"Too many boys toys"
Eff you millenials and ze-ers.
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I’ve seen a lot of millennials say that they can’t wait until all the boomers and GenXers “die off.” (As they take another selfie, pontificate on Tik-Tok from inside their vehicles and sip their lattes.)
Ghoulish little people, they are.
But we weren't spoiled the way many millennials and gen-z seem to be.
When I went away to college I came back one summer, when I went to fill up with gas the girl behind the counter lived just down the road from us. This was a college town with an Ivy League university where her father taught as a law professor.
Can anyone image a law professor's daughter working as a cashier for extra money at a gas station while in college these days? This wasn't unusual then.
The “generation gap” was engineered.
Started with the development of “teenage” life. Then was advanced with the young Boomers: “Don’t trust anyone over 30.”
But the more dependent young adults are on their parents, the less they can developmentally separate from them—and the more likely they will instead displace that dynamic on their parents’ class more generally.
Millennials are the spoiled, self entitled spawn of the Boomers. Mr.GG2 has two of them and my cousin has 2 also.
I’m a late boomer. I hate front of the line boomers. They took their turn and kept taking their turn.
and no, you can't blame spending on lattes at Starbucks or smartphones to explain away the above. The country has adopted policies which have definitely made things tougher for all but the wealthiest.
For example:
What would happen if we radically slashed H1bs or imposed a hefty annual fee for each one such that it was MORE EXPENSIVE to hire a foreigner than it would be to train and hire an American? Corporate profits would decline slightly but lots of young Americans would get jobs and would get their feet on the career ladder who are not getting that now.
What would happen if we closed the border, deported tens of millions of illegal aliens and cut legal immigration? (Congress doubled it in 1990 from half a million to a million a year.....why?) That would greatly reduce demand for housing. Pushing the likes of Blackrock and Vanguard out of being able to buy residential real estate would lower the cost of houses further.
What would happen if we radically slashed administration at universities by about 75% back to where it was 40 or so years ago? College would get significantly cheaper.
What would happen if we slashed expensive and unnecessary regulation on businesses and imposed hefty tariffs on cheats like China? More companies would re-shore manufacturing creating good middle class jobs. Yes, the cost of some goods would go up but the benefits to social stability/cohesion and national security would far outweigh the costs IMO.
These are all choices the politicians have made. We could reverse course if we wanted to.
Entitlement, ingratitude, and a false understanding of what life was like for us.
Invincible Faith...the aura of personal gift power responsibility. “Pep in the Step” ALWAYS.
“You cannot serve Yaweh and Mammon.” - Quote: The Word made Flesh.
Resurrection Power.
Most Millenials and Zers are clueless about the destructive policies they advocate.
I have one millennial son and one gen-x. Just my experience, but the peers of my older son fit some of the stereotypes, but the gen-z kids I know are not the same. They were entering school around the time of the recession and didn’t quite have the entitled life the millennials had.
All my son’s gen-z friends are conservative, including the public school and non-churched kids. One thing is consistent, they feel they have a mess to clean up
"Too many boys toys"
We still have the jobs locked up, we have home mortgages in the 2 to 3 % range and we have defined benefit pension plans. They can’t afford houses so they have to rent and they can’t get high paying jobs because we are still in them. They will have pensions that are more based on earnings than the amount of time spent working. They don’t get senior discounts. We also had better music growing up.
PO’d because they have College debt? Nobody made you borrow for it, you should and could have paid out of pocket for CC. Do two years, get a scholarship, buy USED books, and work. Or work two years after your AD, go to Loonieversity on your savings. No spring breaks, no winter trips to the beaches, or ski slopes. YOU CHOSE your sorry lot, and voted for the Democrats who destroyed the system. OWN IT.
Everyone was getting married and married young during the boomer years, which meant work, family, trying to buy a home, and also military service for 10 million of them, more of an expectation of having to put their nose to the grindstone for a career, to have nice things eventually.
Is that still going on with these current kids?
Are they single and looking to buy houses, and with too high of expectations for location and modernness and amenities and being able to change work frequently?
The “Greatest Generation” had their problems too, at least when it came to politics and government. They were convinced that the good times were going to last forever and weren’t that great when things went splat. JFK, LBJ, RMN, Ford, Carter. Reagan was alright, but Bush Sr. set the pattern for boomers Bill and W and Barack.
Scott Galloway Describes the Tough Future Facing Gen Z | WSJ
Another article pitting people against each other .
STOP IT.
Boomers, millennials, etc.
All made up words to put people into groups and assume they all think/behave a certain way .
Conservatives shouldn’t fall for it.
There are conservative and liberal people of all ages.
“Well I consider myself a late boomers, boomers went to fight in Vietnam, with honor.”
You got it Dallas. Most of us reported when called up or went to work and got married and raised families. It was a tiny, loudmouthed minority that got all the attention and got us stuck with those bad stereotypes.
I try to look at things open minded so I can see where the resentment comes from. However, the reality for me growing up as a Boomer in the 1970s was that I had to join the military because I could not afford college. College loans were not as easy to get back then and my parents were deemed "too rich" for financial aid, yet they were lower working class at best. As a child, our big thing was riding our bikes outside because there was really nothing to do in the house. No computers, no video games, no cellphones, no VCR and only 3 or 4 stations on the TV that showed nothing but soap operas and game shows for housewives during the daytime. So you really had to go outside and find your own fun.
Looking back, I don't think it was all that bad but kids today would be incredibly bored with the prospects we had.
I married in my early 20s (few Millenials even think about marriage until 30) and had to work fulltime from that point on and any college courses was done at night on my own time and dime. Bought a house for $92,000 when I was in my late 20s, so that was fairly cheap. But it was a "fixer-upper" that required me to spend the next 10 years redoing pretty much everything befor we considered it "nice."
All in all, it wasn't that difficult for me to build a nice lifestyle as a Boomer but it did take a lot of hard work. I feel bad that Millennials don't believe they have the same opportunities that Boomers had, but generally speaking, they have had much more pampered and sheltered lives than us boomers.
Parents always want the best for their kids. I think us Boomers, generally speaking, went too easy on our kids and did not teach them very well how to overcome adversity.
My own children turned out very well, they have their own homes and families, with very little help from the wife and I. We wanted them to feel like they earned their success on their own merits. Of course, when we kick off, we'll leave them a nice bundle but it feels good to see that they made it on their own and they should feel good about it too.
They have been indoctrinated since grade school that the world is horrible and its all the previous generations faults....
PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE CHILD ABUSE, by and large.