Earlier quoted context omitted.
And I'm quoting (apocryphal) Socrates :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing
I would call that creative quoting.
And we can't have creativity being shown here, no sir!
Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
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Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#32It'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.
It could be a conspiracy. Or it could be too many column inches to fill and not enough time to fill them with something insightful. Yeah, probably conspiracy.
I'd call it a group of individuals acting out of rational self interest.
The notion that there's an agenda behind any media beyond selling eyeballs is, of course, a harebrained conspiracy theory.
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#33> But it wasn’t that surprising that people play video games all day and they have bad politics.
This article is dripping with bias.
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know nothing.
It's a quote from a Greek dude nearly 2300 years ago.
It's not. It's a made-up quotation from 100+ years ago, attributed to the Greek dude.
That said, the Greek dude had made some very astute observations of his own, that hold very well today. So it's not like "23 centuries" ago necessarily means an idea is stale or anything.
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#35Adam (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
There is nothing more Millennial than denying your generational cohort.
I'm serious. The Gen-Xers and Boomers didn't do it.
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#36Personally, 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.
> it's rational to blame them for a huge range of issues
No, it's not. It's making broad generalizations on a huge group of people. It's like blaming all white people for discrimination or all black people for crime. It's wrong and discriminatory, and makes the assumption that everyone in that group is equally bad.
Instead of focusing on a certain age group, focus on the economic forces that gave boomers more opportunity than the younger generations. It's not the age group that's caused the issues, it's those forces.
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#37It'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.
It could be a conspiracy. Or it could be too many column inches to fill and not enough time to fill them with something insightful. Yeah, probably conspiracy.
> Yeah, probably conspiracy.
There doesn't need to be a conspiracy for GP to be basically correct. If you're a true believer in the free market, the market can never fail, it can only be failed.
Bad economy? It's the millennials. Not enough jobs? It's the foreign imports. Stagnant real wages? Blame illegal immigration.
Daring to question the efficiency of nearly unregulated capitalism is basically taboo in America.
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#38Well, shouldn’t things that can’t sell their stuff anymore fail? In Denmark where I’m from, municipalities have grouped together to build open source software as a response to a market which fails to deliver the products we want. The industry response has been lobbying the government and trying everything in courts because it’s viewed as “job theft”. Well, not all industry, some companies have figured out software as…
Source of stats on CSGO finals?
Seems like this was note quite true.
CSGO finals had about 3m https://www.dexerto.com/news/e-league-csgo-major-breaks-view...
The 2017 Superbowl as one example, had 114M. http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/06/media/super-bowl-ratings-pat...
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> it's rational to blame them for a huge range of issues No, it's not. It's making broad generalizations on a huge group of people. It's like blaming all white people for discrimination or all black people for crime. It's wrong and discriminatory, and makes the assumption that everyone in that group is equally bad. Instead of focusing on a certain age group, focus on the economic forces that gave boomers more opportu…
Economics are not separated from politics. The poor diet of most Americans is a direct result of various subsidies given to the farming lobby. Individual choices allow an individual to be fat, but at a national level it takes vast tracts of land.
The growth of Chinese manufacturing is in large part a result of trade policies and our vast growing national debt's impact on currency's. Want long term growth? End deficit spending.
Our poor heath care system is again based on political choices.
The current drug policy and prison system is again an outgrowth of political choices.
Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Source of stats on CSGO finals?
Seems like this was note quite true. CSGO finals had about 3m https://www.dexerto.com/news/e-league-csgo-major-breaks-view... The 2017 Superbowl as one example, had 114M. http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/06/media/super-bowl-ratings-pat...
Maybe most watched in Denmark?