Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
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.
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?
Anonymous wrote: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?
Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous wrote:There is something about millennials that went so wrong. Gen Z is better.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.![]()
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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.