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Why Gen-X doesn’t understand Occupy Movement


Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse wrote yesterday about why Generation X (and Baby Boomers) is having trouble understanding the Occupy movement, which is largely Millennials.

“The 99 percenters, who are an all-ages group but tilt young, have occupied the Web with their student loan woes (and whoas — hello, $100K debt), and many of the boomers, the original My Generation, are alarmed and intrigued by the brashness of it all. When they hated their jobs, they whined to their spouses or consciousness-raised among friends. They did not tweet their revolution.”

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