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Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

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Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

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Source of stats on CSGO finals?

My source was the Danish subreddit. Turns out I was wrong though. It was the most watched in the age group of 15-39 year olds. Beating the Olympics but likely not our national soccer team which I haven’t been able to find numbers on. It had more than 90.000 viewers, or between 14 and 15% of the age group with 19% of the males in the age group watching.

Reddit as a source. This is so meta. I love it.

Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

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The group vs group dynamic here is quite interesting because one group consists of parents of the other, though not directly. Its those "other" children and those other "parents". Millennials are simply trying to live for the future, as their parents did. But the exponential growth stalled so the extrapolation they were prepared for is no longer correct. The wealth is dispersing elsewhere globally. Domestically only those that are part of this dispersion, mostly technologists and higher echelon finance people, continue this growth.

Millenial behavior that seem wasteful like avocado toast are a type of premium mediocre consumption that they are not oblivious to. It is a dispirited but sincere effort to tell themselves and their parents (and perhaps society) that they are alright.

In truth, one generation's over optimism (not greed, as many say) causes the latter generation to be ill prepared. Neither side wants to admit this is an emergent systemic situation but rather would prefer to imagine it is controllable. Millenial's think it was something done to them. The other groups think millenials do it to themselves.

All the while the countries without these group labels are simply rolling with the punches and surviving day by day and getting smarter. The countries that have grown too accustomed to wealth due to incorrect human belief that exponential growth can continue infinitely are too busy suffering to figure out how to survive. They are getting dumber.

Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

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Came here to post this. Gamergate is more than three years old now and yet people still try to dredge it up and smear it as a "misogynist hate campaign" when even a cursory amount of research proves otherwise (not if you only look at headlines of course). Once again a writer decides to try and project their personal opinions on to a subject they're* interviewing.

Nope, that's a pretty dead accurate description.

It's about as accurate as saying "all Muslims are terrorists" and I'm saying this as someone who sees that movement as a laughingstock since it has failed to reach any of it's goals and is full of internal conflicts that only divide it even further.

Re: Why We Blame Millennials for Everything

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post #22

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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

and here I was thinking you were quoting RR Martin's Ygritte.
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