Life, life cycle affects that as people change as they the age. A period effects in which everyone is affected by war and economic recessions. And then cohort effects that leave a particular generation imprinted by specific experiences at crucial point when their attitudes are forming. We need to look after young people better in ways that transfer into transgenerational or intergeneration transfers.
Boomers are narcissists. Millennials are spoiled. Gen Zers are lazy. We assume people born around the same time have basically the same values. But, do they? Michael Shermer speaks with social researcher Bobby Duffy who has spent years studying generational distinctions. In The Generation Myth, he argues that our generational identities are not fixed but fluid, reforming throughout our lives. Based on an analysis of what over three million people really think about homeownership, sex, well-being, and more, Duffy offers a new model for understanding how generations form, how they shape societies, and why generational differences aren’t as sharp as we think.