NYT Opinion Piece: This Isn’t What Millennial Middle Age Was Supposed To Look Like

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Millennials would be so much happier if they embraced traditional values.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 34 and I am NOT middle aged. F off.

If you go by the median age of death in US you most certainly are

Middle age starts at 36. The average lifespan in the United States is 72 years old. 36 + 36 = 72

You are almost middle aged right now. Wake up.

Sorry, people in their 30s are not middle aged. You are being a bit myopic and stubborn about this for some weird reason.

Uh by the time you are over 35 you are by definition entering middle age. Middle age is 35-55.

So now 35 is middle age? In your next post, you will say it is 30! Why can’t you just accept that most of society considers it to be over 40? It is does necessarily begin at half the age of the average life span. Why do you insist on arguing that people in their 30s are old? So weird.

American Psychological Society defines it at 36, pretty common to be that range. 40 is too late.

https://dictionary.apa.org/adulthood

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7203662/

You just won’t quit, will you? It doesn’t matter what a bunch of eggheads wrote in 1950. Most people consider it to be in the 40s.

Oh, they wrote it in 1980, over 40 years ago. 36 is no longer considered middle aged by most people.

Life expectancy is up since 1980, but on the decline and still doesn’t make midlife 40

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

I think the most typical midlife crisis symptom of Millennials is the denial that they are middle aged.

Please stop. No one is buying it.

Millennials: Refusing Adulting to the bitter end

Good for them. It’s better than being dull cookie-cutter conformist tools who can’t be distinguished from one another like some of the people on this thread.

Yes, taking responsibility for yourself and your family, you are too cool for that.

You can do this without being a tool.

Pretty sure Millennials took the Toys R Us jingle as a mantra for life.

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Anonymous wrote:I want an answer to this question: when has there every been a better time for women, minorities and people are LGBTQ? I’ll wait.

Before colonialism and the global spread of Christianity?

Most practicing Christians these days aren't white and what makes you think the world was a more peaceful and kinder place before either Christianity or European colonialism? Pretty glad I wasn't alive during the rampages of the Mongol hordes or the never ending conflicts between Sunnis and Shias, or a Chinese peasant, or any peasant actually.

Times have never been better for people than today and I mean right now.

The Mongols weren't hordes. They won because they had superior technology and knew how to establish governance. They weren't mindless numbers. That's a racist cope.

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Anonymous wrote:There is something about millennials that went so wrong. Gen Z is better.

Um no. Gen z wants to copy millennials and all things 90s. They are some of the most self-absorbed weirdos I met.

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Anonymous wrote:I want an answer to this question: when has there every been a better time for women, minorities and people are LGBTQ? I’ll wait.

Before colonialism and the global spread of Christianity?

Most practicing Christians these days aren't white and what makes you think the world was a more peaceful and kinder place before either Christianity or European colonialism? Pretty glad I wasn't alive during the rampages of the Mongol hordes or the never ending conflicts between Sunnis and Shias, or a Chinese peasant, or any peasant actually.

Times have never been better for people than today and I mean right now.

The Mongols weren't hordes. They won because they had superior technology and knew how to establish governance. They weren't mindless numbers. That's a racist cope.

Yes - through devastating conquests of breathtaking cruelty.

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Anonymous wrote:There is something about millennials that went so wrong. Gen Z is better.

Um no. Gen z wants to copy millennials and all things 90s. They are some of the most self-absorbed weirdos I met.

And they are boring, salty, and dress ugly.

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wow as a proud Mughal I'm breathless at how DCUM never fails to show how racist and ignorant the people around me in my city are. I'm just rolling along reading this silly thread and feel punched in the gut. The word "horde' means force or army in turkic languages, it doesn't mean a random mass of people... originally and yes they were cruel but so were the white christian men who scalped Indians in California and traveled for weeks with bags of human skin hanging on their backs until they could get to a government agent and pull the human skin out and have them counted by the representative of teh United States government who paid them per head. Some of you had these lovely people for grandfathers and since we are in MD/VA Nightriders as well and it really shows. Even in a harmless thread. thanks for spoiling my evening.

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Seems like the answer to PPs question above about this present moment being a utopia for women, people of color, and LGBT people has been put to bed, yes?

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Anonymous wrote:I want an answer to this question: when has there every been a better time for women, minorities and people are LGBTQ? I’ll wait.

Before colonialism and the global spread of Christianity?

Oh right. Because the Aztecs were so kind to their enemies (or their own kind, for that matter). Educate yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like the answer to PPs question above about this present moment being a utopia for women, people of color, and LGBT people has been put to bed, yes?

Since the PRESENT is the utopia for women, POC and LGBT, yes.

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As a GenXer, my parents are both deceased and left me with nothing. I know I won't be getting an inheritance. Baby Boomers still won't retire, so I know I won't be getting a promotion. Millennials still won't stop complaining, so I know I won't be getting any Millennials to work for me.

Millennials don't have an understanding of what older people experienced in life because you just don't know any better. Your standard of living is based off of your Boomer parents standard of living. Colleges were redesigned for you to look like resorts. You were given endless supplies of free money for college, which you most likely will never pay back. You were on your parents health insurance until age 25.

Most generations before you did not grow up with the internet, cable tv, microwave ovens, trips all over the world, granite counter tops, and yes, avocado toast and $5 latte! LoL.

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Anonymous wrote:As a Gen Xer who graduated into the recession of the early 90s and then endured the financial crisis I find the millennial attitude/ignorance that they are apparently the first generation ever to face economic hardship laughable. This generation has been feeding at their boomer parents trough all their lives is on track to receive the largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history.

The largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history occurred when the Greatest Generation who served in WWII passed their wealth to their Boomer children. The Baby Boomers, now in their 60s and 70s, squandered their children's futures. They did.

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Anonymous wrote:As a GenXer, my parents are both deceased and left me with nothing. I know I won't be getting an inheritance. Baby Boomers still won't retire, so I know I won't be getting a promotion. Millennials still won't stop complaining, so I know I won't be getting any Millennials to work for me.

Millennials don't have an understanding of what older people experienced in life because you just don't know any better. Your standard of living is based off of your Boomer parents standard of living. Colleges were redesigned for you to look like resorts. You were given endless supplies of free money for college, which you most likely will never pay back. You were on your parents health insurance until age 25.

Most generations before you did not grow up with the internet, cable tv, microwave ovens, trips all over the world, granite counter tops, and yes, avocado toast and $5 latte! LoL.

I like how the standard Gen X argument about generational differences these days is to accuse Millennial of complaining too much... while complaining.

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Anonymous wrote:As a Gen Xer who graduated into the recession of the early 90s and then endured the financial crisis I find the millennial attitude/ignorance that they are apparently the first generation ever to face economic hardship laughable. This generation has been feeding at their boomer parents trough all their lives is on track to receive the largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history.

The largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history occurred when the Greatest Generation who served in WWII passed their wealth to their Boomer children. The Baby Boomers, now in their 60s and 70s, squandered their children's futures. They did.

+1.

And just look at our escalating national debt. The boomers won't care if our country goes broke so long as their Social Security and Medicare is generously funded until they're dead.

Basically they're taking one last deep swig and then will toss the empty bottle to the younger generations.

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Anonymous wrote:As a GenXer, my parents are both deceased and left me with nothing. I know I won't be getting an inheritance. Baby Boomers still won't retire, so I know I won't be getting a promotion. Millennials still won't stop complaining, so I know I won't be getting any Millennials to work for me.

Millennials don't have an understanding of what older people experienced in life because you just don't know any better. Your standard of living is based off of your Boomer parents standard of living. Colleges were redesigned for you to look like resorts. You were given endless supplies of free money for college, which you most likely will never pay back. You were on your parents health insurance until age 25.

Most generations before you did not grow up with the internet, cable tv, microwave ovens, trips all over the world, granite counter tops, and yes, avocado toast and $5 latte! LoL.

I like how the standard Gen X argument about generational differences these days is to accuse Millennial of complaining too much... while complaining.

We GenXers learned a long time ago how to be silent and stoic by our Silent Generation parents, that small generational cohort between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers. Stating "I know the reality of my situation," is not the same as stating, "My situation is sooooo unfair!" LoL.