Generational Differences: Millenials vs. Everone Else

[BotanyBoy]

Soft, lazy, spoiled and entitled and I'll add all of these 'attributes' are getting worse and worse. The 1982-2000 crowd will look hard working and tough compared to the generation born after 2000.

LOL it's sad when you're demonstrably more full of shit than miles.....

Millennials aren't any more soft, lazy, spoiled and entitled than their boomer/early genX parents who not only raised us but also directly shaped the world we have yet to really inherit.

 

[kauen]

Millennials have more education, more disposable income and brighter futures than any generation before them.

I have two of my own and they are both independent, debt free and hard working.

If you know a lazy millennial, blame its parents.

The part about disposable income is wrong, across most of the (Western) world my generation is the first since records began to be poorer than their parents.

I fact "brighter futures" is also totally wrong. You guys had dirt cheap energy, post war prosperity, homes for the future, privatisation revenues and cheap credit. We get climate change, resource scarcity, overpopulation, corporate oligarchies and Donald Trump. Pretty sure we're getting a raw deal...

 

[sigh]

I'm born Generation X but I identify with the Baby Boomers. I want to see what the old people bathrooms look like.

I have a few strident Millennial friends would would rip me a new one for saying that but I push their boundaries for fun, just to watch them gasp before I crack up.

 

[y=mx+b]

It entertains me how gen. x'ers lead the poll count. What a bunch of quick-to-self-identify "fuck-you-all I'm-gen. x'er-motherfucker!" flannel-wearing Nirvana-listening to Garth Brooks-loving little twat bags.

Watch, I bet one of those angst infested faggots will quote me to school me on how Nirvana turned to shit after their Bleach album and that Garth Brooks isn't gen. x because he was all old and country and shit at the time he blew up on the scene... like nirvana/soundgarden/whoever/whatever. Or point out how there just may be a greater population density of gen. x'ers here on lit. If such is the case, what do you suppose that says about those self-harming douche bags?

 

[yossi]

I don't mind millennials, but then again I am a bit biased. I've interacted, lived, and dealt with people of various generations my whole life. Some of them are assholes. Some of them are alright.

 

[richard_daily]

Millennials have more education, more disposable income and brighter futures than any generation before them.

I have two of my own and they are both independent, debt free and hard working.

If you know a lazy millennial, blame its parents.

How often do you let them out of the chains in your basement?

 

[Lancecastor]

How often do you let them out of the chains in your basement?

I am not your father.

 

[badbabysitter]

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

Socrates

 

[sigh]

It entertains me how gen. x'ers lead the poll count. What a bunch of quick-to-self-identify "fuck-you-all I'm-gen. x'er-motherfucker!" flannel-wearing Nirvana-listening to Garth Brooks-loving little twat bags.

Watch, I bet one of those angst infested faggots will quote me to school me on how Nirvana turned to shit after their Bleach album and that Garth Brooks isn't gen. x because he was all old and country and shit at the time he blew up on the scene... like nirvana/soundgarden/whoever/whatever. Or point out how there just may be a greater population density of gen. x'ers here on lit. If such is the case, what do you suppose that says about those self-harming douche bags?

It says the same thing about them that it says about you, actually. You set a pretty low bar for being a self-harming douche bag if all it takes is being here on Lit.

We are all douche bags. A point in common. How sweet.

 

[pete]

It entertains me how gen. x'ers lead the poll count. What a bunch of quick-to-self-identify "fuck-you-all I'm-gen. x'er-motherfucker!" flannel-wearing Nirvana-listening to Garth Brooks-loving little twat bags.

Watch, I bet one of those angst infested faggots will quote me to school me on how Nirvana turned to shit after their Bleach album and that Garth Brooks isn't gen. x because he was all old and country and shit at the time he blew up on the scene... like nirvana/soundgarden/whoever/whatever. Or point out how there just may be a greater population density of gen. x'ers here on lit. If such is the case, what do you suppose that says about those self-harming douche bags?

dude, wtf?

 

[Mr Noone]

man, people born in '43 and '44 must be a real bunch of assholes.

Actually, no one at all was born in 1943-44. True fact.

...but they will never be Van Gogh level of painting 36 self portraits over 10 years.

Like narcissism is new. Please.

He just couldn't afford models.

My two millennials are very hard working and extremely driven, as are most of their friends. They certainly didn't inherit it from me.

 

[Sean]

Millennials have more education, more disposable income and brighter futures than any generation before them.

I have two of my own and they are both independent, debt free and hard working.

If you know a lazy millennial, blame its parents.

No you don't, shorty.

 

[lovetoread]

The gen x-ers are the best generation ever.

Even though we are left out of every conversation.

 

[doctor_insanus]

It entertains me how gen. x'ers lead the poll count. What a bunch of quick-to-self-identify "fuck-you-all I'm-gen. x'er-motherfucker!" flannel-wearing Nirvana-listening to Garth Brooks-loving little twat bags.

Watch, I bet one of those angst infested faggots will quote me to school me on how Nirvana turned to shit after their Bleach album and that Garth Brooks isn't gen. x because he was all old and country and shit at the time he blew up on the scene... like nirvana/soundgarden/whoever/whatever. Or point out how there just may be a greater population density of gen. x'ers here on lit. If such is the case, what do you suppose that says about those self-harming douche bags?

Jesus, shut the fuck up.

Your bitter oldness is showing.

 

[y=mx+b]

dude, wtf?

Sarcasm my friend.

 

[richard_daily]

I am not your father.

No, I'm yours. Sorry for abandoning you.

 

[Disgustipated]

No, I'm yours. Sorry for abandoning you.

That must've been rough after his mum's fake suicide.

 

[sigh]

The gen x-ers are the best generation ever.

Even though we are left out of every conversation.

shush, now

let the elders speak

 

[lovetoread]

shush, now

let the elders speak

Yes ma'am.

 

[Wife of Bath]

I can't believe I spelled the g-d thread title incorrectly. I was not on my game this morning.

 

[Lord Pmann]

I'm struggling to answer this question with the improper spelling and that preposition at the end of the sentence. However, I've give it the old millennial try.

I'm technically a millennial. However, I identify with the previous generation far more than my own. For the most part, I see the millennials as entitled little fuckers. One common thing I see among them at work is that they seem to think that they are owed something. They have a degree, so they think that makes them worth something. No, your ability to do work makes you valuable.

Plus, I must hate the generation who brought us hipsters.

 

[seamus221]

The part about disposable income is wrong, across most of the (Western) world my generation is the first since records began to be poorer than their parents.

I fact "brighter futures" is also totally wrong. You guys had dirt cheap energy, post war prosperity, homes for the future, privatisation revenues and cheap credit. We get climate change, resource scarcity, overpopulation, corporate oligarchies and Donald Trump. Pretty sure we're getting a raw deal...

When a Government decides to take care of you and build things it does it with your money as all governments don't make or have any wealth of its own so it takes yours.
Over populations, global warmth/change aren't and have never been real thanks to different seasons we have weather and thanks to nature we have wars, death and disease's that keep our population from growing to large.

If the newest generation is feeling limited and left without choices then this is the well known larger government ,less freedoms cradle to grave care system all the teachers and educators taught you were so wonderful and now you see it sucks!
If the newest generation is feeling poor I would refer you to the teens and young adults from the great depression and also tell you if you want things to get better than stop voting for all these Democrat, commie proven failed ideas and job killing policies!
I mean who just killed the 40 hour work week, made everyone a part time employee and raised out taxes hint a democrat named Obama , who made collage cost more the government run by democrats.....so stop crying about your life on facebook and make better choices come election time or watch things get worse.

 

[spacekowboy]

I have a better name for millennialsale.



I call them assholes.

 

[Christobal]

I am a boomer. I saw the change from a job for life to moving a thousand miles away to get a better job. As I grew older the job began to move away from me. I would move to those. Then they started to leave the country. I had to adapt my skills to keep up but I wouldn't leave my country for lower wages. I could live where I was, learn new skills and probably take a pay cut.

Now we have a worldwide economy. Vastly cheaper labor across the planet.

Then we had the recession of 2008. All the rules changed again. Children that were 7 years old grew up in a hugely different world than I did in relation to jobs and security.

Is it any wonder that the kids and young adults see the world in ways older people can't understand?

 

[hashtag45]

I am a boomer. I saw the change from a job for life to moving a thousand miles away to get a better job. As I grew older the job began to move away from me. I would move to those. Then they started to leave the country. I had to adapt my skills to keep up but I wouldn't leave my country for lower wages. I could live where I was, learn new skills and probably take a pay cut.

Now we have a worldwide economy. Vastly cheaper labor across the planet.

Then we had the recession of 2008. All the rules changed again. Children that were 7 years old grew up in a hugely different world than I did in relation to jobs and security.

Is it any wonder that the kids and young adults see the world in ways older people can't understand?

^^^These.

Also:

I don't know about the US and what sort of attitudes are fostered by your social system -- but they don't appear to be entitled over here. (Australia and NZ)
They appear to be more aware of how the world really works, but that translates into most of them being more open-minded and less judgmental than previous generations.

And I think it's more than a stage of life thing. I think that it also has to do with the fact that they have all this information at their fingertips - with the affordable internet and all.