Baby Boomer

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A Baby Boomer is a Western person born in Post–World War II Baby Boom.



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2024

  • (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers Retrieved:2024-5-6.
    • Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964 during the mid-20th century baby boom. The dates, the demographic context, and the cultural identifiers may vary by country. [1] Most baby boomers are the children of either the Greatest Generation or the Silent Generation, and are often parents of Gen Xers and Millennials. In the West, boomers' childhoods in the 1950s and 1960s had significant reforms in education, both as part of the ideological confrontation that was the Cold War,[2][3] and as a continuation of the interwar period.[4][5] Theirs was a time of economic prosperity and rapid technological progress.[6] In the 1960s and 1970s, as this relatively large number of young people entered their teens and young adulthood—the oldest turned 18 in 1964—they, and those around them, created a very specific rhetoric around their cohort, and the social movements brought about by their size in numbers, such as the counterculture of the 1960s and its backlash.[7] In many countries, this period was one of deep political instability due to the postwar youth bulge.[7][8] In China, boomers lived through the Cultural Revolution and were subject to the one-child policy as adults.[9] These social changes and rhetoric had an important impact in the perceptions of the boomers, as well as society's increasingly common tendency to define the world in terms of generations, which was a relatively new phenomenon. This group reached puberty and maximum height earlier than previous generations.[10] In Europe and North America, many boomers came of age in a time of increasing affluence and widespread government subsidies in postwar housing and education, and grew up genuinely expecting the world to improve with time. Those with higher standards of living and educational levels were often the most demanding of betterment.[7][11] In the early 21st century, baby boomers in some developed countries are the single biggest cohort in their societies due to subreplacement fertility and population aging.[12] In the United States, they are the second most numerous age demographic after millennials.

2024

  • Scott Galloway. (2024). “How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future.” TED Talk
    • NOTES:
      • Older, wealthier Baby Boomers have used their political influence to protect their own financial interests, such as restricting housing development through zoning and permitting, which has artificially inflated property values and made housing less affordable for younger generations.
      • Baby Boomers have consistently voted for policies that benefit their own generation at the expense of younger generations, such as protecting and expanding Social Security while resisting investments in education, healthcare, and other areas that would benefit younger people.
      • During the pandemic, older, wealthier Baby Boomers, such as business owners, were prioritized in bailouts and stimulus measures, while younger workers and students received less support, further widening the generational wealth gap and reducing economic mobility for younger generations.

2016

  • (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers Retrieved:2016-5-1.
    • Baby boomers are people born during the demographic post–World War II baby boom approximately between the years 1946 and 1964. This includes people who are between and years old in . According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the term "baby boomer" is also used in a cultural context. Therefore, it is impossible to achieve broad consensus of a precise date definition, even within a given territory. Different groups, organizations, individuals, and scholars may have widely varying opinions on who is a baby boomer, both technically and culturally. Ascribing universal attributes to a broad generation is difficult, and some observers believe that it is inherently impossible. Nonetheless, many people have attempted to determine the broad cultural similarities and historical impact of the generation, and thus the term has gained widespread popular usage. ...
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  12. Population pyramids of the developed world without the U.S. and of the U.S. in 2030 .