Whenever i look up how long each generation is it always varies but the most consistent is the Baby Boomers spanning from 1946-1964. Though if the following generations continued the same logic, Gen X would be 1965-1983, Millennial would be 1984-2002 (making me a late millennial instead of an early gen z), and Gen Z would be 2003-2021. But instead everyone says Gen X is 1965 to late 70’s/early 80’s, Millennial is early 80’s to mid 90’s, Gen Z is from mid 90’s to late 00’s and Gen Alpha is early 10’s and currently ongoing
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As others mentioned, it’s somewhat arbitrary and just agreed upon. However, one of the primary factors for a generational marker is that the cohort (the group of individuals as a whole for the “generation”) has a shared experience that is not shared by other generations, and principally involves events during formative years of childhood, teenage years, and some into early adulthood. For the Baby Boomers, that shared experience was the boom of births following WW2 and the unparalleled – and unrepeated – gain in wealth and productivity.
As the speed of technological change has accelerated, the generational windows have collapsed into shorter spans of time because the cohort shared experience only exists for a narrower time period.
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