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I think the article puts blame on Baby Boomers for conditions well beyond the control of the boomers. And I think it simplifies the situation too much.
As for the Millennials saving everyone. I suspect they haven't understood the lesson of The Greatest Generation. It isn't changing government policies that made The Greatest Generation the greatest. It was their willingness to sacrifice, again and again and again, and knowing what those sacrifices meant, both in the short-term and the long-term, that made them great.
I hope the Millennials are the next Greatest Generation. But they will have to make many sacrifices along the way.
You are on to something here. Along with many thinking "socialism" means social media.......one has to wonder if they know there are things outside of social media that need to be learned or they may find they have no food.
These idiots will ruin the country. The so-called "educated" generation are about some of the dumbest people I have ever encountered. Yet they will remind you that they are an "educated person" every chance they can.
Hopefully I will not live long enough to see this happen. I'm already regretting lasting this long.
It can't come soon enough. Half of boomers are already senile and they're the biggest deadweight this country has ever seen. It's outrageous we have to pay for all their useless social security and medicare. Should just let those spoiled losers rot in the street.
I think that once younger generations have the ability to turn the country around, we'll see some improvements.
We are saved.
Entitlement doesn't even begin to describe boomers. As a whole, the Baby Boomers have screwed up every last thing they've touched. There are some nice individuals, but as a generation, they've basically behaved like locusts. They screwed up education, finance, real estate, medical care, government, industry... it never ends. They're paralytic legislators, champions of offshoring, inflators of zero-value products, and the only thing they know how to do is to pump up a bubble, suck every last bit of life out of it, then bail just before it pops, sticking the consequences with someone else. But hey, they got their Audi!
What you really have to laugh at, is that they're the most prolific complainers about Millenials. They're too entitled, they're too lazy, they're too soft, they're too socially inept. You're talking about a generation that was raised in day care and parented by teachers, then heavily medicated on top of it. Then the boomers expect that Millenials will show up in the workplace with tongues exposed, ready to get down and lick the boots of the very boomers who made them like they are.
We have a lot of millenials working for us, and most of my employees have been Millenials. I hear this all the time: "THOSE MILLENIALS ARE JUST [enter whatever negative attribute is popular on that day]." (I'm from the later X generation myself, but even the X gen people are starting to say this ****.)
The complaint du jour usually goes something like Millenials have no dedication, work slowly, don't like structured hours, or whatever other managerial complaint might be remotely valid on any given day. Guess why that is? Because the Boomers removed every last reward for hard work and dedication from the workplace, for their own personal gains. But at the same time, boomers still feel entitled to have bright, hard working, dedicated, prompt, courteous go-getters show up to work for amounts of money that the boomers would never settle for.
But the Millenials aren't as stupid as boomers think. They saw how the X generation fell for the Boomers' pump-and-dump workplace shtick, and they're not going to fall for it themselves. Nor should they.
Entitlement doesn't even begin to describe boomers. As a whole, the Baby Boomers have screwed up every last thing they've touched. There are some nice individuals, but as a generation, they've basically behaved like locusts. They screwed up education, finance, real estate, medical care, government, industry... it never ends. They're paralytic legislators, champions of offshoring, inflators of zero-value products, and the only thing they know how to do is to pump up a bubble, suck every last bit of life out of it, then bail just before it pops, sticking the consequences with someone else. But hey, they got their Audi!
What you really have to laugh at, is that they're the most prolific complainers about Millenials. They're too entitled, they're too lazy, they're too soft, they're too socially inept. You're talking about a generation that was raised in day care and parented by teachers, then heavily medicated on top of it. Then the boomers expect that Millenials will show up in the workplace with tongues exposed, ready to get down and lick the boots of the very boomers who made them like they are.
We have a lot of millenials working for us, and most of my employees have been Millenials. I hear this all the time: "THOSE MILLENIALS ARE JUST [enter whatever negative attribute is popular on that day]." (I'm from the later X generation myself, but even the X gen people are starting to say this ****.)
The complaint du jour usually goes something like Millenials have no dedication, work slowly, don't like structured hours, or whatever other managerial complaint might be remotely valid on any given day. Guess why that is? Because the Boomers removed every last reward for hard work and dedication from the workplace, for their own personal gains. But at the same time, boomers still feel entitled to have bright, hard working, dedicated, prompt, courteous go-getters show up to work for amounts of money that the boomers would never settle for.
But the Millenials aren't as stupid as boomers think. They saw how the X generation fell for the Boomers' pump-and-dump workplace shtick, and they're not going to fall for it themselves. Nor should they.
Good post and perspective........this really stuck out and reminded me of those famous words, "I am not going to raise my kids the way my parents did!" We kind of got what we asked for and how do you blame a person(s) for the way a nation raised them.
I as you see many Millenials getting ahead. The one big problem I see, is a generation of children that will not be raised by mom or family members, instead by people who are not invested in the child's well being.
Entitlement doesn't even begin to describe boomers. As a whole, the Baby Boomers have screwed up every last thing they've touched. There are some nice individuals, but as a generation, they've basically behaved like locusts. They screwed up education, finance, real estate, medical care, government, industry... it never ends. They're paralytic legislators, champions of offshoring, inflators of zero-value products, and the only thing they know how to do is to pump up a bubble, suck every last bit of life out of it, then bail just before it pops, sticking the consequences with someone else. But hey, they got their Audi!
What you really have to laugh at, is that they're the most prolific complainers about Millenials. They're too entitled, they're too lazy, they're too soft, they're too socially inept. You're talking about a generation that was raised in day care and parented by teachers, then heavily medicated on top of it. Then the boomers expect that Millenials will show up in the workplace with tongues exposed, ready to get down and lick the boots of the very boomers who made them like they are.
We have a lot of millenials working for us, and most of my employees have been Millenials. I hear this all the time: "THOSE MILLENIALS ARE JUST [enter whatever negative attribute is popular on that day]." (I'm from the later X generation myself, but even the X gen people are starting to say this ****.)
The complaint du jour usually goes something like Millenials have no dedication, work slowly, don't like structured hours, or whatever other managerial complaint might be remotely valid on any given day. Guess why that is? Because the Boomers removed every last reward for hard work and dedication from the workplace, for their own personal gains. But at the same time, boomers still feel entitled to have bright, hard working, dedicated, prompt, courteous go-getters show up to work for amounts of money that the boomers would never settle for.
But the Millenials aren't as stupid as boomers think. They saw how the X generation fell for the Boomers' pump-and-dump workplace shtick, and they're not going to fall for it themselves. Nor should they.
Right, it's a concerted effort on the part of boomers.
I think the article puts blame on Baby Boomers for conditions well beyond the control of the boomers. And I think it simplifies the situation too much.
As for the Millennials saving everyone. I suspect they haven't understood the lesson of The Greatest Generation. It isn't changing government policies that made The Greatest Generation the greatest. It was their willingness to sacrifice, again and again and again, and knowing what those sacrifices meant, both in the short-term and the long-term, that made them great.
I hope the Millennials are the next Greatest Generation. But they will have to make many sacrifices along the way.
I hope they are similar to the great generation too, but that generation suffered through a world war and were the product of the depression. Im a gen xer and I see a combination of high achievers in my nieces and nephews, unfortunately they will be providing for those not willing to work.
It can't come soon enough. Half of boomers are already senile and they're the biggest deadweight this country has ever seen. It's outrageous we have to pay for all their useless social security and medicare. Should just let those spoiled losers rot in the street.
Really, Steven Jobs, Bill Gates, the people who got us to the moon, losers??
Baby-boomers have looted our country. Handed their childrens' futures over to the banks and billionaires in exchange for half-baked promises that they can hold on to the advantages their sheer numbers have always given them. Two-tiered retirement systems, two-tiered Union contracts, and looting of future generations' social security in order to maintain unfunded benefits to current retirees are some of the more crass examples. Baby-boomers will proudly brag about how they worked their way through cheap, HEAVILY subsidized college... graduating into an environment where pretty much any degree meant a middle class lifestyle. But gawd forbid that they fund the same for their children.
I'm on the young end of gen-X myself, so I've been spared some of the difficulties faced by millennials. And I deal with some of the same difficulties every day being pretty close in age. And lemme tell you- the hypocrisy, selfishness, and outright STUPIDITY of our parents' generation is on full display- has been for all our lives and we REALLY see it once we hit adulthood. Boomers will be around for quite some time still- spouting foxnews garbage and doing their level best to sign over every last scrap of our country to the billionaires. We gen-X'ers are too few in number to stop this... we've just learned to adapt to a mad world as best we can.
But Millennials haven't had the idealism beat out of them yet- and their numbers are VAST. Bernie Sanders may not make it much further in this election- but he's a glimpse of OUR future. It'll take a few more years, but the Millennials WILL take the reigns and there's gonna be some BIG changes around here. In 30 years y'all wont even recognize your country. I just hope all these hateful, myopic fox-spewing Boomers are still around to cry about it.
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