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To: ProudGRITS
Hit piece? Go cry in your safe space.

My good FRiend, I may be a peer or slightly older than you. But that's ok. I think I get your mindset.

The most entitled, lazy spoiled brats, arrogant know-nothings, living in mommy’s basement playing Fortnight eating Cheetos wants to lecture the rest of us how to live. Priceless.

It is a little hard to disentangle your multiple points of criticism, and if you are saying I want to lecture you or Millenials in general. Regardless, let's try this little by little.

As I've said repeatedly, there are plenty of stupid Millenials. I've seen them in town and on campuses. So I don't argue that they are all or even majority perfect. Far from it.

Now, a general rule of thumb, many of the reporters that interview Millenials live in NYC or LA or D.C. Therefore it stands to reason that most of the dumbasses that make it to TV or print are of the liberal, city-dwelling types. So yes, they are Millenials, but I'd argue their dumbassery emanates from their liberalism vs age-category. Why? Because most of the Millenials I've observed (chiefly via touring) outside of the left coasts aren't as dopey.

As for lazy...let's use some actual data instead of vituperation. If you check out the St Louis FRB's FRED database on the 20-34 yr old unemployment rate rate from 1948-today you will CLEARLY see that those allegedly entitled, lazy spoiled brats, arrogant know-nothings, living in mommy’s basement playing Fortnight eating Cheetos wanting to lecture the rest of us on how to live, have an unemployment rate (UMP) today of 3.5% that hasn't been this low since 1970.

Furthermore, while that UMP was lower for the 25-34yr-old corhorts from 1965-1970, those 'kids' back then were born between before the Boomers, which would mean Millenials are of a comparable propensity to be employed with the pre-Boomer generation. It is also worth noting that the 24-35 yr old UMP has been highly correlated with the overall UMP since 1980. This means Boomers, GenX, GenY, and Millenials aged 24-35 have all been equally employed relative to the rest of the age categories...none of those generation has been more or less relatively employed.

I appreciate your sentiment, and I get from where you're coming. Thank you.

85 posted on 06/08/2019 8:29:01 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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