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re: Millennial and under baws: what’s the craziest boomer advice you’ve heard?
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:11 pm to RoyalAir
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:11 pm to RoyalAir
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The stock market hasn't risen - it's kept pace with runaway inflation. The overall spending value of a dollar has dropped 25% while the stonks have risen 25%. You're not making money, you're staying afloat. Millenials have seen *three* black swans in their lifetimes, as they've been trying to get into adulthood. The Iraq War was right when they were old enough to get shot at in the sandbox, the 2008 crash wipes out the private hiring sector when they get back, and when they're in the prime of their careers, COVID broke the game for 3 years to protect old people. This isn't to mention the fact that the corporate world has been actively weaponized against white men, who were trying to "climb the ladder." Still, I've got a family, job, and a mortgage. Hardly a loser. But I can admit the cards were shite.
Love the blame game brother. It’ll get you no where in life.
Look outside. Lots of millennials that are crushing it today still. Whining gets you no where.
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Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:16 pm to fareplay
Can someone start a thread titled "things you have heard boomers say while trying to function in today's world".
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:20 pm to r0cky1
The average debt that millennials came out with was so much higher vs previous generations that we had no money to take advantage of most of those….
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:25 pm to fareplay
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The average debt that millennials came out with was so much higher vs previous generations that we had no money to take advantage of most of those….
Who signed for and agreed to that debt?
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:25 pm to r0cky1
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Love the blame game brother. It’ll get you no where in life.
Look outside. Lots of millennials that are crushing it today still. Whining gets you no where.
100% correct
Signed - a Millennial who just bought a house
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:29 pm to Loup
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they don't seem to understand that $100k is the new $50k
That's quickly becoming $150k
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:31 pm to DCtiger1
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Who signed for and agreed to that debt?
I see we're looping back to the "just walk in there with a high school diploma and a firm handshake and they'll give you a job" advice
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:33 pm to r0cky1
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Look outside. Lots of millennials that are crushing it today still.
Present and accounted for.
All I'm saying is, the world is different than it was 10 years ago, and wildly different than 20 years ago. If Millenials got a pair of 3s, Alpha is having their cards thrown on the fire while the buy in just got raised.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:35 pm to Ingeniero
It's a simple question. I graduated with debt, I found a job that would pay off my loans over a period of time.
Millennials who went into massive debt for useless degrees bear some of the blame.
Millennials who went into massive debt for useless degrees bear some of the blame.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:48 pm to Stealth Matrix
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That's quickly becoming $150k
And the guys making 300k per year are the ones who are 76 and refuse to retire so they can’t fathom paying someone six figures who isn’t in some form of management so they keep offering 65k to people with specialized skills and 15+ years of experience while the insurance package they pretend is great costs $1500 a month for a family of 4. It’s rampant in my world
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:58 pm to RoyalAir
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All I'm saying is, the world is different than it was 10 years ago, and wildly different than 20 years ago. If Millenials got a pair of 3s, Alpha is having their cards thrown on the fire while the buy in just got raised.
You’re a pathetic man.
Why not compare yourself to those born in 1900? Experience WW1/WW2/Great Depression.
Shite is still easy today, Christ.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:59 pm to ShoeBang
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And the guys making 300k per year are the ones who are 76 and refuse to retire so they can’t fathom paying someone six figures who isn’t in some form of management so they keep offering 65k to people with specialized skills
We’ve mostly beyond that stage. There aren’t many companies that let people in their forties or fifties hang around anymore.
If anything the millennials need to concern themselves about the increasing likelihood of being locked out of the job market if they find themselves laid off in their forties.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 2:14 pm to Bigdawgb
100% false, as millennial with 2 houses. Funny game isn’t it?
Posted on 2/4/26 at 2:19 pm to fareplay
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100% false, as millennial with 2 houses. Funny game isn’t it?
Can you elaborate...you're a millenial successful enough to have 2 houses and you're saying millennials aren't successful??
Posted on 2/4/26 at 2:20 pm to Bigdawgb
Anyone can hit a lottery. The average millennial definitely has it much harder than previous gens.
Using anecdotal cases to define the population is dumb. He also thinks owning a house gives him credibility and I’m challenging that by saying if I own 2, am I twice as credible? Probably not.
Using anecdotal cases to define the population is dumb. He also thinks owning a house gives him credibility and I’m challenging that by saying if I own 2, am I twice as credible? Probably not.
This post was edited on 2/4/26 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 2/4/26 at 2:21 pm to Bigdawgb
And a Porsche
Posted on 2/4/26 at 2:31 pm to fareplay
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Using anecdotal cases to define the population is dumb. He also thinks owning a house gives him credibility and I’m challenging that by saying if I own 2, am I twice as credible? Probably not.
Why say he when you're replying to me directly?? That's even more dumb, I'm right here lol
My point is that there are plenty of successful Millenials, just like there were successful people throughout far worse periods of history. They didn't all hit the lottery and they weren't all born into it; that's a terribly small-minded opinion of other's success. Look at what works right now & what you believe the future holds, then adapt.
Idc if you want to say that the average person of X generation had it worse, that's an entirely separate discussion from what I was replying to. I'm simply saying that a big pity party isn't going to move you ahead in life
Posted on 2/4/26 at 2:34 pm to Bigdawgb
I’m saying not speaking up about inequalities is objectively a bad way to make changes. Not speaking up and taking your worker ant pay assuming stuff will change itself?
And by lottery I mean studying the right major, accepting the right job, marrying the right partner, etc.
And by lottery I mean studying the right major, accepting the right job, marrying the right partner, etc.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 2:43 pm to fareplay
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And by lottery I mean studying the right major, accepting the right job, marrying the right partner, etc.
That's not winning the lottery, that's making smart decisions. You're suggesting everything is based on luck?
Posted on 2/4/26 at 2:51 pm to DCtiger1
Smart decisions are not based on you alone but factors around you that impact those decisions. Nobody knew tech would be so lucrative, my peers at A&M all went to petro Eng or finance just to hit the recession and oil wars.
Discrediting external factors and saying you have to pull your bootstraps is true boomer advice
Discrediting external factors and saying you have to pull your bootstraps is true boomer advice
This post was edited on 2/4/26 at 2:52 pm
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