Generations are pretty bogus. The labels we use to casually slice up society - boomer, millennial, Gen X, Gen Z - are a nearly useless way of thinking about politics, culture or business in the United States.
The very idea that tens of millions of people across different classes and races and geographies might hold similar views on a range of subjects just because they happened to be born during the same 20-year span of US history - the whole thing sounds a bit too much like astrology, doesn't it?
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