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What is most disturbing about this is how this generation began to come out. Feeling alienated and disenfranchised Generation X rebelled against their parents' lifestyles. Seeing their parents work themselves literally to death for material goods only to be downsized by their employers after years of creating a feeling among this generation that they will not be taken for the same journey. 

They rebelled against their parents by processing the slacker persona think jeans flannel shirt coffee cup that is always there. This generation wants a balance in their lives. Growing up as a latch-key children their children will not suffer the same fate. Their children will be driven back and forth to school and many after-school activities. Generation X wants to work to live rather than live to work - even if it means decreased income potential. Like the hippies before them they derided their cohorts who drive luxury cars and wearing a business suit.

In order to buy houses and cars that cost is driven by Baby Boomers Generation X learned to live with debt. Worse they learn to accept it. Your feelings will not have enough money or we will not have our house in a way that our parents did. give them permission to take on increasing levels of debt to finance their lives.