Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Baby Boomer here who did not benefit from any of the items you mentioned. I just worked two jobs when I could so that I wouldn't have massive student debt, and if I couldn't afford it I didn't buy it. I kept my cars for ten plus years and keep my smart phone forever, resisting the urge to have the newest and best. That's something your generation has perfected, the need for instant gratification and if you don't get it, you point your little fingers at everybody else, it's always someone else's fault, always. Not buying into your pity part, actually a little sick of your generation. Who are you going to blame when we all die out? No worries, I know you'll find someone or thing to blame other than yourself. Go take your nap.
Oh no, you'e not allowed to complain about having graduated into the worst economy since the Great Depression, or about having massive student debt that Baby Boomers didn't have. That makes you narcissistic.

Are you delusional? I worked three jobs, went to school full time, and still had massive student debt. That is because school just COSTS more now. That $7 minimum wage goes a hell lot less far than it did 30 years ago. FWIW, I paid off that massive debt by working at a job I hated and doing without, just praying I didn’t get sick or injured in a car accident because that could have quite literally destroyed my life. I was well into my 30s before I could buy a house. The Boomer who sold that to me made a tidy 200% profit.

To be honest, I can’t wait until your generation dies off. You climbed up the ladder your parents left for you and pulled it up behind you. You destroyed the social fabric of this country with your conspiracy theories and unending greed. See, e.g., the Great Recession, caused by your lies and your cheap McMansions you just had to fill with the latest in faux Tuscan garbage. You voted for bad policies that benefit corporations at the expense of people. Right when our country is about to break under the weight of your senior entitlements (that’s what they are, even if you paid 1% of the cost for them), you give yourselves a fat tax cut. You start dumb wars to keep the $ flowing and the people scared. My infant son will be paying off your debts for the rest of his life. When you die, we can start to clean up the mess.

It will mean more doing without, but we millennials are pros at that by now.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think this has anything to do with millennials or the economy or anything listed here. Anyone who has taught or worked with children over the past 20-30 years can tell you that parents are massively more anxious and hovering than they used to be, and this is due to one thing: the Internet. Since the late 1990s parents have made the internet into an echo chamber of their anxieties, causing everything from the ridiculous anti-vaccine movement to the epidemic of “have you had your child tested??” diagnoses.

And most of the parents doing all of this have been Gen X, not Millenials.

I guess it's nice to have one's existence acknowledged - a rare occurrence -- even if it's only to be blamed.

-Gen Xer

Anonymous wrote:Baby Boomer here who did not benefit from any of the items you mentioned. I just worked two jobs when I could so that I wouldn't have massive student debt, and if I couldn't afford it I didn't buy it. I kept my cars for ten plus years and keep my smart phone forever, resisting the urge to have the newest and best. That's something your generation has perfected, the need for instant gratification and if you don't get it, you point your little fingers at everybody else, it's always someone else's fault, always. Not buying into your pity part, actually a little sick of your generation. Who are you going to blame when we all die out? No worries, I know you'll find someone or thing to blame other than yourself. Go take your nap.
Oh no, you'e not allowed to complain about having graduated into the worst economy since the Great Depression, or about having massive student debt that Baby Boomers didn't have. That makes you narcissistic.

Anonymous wrote:Baby Boomer here who did not benefit from any of the items you mentioned. I just worked two jobs when I could so that I wouldn't have massive student debt, and if I couldn't afford it I didn't buy it. I kept my cars for ten plus years and keep my smart phone forever, resisting the urge to have the newest and best. That's something your generation has perfected, the need for instant gratification and if you don't get it, you point your little fingers at everybody else, it's always someone else's fault, always. Not buying into your pity part, actually a little sick of your generation. Who are you going to blame when we all die out? No worries, I know you'll find someone or thing to blame other than yourself. Go take your nap.
Oh no, you'e not allowed to complain about having graduated into the worst economy since the Great Depression, or about having massive student debt that Baby Boomers didn't have. That makes you narcissistic.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think this has anything to do with millennials or the economy or anything listed here. Anyone who has taught or worked with children over the past 20-30 years can tell you that parents are massively more anxious and hovering than they used to be, and this is due to one thing: the Internet. Since the late 1990s parents have made the internet into an echo chamber of their anxieties, causing everything from the ridiculous anti-vaccine movement to the epidemic of “have you had your child tested??” diagnoses.

And most of the parents doing all of this have been Gen X, not Millenials.

I guess it's nice to have one's existence acknowledged - a rare occurrence -- even if it's only to be blamed.

-Gen Xer

Anonymous wrote:As a genxer I can only shake my head at the hubris of any baby boomer who thinks they have any leg to stand on in criticizing anyone. You have been and continue to actively ruin the country. Self-absorbed? You guys invented that. Millennials inherited many disadvantages. I also think their instincts to not just eat shit with a smile are good for workplaces.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think this has anything to do with millennials or the economy or anything listed here. Anyone who has taught or worked with children over the past 20-30 years can tell you that parents are massively more anxious and hovering than they used to be, and this is due to one thing: the Internet. Since the late 1990s parents have made the internet into an echo chamber of their anxieties, causing everything from the ridiculous anti-vaccine movement to the epidemic of “have you had your child tested??” diagnoses.

And most of the parents doing all of this have been Gen X, not Millenials.

I guess it's nice to have one's existence acknowledged - a rare occurrence -- even if it's only to be blamed.

-Gen Xer

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, OP. Just no.

We will complain about you and your parenting style compared the past. Deal with it (whithout running off to your "safe space").

You millenials are the most self-absorbed, narcissistic, infantile generation ever. Your so immature, they now have offer remedial classes to adult millenials just to learn how to "adult!"

https://www.kxnet.com/news/bismarck-news/-adulting-classes-teach-millennials-basic-adult-life-skills/1663377272

Pathetic. I can only imagine what confused little brats you must be raising.

But who raised that adult? Why weren’t they taught how to assimilate to the real world as they grew? Or do you not believe the way you raise your kids has anything to do with their success as an adult?

Or the fact that millennial came into a crappy job market and housing market because the generations before us were greedy and we’re now suffering for your mistakes?

Oh no, you'e not allowed to complain about having graduated into the worst economy since the Great Depression, or about having massive student debt that Baby Boomers didn't have. That makes you narcissistic.

Hey, Baby Boomer PP: Did you ever think about the fact that your American Dream was, for a lot of people in your generation, funded by the GI Bill (which paid for college and a house for tons of baby boomers)? You didn't have student debt on NEARLY the level we have. The job market was significantly better in the 60s and 70s than it was when most of us graduated from college.

You call it complaining and say "we did it ourselves, so why can't you?" Except most of you DIDN'T do it yourself. You got huge help from government programs and a great economy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, OP. Just no.

We will complain about you and your parenting style compared the past. Deal with it (whithout running off to your "safe space").

You millenials are the most self-absorbed, narcissistic, infantile generation ever. Your so immature, they now have offer remedial classes to adult millenials just to learn how to "adult!"

https://www.kxnet.com/news/bismarck-news/-adulting-classes-teach-millennials-basic-adult-life-skills/1663377272

Pathetic. I can only imagine what confused little brats you must be raising.

Preach! My oldest is 29. Youngest is 16. I have a foot in both worlds. The difference is truly astounding.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think this has anything to do with millennials or the economy or anything listed here. Anyone who has taught or worked with children over the past 20-30 years can tell you that parents are massively more anxious and hovering than they used to be, and this is due to one thing: the Internet. Since the late 1990s parents have made the internet into an echo chamber of their anxieties, causing everything from the ridiculous anti-vaccine movement to the epidemic of “have you had your child tested??” diagnoses.

And most of the parents doing all of this have been Gen X, not Millenials.

I guess it's nice to have one's existence acknowledged - a rare occurrence -- even if it's only to be blamed.

-Gen Xer

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, OP. Just no.

We will complain about you and your parenting style compared the past. Deal with it (whithout running off to your "safe space").

You millenials are the most self-absorbed, narcissistic, infantile generation ever. Your so immature, they now have offer remedial classes to adult millenials just to learn how to "adult!"

https://www.kxnet.com/news/bismarck-news/-adulting-classes-teach-millennials-basic-adult-life-skills/1663377272

Pathetic. I can only imagine what confused little brats you must be raising.

But who raised that adult? Why weren’t they taught how to assimilate to the real world as they grew? Or do you not believe the way you raise your kids has anything to do with their success as an adult?

Or the fact that millennial came into a crappy job market and housing market because the generations before us were greedy and we’re now suffering for your mistakes?

Baby Boomer here who did not benefit from any of the items you mentioned. I just worked two jobs when I could so that I wouldn't have massive student debt, and if I couldn't afford it I didn't buy it. I kept my cars for ten plus years and keep my smart phone forever, resisting the urge to have the newest and best. That's something your generation has perfected, the need for instant gratification and if you don't get it, you point your little fingers at everybody else, it's always someone else's fault, always. Not buying into your pity part, actually a little sick of your generation. Who are you going to blame when we all die out? No worries, I know you'll find someone or thing to blame other than yourself. Go take your nap.
Oh no, you'e not allowed to complain about having graduated into the worst economy since the Great Depression, or about having massive student debt that Baby Boomers didn't have. That makes you narcissistic.

Hey, Baby Boomer PP: Did you ever think about the fact that your American Dream was, for a lot of people in your generation, funded by the GI Bill (which paid for college and a house for tons of baby boomers)? You didn't have student debt on NEARLY the level we have. The job market was significantly better in the 60s and 70s than it was when most of us graduated from college.

You call it complaining and say "we did it ourselves, so why can't you?" Except most of you DIDN'T do it yourself. You got huge help from government programs and a great economy.