This piece (or the excerpt, anyway) ignores the main reason Gen X is suffering so much in the job market: #COVID & persistent sequelae from COVID infections (aka #LongCovid). That age group are the parents that society abandoned to the pandemic & infected over & over again by refusing to control infection of their kids in school. And women were hit particularly hard due to workplace & familial sexism, bearing the brunt & erasing basically all our workforce gains from the last decades