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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.
The Liberals look for victimhood. The Americans look for opportunities.
“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.”
Oh BS.
Good lord it’s been over 10 yrs since the “great recession”, With the longest stretch of growth and prosperity to rival any generation before. Anyone adult who suffered from the recession that didnt get their priorities in order since then will never learn no matter how much free stuff they are given.
Let’s see. Our parents and grandparents survived WWI, the Great Depression, and World War II. Millennials survived a broken controller on their Xbox.
I think moving all our Jobs to China and importing non-English speaking cheap labor will help millenniums out a lot !
The 8 years of Obama sucked the life out of everything. They shouldn’t have voted for him.
On the other hand, my dad graduated high school in 1932 right into the teeth of the Great Depression. By the time that was ending, World War II came along and he found himself in the Army Air Force. He was in his mid 30s when he experienced ‘normal’ times for the first time in his adult life. That generation somehow managed to do all right for themselves.
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