generic you

English

Examples
Brushing your teeth is healthy. These days you have to be careful with your money.

The pronoun you, used to refer to an unspecified person or to people in general.
- 2015, Zsófia Demjén, Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States: Written Discourse and the Experience of Depression, page 161:
  The generic you can include more than just the direct addressee of the speech — it can even include those who are only over-hearing (or ‘over-reading’), suggesting that the reader could feel like they are also addressed by the pronoun.