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There are a bunch of childless and bitter boomers on this board who will rip on us.
Generation Y is:
The most educated generation.
The most worldly generation.
The most tech savy generation.
The generation most tolerant of others.
The recession that boomers caused has also taught us a great deal of discipline and humility. Generation Y will contribute to this country in grand ways.
This educated generation knows more about philosophy and art history but can't change a light bulb without watching a Youtube video.
Wordly? Reading the BBC and watching the Tour de France via live streaming doesn't make you worldly. I do agree that more of this generation have traveled at this point in life than their parents did at the same time in their lives.
Tech savvy? Probably, but they are using computers, semiconductors, software, and networks built by their parents. And their parents know how to spell savvy.
Most tolerant of others? Only in the sense that San Francisco is tolerant. Tolerant of people that think like them.
We are going to need doctors, nurses, engineers, and other science/math based occupations. Who do you want to take care of your medical needs when you are elderly, a non-degree janitor?
True. But too many of today's college students are borrowing too much money for the WRONG DEGREES. Can't pay that loan back if you work at Target.
I think we will save the world. The issue is we need more of us to question and challenge the establishment. I am not talking about occupiers, I am talking about those who are questioning the Patriot Act and those who are questioning the importance of college. The fact is a bulk of the early millennials/Gen Y/Gen Me Me Me, have been brainwashed by boomers and Gen X to go to college to be in the middle class. As of right now, that has not really panned out. It is time for us to do what boomers did when they became hippies, question and challenge the establishment. So long as we don't do it violently.
There is every reason to believe your generation will have impact. Every generation does SOMETHING important.
You might question the Patriot Act. But many of your age HAVE NO CLUE what it means for the government to snoop. As long as your iPhone works, you don't care where the electrons go. Your generation thinks it is worthy (and interesting) to tell the world via social networking everything you do and did yesterday. Your generation has grown up stealing intellectual property. Just because it is easy doesn't mean it is right.
Your generation would be sell served to sit back and say "why am I doing this worthless stuff? No one cares that did Yoga in the park." Some of the brainwashing is self induced.
I am doing that currently with my cousin who just graduated high school last week. I had a good talk with him last night about it fact. The poor kid just isn't college material (B- student)............
Why isn't a B student "college material"? I thought yours was the "tolerant generattion".
A question:
What do you call the guy who graduated last in his med school class?
There is every reason to believe your generation will have impact. Every generation does SOMETHING important.
You might question the Patriot Act. But many of your age HAVE NO CLUE what it means for the government to snoop. As long as your iPhone works, you don't care where the electrons go. Your generation thinks it is worthy (and interesting) to tell the world via social networking everything you do and did yesterday. Your generation has grown up stealing intellectual property. Just because it is easy doesn't mean it is right.
Your generation would be sell served to sit back and say "why am I doing this worthless stuff? No one cares that did Yoga in the park." Some of the brainwashing is self induced.
I am not disagreeing with a lot that is said. However there are somethings that are attributed to the Millennials that is unfair. Like the intellectual property issue (which started with Gen X by the way.) My brother was about 15 when the original Napster came out and he is one of the earlier millennials. The earliest Millennials were just starting college when Napster had its boom in 2000. I am denying that things have spiraled out of control exponentially since the debut of the original Napster by the previous generation. We just grew up with this and ran with it.
I agree some brainwashing such as the social media stuff IS wrong. We don't need to update our profiles 20/30 times in a day. I actually rarely use Facebook now and maybe make one or two status updates of my own a few days. I realize, not as common as the norm but it is the reality for me.
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Why isn't a B student "college material"? I thought yours was the "tolerant generattion".
A question:
What do you call the guy who graduated last in his med school class?
he said B-minus so that is like high end 70's to low end 80's depending what the passing cut off is. I know in my high school 65 and above was passing but yet in middle school and college/university it was 70. The issue is if he is marginal in college he will likely end up in the same jobs he can have now. Is it worth the high costs to be in the same jobs directly out of college as it is out of high school with no debt? That is for the individual to decide. Maybe they are better off in trades making a money and eventually becoming a unique skilled trades-person.
The millenial generation is known to be narcissistic and lazy... I can only imagine how the country would be in the future... socialism...
Hold on... Isn't narcissism more capitalist than socialist? "I want it for myself" vs. "I want to spread it around to everyone?" Isn't "narcissism" part of "greed is good"?
Or is everything new that you do not like just socialism?
When I go the grocery store, I do not peer into the personal lives of individuals and look at how they pay for their groceries.
Maybe you should start so that you can get out of the ignorant category and into the more informed category.
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If that person qualifies for food stamps, then they can spend them however they may please. Food stamps are there to make sure that Americans are not hungry. They serve this purpose well.
It sure does...
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Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years.1, 2
The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2010. Similarly, the percentage of adolescents aged 12–19 years who were obese increased from 5% to 18% over the same period.1, 2
In 2010, more than one third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese.1
Overweight is defined as having excess body weight for a particular height from fat, muscle, bone, water, or a combination of these factors.3 Obesity is defined as having excess body fat.4
Overweight and obesity are the result of “caloric imbalance”—too few calories expended for the amount of calories consumed—and are affected by various genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors.5,6
Hold on... Isn't narcissism more capitalist than socialist? "I want it for myself" vs. "I want to spread it around to everyone?" Isn't "narcissism" part of "greed is good"?
Or is everything new that you do not like just socialism?
What you don't seem to understand is the whole part about spreading other people's money around.
Besides that capitalism is a property theory that posits those who have it generally know how to use it better than those who couldn't ever muster up the means to gather enough to make a difference.
You have to ask yourself. Who is most likely to use capital to make more? The bum asking for quarters or the up-and-coming small business entrepreneur?
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Will the Millenial Generation Help Improve the US?
