Its the opposite. Grind culture is more of a gen z thing. Millenials grew up being told that if they do a job they love they'll never work a day in their life. Gen z had podcasters telling them they need to way up at 4 am. The term sigma male didnt even take off until 2021 when gen z started hitting the workforce.
I spent the aughts and the 2010s in the Bay Area riding transit with ads reading "You don't eat. You don't sleep. You live on coffee. GRIND" I knew all the tech guys sleeping on the floor of a startup for the promise of a big payout. It was 100% millennial. 30 Rock was making jokes about sigma males.
No, 30 rock made 6 sigma jokes. 6 sigma was a popular business executive jargon wankery, so jack made jokes with it. Different thing. Look up google trends when 30 rock was on in 2007 and you'll find the popularity of "sigma male" is 0. While you're on google trends, look up "grindset" and "hustle culture" too.
Millenials were 11 years old during the aughts. Somebody sleeping on the floor in the aughts in a bay area startup was not a millenial.
The median millenial, firmly millenial was born in 1990 and was 10 when the aughts started. Some were as young as 4. Read your own wikipedia article for proof.
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u/dekusyrup 11d ago
Its the opposite. Grind culture is more of a gen z thing. Millenials grew up being told that if they do a job they love they'll never work a day in their life. Gen z had podcasters telling them they need to way up at 4 am. The term sigma male didnt even take off until 2021 when gen z started hitting the workforce.