Generation Jones versus being a Baby Boomer (55, retirees, years)
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I read an article last week indicating that those of us born from 1955 to 1965 are members of Generation Jones.
Where did this moniker come from?
Result of all the Boomer insults and younger retirees/pre-retirees not wanting to be in that group?
This term has been out there for a while now. Some say it refers to "Keeping up with the Joneses". Others say it refers to people wanting things, or "Jonesing" for things or prosperity.
"Jonesers versus Boomers
Jonesers and Boomers have a lot in common. The two generations border each other. Both generations were children during a period of economic boom.
However, for the Jonesers, that changed during their late teens and when they came of age. During the 1970s, they faced a deterioratig economy due to the oil crises.
The souring economy and the Watergate scandal contributed to a changing cultural mood. In fact, the Jonesers’ experiences made them much more cynical than the idealistic Boomers.Baby
Boomers were teens and young adults during the decade of flower-power, hippies, and the Beatles, i.e., the 1960s. Baby boomers were all about ‘make love, not war’ and ‘peace on Earth.’
The term ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ formed part of the culture of Generation Jones. Young Jonesers coined the slang term ‘jones’ or ‘jonesing’ meaning ‘craving’ or ‘yearning.’
Jonesers had huge expectations in the sixties as children. However, as young adults in the 1970s and 1980s, they confronted high unemployment and de-industrialization.
Generation Jones acquired an unfulfilled ‘jonesing’ or yearning quality for the more prosperous 1960s. "
Never heard of it either and had to look it up. Frankly I hate these type of labels and pigeonholing. Reading the basics, one can make a case that this type of transition, of one sort of another, occurs between all generations.
Never heard of it either and had to look it up. Frankly I hate these type of labels and pigeonholing. Reading the basics, one can make a case that this type of transition, of one sort of another, occurs between all generations.
Yes, I saw another group where one person had posted "Age range in CD" Then you go look is
Greatest Generation
Boomers
Gen Z
And on and on. I voiced my dissatisfaction and of course, got detention for a few days.
They had quite different experiences. Born in 1946, I was 9 to 19 years older than generation Jones. I experienced childhood in the 50's and came of age in the 60's. By the mid 70's I was already married, with 3 children.
I was born in 1953 and my husband was born in 1956, but we grew up in virtually the same family, school and economic environments, and we have virtually identical opinions about the past as well as about current issues and politics. I don't think there is that much difference between those born in the 50's, although there was a definite difference in life experiences (and, therefore, differences in attitudes and opinions) between myself and my youngest sister who was born in 1964.
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