verbal sparring between gen X and Y writers

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/generational-warfare-what-comes-between-gen-x-and-gen-y/article2217023/

Then, Gen X Gixmodo writer Mat Honan, who is 39, issued a smack-down on his blog aimed at those pesky kids.

“But Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also graduated during a recession. It had even shittier jobs, and actually had to pay for its own music." Gen X, he goes on to say, is used to getting the short end of the stick.

“This urge to define generations is also about a yearning for a collective memory in an increasingly atomized world, at least where my generation is concerned.

“Indeed, where the Millennials tend to define themselves in terms of the way they live now, people in my cohort find fellowship more in what happened in the past, clinging to cultural totems as though our shared experiences will somehow lead us to better figure out who we are.”

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D - other than Boomers being born after WWII, there are no real and clear cutoff lines between generations. Even late Boomers share some problems with early Xers.

And the X and Y distinction is pretty much arbitrary.

I'm trying to think of any clear cutoff lines.

There is the Double Cohort graduation in high school in Ontario. A few fast-tracked graduation to beat the crowd.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2003/08/31/doublecohort030831.html

So those who were 18 in 2003? Um, born 1985 and later? I thought that was the wrong direction to go. If all those new jobs require more than high school, then doesn't that make a 2-year college program the 'new high school'? Now less and not more covered. A 4 year U degree only does what a 3 year did before due to the loss of 1 year. Essentially, post-secondary education amounts to paying directly for what used to be publicly funded. How about going the other way to reflect trends, and fully publicly fund the 1st 2 years of post-secondary education? Matched to small-biz seed funds and apprenticeships/ job placement incentives, the young adults would hit the ground running in work. The typical small business can be started with an additional 10-15,000 bux - this is comparable to a couple years of education funding.