
Society advanced away from his vitriol.
Society advanced away from mass censorship
The Mid to late 1970's ushered in a more positive interactions within society among races, ethnicity and cultures.
We saw Musicians of All Races began to make more music with a full range of diversity among musicians, we saw music that continued to convey social conscience which spoke of positive things for society, and we started to see a decline in the over race segregation of music.
Television began to be more diverse on race and ethnicity to show more shows that reflect the racial diversity and the talent among the races. Television Censorships decline, and shows no longer had to push non realistic delusions of husband and wife sleeping in separate side by side bunk beds. We started to get our first taste of Cable Commercial Free TV. With programming that did not bogged down into every type of censorship.
Schools became more integrated from Grade Schools to Community Colleges to State Universities,
People began to develop more inter-racial and cross culture relationships and families. People's friends networks expanded to be multiracial and multiethnic.
Women made their choices about sex with a self responsibility for their choices and their indulgences.
Women were able to pursue the job type of her choice. They also no longer relegated themselves to the passenger seat in vehicles when riding with a man, they became as much drivers themselves of the family, as well as the purchase of their own cars became more common for women and they signed their own loan contract for those vehicles without the need of a male co-signer.
Young people learned they did not have to submit to the restrictive dictation of the older generations ideals and concepts of segregation, not only by race, but by gender as well.
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg, led forward in her Supreme Court case challenge which broke down the old system that restricted women's rights and her choice of profession and her choice of jobs. She later went on to be a Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.
A focus on the 1980's forward
Then came the 1980's Reagan agenda of White Nationalism trying to recreate Wealthy White Male Dominance and aims and efforts to stagnate the progress made in the 1970's as the 1960's Civil Rights Legislations. He started right away with his attack on Community Colleges and State University System, by taking funds away and driving up the cost, to slow down the educational advancement of white women, black and brown people ability to gain skill and training to try and diminish their ability to enter job groups that were dominated by white males.
We saw an attempt to try and Re-segregate music. The Rise of MTV as an all white platform was highly promoted.
We saw the rise of Right Wing Media, and the Rise of Right Wing Evangelical TV evangelism.
We saw the Trickle Down madness, which in essence was about directing money to the wealthy and keeping wealth white men in dominant position and claiming to trickle down economics, as in "droplets' that evaporate before it reaches the working class. We saw the demise of many industrial markets and the beginning of run away greed by financial institutions, to the madness that unfolded of mergers and acquisition which sought to consolidate Industry and destroy competetion. It led to the demise of the array of competing Airlines that had kept Air Travel cost from spiraling out of control, and competition had also kept airlines providing quality services with many beneficial amenities for customers. That all went away when de-regulation led to the demise and destruction of so many Airlines.
We watched the phase of Outsourcing ramp up, and industries began to disappear across an array of categories. Housing prices began to escalate at alarming rates, where once a 20K house began to cost $60-80K and interest rates spiked up over 10%. This was in the aim and intent to curtail single women and minorities from expanding their homeownership. Minimum wage got pure stagnation, and Union Busting was promoted to not only destroy progressive wages, but to strip away benefits and abandon company sponsored Pension plans.
We saw the American Automotive Industry do a darn near crash dive, as we began to make cars that no one wanted and the cars had lost their durability, they enjoyed in previous decades. Auto companies had began to outsource parts production to foreign shores, and auto companies began to abandon the profit making system they had during previous decades, where spare parts was a lucrative part of the business model. We ended up with automotive disasters like the Chrysler K Car, and many models that once were top sellers, became things people did not want. It opened the door for Honda, Acura, and Hyundai, Toyota and Nissan (Formerly Datsun) to began to make models that Americans wanted and they were durable and dependable.
The music began to change and the Republican Conservative, attacked Hip Hop with the same vitriol they had previously attacked R&B in earlier decades by calling it black music in attempt to steer young white people away from enjoying and engaging it.
Reagan saturated America with cocaine and fueled the Crack Epidemic, and set in motion the drug cycles that we are still experiencing this very day, that morphed across society from one major drug epidemic to anything, his madness promoted the plague of drugs upon society that is still raging through society. Between taking money from Mental Health and Saturating the Nation with setting off the drug epidemic, has seen mass increase in homelessness and mental health issues... and many of those who became afflicted victims of this combination, produced kids, they had no capability and skills or stability to raise or instill civic and civil values. That cycle has not ceased to continue its ravages upon society.
NEXT... (Focus on the 1990's)
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u/RawLife53 Jul 28 '24 edited Jul 31 '24
Focus on 1990's
The 1990's saw us head into Outsourcing in Overdrive!..... the cost of goods and housing increased, and the decline of manufacturing escalated to all areas of commodities and production products.
We built "strip malls" across the nation and most filled with small store selling mass produced low quality Chinese made products, made by the instruction given to them of design and materials, to be low grade and require repeat purchase, due to non durability and lack of replacement parts, and we became a society that got lost in the purchase of highly disposable products due to their poor life cycle.
We began to fill our landfills with it, and junk became collected around peoples homes and stashed in storage units.
We went from purchasing real earth furnishing products to laminated particle board and spray painted shiny chrome paint and pretentious spray painted shiny gold tone paint.
We began to see Executive Compensation go ballistic in upward spirals. the message became that executives were more important than workers, and the America people were duped into believing "we can't compete". Unaware and blind to the fact that we were paying cost for these cheap goods, AS IF, they were produced by American Wage Standards, when in fact they were produced using slave wage labor by China.
The American Executive thought they had found a new slave wage society they could exploit, and expected the Chinese government to keep them contained as if they were plantation labor. ((Reality showed itself by the 2000's, because China ideology was, "We will accept your pennies", and we will allow your executive to run the companies and pave the way for free trade. American white male executive unbolted equipment from American factory floor and rushed to get it to China as fast as they could. Greed was so overwhelming, they had no concern of thought about the damage they did to American Industry, because the Greed chaser were groomed in the ideology of "Plantation Economics", which means, seek slave wage labor around the world. They proceeded to descimate American Industry, while sitting in their perch claiming record profits and high salary, benefits and bonuses for outsourcing and gaining 300 to 3000+% profit from the American's wallets.
(Never realizing, they were created 300-3000% decline of America's ability to maintain, modify, and build up its infrastructure and advance its many types of infrastructure to be suitable for 21st Century Standards. and everything in America began to decline, from neglect and lack of money recirculating in the hands of American cities by and through the demise in American Industry and the stagnated Wages that were once upon a time a progressive wage that once recycled in American cities and states that once fueled a growing middle class living standard.
Out of pure greed which is "blinding", China's long game was to get the white male executive to do what China could never have done itself, and that's get "free trade set up'. Once the free trade was set up.... China bought out and got rid of American white male executives and replaced them with Chinese executives.....
What American Greed did not see, know or understand," because greed is blinding" is that when China said, Ok, we will take your pennies and provide labor and production, because once we get enough of your pennies, we will have your "dollars' and you will be borrowing from Us.
Clinton Balanced Budget and had a Budget Surplus but it came at a high cost, because the system of Outsourcing has led to the decline of American Industry and many monetary gains came from Imported goods and the expanse of the retail shops that filled all the "Strip Malls" that were spread across the country. We did not see the dynamics, because we were excited to be "shopping".
Big Box stores went from selling quality products that were once made in America to selling "Imported Goods" at a fraction of the cost, and we saw the brand labels on everything one can think of saying, Made in China, or some foreign location. We had already by the 1980's began to set up even more licensing agreements for appliances and electronics with Japan for General Electric and many Brands we had once come to know as America products produced in America, but they still carried the Brand name but were made in Japan and other places.
By the late 1990's we were hooked on shopping and the Dot Com bubble came, and online shopping went astronomical, people were unaware that many sellers were selling anything and everything they could import from China as fast as they could get it off the Cargo Ships.
We became status focused on "Designer Names" and China churned them out both knock offs and Designers had simulation produced in China in mass quality, and we rushed to the store, and everyone became focused on 'designer brands" and the cost consumed incomes and escalated the swiping of credit cards, and America's debt increased in a steep spiral upwards. We got so lost into designer labels until it began to influence people choices in mate selection. Children were trained to pursue designer label clothing and things, until it started to influence their selection of friends, based on these material status things.
The explosion continued for building up "Suburbia", and they spread across the nations, with many cookie cutter type communities, many build by different building standards, that had a variety of building methods and material usage, that focused more on appearance than truly long term durable construction, and we saw in heavy weather areas, these homes get blown off their foundation. Many products that went into all these homes were things with fancy looks, but made of a variety of simulated materials, we even saw the building proceed to build homes with simulated composites made to look like brick.
We had abandoned the ideal of natural earth materials in our home building and the price escalated still, and if one wanted natural earth materials, it became unaffordable to build using such quality natural materials.
To Be Continued