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re: Will the millennials be a lost generation?
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:29 am to TigerHam85
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:29 am to TigerHam85
They absolutely did in 2008
2012 is a little harder to say
2012 is a little harder to say
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Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:29 am to LucasP
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Darth, you pop up in these threads a lot and tend to stick on the offensive. I may have missed it but I've never seen you claim a generation, just shitting on millennialis and boomers. Can you please tell us what generation you belong to and why it is or isn't shitty?
I was born in 1970. I'm gen x, sandwiched between the boomers and Millenials. And from the outside looking in at those two generations, they're very much alike. As for my generation, we're not perfect either.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:29 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Obama is a boomer. Boomers automatically lose every argument.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:30 am to LucasP
Millenials are just trading school debt for house debt. 30-yr mortgages are a cancer.
Most of the millennials I know are very anti-debt. Like Dave Ramsey serious about it.
I understand that the few that get crap degrees give the rest a bad name, but how many parents do you know that tell their kids NOT to go to college?
In the work environment with so many boomers refusing to retire, millenials have to be over-qualified to compete with the vast experience of people 30 years older than them.
You'll see. Anti-debt. Fiscal conservative. Socially moderate to liberal. They might be ok.
Most of the millennials I know are very anti-debt. Like Dave Ramsey serious about it.
I understand that the few that get crap degrees give the rest a bad name, but how many parents do you know that tell their kids NOT to go to college?
In the work environment with so many boomers refusing to retire, millenials have to be over-qualified to compete with the vast experience of people 30 years older than them.
You'll see. Anti-debt. Fiscal conservative. Socially moderate to liberal. They might be ok.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:32 am to Esquire
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Obama is a boomer. Boomers automatically lose every argument.
Obama is not a boomer. He's GenX.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:32 am to Darth_Vader
First off, you're pretty young to be so crotchety. Save the grumpiness for when life really starts to suck, it's a marathon not a sprint.
Secondly,
Didn't satisfactorily answer my question.
Secondly,
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we're not perfect either.
Didn't satisfactorily answer my question.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:33 am to Darth_Vader
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I'm gen x, sandwiched between the boomers and Millenials.
We're the middle children of history, man.
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we're not perfect either.
We're far closer than the ones on either side of us.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:33 am to CadesCove
Middle child syndrome.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:34 am to Mahootney
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In the work environment with so many boomers refusing to retire, millenials have to be over-qualified to compete with the vast experience of people 30 years older than them.
Every job requires experience which is impossible to get when such few positions are available. Boomers are refusing to retire because they know what lies ahead. This leaves millennials standing around with degrees for positions that no one will give them a chance to start because there are older boomers with experience already.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:35 am to constant cough
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Obama is not a boomer. He's GenX.
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Baby boomers are people born during the demographic post–World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the term "baby boomer" is also used in a cultural context.
Want to guess when Obama was born?
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:35 am to CadesCove
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We're far closer than the ones on either side of us.
It helps when you were in your 20s and 30s during the economy of the 1990s compared to the 2010s.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:36 am to CadesCove
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We're the middle children of history, man.
True
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We're far closer than the ones on either side of us.
True again. I think this is because we grew up and saw the mistakes of the Boomers before us and chose to go about life in a different way. Now we're seeing the millennials come up and they look to be just a rehash of the Boomers.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:37 am to CadesCove
I think it's a cycle.
Greatest gen raises boomers.
Boomers rebel against parents and become shite.
shite boomers raises genX.
GenX rebel agains boomers and turn out great.
GenX raises millenials. See greatgen-> boomers.
Greatest gen raises boomers.
Boomers rebel against parents and become shite.
shite boomers raises genX.
GenX rebel agains boomers and turn out great.
GenX raises millenials. See greatgen-> boomers.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:37 am to GetCocky11
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GetCocky11
You left off $19 trillion in national debt with no end in sight due to Government Spending, that will somehow have to be paid back. I wonder who fronts that cost???
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:37 am to LucasP
In these thread, like irl you always hear/read-
Boomers are the worst generation that screwed everything up, and the millennials are either entitled spoiled young adults in debt or are those who have limited opportunities and drowning in student debt.
How did generation X skate by?
Boomers are the worst generation that screwed everything up, and the millennials are either entitled spoiled young adults in debt or are those who have limited opportunities and drowning in student debt.
How did generation X skate by?
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It's pretty common these days for the media to make fun of millennials. But back in the 1990s, the previous generation, Generation X, got much the same treatment. They were slackers, they were entitled, blah blah blah.
In truth, members of Generation X -- Americans born between 1965 and 1980 -- earn substantially more money than their parents did at the same point in their lives. That is one conclusion of a report by the Pew Charitable Trusts from September, which tracked Generation X households and compared them with their parents at similar ages.
Pew found that the typical Gen-X household makes about $12,000 more than its parents' household did at the same age, after adjusting for inflation and changes in household size. That also dispels the slacker myth, since much of that gain has come from increased amounts of paid work. Total labor force participation has risen strongly during most of their working lifetimes.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:38 am to Darth_Vader
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Now we're seeing the millennials come up and they look to be just a rehash of the Boomers.
Who raised this generation and what was the economy like when millennials were growing up?
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:38 am to Darth_Vader
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True again. I think this is because we grew up and saw the mistakes of the Boomers before us and chose to go about life in a different way. Now we're seeing the millennials come up and they look to be just a rehash of the Boomers.
More like you had the very good fortune of riding the largest economic expansion in American history from the mid-1980's until 2008.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:39 am to GetCocky11
Most milennials have no idea what's going on in the Eurozone.
For me, the most concerning thing is a lack of reverence for the traditions that make America exceptional. Take for instance the SCOTUS gay marriage ruling. Absolutely no one gave a frick about the constitutional basis or future legal implications of the decision, and we're more concerned about making rainbow colored Facebook pictures.
In general, I think people are a product of their environment, and generations are extremely vaguely defined, so I think pitting groups against each other is a worthless exercise. Can you imagine what our children will say about us? But don't assign blame of financial illiteracy or irresponsibility to one generation when the current youth fully endorsed that in recent presidential elections.
For me, the most concerning thing is a lack of reverence for the traditions that make America exceptional. Take for instance the SCOTUS gay marriage ruling. Absolutely no one gave a frick about the constitutional basis or future legal implications of the decision, and we're more concerned about making rainbow colored Facebook pictures.
In general, I think people are a product of their environment, and generations are extremely vaguely defined, so I think pitting groups against each other is a worthless exercise. Can you imagine what our children will say about us? But don't assign blame of financial illiteracy or irresponsibility to one generation when the current youth fully endorsed that in recent presidential elections.
This post was edited on 8/5/15 at 9:43 am
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:40 am to GetCocky11
Millennials are being cheated in a lot of ways.
The problem is they're too hard headed/distracted/brainwashed to figure out what's going on. Hopefully they figure it out.
The problem is they're too hard headed/distracted/brainwashed to figure out what's going on. Hopefully they figure it out.
Posted on 8/5/15 at 9:40 am to AbuTheMonkey
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More like you had the very good fortune of riding the largest economic expansion in American history from the mid-1980's until 2008.
Yep. Lucky circumstance is always a factor.
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