I was a late Baby Boomer. I was young and irresponsible and did all the wrong things. But jobs were always easy to find, apartments were always cheap, and night classes at the university were cheap too. Took me 16 years to get my undergraduate degree, but I paid cash. But Reagan was president when I was in my 20s and the tech boom came in the 90s when I switched over to an IT path. I got the American Dream — wife, kids, big house in a nice suburb. I didn’t ever really struggle or worry. Stuff came to me, in large part because I chose a good time to be born.
Kids today have a tougher time finding a decent job, tougher time moving up in a career, tough time finding an apartment or a partner. There is no American Dream for most of them. Therefore, not much motivation for most of them.
This is a broken world, and the kids who are 20 years old aren’t the ones who broke it. Older people broke it. Bush, Obama, Biden. They ruined a great country and now we blame young people for saying it’s a rigged game and they’d rather not play.
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WOW! Self awareness and not just the usual intergenerational bickering. That’s unusual.
As a Gen Xer myself, I agree with the criticism of of a lot of Gen Z - that many of them lack critical reasoning skills, that a lot of them have utterly useless degrees like Gender studies, African studies, etc etc and that a lot of them bellyache about any expectation that they put in some hard work.
BUT
They are also not wrong when they point out that Baby Boomers overwhelmingly did get a much better deal all around...that there is less opportunity for younger people today than there was for getting a good paying job, buying a home, finding a good marriage partner, etc. Skyrocketing costs for education and housing, Outsourcing and a spiraling national debt are real and they are not things Gen Z created.
True, but that doesn't change the observations in the article - the writer says the kids are not as effective at their jobs as baby boomers are.
Apparently, the broken world produced broken adults.
I hate to break it to you, but this country was broken when the progs came to power in the early 20th century. The uniparty has existed since then and the idiots you mentioned in your post just continued the destruction with their fellows uniparty members in congress.
You are a realist and a patriot.
Absolutely. I don't blame the younger generation at all, as they've been dealt a bad hand. Also, as a Gen-X American, I remember when we were all called slackers. It seems every young generation entering the workforce has to deal with this sort of labelling from older generations.
Instead of denigrating and complaining about the younger workforce, older generations should do what they can to help them along. It's time for Gen Z to grow up, and they will with the proper assistance.
“ Stuff came to me, in large part because I chose a good time to be born.”
I disagree, every generation could say that.
Plenty of challenges for our Boomer generation.