Posted on 08/06/2015 12:30:35 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
To some, millennials those urban-dwelling, ride-sharing indefatigable social networkers are engaged, upbeat and open to change. To others, they are narcissistic, lazy and self-centered.
Im in the first camp, but regardless of your opinion, be fretful over their economic well-being and fearful oh so fearful for their prospects. The most educated generation in history is on track to becoming less prosperous, at least financially, than its predecessors.
They are faced with a slow economy, high unemployment, stagnant wages and student loans that constrict their ability both to maintain a reasonable lifestyle and to save for the future.
Longer term, rising federal debt payments and increased spending on Social Security and Medicare will inflict a tremendous financial burden on them, threatening their own prospect of receiving promised retirement benefits.
To a considerable extent, thats the fault of my generation, the baby boomers. We were the children of the Greatest Generation, but we may also be the most irresponsible generation.
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By others he means anyone who has to deal with them and/or work with them on a regular basis.
And what is this “we” shit. “We” don't make things difficult for millennials, they do it to themselves. We didn't tell them to demand to get whatever they want instantly, avoid any useful work, play on their cell phones all day, get dozens of tattoos, get high all the time, contract STDs and vote for Obama.
If they have anyone to blame it is the dumbed down high schools that let them slide whenever they wanted, Universities who poisoned their minds with leftist garbage and did not teach them any useful skills and the Obama Administration which is destroying the middle class.
It’s pointless to talk about generational failures and then say “well I didn’t do that”.
No individual did! It was a collective failure. Sure, we can pretend there was no failure, so nobody takes the blame, but that won’t change the reality.
What are they going to do when the crap hits the fan, cry in the streets or something.
Life is hard. Life is not fair.
duh!
lol
Actually it was the Silents (those who came to maturity in ‘46 to ‘60.). They were always the inferiors to the WWII generation. Their whole lives they could not compare to their slightly older siblings.
This is the generation of McCain— the only generation not to have a President.
They mucked everything up because they always wanted to be loved like the Greatest Gens.
The key there is online lynch mobs.
They burned down Fergusen. The 67-68 riots burned down cities.
They are pikers without balls. Except the ones fighting our wars. I would rather not get them angry.
They are probably the first generation raised by minimum wage daycare workers, and devoid of a moral background such as a church.
You cannot enter into a discussion of “generational sociology” and think about it personally. Trends are statistical things, and you can be on the far end of the bell curve.
If you take your personal traits and lock them up for a second, you can see some interesting things.
If you are going to argue well established traits because they don’t apply to YOU, you a missing the whole point of the science. Stamping your foot is not an effective discussion tool.
When they hauled down the Confederate Flag and forced religious groups to obey the immoral standards set by the millennials, the day finally came that we crossed over to a cesspool of society that the millennials...and only them...deserve.
They can’t remember or know about how good life was before 1964 because they were never told of it...only lies and propaganda.
Yes they will.
I am not far behind you. But things have changed. Good luck finding a company that will keep you around 35 years and give you a pension these days (Unless you work for the govt). We reaped the benefit of the post WWII boom years. You could move out on your own after HS, survive on one income, work your way through college, and have job stability. It is harder today. It really is.
Nice try. You just keep skirting the truth and making excuses to support your bias.
Whatever, you cannot change the fact that it’s going to come down to the next generation to try to fix this mess now, because the boomers failed to do so, or even to make any attempt at it.
That’s the best you can come up with?
Exactly. We can’t even have a discussion about these things around here, because every single time, people take it personally for some reason and start thumping their chests.
There are literally thousands of threads on FR. Most of them hold no interest for most people.
Why would you take the time to argue such a weak point on a thread that you clearly have spent no time understanding.
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