Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with somethi…

Douglas Rushkoff
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Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.
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