Millennial dads are not lazy. They are indoctrinated

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[ProgressingAmerica]

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[ProgressingAmerica]

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Summary: Word for the day: Indoctrination. Everything written today can be summarized into that one single word. Indoctrination.

[Dr. Sivana]

Tires and tire changing technology have not gone through significant technological changes at the "I gotta get out on the side of this highway and change it" level.

Some people have "run-flat" tires.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Mr. GG2 tried to pass along his DIY skills to his son but the kid just was not interested.

[dainbramaged]

There may be some hope - I take my truck to a lot of car shows in the summer, and the young people that attend these events are super nice, know a bit about automobiles and want to learn more, plus they are very courteous and respectful.

[rbg81]

Hard to believe, especially since we have YouTube — the greatest DIY resource ever invented. For any DIY job, I now consult YouTube first.

[Dr. Sivana]

Oil changes are still remove a bolt, let the oil drain out.

The oil and lube places are just as cheap as changing yourself, and some cars are best brought for the dealer brand oil and filters (e.g. Toyota), at least while under warranty.

By the way, for hanging pictures, do it right and find a stud instead of using those wall anchors.

I am not particularly handy, but I have all the tools in the list, and would add a stud sensor as an essential.

I don't see this as strictly a collective versus individual thing. In a way, it strikes me as a return to the upper middle class having servants available ... handy men, drivers, maids, cooks. The fast food/fast casual places have replaced the cook ... half of meals are eaten out by millenials, and some of the ones at home are as simple as putting a box in a microwave. Some things that used to lend themselves to repair are no longer designed to make that practical (e.g. most shoes, some furniture, children's toys).

Uber and Lyft are urban replacements for at least having two cars if not none at all. The dream of self-driving cars also takes the place of a chauffeur, and so to a lesser degree does GPS.

Alexa and Siri take the place of "looking it up in an Almanac or dictionary.

Craigslist and Takl etc. make finding non-union fixit men easy and inexpensive. Working wives who aren't interested in housework and want hubby to watch kids too take themselves out of the fixit/maintain it game while generating more income for the Uber driver, Panera Bread, and Takl yardwork guy.

So, is some of this the loss of the American farm boy do it all, or the American mechanically inclined city guy who can fix anything just like he does in the shop or on the factory floor? Probably. Some of these Millenials are exceptional at configuring or even programming their phones and laptops to do amazing things that would have been done by manual labor a few years ago.

My own son is post Millenial (2008), and though I ma more an IT guy than a mechanical/carpentry guy, he has seen me install shelves, repair furniture, and do yard work. Unlike my own dad, I no longer have a reason to pull the tubes out of the TV set and take them down to Caldor, Lafayette or Radio Shack to test them for replacements! Times and needs change.

[Steve_Seattle]

I'm far from being a handyman, but I have all the common tools, and once built an outdoor workbench that lasted more than thirty years in the rainy Seattle weather without ever being repainted.

I suppose that owning common tools - unless you are a professional carpenter or plumber - is now considered a sign of "toxic masculinity" and might put you on a no-fly list. Maybe someday you'll need a permit to own those tools. ("Nobody needs an electric drill or a power saw!")

[DoodleBob]

Many millennial dads reported not owning a cordless drill (46%), a stepladder (49%), a set of screwdrivers (38%) or even a hammer (32 percent) — an item owned by 93% of boomer dads.

What a load of dung. Really? You mean to tell me 93% of those hippies who had babies in 1969 had tools? Seriously, most of us who started a family barely had nice dishes when the first child arrived. You acquired these tools over time, on an as-needed basis.

This is yet again another hit piece on Millenials, designed to make weak old Democrats and compromised Republicans feel morally superior to young folk. As I've said repeatedly, most Millenials I know are peeved at their pod-eating snowflake brethren and are working feverishly on their career. Further, every generation starts out lib and eventually grows up - something Boomers and GenXers seem to forget.

I suspect Millenials will turn out in larger-than-expected numbers for Trump in 2020. If anyone is indoctrinated, it is the author of this piece.

[CJ Wolf]

Cordless drills baby!

[CJ Wolf]

Cordless drills baby!

[yarddog]

Not too long ago I saw a program on the building of the Empire State Building.

One thing which got my attention is they said that the builders used a method which was actually stronger than what we use today. They used red hot nuts and bolts which shrunk when cooled.

They also built it under budget and ahead of schedule.

Reading the history of a WWII Combat Engineer Battalion, they put a bridge across the Rhine in two days while under artillery fire. They built two mess halls for the Potsdam Conference in 6 days despite having to scrounge for building materials from destroyed buildings.

They were not messing around.

[Maine Mariner]

And since Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, Castro, and Sanders have never written about the need for spare parts and maintenance, every breakdown of machines, autos, etc must be sabotage by counter-revolutionaries, i.e. fascists.

[ProgressingAmerica]

LOL

[Steve_Seattle]

I’ve read somewhere that (youth) car culture is dying because modern cars are computerized and you can’t tinker with them as easily as forty or fifty years ago. Plus, back in the day, popular culture was “pro-car” and fiddling with cars was seen as cool. Now, cars are stigmatized s an environmental threat, masculinity is demonized, and boys are playing video games and experimenting with their gender.

[ProgressingAmerica]

That is probably the perfect example, thank you.

This is by design. It’s not an accident that his son was not interested.

[AbolishCSEU]

My hubby is a Gen X child of older parents (greatest generation) who have long passed BUT taught my hubby EVERYTHING. He can build or fix ANYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING, car, house from the ground up (watched him and participated in building a two story garage from scratch). You name it.

I’m a late baby boomer and my father was NOT handy. Poor European that achieved “white collar” status as an insurance salesman. We lived in apartments all our lives.

Hubby’s brainwashed children by his liberal ex-shrew COULD be learning all his skills, but she’d rather them work part time on a food truck and do drugs the rest of the time.

They are definitely Generation Tide Pod and wouldn’t know the business end of a hammer as they were purposely alienated from their father.

A lot of these Millennials are in a similar situation—children of divorce and doted on because their helicopter parents parented by guilt; trying to keep them sealed in bubble wrap; competing with each other as to who could be their kid’s BFF and not their parent.

[Buttons12]

“more than half of millennials prefer to call a professional”

I’m a millennial. Main source of prosperity, buying and fixing and flipping real estate.

I do what I can, but I’m under 100 pounds and I don’t trust my little hands with power tools. I can repair and fix lots of things but you can waste a heap of time and energy, and wind up with poor results, if you don’t call a pro.

Usually the hardest challenge I face is getting the pro to be where he promised and when.

Also, what I don’t know and what doesn’t take male strength, can usually be learned from youtube.

[Dr. Sivana]

You acquired these tools over time, on an as-needed basis.

Excellent point. You can watch an old 50's sitcom or vintage Blondie comic strip where borrowing the ladder or chain saw from a neighbor is a thing that doesn't need explaining.

[Fiddlstix]

I See Your 'Cordless Drill'
&
Raise You A 'Cordless Screwdriver'