A screaming child who had his iPad taken might come to your mind. Alpha Kids are reportedly not doing well in school and many are subject to the algorithms of today. They will have a front row seat to the future we are headed towards.
Do you have hope that Generation Alpha will live happy and fulfilling lives?
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Its so crazy to think that there are generations named for their historic “experience”.
Millennial experienced the turn of the century.
OK? Cool? Number 1>2 is apparently a defining quality?
I suppose it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, because evidently, we do care about 1>2.
We could have been Generation Y2K!
Y2K panic was a real phenomenon, and it starts with Y.
Missed opportunity…
Anyway, I salute Generation AI
i heard some people wanted to be influencers whent hey grow up, i dont see that much for people who graduate HS currently. not to blame them, but genz already have significant employment problems from getting a degree, as like millineals, even more so for genz. its only getting worst for gen alpha(unless u can afford private school for your children and hope the children isnt already set up to failure by the parents. i used to followed some asian yotubers they put thier child, toddler through private school, but they had to remove him because had behavioral issues due to combination of medication mental issues, the parents are extremely ill equipped to deal with the child, last thing i heard they just “sit at home and do nothing” because the mom is also “directionless in her life, so lazy”, and many of the old fans of thiers said he dint have a chance from the start, due to thier parents own problems, besides being magaty.
also besides that reading/writing, math comprehension is very low for people in HS and college, this isnt going to help them.
My daughter is Gen Alpha, 2014. It’s hard to believe she will be a teenager next year, I can’t believe how fast 12 years have flown by.
I really hope this country can start turning things around and Trump becomes a distant memory and women start getting the rights to their bodies back. Will be a long time before that happens in my state.
I think her generation is going to pay heavily for our failures but I believe they come out stronger in the end and more united against what will make their lives hard.
the education in america has been declining for decades, for public schools and many of us probably suffered from the participation grades which fast tracked you out of the school with “passing grades” only to severely struggle in community college even, ive seen so many in remedial courses taking grad school math, not even algebra. reading is a problem too, but writing essays is too advanced for remedial students.
I’m worried about the world we’re leaving them
Yes
Am I reading this weird looking graph wrong or are they saying nobody born before 1945 is still alive?
I really hope I live long enough so that if reincarnation is real, I can just skip ahead to the singularity or whatever.
I happen to have an alpha. They’re only just over a year old but they’re already incredibly smart and kind. I do have my worries, but I also have high hopes that there will be a correction, at least when it comes to the youngest ones. There will always be shit people raising incredibly shit kids, but… I can hope
Nope. World War III is going to be awful. If there are good times ahead, they are many, many years in the future.
These generations are arbitrary and just lead to sweeping inaccurate generalisations.
Ok, I’ll rephrase it for you:
Do you have hope that people born after 2013 will live happy and fulfilling lives?
I’ll say probably yes, but the world will look very different for them than it did for us. There will be far fewer younger people than today on most continents besides Africa.
They’ll have far more power to shape and change society than most previous generations. Boomers will be almost entirely dead when they Alphas reach adulthood. GenX would be next on the death chopping block, but GenX is far smaller. So lots of jobs will be open and Alphas and Millennials will be holding those positions with GenX mostly in retirement homes. Millennials are saddled with debt and a lack of lifetime earnings while Alphas are looking like they’re skipping a good chunk of that debt burden.
Taxation on working Alphas and Millennials will be monstrous dealing yet another setback for then aging Millennials. Climate change will also wipe out lots of opportunities. Alphas I think might be the generation to finally give the finger to the generations prior that kicked the can down the road and simply let parts of society they don’t care about fall away. Part of that will mean not caring for multiple generations of aging parents and grandparents where the declining birth rate means a single Alpha may have 8 to 10 aging relatives still alive and in need of some kind of support exclusively relying on the Alpha. This would mean 16 to 20 aging relatives for a married Alpha couple. There’s just no way they can support that.
I sure hope not!
People born in different eras will lead very different lives. Where we choose to draw the line in order to give names to these generations is arbitrary, but the underlying concept is meaningful and we kind of have to just pick somewhere to draw those lines in order to be able to talk about it.
I agree. It’s such a Gen Generation thing to say.
These generations are arbitrary
They’re not arbitrary and that’s the problem…
Up to Baby Boomers a gender was defined around cultural/technological change and social events.
WW2 ending and a resulting baby boom fit that. But then capitalism wanted easy ways to categorize consumers.
So they decided every 15 years was “better” even tho it immediately led to “generations” meaning almost nothing.
“Generations” are still valuable demographics, it’s just boomers never understood it and made up their own definition. We need to go back to naming and determining generations once they’re adults and we already know how they’re different and where to draw the line
A whole lot of our current problems are because boomers took something that worked and “disrupting it” without understanding how it works or what it even was.
I wish they were at least evenly spaced. Alpha should be 2013 to 2028 rather than ensing in the ‘mid 2020s’. Everything with a 15 year gap should be wider in line with Baby Boomers and those before them, or the baby boomers should be split into two different generations.
Also if their oldest members are 13 yo, then its way too soon for me to pass judgement onto generation alpha. A teacher, parent or healthcare worker might have some insight though
As far as I can tell they’re set for marketing reasons, but they actually represent meaningful epochs and how those events effected people in different stages of life.
World war, depression, postwar expansion, civil rights, cold war, internet, smartphone.
Making them all fifteen or twenty-five years doesn’t make sense.
Is this a “plans are useless but the act of planning is invaluable” kind of thing?
Like arbitrary 15 years increments is basically worthless but you end up with a collection of meaniful epochs inside of those limited frames that it has value again?
Honestly, they seem kind of dumb, which I’m not blaming them for.
But that could just be the typical “next generation sucks” vibe you get from every aging generation.
I really hope they aren’t actually dumb because that’s going to make my senior years a lot bleaker.
i think its bleaker, since reading and math comprehension is below what it should be when they reach high school. also aspiration of some gen A to be an “influencer” isnt going to help when they get disappointed, and then dont do anything.
I’m less concerned about the iPad than I am about the world they’re growing up into. The wealth gap keeps getting wider, the job market has made many fields into a catch 22 where you can’t get experience if you don’t have experience, the planet is buring, and fascism is happening.
I swear. every time I see the bands the years have changed. now even lost gen is under 20 and for some reason greates is over 20.
No, I’ll wait for the release version.
Yes, maybe not the older alphas because they’re too close to zoomers, but definitely the younger. Growing with an enshitified internet, it wouldn’t surprise me if they’ll see social media as mostly bullshit their parents are addicted to.
I wonder how will they say “OK millenial”
I believe the new “boomer” term is “unc”
