We’re Making Life Too Hard for Millennials

NYT Sunday Review ^ | July 31, 2015 | Steven Rattner

[CodeToad]

Harsh words to a millennial: “Maybe tomorrow you can make it to work on time.”

[notdownwidems]

So in other words since you can’t address my main point that no individual, especially a conservative individual, needs to take responsibility for something that they have spent a lifetime fighting against, you revert to questioning my time-management skills? Weak.

[CSM]

It sounds like he is reading “Plunder and Deceit,” by Mark Levin.

[CSM]

“Surely you jest Diana, they may be the most schooled as far as how much time they have spent in classrooms but they are far, far from being the most educated generation in history.”

I’d wager that you are both saying the same thing, but with slightly differing language. Your disconnect is likely semantics.

Let me sum it up for all of us.

This is likely the most degreed generation, yet the least Knowledgeable.

[CSM]

Very good points. Thanks for the reminder. That cost of living is going to get worse very soon. Just wait until the cost of energy “necessarily skyrockets.”

[RipSawyer]

“This is likely the most degreed generation, yet the least Knowledgeable.”

I know of no argument against that conclusion.

[Vermont Lt]

I don’t have an issue with disagreeing with the premise of the article. It has more to do with making the argument against a trend of millions based on your individual experience—thus dismissing the statistically identified traits.

It is clear that you cannot comprehend college level reading. Keep thinking you are special. It will make the day you discover you are not, that much more disappointing.

[notdownwidems]

I am 57 years old and learned a long time ago that I am not special, so your insults have no effect on me. I am not dismissing the statistically identified traits, I am simply saying that I, as an individual, had nothing to do with the decline of American civilization that we have witnessed in the last hundred years; number 1, I was not alive for a good deal of it and 2, I have spent my life fighting against it.

So when someone says we did this or we did that, it is not valid. I did no such thing; that's all I'm trying to say. And by the way, to wish me ill as you did, is unChristian and very unbecoming for someone who probably agrees with me more than not. I'm sorry I can't agree with you on this, but can you please keep it civil? We don't need to become like the leftists.

[informavoracious]

Not everyone is cut out for the service or can make it through basic training. Asthma, diabetes, poor eyesight or hearing, any number of physical problems can disqualify you. My relative almost did not get in because of severe acne! Besides, with a CIC like Obama and what he is doing to the military, it’s not necessarily where I want my kids. Mortgage interest may be low, but houses in most places are pretty expensive. In a place like San Jose, forget it. Transportable retirement accounts - nice if you make enough to fund at a decent level. Most ordinary people don’t get food stamps. And that car had better last ten years considering it probably cost $30,000! $15 minimum wage is still a pipe dream except in places like Seattle where it literally IS a pipe dream :)

[oh8eleven]

houses in most places are pretty expensive. In a place like San Jose, forget it.
I was stationed at Camp Pendleton in early '67 and I remember being really surprised at the house prices. So the problem existed waaaay back then - but people still survived.