👤 Generation X and Bitcoin: Between Invisibility, Structural Disillusionment, and Defiance
Generation X, born between 1965 and 1980, came of age believing in effort, autonomy, and upward mobility, only to be hit by the 2008 crisis, wage stagnation, job precarity, and two failed promises: a free market that never delivered and a state centred model that deepened poverty and dependency. Now largely invisible in public discourse, many Gen Xers are quietly reclaiming control through Bitcoin, not just as investment, but as “fuck you money”: a declaration of individual sovereignty, resistance, and detachment from the institutions that failed them.
