Gentle reminder that the whole generations thing is made up.
But true that many of these folks and older hold high positions of power, which is probably the cause for the clock.
Keanu reeves is so close to and so engrained in gen x culture that I think it’s unfair to label him a boomer
2039 is the half-life of the boomer generation, assuming all of them were born in 1964 and will live exactly 75 years
That’s not what half-life means. Half-life comes from radioactive decay and is the time for half the atoms in a sample to decay. After half the atoms have decayed it takes another half-life for half the remaining atoms (a quarter of the original sample) to decay. There’s some fancy maths you can do to convert a sample size of 85 million with a half-life of 75 years into the time it takes for the last atom to decay but at an estimation of about 27 half-lives that’s 2025 years.
Maybe that’s the real problem with boomers: their multi-thousand year lifespan!!
