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Millennials are Selfish and Entitled...
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I can't speak for all the quote since I'm Australian and Regan is nothing more to me than that actor guy.
But I suppose with more and more emphasis on protecting children with each passing generation there is a sense of entertainment that is bound to grow generally speaking. I mean Helicopter parents, those new age "we must never hurt their feelings" parents probably contributed to a sense of entitlement among the youth. Add in ever increasing comforts with better technology and well...
But it goes back way before the Melennials. A few generations at least.
But I suppose with more and more emphasis on protecting children with each passing generation there is a sense of entertainment that is bound to grow generally speaking. I mean Helicopter parents, those new age "we must never hurt their feelings" parents probably contributed to a sense of entitlement among the youth. Add in ever increasing comforts with better technology and well...
But it goes back way before the Melennials. A few generations at least.
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Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Yea. I think there is an amount of truth to that. Each subsequent generation essentally is the product of the prior one.
People do say karma is a *****.
Terese, I don't think Millennials overall are any more selfish or feel any more entitled than former generations. There may be some general differences, such as that Millennials may not have as much fear of socialism as former generations, or they might be a wee bit less sexually active in their teens, or they might be somewhat less religious than their elders. But I think the notion they are more selfish or feel more entitled is laughable.
Let's take this a step further. I am very bitter with the baby boomer generation because of their moral high horse that they rode in on, but let's consider a few things...
And then what happened, papa Q?
Well kids...
Wow, that sounds bad... but we aren't done yet...
So to any baby boomer jack@#$ out there who looks down their long nose at my generation and says we aren't good enough... @#$% you. Half of the problems I have to deal with are the product of decades of political, economic, and social choices that took place before I could even drive a car. So when you look at me and say "this is your fault" you can drive a flaming bus off Niagara Falls, you arrogant piece of crap!
/rant
Demonslayer
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Absolutely this. If anything its the generation before that can't stop constantly whining and griping about "these damn millennials." Oh look at them with their hipster tight jeans and man-bun hairdo! Yeah, you think you looked any better with your Cuban heel boots, brylcreem duck tail hairdo and a pack of Lucky's rolled up in your t-shirt sleeve?
Every generation does this...craps on the generation coming up without remembering all the stupid crap their generation did. Hey I'm 45, I wore parachute pants for pete's sake...I'm going to make fun of a hipster or a kid with his jeans down around his butt?
The halls of Harvard, MIT, Julliard and Berkeley are chalk full of millennials. Millennials will land people on Mars and cure cancer. Your doctor is probably a millennial, and if not now, down the road it will be. I train at a Crossfit gym and I'm the far out old man surrounded by hundreds of super fit millennials, training for 50 mile super marathons, tough mudder races and American Ninja Warrior. The Unites States Marine Corps and the Navy Seals are all millennials. The world didn't carry on for thousands of years and then suddenly today's generation is going to crumble. It's a perception thing, avoid being a curmudgeon, the next generation is no worse than yours or the one before yours.
And they looked great on you, I'm sure!
And the quote bespeaks shrill partisanship.
Reagan was an "economic illiterate" and responsible for economic conditions many decades hence?
Pish posh!
What generation of old fogies doesn't criticize young whippersnappers?
They called us "dirty hippies", but now we've become the geezers.
We shake our canes at millennials, telling'm to get their lazy entitled arsches off'n our lawns.
Nuthin changes.....except no one over-used "entitled" back in the day.
Demonslayer
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And they looked great on you, I'm sure!
Oh you know it, I had more zippers than a stack of Sticky Fingers albums. Along with the mullet, it was a sweet look indeed!
Oh, you wacky lefties!Yup
Always think'n that we knuckle walk'n capitalists is unedumacated!
I studied me guzintahz!
REPORTED! I NEED AN ADULT!Not us! We are perfect in every way, at every age.
YOU TAKE THAT BAC- no, wait, you're right.
My interests are pretty common.
This is perhaps one of the more poignant articles on Millennial I've read: "Adulting" is an Indictment of Society, Not of Millennials by John Beckett. An excerpt from this essay:
Millennials – and others – were told they could be anything they wanted. We told them to “follow your bliss.” Of course, we didn’t mean it. What we meant was “you can choose from any of the approved options that support our way of seeing the world.” We removed many (though far from all) of the blocks previous generations had based on gender, race, or orientation, but everyone was still expected to get a job, pay taxes, and contribute to the maintenance of the system, whether that system supported their bliss or not.
But the Millennials heard what we told them over and over again and assumed it was true. And then when it came time to be an adult, they didn’t like what they saw.
“So you want me to put on expensive, uncomfortable clothes, commute to a job, work all day five or six days a week for 50 weeks a year, all so we can ‘increase shareholder value.’ If I play this game really really well maybe in 20 years I’ll be an executive and make tons of money, but I’ll work even more hours. If I don’t, I’ll be kicked to the curb the first time ‘fixed expenses’ need to be cut so some executive can make his bonus target.
If this is being an adult, I want to be something else.”
But the Millennials heard what we told them over and over again and assumed it was true. And then when it came time to be an adult, they didn’t like what they saw.
“So you want me to put on expensive, uncomfortable clothes, commute to a job, work all day five or six days a week for 50 weeks a year, all so we can ‘increase shareholder value.’ If I play this game really really well maybe in 20 years I’ll be an executive and make tons of money, but I’ll work even more hours. If I don’t, I’ll be kicked to the curb the first time ‘fixed expenses’ need to be cut so some executive can make his bonus target.
If this is being an adult, I want to be something else.”
Yes, and no. Both of my kids are millennials, and I think the largest differences are:
1) College doesn't equal high paying job, unless it's a big name school. The cost of the schooling is insane. Most of the people of my generation were able to repay their loans in a year or two of professional life. Not the case anymore. This mega-debt out the gate doesn't allow for very many stellar outcomes.
2) Other jobs are hard to find, and large amounts of them are unemployed. It's easier to apply for welfare and crash at your folks house than work. It's probably more profitable too in the case of low paying jobs.
3) Drugs are a much larger problem, and everyone is on a cocktail. (legal or not) Chemically enhanced (or hampered) living.
4) Homeownership is almost a myth with the under 25 crowd. The combination of #2 + #3 = really difficult to get the credit up. Especially after the mega-loans on #1.
5) No savings, most of them being a part of the greater precariot.
So, I guess the thing to me is if they feel entitled they're nuts. They have it worse, and they have even less ability to dig themselves out of any perceived holes.
As far as Reagan, he was basically a wall st. puppet like Obama/Hillary. So, if you hate what he did don't vote for them.
1) College doesn't equal high paying job, unless it's a big name school. The cost of the schooling is insane. Most of the people of my generation were able to repay their loans in a year or two of professional life. Not the case anymore. This mega-debt out the gate doesn't allow for very many stellar outcomes.
2) Other jobs are hard to find, and large amounts of them are unemployed. It's easier to apply for welfare and crash at your folks house than work. It's probably more profitable too in the case of low paying jobs.
3) Drugs are a much larger problem, and everyone is on a cocktail. (legal or not) Chemically enhanced (or hampered) living.
4) Homeownership is almost a myth with the under 25 crowd. The combination of #2 + #3 = really difficult to get the credit up. Especially after the mega-loans on #1.
5) No savings, most of them being a part of the greater precariot.
So, I guess the thing to me is if they feel entitled they're nuts.
They have it worse, and they have even less ability to dig themselves out of any perceived holes.As far as Reagan, he was basically a wall st. puppet like Obama/Hillary. So, if you hate what he did don't vote for them.
Really? I would be interested in a source behind this one.
The right degree from a no-name school is still pretty good, eg, engineering.
My under-grad tuition was $300/term.
My daughter's was somewhere well north of $10,000/term.
But now they have fancier buildings, plusher dorms, & racial/gender/privilege/cis sensitivity training.
The real gubmint money is in whelping out a few kids.
Home ownership is over-rated.
Heed this sage advice from a former Realtor & current home owner.
Instead of b**ching them out, I thank them for working so hard to fuel my Social Security payments.
Hey!
I get another one this month.
Thank you....everyone who works & pays taxes!
"Everyone" is quite obviously hyperbole.