Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
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Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
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Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#2Adam (from Adam Ruins Everything) does a really good talk at a marketing conference on why Millennials don't exist. Generational titles are never used to bring people up, but always tear a group of people down. Time magazine covers about Baby Boomers from decades ago are almost identical to those calling Millennials entitled today:
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#3Adam (from Adam Ruins Everything) does a really good talk at a marketing conference on why Millennials don't exist. Generational titles are never used to bring people up, but always tear a group of people down. Time magazine covers about Baby Boomers from decades ago are almost identical to those calling Millennials entitled today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFwok9SlQQ
Ugh. Typical Gen X cynicism and nihilism. ;)
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#4Personally, as a Millennial, I blame Boomers for everything.
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#5I have a friend that's just inside the 1980 millennial designation and he's always talking about how horrible millennials are. If I'm not happy with my job I sound like a millennial. If I'm complaining about relationship issues or say I feel socially isolated I sound like a millennial.
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#6I feel like there's some obvious point-missing going on here. "Millennials are killing X" is a marketing POV, and marketing fundamentally exists outside morality. It's not a moral indictment, it's just a bald statement of fact, like "the automobile is killing the horse-drawn carriage".
Disclaimer: I have not read everything that's ever been written about millennials.
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#7Personally, as a Millennial, I blame Boomers for everything.
Considering Boomers have actual power right now and plenty of time for their influence to spread; it's rational to blame them for a huge range of issues.
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#8It's simple divide and conquer. The 0.1% know you need somebody to blame for them squeezing you, so they tell boomers' it's millennials' fault and vice versa.
It works pretty well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15844087
If that doesn't work, they can always blame immigrants, Islam or blacks.
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#9Adam (from Adam Ruins Everything) does a really good talk at a marketing conference on why Millennials don't exist. Generational titles are never used to bring people up, but always tear a group of people down. Time magazine covers about Baby Boomers from decades ago are almost identical to those calling Millennials entitled today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFwok9SlQQ
Ugh. Typical Gen X cynicism and nihilism. ;)
That's because Generation X is tired of all this millennial talk, as Gizmodo explains so well:
https://gizmodo.com/5851062/generation-x-is-sick-of-your-bul...
;)
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#10The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.