Can you tell the difference between 1965 and 1975?
We had cards and probably too much to drink and it came up that the last of the baby boomers to retire would be around (now I don't even remember what the year was- somehow it seemed absurd.
"December 31, 2029 - The last of the boomers will turn 65. The 65+ population segment is projected to double to 71.5 million by 2030 and grow to 86.7 million by 2050. Possibly eighty million plus will be on Medicare and Social Security." from a CNN site. This is an error.
Wikipedia says according to the leading theorists, etc, a generation is 20 years.
"However, as the 19th century wore on, several trends promoted a new idea of generations, of a society divided into different categories of people based on age. These trends were all related to the processes of modernisation, industrialisation, or westernisation, which had been changing the face of Europe since the mid-18th century. One was a change in mentality about time and social change."
-from Wikipedia's Generation entry.
If start the clock at 1945 and you add 20 years, 1965 is the end of births for our generation. So 2011 to 2016 is around the correct time period for retirement,
But this is a make believe notion that people of the same twenty year time span of birth share something in common.
The difference in moral values, and lifestyle and a thousand other things point to the fact that there are major differences between people just ten years apart in age.
If I need to explain that, than most people need to get a life.
Me thinks, like most of everything else you get from the media is popular thought revolving around the notion that Time-Life can sell you music of your generation. Even they are not dumb enough to try to package the golden oldies in twenty year increments.
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