Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

This is definitely the headline, but coming from one of those younger gens myself, *my anecdotal experience* is a lot more optimism for my generation coming from elders than the youth! I think "crotchety old folks disappointed with the kids" may itself be the big cultural myth.

There's a lot of anecdotal evidence for the crotchety old folk idea :)

Which is the prevailing cultural meme: that lazy millennials eat too much avocado toast, or that clueless elders think lazy millennials eat too much avocado toast?

Depends if you're asking the lazy millennials or the clueless elders

Does it?

I was being half glib. But you're right - you could assess different generations' beliefs about each other cross-sectionally, without doing a multi-decade panel study. As long as you're disciplined about not trying to use it to judge who's right or wrong...

Kali and I published such a paper. Will send link when I can. Stuck at urgent care waiting to get seen for allergic reaction to insect bite. I not addicted to my iPhone, just bored.