millenials must be the most screwed over generation in history

My post comes across as harsh, I know. I should be nicer. But the ones I know had no backup plan, no savings, and no clue. They assumed the economy would always grow. They accepted free trips to exotic places and looked to be living a life of luxury but once the spigot was turned off, they were back living with mom and dad. This will be a valuable lesson about savings, contingency plans, etc.

The whole idea of labeling what seems to me to be a random set of years is ridiculous. According to google, Millenials are defined as having been born between 1981 and 1996. There's a heck of a difference between people born in '81 versus those born in '96.

If you were born in 81, you were in high school before you even possibly heard about the web, and likely never used or saw it by time you graduated. Let alone have a cell phone. Those born in '96 would have had common access to the web during their entire schooling and by middle school, would have been possible to have cell phones and certainly by high school. Not just cell phone, but smart phones.

I have a son born in 1997, now I know "not a millenial", but close enough that what I say above is true. He does not remember there ever not being an internet and really doesn't remember much about there not being smart phones.

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I put them in same category as successful MLM people. Very few are successful, but some can make it. Just like with MLM, a lot of it is smoke and mirrors with comped goods and trips, so it makes it hard to know how wealthy any of these people ACTUALLY are vs. what they appear and promote. How many of luxury goods they photograph themselves with are fake? Or borrowed? We don’t know.

I follow one girl who is near the top of her MLM’s pyramid, constantly taking fancy reward trips and talking about being the breadwinner in her family, bonuses and paychecks, etc. How she quit her job in healthcare and never looked back. In some photos you can see pictures of her home and neighborhood and you realize this is not a person living even an upper middle class lifestyle, and she is “one of the top” diamond level people. I’m guessing she maybe makes 75,000 a year.

Where you at, Gen Z? wrote:

But yes, a bad shopping economy will be in chartered territory for them, and they’ll struggle like any other small business.

My guess is you tried typing “unchartered” and autocorrect broke it into “in chartered.”

The word you’re looking for is “uncharted.”

Actually it seems like good economic circumstances to be “in chartered territory.” You’d be hired for something.

I almost barfed.

james joyce jr wrote:

financial crisis of 2008-09 basically guaranteed several years of underemployed or unemployment, while carrying massive student debt loans.

and now when many of them finally have the careers and financial lives on track, they get decimated again by corona.

sucks, they can't catch a break.

hah. Millennials have lived through the most prosperous period of world history. They've had probably the most quarters of economic growth of any previous generation.

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Where you at, Gen Z? wrote:

But yes, a bad shopping economy will be in chartered territory for them, and they’ll struggle like any other small business.

My guess is you tried typing “unchartered” and autocorrect broke it into “in chartered.”

The word you’re looking for is “uncharted.”

Actually it seems like good economic circumstances to be “in chartered territory.” You’d be hired for something.

Welp, the grammar police got me.

Your kids in college are not millennials, just an FYI.

Cut your kids off then, if they're just leeches

It's never wise to assume humanity changes a heck of a lot from age to age. Aristotle used to complain that the youth of his day were feckless and indolent, drinking wine at all hours and not rising when their teacher walks in the room. I wasn't like that with Plato etc. And on it goes, every generation until present day.

But eventually there must be a seed of truth. The internet has, historically speaking, sprung up out of nowhere with no precedent and millenials have had to navigate it with no roadmap, or even foreknowledge like older people enjoy (I'm Gen X and for this I'm eternally grateful). To put it mildly, they've fkd up and will be a thorn in society's side for years to come, but there was never going to be a different outcome.

A large part of this is down to the fact the internet is the most surveillable space possible (it's literally impossible to conceive of a more surveillable space) and due to this, millenials are the most manipulated generation society has ever known. To live within a simulated reality where all the conditions are arbitrary, means that powerful people can influence those conditions and exercise something close to total control of the space and, therefore, the entities within it. Truth is as arbitrary as the spaces in which it spreads.

Postmodernists would have us believe that concrete reality is, in essence the same as this simulation-an illusion where the only variable is ability to exert power, and hence create and control a kind of pseudo-reality in the absence of an objective one. This is indolent hogwash, of course.

Objective reality survives just fine without the simulation. The stimulation, however, has objective infrastructure over which it transmits (cables, servers, satellites etc) and is totally dependent on its objective nature to survive at all.

So that's the order of battle, and it seems millennials have been born on the losing side

where you at, Gen Z? wrote:

Dean Karnazes’ Bowel Movement wrote:

My guess is you tried typing “unchartered” and autocorrect broke it into “in chartered.”

The word you’re looking for is “uncharted.”

Actually it seems like good economic circumstances to be “in chartered territory.” You’d be hired for something.

Welp, the grammar police got me.

Grammar police? I’m from the Vocabulary Bureau. When I flash my credentials the grammar police step aside.

Civil war was worse. 620k died in the civil war at a time when the total US population was 31 mil. And most of those who died just got wounded and died of infection (unless someone sawed off their limb in time).

God, you're such a D bag, seriously.

Seriously somehow you take this personally.... The world has changed drastically, you can find numerous measures of how millennials are worse off than their parents. They are expected to earn less than their parents, these are just economic forecasts.

Disgusting post, suggesting everything is the same for both generations when it's definitely not. Lack of ability to just look at the economic climate millennials have grown up in just shows how ignorant you are.

Regardless of what you believe, there are very significant differences in the ability for millennials to get their foothold financially compared to boomers. Millennials will shape policy going forward and these differences will be the main focus point of what's to come.

I own a business and do well for myself as a millennial, one thing I notice is the only people that talk like you are not that successful to begin with, either that or you are just a bitter turd for whatever reason (maybe your wife is fat?) . Of older generations I know personally, the successful people acknowledge how much more difficult things are now for the millennial generation. It's just a fact.

james joyce jr wrote:

financial crisis of 2008-09 basically guaranteed several years of underemployed or unemployment, while carrying massive student debt loans.

and now when many of them finally have the careers and financial lives on track, they get decimated again by corona.

sucks, they can't catch a break.

I graduated in 2009 and am doing just fine. I don’t consider myself to have been screwed over.

bidens lost thoughts wrote:

It sucks to have to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.

“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”

Think about this for a minute. My father, now in his mid 90's retired in the late 80's. He took his retirement account and put it into low risk bonds, paying 8-9%. generating 40K of retirement income per 500K of investment.

The current Boomer generation, having saved the same amount is only able to generate 1 or 2% with the same strategy. They literally have to save 4X as much to have the same QOL.....

This is going to have huge ramifications over the next decade.

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