The key facts are: Generation X's parents expected a job for life, but with few exceptions Gen Xers never had that — they're used to nomadic employment, hire-and-fire, right-to-work laws, the whole nine yards of organized-labour deracination. .....
... Edward Snowden is 30: he was born in 1983. Generation Y started in 1980-82. I think he's a sign of things to come. PS: Bradley Manning is 25.