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It's WarriorDad. Or you.
Are they the same person?
I have no problem with millenials, despite your accusations.
Good. I must have you confused with somebody else.
As a father of a 20 year old and a father of another in their late 20's and one in their early 30's, that statement you made is not true. NOTHING IN COMMON? Wholly untrue, especially if they grew up in the same household. They may not have much in common or in some cases nothing, but that isn't going to be true in every case. Blanket statement not correct.Earlier one of your messages said crime may not be better because you grew up in an area where someone what shot. I am speaking of averages, and crime is down on average across this country. You seem to be making the error of extrapolating your experience and saying it applies to all.
I do think they lack patience, does that make me anti-millenial?
I can't possibly know if you are anti-Millennial. However, it does make you a guy who too often falls back on generalizations and stereotypes.I mean, I hear all Jews are good with money, too.
Like female reporters and what they wear and who they hug? Come on, give it a rest.....we all do it to an extent.
Only he/they/she/it knows.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
With posts like this, I'll never be able to forget the existence of Alanis Morrisette.As an aside, my browser wants to auto-correct "Alanis Morrisette" to "Alan is Terrorist" and all my brain is telling me right now is somehow I've got to put that to use.
Your judgement is clouded by ego. These generational arguments are always, "be happy for what you have, because I had to walk up hill both ways to make a nickel, and instead of crying about it, I did it". It is pride, that you worked hard to get where you are, and now you are in a position, where you do not realize how hard others still have it. When you were starting out, you could buy a home, and raise a family on 1 salary. Now, two people working struggle to accomplish that, and on top of it all people working their tail off are stuck with mortgage sized student loan debts.The idea of starting a family before one is 30 is considered impossible to most, because in order to get a salary equivalent to the $10k one you were talking about, you need an advanced degree.I could go on and on about what the current generation has as struggles, because I know them and interact with them daily. I also have the experience, and intellect, to be able to recognize that although the types of struggles changed between my generation and millennials, both groups have their respective struggles. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. And most importantly nothing ever changes in regards to cranky old men saying "kids these days."
Whoops...https://youtu.be/rEENNfD7PR0
This video in no way responds to the post you quoted.[edit]To elaborate, using this video this way is in tremendously bad faith. "We found that increased liquidity lead to an approximately 0.5% to 1% increase in homeownership" is the most important line of the whole thing (1:28 in). So in other words, we took a group of people that needed to spend or borrow a tremendous amount of money just to make it through college. Then we pumped another $7,500k in loans to them per year. Turns out, they spent that money on stuff! Conclusion, let's pump them full of more loans then they'll buy more houses and all kinds of other stuff faster!This is how really stupid economic policy demonizes entire groups of people. The same groups saying "hey look at that, student loans help you buy houses!" will be decrying idiot millennials for taking out money to buy things they can't afford - but only after an idiot millenial bails them out by buying their house.
This is sound from my experience. You and I are probably in a similar age group. The opportunities right now are amazing for people. Social media is one area that I believe causes younger people to feel like the world is on fire, and it isn't. 24 hours a day, bombarding your brain with stuff may not be a good deal. World news events, skirmishes, natural disasters have always happened, but now they are delivered to people in minutes or seconds, often straight from the source without vetting by media. That's the one area that I believe can have a corrupting influence on younger people today. Group think is the worst I have ever seen in my life. Tribal.
Our parents said the same thing about our television watching habits. They saw this new technology limiting our imagination, freedom and creativity by tying us to what was called the "idiot box." Granted, technology has boosted the number, frequency and immediacy of communications available to Millennials. But, if you had gone back to 1965 and queried our 30-something parents about the "new" technology in our homes, chances their attitudes would have been about the same as our's is toward the Millennials.Bottom line: The lesson my wife taught me will stick with me as I deal with the frustrations caused by the Millennials who work for me. "Just remember what you were like when you started out," she said.
Just flew for 7 hours over the atlantic, my seat mate, a millennial, said, "hi".