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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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

We are tired of reading about it. I will complain about that. Oh, poor me, poor me. [/quote]

Then don't read it.

The whining is ridiculous. You think Gen Xers never wrote about their experiences, sometimes complaining or comparing them to those of their parents? I'm sorry, can I introduce you to an entire genre of writing called "blogging" that was basically invented by and dominated by Gen Xers for an entire decade. And most blogging was confessional in style, essays about parenting, work, society, culture, and media. Some of those folks are still blogging, some have moved on to non-media jobs, some now have more traditional media jobs at this point. They were the original influencers and popularized the idea of becoming internet famous for having a point of view and opinions.

But yes, please tell me about how the occasional essay by a Millennial in their 30s about their lived experience is somehow too much. Or how ALL Millenials are rich and privileged because they will ALL inherit a bunch of money from their universally wealthy Boomer parents.

And then explain to me how Gen Xers, as a group, are amazing at suffering silently while Millenials are whiny. Because like many Gen Xers, I adore irony. But unlike you, I understand it.[/quote]

I normally don't bother to read the whining. As for irony, I think millennials are in for a surprise regarding wealth transfer when their boomer parents kick off. Boomers will either spend every dime, donate it to some "worthy" cause, or attach crazy riders. Reverse mortgages make it is to transfer the wealth to someone and it isn't the millennial children.[/quote]
Boomers' long term care will take whatever's left.[/quote]

Yup. Honestly I just hope my parents have enough to not end up in a Medicaid bed at a sh-hole nursing home.  They probably it will though.  It’s going to be a rough road ahead for many families.[/quote]

Same. My parents are also trying to set my SN brother who can't work up for financial stability, which is a HUGE issue for a regular MC family, but SS is truly poverty level. There's not going to be an inheritance and quite frankly people in our circles have never benefitted from them, this is such a weird rich people expectation to generalize to all millennials. But such is DCUM!

I have to say, I did expect to be able to reproduce my parents' standard of living, especially on 2 incomes instead of one, but have come up a bit short. We are doing better in terms of retirement and college savings than they say they were at our age (although I truly don't believe they're accounting for inflation), but at the cost of a significant amount of space in housing and land. We actually did the math once and it's just more than twice as expensive in relation to salary as it was in 1985. [/quote]

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