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Originally Posted by m1rr0r dash
<--- slacker
just like the great depression taught a whole generation "the value of a buck" and the importance of saving money early...
..the tech bubble taught gen x that if you can design a website or help old people get their e-mail, people will just always give you ridiculous gobs of money, which isn't real anyway until you can see it on yr computer screen when yr logged on to yr bank... and there's no need to try to save this "money" that really just amounts to a number on a screen - unless yr trying to get the HIGH SCORE. instead you should buy a lot of houses which you can't afford on sub-prime mortgages that you now have to sell at a loss. ...thank god i'm renting.
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That's way more Generation Y than Generation X. Generation X never wanted to make money in the first place. We were happy to live in a group house with a bunch of psychopaths in demi-famous punk bands while working for Kinko's or bartending. That's why we were called Slackers!
Gen Y were the dotcommers and Web 2.0 kids, except the newer end of the generation are even more obsessed with fake money - i.e. magic items of World of Warcraft that they can sell on eBay. They seem more interested in living with their parents playing videogames through their 20s than living in a group house paying rent.