It is almost as if each generation thinks the cultural environment they grew up in and the adults they became outweight the value of a newer generation. If only there was precedent for this somewhere in our history.
truly the worst things about the millennial generation is the ways in which they're a callback to the boomers
boomers = simply the worst of all time
To be fair they are largely a product of boomer parents who taught them the world worked a way it decidedly no longer works. You are taught from a young age that if you work hard and put in the effort you will get a great job and buy a nice house, but in reality houses are lol expensive and employers are trying to pay bottom dollar for talent, so it is really attractive for the millennial generation to attempt to reject traditional professional aspirations.
Essentially, imo, the plight of millennials in a lot of ways is that a generation was handed a road map to a city that was nuked like 10 years ago.
It is almost as if each generation thinks the cultural environment they grew up in and the adults they became outweight the value of a newer generation. If only there was precedent for this somewhere in our history.
truly the worst things about the millennial generation is the ways in which they're a callback to the boomers
boomers = simply the worst of all time
To be fair they are largely a product of boomer parents who taught them the world worked a way it decidedly no longer works. You are taught from a young age that if you work hard and put in the effort you will get a great job and buy a nice house, but in reality houses are lol expensive and employers are trying to pay bottom dollar for talent, so it is really attractive for the millennial generation to attempt to reject traditional professional aspirations.
Essentially, imo, the plight of millennials in a lot of ways is that a generation was handed a road map to a city that was nuked like 10 years ago.
this is a good metaphor
to be fair, things kind of sucked for gen x when we got out of school too. wages down, opportunities scarce, property unavailable, etc. the whole tiresome 1990s "disaffected cynicism" was borne out of that. probably the central difference was that gen x's parents mostly weren't core boomers and most of us seem to recognize their legacy - cultural and otherwise - as a malignant force. by and large, the sense of generational identity and "specialness" is relatively absent in gen x, maybe as a reaction to boomer's overweening sense of self-satisfaction. if i had to characterize the millennial generation it's that they have somewhat of the boomer sense of "specialness" and inherited some of boomers' bad ideas but really none of the actual advantages that boomers had.
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Is it a similarity? Or a difference? With who?
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I run an edge detector.
my parents be all
GO BUY A HOUSE
and i b liek
r u crazy
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this is a good metaphor
to be fair, things kind of sucked for gen x when we got out of school too. wages down, opportunities scarce, property unavailable, etc. the whole tiresome 1990s "disaffected cynicism" was borne out of that. probably the central difference was that gen x's parents mostly weren't core boomers and most of us seem to recognize their legacy - cultural and otherwise - as a malignant force. by and large, the sense of generational identity and "specialness" is relatively absent in gen x, maybe as a reaction to boomer's overweening sense of self-satisfaction. if i had to characterize the millennial generation it's that they have somewhat of the boomer sense of "specialness" and inherited some of boomers' bad ideas but really none of the actual advantages that boomers had.