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Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

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Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

#21
post #4

Personally, as a Millennial, I blame Boomers for everything.

Hah, well boomers do take money out of the stock market, while it's millennials putting money in (401K). Boomers take out social security, while it's millennials are paying for it.

Personally, it seems like it's the millennials keeping the whole system afloat!

Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

#22
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know nothing.

Dude, he is quoting. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-childre...

And I'm quoting (apocryphal) Socrates :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing

Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

#23
post #4

Personally, as a Millennial, I blame Boomers for everything.

Hah, well boomers do take money out of the stock market, while it's millennials putting money in (401K). Boomers take out social security, while it's millennials are paying for it. Personally, it seems like it's the millennials keeping the whole system afloat!

And it looks like the right logic except the part that boomers feel entitled to complain about everything.

Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

#24
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dude, he is quoting. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-childre...

And I'm quoting (apocryphal) Socrates :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing

I would call that creative quoting.

Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

#25
post #10

The 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.

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Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

#26

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Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

#27
I'd agree that they are clearly getting the short end of the stick for now, but I have to wonder... if the flower children grew up to give us Iraq and Trump, what kind of monsters will our Starbucks guzzling Warby Parkers transform into?

Or maybe I'm being too pessimistic? Perhaps a little adversity will make them turn out better...

Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

#28
There is little I dislike more than generational labels.

It's lazy and reductionist thinking that allows people to arbitrarily draw lines in whatever way they feel will best push their narrative.

Quick, 1981/1982[1] Millennial or X?

[1] Those born in 1981/1982 graduated in 2000

Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

#30
post #10

The 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.

You don’t even need to go back to Ancient Greece. Lazy journalists were kicking this old can, but about Generation X, during the ‘90s.
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