Posted on 08/15/2016 11:06:57 AM PDT by Lorianne
Millennials are not some vast unsolvable mystery. According to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau (PDF), they earn $2,000 less than their parents did at a comparable age, they are more likely to live in poverty, and they are more likely to live at home.
But Baby Boomers and Gen Xers still seem to find it hard to believe that basic economic math can explain much of the younger generations behavior.
After several news outlets, including The Daily Beast, reported that rates of millennial sexual inactivity in early adulthood are surprisingly high, armchair social theorists came out in force to blame it on everything but the fact that nearly one-third of young adults are still living at home.
One right-wing college news website found a way to attribute the finding to millennials desire for safe spaces.
Conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat speculated on Twitter that it was an example of the porn paradox, whatever that means. Others attributed it, predictably, to the effects of technology or increased anxiety. A Rutgers biological anthropologist even suggested that millennials might be too motivated and ambitious to even bother with sex.
The most likely explanationwhich was mentioned in the study itselfis that parents basements do not make great boom boom rooms. But who needs Occams razor when youre publicly opining about the behavior of an entire generation? Lower wages sending 22-year-olds back home after college isnt nearly as sexy as complaining about porn or political correctness.
The truth is that lower wages and poverty can account for so many of the things that older generations find so mystifying about millennials.
For example, millennials drive less than their parents generationand until recently, at leastwere relatively uninterested in buying cars. As The Atlantic reported in 2012, this crisis prompted automakers to appoint youth emissaries and come up with new car colors like techno pink and denim.
But trying to make cars cooler doesnt change the fact that, as CityLab found, theres a significant gap in vehicle miles traveled between millenials who make over $30,000 a year and those who make less. Simply put: Cars cost money and millennials have less of it.
Millennials have also been shamed for how much they spend eating out instead of say, saving for retirement. Millennials Are Spending an Embarrassing Amount on Brunch and Takeaway Pizza, Vice recently declared.
Its easy to chalk that generational difference up to some sort of narcissistic short-sightedness but the truth is probably a lot closer to fatalism: When millennials cant save for retirement anyway, why not spring for some bottomless mimosas instead of enrolling in a 401(k)?
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Go to hell.
Only to the degree that the boomers on this board draw broad sweeping assumptions about millennials.
Not sure there’s a better place yet. Stay around.
Or have I hit a more personal nerve? Are you a ball-buster feminist or a tranny yourself?
Im a boomer near the end of that generation, and no, I dont visit the doctor but perhaps once a year for a checkup.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the productivity of the millennials cant hold a candle to previous generations
Actually, several of us got pretty worthless college degrees and had to pursue additional training to find skills that were employable and could eventually employ others.
The millenials sadly have many factors against them. Poor college or other training advice by libtard counselors, poor grasp over seeking marketable training, a bad economy, and the fact that the boomers are a giant population where many of us still work. But we try to keep enough business in an era where the liberal politicians over-regulate and over-tax us so that we can still employ some millenials and X gen folks.
I do not know what more other generations expect us boomers to do besides running small businesses, eating right and exercising regularly so that we are a plus on the econonomy and not a drag on it.
More like stereotyping, I think, after watching them grow up, watching their work and play and social habits, listinening to their philosophies, observing their communications, seeing their reactions to direction and discipline. In general.
I can’t see how any self-respecting man would associate himself with a group that openly promotes faggotry and trannies.
There are two types of college degrees and only two types. Those that require calculus and those that do not. Those that require calculus are real degrees that end in a S as in B.S. M.S. and MSc. The starting rate for a petroleum engineer at my company is 115k first year out of college with a 25k sign on bonus even in lean oil times PEs are hard to come by. I have an MSc and first post grad year cleared 130 in total comp not including bonus. Most of the other degrees have little to no marketability and are paid commensurate to that fact. victim’s studies and gender studies is good for one thing making me my $12 gin and tonic after work or my 8 buck coffee in the mornings.
> Those that require calculus and those that do not.
Excellent, simple way to categorize!
So if you got a history degree in 1970, did that mean you were waiting tables?
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