This was news to me.

I am Generation X, raised in a family that precisely aligned with the WWI, WWII, Boomers, X progression.

I don't know which generation my brother, 14 years younger than me, and my sister, who was 12 years younger than me, would part of..., though; they definitely have/ had a different life experience than myself.

So, the theory is that Generation Jones was given the same set of expectations about opportunity as the Boomers, but received none of the same economic certainties. The theory is that this disconnect lead to despondency in this generation.

We Generation X people (if we were the least bit aware of such things) knew that we faced a different economic set of realities than our parents' generation.

It didn't take a Ph.D. in economics to figure this out, or to see the changes that were happening in real time in the '80's, or to see that the economic reality of the '70's was not applicable to us, because we were children and adolescents then.

I'm always interested in how people divide and describe generations.

My view of the number of generations after mine is hazy. I won't lie.