Posted on 04/13/2020 12:50:24 PM PDT by C19fan
Hello, lost generation. The Millennials entered the workforce during the worst downturn since the Great Depression. Saddled with debt, unable to accumulate wealth, and stuck in low-benefit, dead-end jobs, they never gained the financial security that their parents, grandparents, or even older siblings enjoyed. They are now entering their peak earning years in the midst of an economic cataclysm more severe than the Great Recession, near guaranteeing that they will be the first generation in modern American history to end up poorer than their parents.
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Making a college degree useless as a signal of one has the skills and attitude to be a good employee. Getting a degree in Studies is a destruction of human capital.
They’re in real trouble. They have been conditioned to stand around with their hand out ... AS IF that’s going to solve their problems.
You get on your feet by getting off your A^%!
These little dipsh&&s are inheriting a lot more than their fathers and grandfathers. They don’t have to ruin their manicures with dirty old rifles and war. Now they’ll have to do what they should’ve done already. Save money and stuff.
OK, doomers.
Let them emigrate to a progressive paradise. Like China.
I’m a millennial. 9/11, financial crisis and now COVID-19 pandemic. Not so lucky. But there’s money to be made. Buy stocks when they’re cheap and sell when they’re expensive.
Wow, what total dickheaded comments being posted on this thread...
Their faith in technology will sustain them.
Look at the bright side, they can camp on their parents sofas for another 20 years and then inherit their estate.
You got any kids or grandkids? Do you want a future for them? Or do you just hate all humanity?
I don’t remember the financial security described here.
Pretty sure I joined the Marine Corps at seventeen and the military didn’t even pretend to pay what civilian life pays.
In fact, they wanted you to serve a term or two and get out, so that you could be part of a trained cadre they could call back up if needed and so they didn’t owe you a pension. All of that was above board and you knew it going in.
Job security? Entire industries were becoming obsolete and dumping competitive and competent competition against you on the market. The rise of photocopiers dumped thousands of typists on the market. All of them also had administrative experience that you didn’t have coming straight from high school or even from college.
So sad for all of the pajama boys.
My grandparents survived the Irish famine (2 were orphans) came to America as children and lived through 2 World Wars and a depression. All with no social safety net. They all ending up owning their homes and living better than their parents. God only knows what my great grandparents had to do to survive. I only knew one and she didn’t talk about the past.
I couldn’t agree more. Flaming arseholes.
Almost as if people didn’t live the comfortably secure life the author ascribed to them.
In short, you’re coming across as a misanthropic jackass talking out of his butt.
I have some sympathy. Most were raised to believe a college degree was the holy grail. You can’t help how you were raised - what else do you have to go on?
Those of different generations should provide leadership and support. These are the next generation. Lots of good people in it.
My Daddy (a product of both the Great Depression and World War II, where he served honorably in the Pacific) used to tell me that God gave you two hands, two feet and one ass, you were supposed to spend at least twice the time working as you did sitting.
For everyone’s edification.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misanthropic
:marked by a hatred or contempt for humankind
I have millennial kids and they are doing at least ok financially; some are thriving.
But we raised them with a conservative Christian world view and we all take care of each other
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