Why are Millennials Getting Scammed so Much?

NBC Bay Area ^ | Mar 2, 2018 | Scott Budman

[ABN 505]

They have been indoctrinated since grade school that not only is anal sex good it's preferable.

[polymuser]

I guess being ignorant, naive and gullible could be costly.

Millennials believe they get so many things ‘for free’, clueless to the reality of what someone, somewhere is making off their harvested data (web data, personal data, facial data, associations list, friends list, GPS data from pics, etc.), or the reality that all workers pay for those gov freebies.

So, no surprise that they think something too good to be true, is probably true. After all, they got blue ribbons for showing up, no markdowns for misspelled words, and full credit for opinions.

Their future, finally facing immutable truths, is going to be painful and costly.

[AppyPappy]

Because there is no parent there to protect them.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Because, at least in my experience, most them possess about zero critical thinking ability.

If it comes to them on their iPhone they typically swallow whatever it is, hook, line and sinker.

[Vaduz]

They’re educated ?sometimes it doesn’t take.

[mulligan]

A liberal and worthless education program. Teaches one to stupid.

[eyedigress]

The key to life is be grateful you have one.

We all belong to God.

[sparklite2]

I guess that explains it. Critical thinking didn’t come into vogue until I have been out of school 35 years. How did we ever survive as a nation before?

[sparklite2]

The key to life is be grateful you have one.

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I took a course at Yale in the Philosophy of Death.
How to deal with the knowledge of one’s inevitable demise?
It was as you say. Given the overwhelming odds against
your being here in the first place, when you consider how many were never even conceived, the proper response to death
is gratitude for having been here at all.

I try to remember that.

[eyedigress]

Thanks. I impart this on everyone I meet. God shows me life.

[upchuck]

Critical thinking has been with us all along. Used to be taught in school, except no one called it critical thinking.

Not taught in schools anymore. Millennials are a result of the family breakdown and they are very naive as a consequence. Feel sorry for them, sorta. They got a raw deal. IMHO, the blame is shared between parents, 70% and teachers, 30%.

[sparklite2]

Used to be taught in school, except no one called it critical thinking.

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What did they call it?

[upchuck]

When I was in high school this was covered in a logic class where we learned how to use deduction, logical judgement, prioritization and the ability to make sound decisions based on these steps.

Wikipedia has a good article on critical thinking. Here's the summary.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The nuns in my grade school taught a specific unit on critical thinking, which has held me in good stead all these decades later.

You’re right, it isn’t likely taught in schools at all anymore.

[sparklite2]

Thanks, but I learned critical thinking on the job. LOL
As I said, there were no such courses when I went to school in the fifties.