Why are fast food places & grocery stores open M-F, 8am-4pm then? Shouldn’t they be closed during those hours? |
I mean, I’m 36 and remember the OKC bombing, definitely remember 9/11, got boned by graduating in 2008, etc. you didn’t have it harder as a Gen X. |
Regardless of what you think, how you think the world should be, there will always be people not skilled or wealthy enough to get a college or trades degree. The median McDonald’s employee is 29 years old. Note that an unskilled 29 year old would be working at a factory if they’d been alive 60 years ago. |
FDR: https://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/blog/posts/what-did-fdr-mean-by-a-living-wage.htm |
Eh, I do think Millennials have had a raw deal with housing. They have had an amazing job market but housing is crazy expensive. GenX is happier because we aspired to be slackers and always assumed “Reality Bites”, and then when we did put in some effort and things got better, it was “party on, dudes” |
No, the average life expectancy of an American woman is 80. Add to it the fact that I’m white (it’s unfortunate that race makes a difference but it does), financially secure, and in good health with a good family history, then it’s probably higher. Of course sh happens and I could die tomorrow. Middle age mathematically is at least 40. But biologically and culturally, middle age is associated with things like menopause and other physical changes. Which is generally not in your 30s. And I have perky breasts and a flat stomach and firm legs so…. Nope, not middle aged. |
Because you took the guns from the sane people. |
Back when I went to college, four years of in-state tuition was still more than my parent's house. It was a trailer in rural PA. |
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The millennials are the first generation to grow up entirely with the internet. I'm gen x and remember long hours of boredom with nothing to read but novels or the newspaper, nothing to watch but Abbott and Costello movies or reruns of I ❤️ Lucy, no way to interact with friends except to knock on their door. Lot's of Gin Rummy and monopoly with my sister, hours by myself drawing, my brother building stuff. I think what went wrong is they never had enough boredom to level set them to real life or connect with their own insides. It seems like every minute of everyone's life, since the internet connected us all is filled with thoughts and ideas that come from other people. You're reading my thoughts right now, instead of having your own. It's only going to get more like that. Gen z will be the same. |
+1 |
You've never bought a newspaper? Excellent adulting. |
Not true for a lot of millennials. For kids around my age (1990) we didn’t really have it until late ES/early MS. And even then, it was dial up so slow and we couldn’t use it long. We had plenty of boredom. |
Sorry, people in their 30s are not middle aged. You are being a bit myopic and stubborn about this for some weird reason. |
Maybe they are right. Maybe we should want this for younger generations. Why do Americans take so much pride in keeping everything so hard? I actually want things to be easier for younger people. I don’t insist that they suffer just because I did. I have never understood that mentality. |