Why Did Millennials Ruin Everything?
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Boiling down an entire GENERATION of people into one neat little set of descriptors or pinning upon them the responsibility for the failure of some industry or fast food item is ABSURD. But either way, it happens. And in our current clickbait dystopia, it happens to millennials ... a lot. Maybe because, since we’re narcissistic, we’re obsessed with what people are saying about us so we’ll click on whatever calls us out. And because, as we work through our hit list of industries, olds wanna know what segment of the capitalist utopia we’re gunning for next. Today, we’re going to accept this silly premise… that millennials are lazy ruiners of things who never want to grow up. And we’re going to talk-on the complainers own terms-about why that may be the case. And to do that: we’re gonna talk about HOW GENERATIONS WORK so we can once and for all find the answer to, “WHY HAVE MILLENNIALS RUINED EVERYTHING?”
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Everytime I hear "Millenials are ruining _______" I think to myself, "God, I hope so." I think another part of the millennial mentality isn't so much destroying the accomplishments of our elders to make room for our own, but also questioning whether those were accomplishments in the first place. In the face of our elders saying, "Look at all we accomplished!" we stare back blankly and say, "Why do you have a trophy for destroying the world?" We come right after the Xers, the generation of disillusionment, but we're coming up in a post 9/11 hell-hole in which neoliberal capitalism is tearing at the seams. The Xers grew up in a world that didn't care about them, and we grew up in a world that's openly hostile. We have the disillusionment of the Xers, but also anger at the world we inherited that the older folks might see as "entitlement".
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Jon Laing + (I haven't noticed many other comments like this, so I'll explain. This comes from the vlogbrothers: if you like a comment you read, reply with a + sign in order to bring it to the top of the comment section. It's basically twisting the UA-cam comment algorithm to favor the best comments rather than the most controversial)
A great example of this is how millennials are purportedly destroying the golf industry, which is actually kind of a good thing, because if i remember correctly, the maintenance for golf courses in places like california, use up literal millions of tons of water that could otherwise be used to actually help people (remember the problems in Flint?)
Jon Laing we're not post 9/11. The generation after us is.
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Millennials haven't ruined anything. They are too poor, too unemployed, too desperate to have that kind of agency. Globalism, free trade, de-regulation, antiquated governmental and corporate policies, and approaching the terminus of a generally unsustainable economic model have ruined everything. No one generation can be blamed for all of that. Even boomers, who benefited the most from it. The foundations were lain over a hundred years ago. But people need outrage to function. Something to vent their impotent frustration against. A scapegoat. Young people make a convenient target because they lack the power to fight back in any meaningful way.
interesting
Nope, it's just because we were your age and we remember how dumb we were.
Michael Leech
This generation doesn't have the luxury of being dumb. It's too busy trying to figure out how to keep a roof over it's collective head.
They are too poor,
no and compared to what?
"too unemployed"
is way far worse when I got out of school. far worse.
"too desperate to have that kind of agency."
That makes no sense
Millennial benefit from them to, and in fact more so.
The "Millennial" Generation is full of creators, builder and they happen to understand that there is more than life then work, home, car, kids.
Millennials have more opportunity to do things then any group throughout all of history.
Approaching the terminus of an unsustainable economic model? We leaped far past that terminus decades ago mate.
I'm ok with killing the diamond industry
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Same
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Most of the industry is run by a single corporation (DeBeers) that artificially inflates the shit out of its resource value (when we can literally grow diamonds in a lab that have fewer imperfections than the natural ones). Yeah, I have no problem killing off that industry either.......
I'm okay with killing off the older Generations maybe then we can afford stuff like diamonds even though they're worthless hello it's a rock. The only practical worth it has is that it's really hard and it's clear so good for cutting things and refracting light that's about it.
Who wants a glorified rock that depreciates in value the second you walk out the door with it? A car is a necessity, a diamond ring is not.
Savage Jesus depending on your commute it could be more expensive for those as opposed to owning a car. My job is only a 10 minute drive away but an uber would be 13-14 bucks so it would be cheaper to spend 150 a month on car insurance plus gas.
If you live in a country/city with good public transportation, even stuff like Uber is kind of unnecessary. Owning a car is too damn expensive anyway. The drivers license alone costs as much as 1,5 years of public transport in my city. I'm not going to pay so much extra money for a much more dangerous way of traveling.
+savage Jesus but what if you dont live in a place Like New york, LA, or Chicago where you can walk anywhere and there's ubers at every corner. What if you life in a spaced out place or rural area (which there are a lot of in the United States.)
Savage Jesus I live in a rural area, public transit is not an option because it doesn't come out this way and an Uber costs more than a monthly car payment to get to where I need to be. So yeah, a car is a necessity.
I agree about the diamonds, but the car still isn't a necessity (it's very helpful, but still not a necessity unless you live in an area that's rural or has crap public transportation). Besides, cars nowadays depreciate pretty fast too, usually after 5 years it's either being traded in or it starts developing problems. Reason: increased dependence on electronics, they're great for efficiency and emissions control but not so great for long-term reliability. My sister's Accord locked in Limp-Home mode all because of a bad crankshaft sensor.
We millennials have to remember not to blame the next generation when it's their turn to shine.
Millennials are ruining badmouthing your kids.
I blame the '20ers! Those lazy kids haven't done anything useful with their lives! Literally! Because they haven't been born yet!
Everything's their fault! And their music and futuristic, not-invented-yet hologram shows are terrible!
In our day we listened to music with our EARS and didn't need to have the tunes directly plugged into our temples.
Those globs of protein are so damn entitled.
Are you crazy? The whole point of human procreation is to produce a younger version of yourself who achieves everything you could only dream of and then get disappointed and frustrated when it turns out that those little people have ideas and aspirations on their own.
I don't think it's millennials fault that they/we're "narcissistic". We (and maybe Gen X too?) were raised in an era of perceived freedom, so many of us were told we're all wonderful and beautiful and special snowflakes an we should follow our dreams. That our parents raised us like this rather than the old way of "I want you to be [insert thing here] so that's what you're going to be, abandon your ridiculous dreams" is probably why we care more about ourselves, or at least care about ourselves in a different way (because I find older generations tend to be MORE entitled). That we were encouraged from a young age to be ourselves and make a difference, it seems strange that just a few years later as teens and young adults we are criticized and called narcissistic and selfish for following our dreams and speaking our minds. It's not easy to change the mindset you were raised with.
i know right? We're a generation that's come to realize that we are the main characters in each of our own stories and lives, not some accessory for an older generation to say "haha look I made this perfect thing". the older generation was raised to be what others around them wanted and it seems we dont want to follow that same fate.
but hey, guess they just really dont want us to not fit their preconceived image of what we SHOULD be.
Kasumi231 but also without a pre set direction of where to go we have no one to get us there. even louis and clark had a guide that knew the terrain. being given this freedom to do everything that has never been done comes with the disadvantage of not having a mentor who can guide us along the way, like the previous generations did. (except the adults in the depression that were probably more alone in their endeavors than we are)
D-m'n I don't know if you're trying to argue with me or add something to what I said...
Kasumi231 then it's a job well done. some will say I stand against and others for, but seeing their replies in both directions is my goal as well as how they develop their proofs for either argument.
Human beings are naturally self-interested regardless of generation, and that's not always a bad thing. People SHOULD be allowed to follow their dreams, it's just that economic situations often get in the way of that. I find that millenials are far more open minded than older generations, and not significantly more or less selfish than other generations were at our age.
“Who do you blame when your kid is a brat
Pampered and spoiled like a Siamese cat?
Blaming the kids is a lion of shame
You know exactly who's to blame:
The mother and the father!”
Sure until the brat is under 30. Then it's them including you.
Ah, a charlie and the chocolate factory fan I see
I think he missed the point. All of these businesses that are failing is because there's something better out there or we can't really afford it. We are dealing with the worst economy since the great depression
@@ienjoydrpepper5938 he said since the Great Depression. Which is true
Mike, I thought I should let you know that I posted this video onto my Facebook feed and my Baby Boomer mom was complaining that you talk too fast, so I guess "talking" is another thing us millenials have ruined.
I'm suprised she didn't blame it on rappers
As millennials we have short attention spans so he needs to deliver the content quickly or we will move on. In fact, I felt he was talking too slow, so switched the speed to 1.5x since I have some recommended stuff to get to.
I also find him talking fast (and also showing these meme videos in the background which I want to inspect or notice while he is talking) and I pause it to think what he said. It's the new thing in some youtube videos, the host must talk very fast. Anyway, not sure if I am millenial, I am between the too at 1980 born.
David Lev I've always talked fast, does that make me an "actual millennial?"
okay, please don't make this a "millennial" thing. he talks fast. it's hard to keep up, when the subject is often complex in itself. the million images flashing while he speaks don't help.
I am technically a millenial since I was born after 1980, but I'm also of an age that I can remember when supposedly Generation Xers were ruining everything because they were "disaffected, lazy slackers". Oh, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Exactly. Three Gen X songs I can think of prove your argument: Smells like Teen Spirit (Nirvana) Loser (Beck) and Cigarettes and alcohol (Oasis). 'The slacker generation' it was called. Interestingly though some Gen X are associated with the yuppie image (the whole greed is good thing). Maybe there was a shift in the late 80s early 90s to a more disaffected/uninspired type of young people and its just developed further from there.
I remember it too. Gen X seems to be forgotten a lot these days, but Millennials activism really is built a lot on what Gen X's started, but came of age in the wrong time to build much enthusiasm.
I am still a disaffected lazy slacker, and I still blame millennials, the above of which can not even spell the word. If millennials were just lazy, that would be one thing, but they've embraced SJW safe space culture with such enthusiasm, it has ruined everything*.
*Not literally everything.
SJW culture is a step too far but I feel sometimes that you can't blame millennials for at least trying to be more inclusive after seeing what their parents generation can get away with. Of course there's a huge amount of hypocrisy within that ultra PC stance and it is deeply annoying sometimes. On the other side, you can equally make a good point that there are some who complain about Millennial PC whinging, but deep down what they're saying is that once we had a time when we could openly joke about queers, disabled people, blacks, and women and now you've ruined our fun with your PC bashing. How dare you spoil our jokes! The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
I keep saying this and Adam brings out some excellent examples in the video they mention. Basically every generation complains about the next in almost the same manner, year after year. But no one notices because of the slow creep of time. I, too, was born in the early 80's and ride that awkward cusp of "Gen X or Millenial? Depends on who you ask." So once I realized the repeated pattern, I started to make a cognizant effort not to criticize those younger than me JUST because how they do things or what they value is different. I treasure my experiences and happily share them with those younger, but I will not treat their culture as though it has less value.
Why exactly is it our obligation to support all of these industries? They're selling something we don't want, therefore we don't buy. Generally this is seen as "the market at work". Saying that I don't see any value in buying diamonds is not some act of destruction on my part, or some kind of refusal to grow up. This video is incredibly silly.
Speaking of diamonds, that industry ruined itself. It's always been inflated as they sit on the reserves. Diamonds are actually pretty worthless.
I think we should make fake diamonds out in West Virgina 😨 that would be fair 👍🆓 speech forever
We can literally mass produce diamonds. That's not even an exaggeration. The only cool thing involving diamonds anymore is turning people's remains into diamonds.
This guy who made the video basically agrees with you. He says it with a bit of sarcasm. We didn't kill anything!
VGL Studios I think he’s just implying that a lot of Millennials aren’t getting married, so the diamond industry is starting to fall.
We ruined everything because we were handed a world that was already on a downward spiral. For example:
Industries like housing, diamonds, etc. were ruined because of previous generations contributing to the global economic recession.
Vacations were ruined because again, everything’s so expensive, and also because we’re perceived as lazy and trying to not been seen that way.
Chain restaurants like Applebees (including fast food) are suffering due to us being more health conscious from previous generations contributing to the obesity rate the US is facing and again, in this economy, we’re less likely to go out for dinner when it’s cheaper to buy food at the grocery store and cook at home.
Pretty much everything can be attested to generational changes that we formed while growing up and economic changes that we inherited from our parents.
Danny Neyman, amen, you mils are a God send. I've been waiting for you.
I'm gen x we could work in Congress together and do are best to be fair I think
our* might need to work on those English skills before you delve into thoughts of Congress
Danny Neyman yeah, but I'm more in the past because my parents rise me and my siblings, also we good very good teachers.
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if that's all you care about maybe not run but I won't yell troll or hate you I'm a pacifest 🆓 speech forever 👍
Accounting for inflation, Millennials in North America earn 20% less than boomers did, cars are twice as expensive on average, houses six times more, and student debt is much, much worse. They're killing everything because they don't have the cash to save it.
William Adam McDuff why do you think that is? I can tell you....too many people. Babies were having babies and no fucks in the world. The nuclear family was nowhere to be found. It is even worse now...if you look at all the societal ills in the US, the crux of the problem is lack of nuclear family in society and people having kids they can't afford.
Scallywag that’s why the baby boomers were called the baby boomers. They had a shit load of kids. On top of their garbage financial decisions, they saturated the market with people who need jobs.
William Adam McDuff wait until the economy is booming agian we will be making 20% percent more cause we will have experience in the toughest economy and be prime age. Look out the milens are coming
yet they say that millennials aren't work hard enough. but the stereotype millenials are sometimes the rich kids, the less rich are desperate to live another day
And that's why millenials are having less kids
Emotionally, a lot of millennials came of age during a string of apocalyptic events-- start with Y2K, then September 11th, strings of wars, mass shootings, crashing economies, and natural disasters and terror attacks so long that they no longer make the news, the constant foreboding of climate change and the warning bells that we're past the point of no return, and then throw in sprinkles of multiple rescheduling of the Rapture, the Mayan New Year, and Nostradamus's end of the world.
Economically, we got hit with skyrocketing costs for education and healthcare (in the USA), coupled with stagnant wages and an economic recession that left a lot of us unemployed or underemployed.
And then add to that the fact that most of us were raised on the internet, and fed on a steady supply of information that we couldn't disconnect from even if we wanted to. There's a surge in sensitivity to alternative ways of seeing the world (genders, disabilities, sexualities, etc), because suddenly we're in touch with people who experience it differently, which can itself lead to walking on eggshells in an effort to not cause further harm.
So take all of that, and millennials are in general a bundle of raw nerves looking for some kind of relief. And all that stuff that people complain about tends to be the self-medication for those nerves.
Rejection of cars, houses, diamonds, vacations, etc? Many opt to go without because they can't afford it. Obsession with food? It's a small, simple pleasure that we actually CAN afford. Talking too fast? We feel like we're under too much pressure to slow down, so we add a tool at the bottom of our UA-cam videos that lets us speed it up. Phones are a comfort item and multitool, which allows people to keep being productive, keep in touch with friends who might live an ocean away, and provide (free!) games that distract from the anxieties that they might otherwise be feeling.
This was beautiful. I've saved it for personal reference.
Mosobot64 thank you!
Latter half I will say this, maybe we outgrew the paradigms an enslaved country like USA has in its society. We do not want stuff (shit) that owns us and debt that goes up to the Rothschild who own humans. So stuff (shit again) gets ruined because it no longer means much to us suffering financially. The same goes for institutions too.
The Rothschilds don't own people. Knock it off with the Jewish conspiracy BS.
Mosobot64 Never! Until you sheep finally get it, stay complacent in the meantime.
Trick question, there was nothing for us to ruin. Everything was already crap.
ccggenius12 My god you are at the peak of millenial thinking "It's not our fault it was already bad"
Were you going to refute my claim (which was made in jest, by the way), or is the entirety of your input "Rarrgh! I don't like that thing you said"? Because whinging about inconsequentialities because you dislike them, without providing a suitable and well reasoned alternative is ALSO a negative trait commonly associated with Millenials.
Fun fact: the demographic commonly referred to as Millenials applies to all those born in the '80s and '90s. It amuses me that most of the people I see online pissing and moaning about how terrible Millenials are are unaware that THEY ARE the Millenials. (That's not directed AT you; hell if I can tell how old you are from a one-line post on a UA-cam video. Just an anecdotal piece of information I felt like sharing.)
Mmmm... I'll take your bait: millennial ignorance* coupled with hyper-commercialization of the industry has ruined music. As in a good portion of the music created since then is objectively crap that is popular for a couple of years then falls into oblivion, drowned in an ocean of mediocrity and failing the test of time. And a lots of bands and artists are so happy cashing from it that forgot how to explore and discover their own voice and frankly, don't have anything meaningful to say. Pretty ironic that in the era of global communications, really good music is confined to nostalgia and obscure alleys, while we are constantly bombed with autotuned shit 24/7.
*By ignorance, I literally mean lack of knowledge caused by the unwillingness to explore "old music" that a lot of millennial had. The situation has somehow improved once they get older, but the damage setting trends in the industry is already done.
+Imman1s
I can certainly empathize with that. It feels wrong to me that at this point Weird Al's music is more earnest and thought provoking than the works he's parodying.
Because they are really good at bitching about the world, and a millennial will try to fix the problem by bitching about it.lets all just try to be kind, without acting like a pussy. I just stay stoned and ignore alot of it unless I'm bored.lol
Generations are like clouds, difficult to separate.
you can predict it, but...you don't master all the influences.
Most problems millennial face are from previous generations...i was born in 83 .... there are lots of lazys for sure but things are so expensive it's very hard to get established even working hard...
Steve Flinn every generation makes change and people get remembered for it. So no youre wrong
There is no perfect generation...each of them has brought good and bad changes
Clouds aren't predicted. There are predictions on cloud patterns and storm patterns, not individual clouds.
Millennials don't ruin anything. That's Adam's job.
Wait, I didn't watch far enough to see you mentioned Adam. Dammit.
😂😂😂😂
I wonder if that's where he got the idea for Adam Ruins Everything.
Mystery Mudokon lol
He is a millennial thought
I think we "ruin" everything because we are more aware about things than ever before.
We don't buy diamonds because we don't see the importance of buying a rock that is actually pretty common and probably has slavery involved, while there are 1) other things you can buy and 2) way more awesome stones.
We don't have to buy multiple cars that are huge, because we know that that is bad for the environment (and pretty useless, why would one person need multiple cars?)
With food, I think (or at least I hope) that we're trying to eat healthier. That we don't want artificial stuff that is bad for us anymore (unless we don't have money, because I'm going to be eating my instant noodles while I'm still broke).
In the end, I think we're just not as focused on the whole 'flaunting with objects that are expensive' industry... Though I could be wrong of course :)
Strawberryishness me? I don't focus on that simply because I don't care about self image. I also don't really care about my diet though, but that might just be me.
No, I don't mean I'm more practical a thinker. I just litterally don't care about mostly anything too much.
I'm just too easy-going for my own good.
Strawberryishness plus the Millenial generation has been the first to go to McDonalds waaaay less than every generation before us-- and it's fantastic! We've been bombarded with so much media, so many advertisements, that (I think) we've pretty much learned to question what people are trying to persuade us to do. Honestly I think McDonalds is gross, and it's easy for me and millions of others to find healthier and/or tastier options at Wendy's, 5 Guys, even Arby's (I mean, their curly fries are seriously great). We're no longer willing to just do what our parents and grandparents did, or what the big corporations want us to do. It's exciting.
Zero Cool Eh. I know I suck more then I don't. at least I can say I've rallied protests that DIDN'T involve burning flags or beating people.
I just tried to get both Hillary and trump out of the picture by showing the government we don't want ether of them.
Zero Cool I've always been one for double meanings.
Still, the magic kinda faded when I found another zero confidence.
Just a rant: I don't see why millennials are hated so much. My parents didn't do shit for me. After high school to not be a burden on them I joined the army to fight in two wars caused by the older generation. Got out to only find low paying jobs, thank God my g.i. bill gave me an income to help. I'm holding off on kids, don't vacation nor go out because I want to save for a house and it's my problem because I don't spend. I worked jobs where they downsized the people and doubled the workload. It is what it is. The reason millennials are seen as weak is because those baby boomers babied their kids or didn't raise them. They let TV, internet and school do it.
Don't think the media give a true representation of the millennial generation. The vast part of the generation are busting there ass for minimum wage in shitty conditions like for Amazon getting told they have to pee in a bottle at there work station. So many just can't get on the property ladder just living month to month. The rich wanted to get richer so they took our money.
I'm reading this comment 1 year after it was posted. Lots of respect for you! @Roman Guzman You're spot on with this rant!
Millenials are good with new technology. The next 10 years we're entering a scifi world. In about everything will be new technology integrated. Even governments will be totaly different than how we know it today. Bitcoin will be a big part of that. There is today your opportunity to accomplish what you discribe. Don't take my word for it. Research it. I wish you the best! 👍😀
THIS! ☝️
@@kasso8440 Also THIS!☝️💯
#YOUAREONPOINT
Blake T That’s all of Gen x too
So the rich arent getting richer and apparently thats a bad thing? In my perspective thats a wonderful thing!
Alex perez from my point of view, the jedi are evil, lol
Dovakin Brown well then you are lost
So you dont want a successful person to keep being successful?
If they are successful by forcing us to use their products without choice.
NO
They should not be successful.
Play by giving us what we want not what they think we want and forcing us to accept it because they bribed govt.
marketing works much less than in the past I think or hope.
Marketing brainwashing has never worked on me, to a large extent and never will.
Yes, yes, thank you. I belong to like three different groups of people roughly the same age, and each of these groups is really, really different. I'm a Millennial with four kids. I'm like an albino unicorn.
On the topic of Millennials killing everything, I can't help but notice that all of the things that we're supposed to have killed are 20th Century constructs. They're not actually normal human things, but particularly situated in the recent West. So, yeah, culture changes as new kids have new experiences using new technologies. Was the Lost Generation blamed with "killing agriculture" because of the development of nitrogen fixing and motorized combines? Or the Silent Generation with killing music because they listened to all that Chuck Berry? No. Times changed.
If you want to charge Millennials with murdering the cultural milieu you're so attached to, you have to admit that every generation has committed its own murderers. We all have epistemological blood on our hands.
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Ok, not on the topic of your actual points, which were quite good but... I have always imagined unicorns as pure white. The association with rainbows is more recent, so an albino unicorn just sounds like... a unicorn? Possibly with red eyes.
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Well, actually, "kids these days" is a common phrase for a reason. And that is to do with change that comes (or is perceive to come with) a newer generation. So yes, previous generations were blamed for various things.
I think that is because people (to a lesser or greater extent) get used to life being a certain way and have their habits, hobbies and such. And then when those comfortable knowns are challenged, altered, replaced or if they vanish guess who usually gets the blame?
Basically, we're creatures who make our routines and like our habits. And challenges to our way of life are often frowned upon.
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The generations before us fucked everything up. We're just trying to fix their mistakes and it's a lot harder than it looks. Not to mention our generation seems to be the only one that accepts difference and uniqueness. Are you LGBT? Good for you, now help us change the world. Are you disabled? Good for you, now help us change the world. Are you mentally unstable? Good for you, now help us change the world. We're not lazy for not burning the witches and gays at the stake. We're not lazy for rejecting things you deem important. We're not lazy at all, in fact, the generations before us were the lazy ones when they decided to let someone else fix their mistakes. Their political mistakes, the harm they caused the environment, the secrets they withheld, the lies they told, the deaths of innocent people (over differing beliefs, especially), and now, dare I say, the creative industry as a whole has been ruined, not by us, but by older generations trying to appeal to us. (UA-cam is popular because we're in control of the content on it rather than a boardroom of old men who can't let go of their pasts)
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***** ummm... this entire discussion is based on exactly the opposite of individual actions and thoughts. Classifying everyone by their age is precisely what we're meant to be doing and by no means would I ever say that it's impossible for people within their own generation to differ from the majority, because I'm not an idiot.
Stop it. Your premise is wrong. You can't logical say a 'generation ruined things' because It's far more complex than that.
Why do you forge the internet, computers, EPA, clean air act, NASA, ERA, and on and on. The water is cleaner, the air is cleaner do to actions from Baby Boomers.
Baby Boomer cleaned up a lot of their mess. You might want to compare the US before and after boomers. You are literally able to communicate around the world and access more data than ever before because of Baby Boomers.
Stop trying to create a villain to blame.
The creative industry wa not destroyed. It was what it was because of the type of technology there was.
You will make mistakes. Your generation will have it's skeletons. But you wills till move forward, and you will make the world a better world just like the boomers did.
The US only got safer during the boomer generation.
It's not a premise he pulled out of his ass, it's one the VIDEO ATTACHED TO THIS COMMENTS SECTION challenged us to ponder.
Shut up gay Communist
Interesting outlook that millennials destroy everything and how they have the media and past memories. Keeping that in mind I think millennials are the most informed generation and the industries that are being “killed” or are “dying” is bc millennials are fixing mistakes of the past. The diamond industry is a good example of this. The industry was made based on deceit, corruption, and blood of others. The generations that made these industries did not have this knowledge that millennials now have. Therefore I think millennials unknowingly are aware of this importance of knowledge and are fixing things so that these mistakes aren’t made again. Even with media and newspaper companies maybe they’re dying bc millennials see the importance of having quick access to accurate information. It’s not so much of destroying industries it’s more of tearing them down to make them better, to improve them or to fix them.
The Currinator Show -Exactly!
I'm actually in between gen X and millennial. SO I can see both sides.
This is largely the truth some are lazy but smart ones are refusing the brainwashing.
We don't trust businessmen lawyers or politicians.
I normally try not to comment on these type of videos, but this subject hits close to home, so i'll share my two cents worth.
I was born in 1995, In a Midwestern town of about 8,000 people. I was raised by my grandparents who were born in 1946 and 1947. Grampa worked hand lifting electric motor casings into a furnace for 40 years. He said back when he started work, you could drop out of high school and walk into almost any local factory and get a job doing non skilled labor, that paid enough to start a family on, get a loan on a house, get a good reliable used car, and expect to retire 40 years later with a pension. Is that what is happening today?
NO!
NO!
NO!
The factorys around here only hire through temp services who get you hired with the condition of a 90 day trial period before they full on hire you with good pay and benefits and all that. But on the 89th day they say they don't need you any more. The temp service sends you to another place, and same thing. Untill you get back to the first plant, and repeat the circle. Company's DON'T want highly paid, motivated, skilled workers, they want cheap, unmotivated, easily replaceable workers who just barely do the job because nobody cares about quality anymore.
@hardee hat I remember when companies first started doing that on a regular basis (this happened back in the early 1980s which meant as a result, Manpower Inc. was the top employer during that time). You can thank government regulation for this because the reason companies started doing this was, it was expensive to hire someone and have to deal with the legal requirements. In other words, if I hire you, I can't simply log your time and pay you X dollars an hour. I also have to pay for health insurance, unemployment insurance, taxes, and so forth. Then if things are uncertain so that I don't know if I can keep you long term (a contract might fall through which means I have to lay off workers) it just becomes cheaper to hire you through Manpower and let them handle this sort of mess.
One of the things that's different between the 80s and what you said though is, that in the 80s, companies did in fact want to find good workers. Being what is called "temp to hire" was in fact doable at that time, although the period of time you would have to work as a temp was usually more than 90 days (the employer wanted to be pretty sure before he risks hiring you). When I was working as a temp in the 80s, I saw guys work for 1 or 2 years as a temp before being hired. I'm not sure about today because I haven't worked as a temp since the early 90s, but maybe working as a temp for more than 90 days is illegal now?
Funny how babyboomers are always telling us to stop blaming others for the problems they hand us, yet they always blame us for everything.
funny how that works? lol they be like we need to quit whinning...meanwhile all they do is whine all day themselves
It's their version of participation trophies.
you don't get,.... its TOO easy to throw blame on someone else,... if its someone ELSES fault as you surmise, then there is nothing YOU can do about it, which ALLOWS YOU to sit back and STILL do nothing,.. a perfect gig as long as you keep bitching and blaming and allowing another {parents} to pay YOUR way,..
Scallywag I hope you realize that birth rates have dropped drastically since the baby boomers.
Frédéric Chopin not drastically, but they have dropped. Do you know which segment of the population is responsible for this drop? The highly educated...not the typical self indulgent dumbass who spits out kids because they don’t use their brain.
So....milleneals still have some work to do to help contribute.
No one ruins anything, newer generations are born with different needs and wants that do not cater to the industry of older generations.
Garnetzx what about Adam? He ruins everything
Garnetzx, you are actually kind of wrong. Generations do ruin things, though it's not the fault of the generation itself. It's the fault of the industry and competition. The free market evolves with the needs and wants of each generation of spenders, and if a demographic for one service shrinks, then that industry either needs to evolve to stay relevant or die out. The television broadcasters like Cable and Satellite TV Providers are facing the axe because of services like Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and UA-cam. The issue that these industries and media outlets focus on is not that the industries aren't changing, but that the newest generation should grow around these industries and aren't for some mysterious reason, and think that if they shame and blame the newest generation enough, that they can force the millennial generation to grow more money from the ground so that they can keep the over bloated industries that use shady and cheap tactics afloat.
So, yeah actually. Generations do kill industry, but only because something newer and better comes along and actually builds itself around what the new generation wants instead of expecting the new generation to build itself around the industry.
THANK YOU!!
It is odd. I am a gen-x person but identify with the issues of millennials. Their economic problems are mine. The boomers ruined it for both of us.
Good to be a gen z
Joshua Jarvis -cool, Josh, now pass* on to any other Gen Z that we're not so bad and it's a fake Generation War that the older jerks in charge have set up for Us, to put us all against each other. Yet, united we stand, divided we fall!
Angela_ SoManyThings amazing speech
You're a middle child of two generations.
agree i am a gen x too but identify with the issues of the millennials alot of it reminds me of the hippies from the 60s and 70s
Oh I didn’t know I was supposed to buy overpriced things I don’t like
Don't worry millenials will eventually grow old & complain about the new emerging youth just like the generations before them did so
It's the circle of liiiiife
we may be the last generation to live longer than our parents, too.
I think you are probably right, but I also think that Millennials are one of first generations (Probably X as well) with enough self and cultural awareness to stop/begin to stop that cyclical thinking.
Bradley Heidler People my age (22) are already complaining how children these days are way too young to be have expensive smartphones/tablets & how spending so much time on social media does not a good childhood make. Though I would agree, I'm trying to see how its any different from when video-games 1st became widespread.
Also 90s kids being 90s kids generally shit all over everybody elses childhood future and past alike.
Bradley Heidler People my age (22) are already complaining how children these days are way too young to have expensive smartphones/tablets & how spending so much time on social media does not a good childhood make. Though I would agree, I'm trying to see how its any different from when video-games 1st became widespread.
Also 90s kids being 90s kids generally shit all over everybody elses childhood future and past alike.
My son, a millennial, recomended that I, a millenial sypathizing mid-boomer, watch these videos. Can I switch generations? Thoughts...
1. some things don't have to be killed...they just die as they reach the end of their productive lifespan.
2. Just because something (item, idea, industry, way of thinking) is old doesn't mean it is worth keeping. But neither does age determine value or relevance. The value and relevance of something to those who are living today (or coming in the future) determines its value and relevance.
3. Many times things die because those who are their caretakers don't take care to make sure they continue to remain viable and valuable, e.g. organists have killed the organ, church people have killed the church, the newspapers have killed the newspapers, etc. all by treating their treasure like a museum piece to be curated rather that as a warm blanket to be shared on a cold night.
Millennials are doing a great job of doing what each generation is supposed to do - breath new life into our world. Keep up the good work.
The church is about a billion and a half people strong. It's not dead. It's just smaller than it was
TheFabulousKitten technically speaking we did kinda kill a lot of conventional churches with mega churches
Brandon N. Remember that God has a purpose for everything. Where before it could take years of planning and saving to send a few missionaries abroad, send people to train to be a pastor, open Christian schools, start programs to help the poor etc. Megachurches have the power to do so in a matter of months or weeks. It is a very large responsibility, as the pastor must tend to his flock, in a different way than that of a small church could. Each place will have its own purpose.
Jim Porterfield I'm sure your son and I both agree we learn from the best 👍. Not everyone is a stereotype of their generation~!! 🙌
Millennial's didn't ruin everything. They didn't have the nostalgic view on all of the previous items, so what you might remember fondly, they find personally distasteful.
The problem is, with 6 generations currently alive(and yes they are), why does onl one or two get catered to? Advertisements, movies, tv shows and products are all geared toward millenials even though gen-x, boomers and the silent and greatest generations are still here. I think that's what people get mad about. Let's see new movies made now geared toward the silent generation. Lets see a gen-x style tv show. Lets see boomer geared commercials. When you have a lack of interest in generations, those generations are going to go after the one that gets all the attention. Call it jealousy if you want. What we need to do is mingle the generations and that just doesn't happen. Introduce each generation's interests to the others. Each one might understand the other better. Want me to embrace streaming? Stop showing only groups of 20 somethings sitting in a NYC apartment enjoying Netflix because that is NOT the reality of everyone. Want the greatest and silent generations to embrace smartphones? Stop showing only 20 somethings dancing around with them. If you alienate generations, don't be surprised if they go on the offensive.
Yes they do... Literally always talking about the past.
WE don't want to grow up, and our parents don't want to give us any room to grow. Maybe things wouldn't be so unbalanced if we didn't have people refusing to give up their positions of power to the newer generations. It's like they expect us to do what they did, but are fighting to keep us from getting there...
Generation Z is the most Conservative generation since WW2 and they are alot more smarter than previous generations which means Gen Z is the future
Decent Job: You need experience to get me, so go to school
School: You need money to get me, so get a job
Shitty Job: Stay here with me so you can be overworked and underpaid with no opportunities for advancement despite years of working for me and hardly afford anything!
Older Generation: ...So when are you going to have kids and buy a house?
Us: Never, we can't afford it.
Older Generation: OMG you MILLENNIALS are KILLING the housing market and nuclear families!!
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Renee Rodriguez Ugh, I hate that. Few people give us opportunities to get a better job.
+Thayne Solcher
"Maybe things wouldn't be so unbalanced if we didn't have people refusing to give up their positions of power to the newer generations."
you can't expect an 80 year old guy who has tons of experience to just give up his position and give a 20 year old inexperienced millennial to take on as CEO of a major company, this isn't a movie you know.
Well, maybe people shouldn't be working for 60+ years. How is there supposed to be any growth if nothing ever changes and no one ever moves on?
2:40 Millenials are killing the napkin industy, wut?
It's true. Paper towels are awesome for many different uses.
why throw money at disposable towels when you can just have a towel. or use a squeegee, seems like a waste of resources (both money and trees) so to hell with paper napkins.
To play devils advocate, Tree's are probably a much more easily renewable resource than what you might use to make a squeegee ( but I don't really know what those are made of)
anyway, I think it's saying we're killing napkins and using paper towels, not that we're killing disposable wipe stuff
I'm 18 and I buy the Brawny paper towels cause you gotta love an honest label with a lumberjack on it so I spin that roll
Let's destroy the ozone together
Steven Davidson or maybe killing of what's inside the napkins and the male are the industry/factory of it! LOL
Adam ruined millenials?
Geez... That guy ruins everything, doesn't he?
its like its his JOB or something, dang...
He must be a Millenial or something!
Don’t look at me I’m just from Gen Z **sips tea**
Wait for it... A millennial
-Uh oh, we’ve ruined the economy for our children! Who should we blame it on?
-How about our children?
I think Millenials are starting to realize the myths of progress that previous generations bought into. We were told to work hard, play by the rules, do the things we have to do, and then things will work themselves out. But we witnessed financial collapse, wars on abstract things (drugs and terror), and general human terribleness to each other all perpetrated by a generation that told us that by "doing the right thing" we can become a better society. We now know that it does not work that way. More than conforming to societal norms, we crave authenticity. More than dogmatic views on anything, we crave real life, lived experiences. Our love for the unique will always trump a desire for mass-produced culture. We are not perfectly exemplifying these things in any way, but we are trying to. We are bucking the game theory style game of chicken and trying to live life for real.
Old generations always think the new generation are ruining everything... fact.
You can actually all the way back to Greek philosophers who said the same thing
Yeah like socrates who got poisoned by the state for saying his opinions.
Nathan Patrick, the new generations "ruin" things that the old generations liked because in the eyes of the younger generations there are better options at hand...
This is specially true with computers. Old people hate them because they replaced many physical services such as mail with virtual services such as e-mail... Thus computers killed many jobs and therefore ruined them and also ruined the services that were used by old people which are unable to adapt to new things because they no longer have enough neuroplasticity to learn new things... So yes in a sense the new generations often screw over the older ones because they never take in consideration the fact that a human's learning and taste acquiring abilities decrease as such human ages... However this is for the present's and future's sake. Everything we have now is something that probably replaced something that was beloved by someone. Cars replaced horses, the computers replaced many things... And so on... So yeah progress requires death. The death of all things that were once beloved and also the people that loved them (no one will actually kill old people, what I mean is that they are not immortal, they are eventually going to die and that way it's impossible for them to stop change. Their offspring will never be perfect clones of themselves. There are always variations, there is always something that children do not agree with their parents..). This is the true reality we live in. So yeah Nathan you mean "true" in what sense? Because yes for the old people the things they were used to are disappearing and they will eventually disappear as well so I guess yes it is indeed bad for them... But is it bad for the new generations?? I don't think so. The new generations are expressing their own life instead of endlessly reproducing every step of their ancestors like machines... People are not machines, no one is supposed to just copy their parents every action.
As a millenial, the popularity of the Paul brothers will keep this true. The new generation kinda does suck.
Mr Marksman EXACTLY, its always been that way!!!
I don’t think the older people realize how much harder financially millennials have it. Back in the 70s and 80s, the value of money was higher, and pay vs cost was much more even. Today not only is the average pay of a 20 year old too low for the cost of living, but there are more necessities like having a phone, internet, car, insurance.. Not to mention the crippling debt most of us have..
Back in the 70s and 80s all these things were needed except for the internet which didn't exist yet. People had to spend time typing and mailing letters (or faxing them) so there was an equivalent. In fact, they also had to go to the library or at least their encyclopedia to spend time looking up things that can be found almost instantly on Wikipedia these days.
However, there are a few things that are different and result in a disadvantage for young people. For one thing, the percentage of people attending college has gone up, so the value of a degree has gone down in one sense in that in many cases it doesn't quite offer the competitive advantage it once did. As mentioned in another video, there are fewer "starter houses" being built, so it's more difficult for a young person to find affordable housing (and many areas having affordable housing are becoming increasingly dangerous to live in). Finally, the increased relative cost of college is a legitimate "complaint" that puts young people today at a disadvantage, but some sort of education, whether college or vocational, is required after high school..
@@bobjacobson858 the whole concept of an individual's education being devalued because "there can only be so many degrees" is exactly the problem. For a few to be wealthy, many must be poor, because there's only so much money, and an increasing number of people, yet, the few who own a majority of the wealth get richer every day, while mostly everyone else struggles to make $20 an hour. A gallon of milk gets more expensive by the year, while our wages stay the same. In this economy, you are born into wealth, or you work your fingers to the bone chasing the dream of wealth. Some manage to find new ways to make money, some get lucky, but most of us are set in our roles to make the current system keep going.
@@dankhill7917 Your response to my response doesn't really address anything I've said, but that's okay. However, you've brought up an interesting point, and I see a few problems with it. Wealth creation isn't necessarily a zero-sum game, and the money supply isn't static. (There are several UA-cam videos that address the creation of money.) An individual company may have a limited budget, but the market over all isn't limited, particularly if you can help a company or organization be profitable or at least exceed its goals. (There was a joke I read some time ago in which a man applied for a job, and while interviewing for it he asked "how much would I be paid?" and he received the response "We would pay you what you're worth"--to which he answered "Oh no, I'm getting more than that right now at my current job!")
However, a degree isn't necessarily an entitlement--an employer isn't going to "reward" you just because you have a degree. There is an oversupply in certain fields, so the competition for employment and careers within them is great, and unfortunately for many people educated in them, they are less likely to find opportunities within that field. In addition, there are many people who have college degrees that can't function as well as a high school graduate could decades ago--for example, have you ever graded work submitted in an undergraduate course? Some of these people probably would have been better off learning a trade or a specialized skill in which there is demand. As a saying goes "life isn't fair"--but that doesn't mean that those who aren't at the top must necessarily be poor.
In addition, I suspect that most 20-year olds should either be in college or learning a skill--and their current earnings don't have to predict what they can earn after they've acquired this marketable skill.
People at the "top of the pile" receive a large compensation package because those who employ them believe they are worth that much to the company--and if they AREN'T willing to pay it, some other company will be happy to do so. However, I'm not concerned about those who earn far more than I do--I'm more concerned with what I earn, how can I make myself more valuable so I can earn more, and how well I use (including saving and investing) what I receive.
@@bobjacobson858 still, for a few to be very rich (owners of companies, top 1%) many have to be poor, and still do work to support those at the top. (Walmart worker compared to one of the Waltons). I'm not saying that if you start your own company and it does very well, theres something wrong with you getting rich off it, im just saying that someone who makes $100 million a year could afford to pay their minimum wage worker more (if they deserved it) and most absolutely deserve more.
They got drafted in Vietnam
Millenials are obsessed with diversity, as long as it is not diversity of opinion.
+Alex M wanna bet? On both Trump getting impeached AND his supporters going quiet?
Millennials have been brain washed by the Jewish media since birth saying diversity is good.
@Ai Kinward No. Look at who owns the media...
@@ADZ01982 So? Everything is the jews fault with you lot and not your own incompetent leaders.
+ADZ01982 Don't bring you're conspiracy theories down here. No one buys it.
Cant we just let grumpy old people be grumpy and old?
No, we have to let them be president of the United States.
But why are the young insisting on being grumpy?
Because we're so damned poor.
bogdanyer Only if they get out of our way and stop suffocating our future
But I thought one of the Millennial's breakthrough discoveries is that money doesn't buy happiness. Irony?
I don't consider someone a millennial unless they can't remember a time without the Internet being a big part of their lives.
I have friends who werent allowed TV and internet until they were teens. I wasn't allowed even youtube until past 18. that's not neccessarily a stable outlook
Maromania Well, I usually see the word millennial being used as an insult rather than referring to a generation, so I apply it to parts of the generation that I simply can't relate to and that sometimes annoy me.
The internet wasn't an important part of my life until I was 15-ish i think. I was born in '97.
Your definition works better for generation Z than millenials. I'm close to mid-generation millenial, and like others, the internet meant little to me until high school.
Oh, was using the internet through most of it's history. It's nice to know I'm a millennial.
Maybe if the boomers would stop asking us how to fix the Wi-Fi, when all they have to do is restart the router, everything would all be ok
Webby The Dino 😂😂😂👍
That's actually not true because most of the time it isn't as simple as just restarting it...also if that's what you're complaining about then get outside more.
I don't understand how my dad taught me how the computer works, and not 20 years later, he has no idea how it works and I teach him. And I teach him over and over again "plug like plug into like hole. If it freezes, turn it off and on again."
we as teachers had been taught to make them feel safe, special, and able to be a baseball player, when your talents lie somewhere else.
WE have to BREAK the cycle guys. Lets all decide NOT to rip off the next generation.
Don't worry about that. Gen Z is ripping on you folks already.
But it's just so much FUN.
I'm in the generation after millennials. Honestly you guys aren't doing shit for this generation
Yep. Millennials will be the one generation that gets shredded from both its elders *and* its youngers. *Everyone* will blame the Millennials for all their problems.
J.J. Shank maybe it's just because they have a catchy name?
Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.
TheRyeguy35 and water is wet
Kyros Droztamyr and there are no exceptions...right? I'm sure no one from your "generation" has done anything remotely stupid either...right? Yeah, you don't sound ignorant at all~ 🤔
Kyros Droztamyr assuming my generation... smh.
Ever since generations stopped listening to and respecting the wisdom of previous generations each generation has gotten progressively worse and deepened the chasm between each. Instead of trying to blame or one-up previous generations, maybe the current generation just experiencing adulthood should try to learn with humility and not try to guilt and humiliate them.
Tr Lt oh be quiet
Everybody hates millennials, until it's time to convert a file into a word document.
Baby boomers:*kill the economy*
Baby boomers: why would Millennials do this?
Is denial and blame something you practice or does it just come natural??
Same thing they’re doing to generation z
@@emilyrobles9679 Hahahaha......now that you have it all figured out (to your OWN satisfaction) why don't you run for President and FIX EVERYTHING, KID??
@John Taylor Yes....and don't forget they want the rest of us to pay for the College Debt.....then their Credit Cards, Car Payments....and someday their HOUSE PAYMENTS!! Sure....why just stop at College Debt? Remember these were the same kids who got trophies at events for just showing up!!!
@John Taylor Well said and great job with your kids. My wife and I raised 4 and all are doing well. 3 have their own businesses and the other has his Masters Degree and using it for the State we live in. I started working at the age of 13 with a paper route.....riding or carrying in the wind, rain or snow 6 days a week. When the other kids were out playing....I was saving for my first car and had the money to pay CASH for it when I turned 16. I carried that same work ethic all my life. We are now retired, our home and cars are paid for and we are not "rich" but very comfortable.....not because anybody GAVE US anything, but because we both have a strong work ethic and passed that on to our kids. Kudos to you and yours!!!
It is hilarious to hear Boomers or Gen X complain about Millennials killing this or ruining that as their are the creator of the Millennials XD
There's also Gen z complaining about millenials so it's not only the creators.
It's just the endless cycle of hate
Clay tablets found at a 3000 B.C. at a Babylonian site. The translation was, "The young people nowadays are going to hell. They don't even believe in our gods anymore." The same story from the dawn of civilization. :-)
Malcolm Marzo i went researching and did not find any truth in ehat you said although it could still be true i just did not find anything, although there is a quite from a roman guy Socrates who said this about the younger generation in around 400bc
"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." And this just proves the older generation will always talk down on the newer one.
kane aickin has anyone ever considered that people like Socrates were just raised in unbearably strict households and they were pissed off that that wasn’t actually normal?
A lot of these people seem extremely bitter that some kids grow up with more liberty than they did.
Socrates also hated this new-fangled writing thing. Dulls the memory. Why remember when you can just write it down?
they don't believe in your gods because they don't exist.
Straight White Male don't worry they aĺl say that when you lot become redundant
I heard this one millennial calling 5 year old kids millennials and I just left the room and went into my post millennial dungeon.
it will all be over soon.
As the noted Gen Xer, Tupac Shakur once said,
We gotta make a change
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes
Let's change the way we eat
Let's change the way we live
And let's change the way we treat each other
You see the old way wasn't workin'
So it's on us to do what we gotta do to survive
_Peace to this young warrior without the sounds of guns. - Elton John_
Tupac, Gen x!
You try to feed us shit and are confused when we don't want to eat it?
Exactly!!
LOL! The truth is that this generation is the one who will be cleaning their mess and also the one's who are suffering the most because of the crazy world we grew up in. My suggestion is that we must heal from all this, so we can move on and create great things..
You are confused about what to eat because you can't cook.
Angel Light YES! Wasting our time dwelling on the past doesn't do anything to help the future - and for that matter, it doesn't help the past either.
cough a bitter millennial
i'll get you next time Millenial... next time...
venomx99x *twirls mustache *
YOU'LL NEVER CATCH ME, I HAVE A JETPACK!!! NEHHEHEHEHEHEHEH!
+Peardude89 YOU CAN'T JUST JETPACK AWAY FROM YOUR PROBLEMS, BRIAN
"...and I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for these meddling Millenials!"
+venomx99
Why did I read that with Dr.Claw's voice in mind? *: /*
My engineering professors always tell me: "there's no such thing as an original idea". So far as I can tell...that's true.
"Your generation has doomed us"
Your generation raised us
That line of thinking is quite compelling, but it makes me consider how Millennials (including me) have a significant nostalgia strain. For example, as a cohort, many of us played (or at least were exposed) to Pokemon when we were kids in the 90's. Because of that, I can easily make a successful joke about Pikachu with my fellow grad students (excluding some of those in the upper age ranges). This was particularly evident this summer with the release of Pokemon Go, where you had a massive cultural movement dominated by millennials that centered around the game. Specifically, it centered around the nostalgia of the first pokemon games and the realization of the ability to catch Pokemon in the real world (albeit, only digitally) as we dreamed when we were imaginative children. There's the constant articles about amazing things from the 90's. Somehow, Friends is still considered relevant. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child screenplay was a massive success in large part because of the desire to relive the experience of a new Harry Potter Book, and the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them (now extended to 5! movies) similarly wants to run with the legacy of the movies. But the nostalgia doesn't just extend to things we ourselves experienced. There's the movement for vinyl cd's, the Victorian Steampunk aesthetic, and the revamping of the Star Wars series with the explicit goal of recreating sentimental feelings for the original trilogy. I can buy the idea that Millenials feel a need to destroy what preceded in order to create something new, but, at the same time, there's a need to latch onto what already exists and try to relive it. How can those possibly be reconciled?
I think this is probably more that the media that seems to highlight this seeming collective nostalgia syndrome is just what we are exposed to a much greater extent. It's easy for you and I to see only articles about 90's stuff and assume that world only revolves around 90's stuff, because the internet (a millenial's best friend) has a lot more people our age, who predominantly post, blog and article (now a verb) this nostalgic stuff. If you were to go to something that was dedicated to service to and by a baby boomers you'd find a lot of rock n roll and other old stuff (an example of this is a radio show I often catch at work that is hosted by some old guy who only ever plays pre-70's stuff and harps on about the halcyon days of his youth). What every old guy is always grumbling, "things were better back in my day", it's the same thing every generation.
Shh, we're not supposed to talk about the stuff that we kept alive. That might make people think that maybe the other stuff just wasn't really that good to begin with.
I think there's a qualitative difference between those things and the sorts of things Millennials are often accused of "killing". Especially since things like vinyl LPs, steampunk, and Star Wars don't specifically trace back to the Nostalgia '90s. I never see Millennials being accused of killing off specific intellectual properties, but I don't think that intellectual properties are the sort of thing people are talking about when they talk about Millennials "killing" an industry. Different age groups have always liked different types of music, books, radio, TV, etc., and I feel like most people probably understand that the things that are popular with the Kids These Days are going to stick around within that group. That's why swing music is more popular with octogenarians than either hip hop or baroque classical music: it was the popular music when they were growing up, and people understand and accept that. Your observation I think relates to the point in the video that both Millennials and Gen-Xers grew up in a largely media-saturated social environment, which makes that nostalgia easier to cash in on (because there's so much source material). So yeah, intellectual properties from our childhood and before are thriving, but what's not thriving are the traditional systems which people used to access that media. Traditional cable is dying out, and I'll give you one guess who (according to all these internet articles) is to blame! It's things that are tied up in those old traditions and systems that Millennials are supposedly "killing". The "Go to school, get married, get one full time job with full benefits, buy a house, have 2.5 kids, settle down in one place and work in that job for 40 years, retire in a warm place, do some traveling, and then die" system isn't working out for us, so we're not buying into certain pieces of that system, which is thus "killing" the industries that directly and indirectly relied on people buying into that system.
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"this new generation sucks" - (add name of any generation to ever exist)
Yeah even Socrates whined about the younger generation in his time
I read an old letter written by my great grandma complaining that her mother thought she was going to hell because she was a 20s flapper, and how her mother just didn't understand... it tickled me as a teen because my parents were complaining about my generation.... I think older people get jealous and anxious that they lost their youth, are no longer relevant, and are being left behind and take that out on the newer youngsters.
i mean socrates was totally right about the sophists though!
Simple, aftermaths of monopoly. Last generation had the most untapped resource and opportunities than we do. Housing is much cheaper and employers were willing to pay more in relative to living cost. Look at the cost to start a small company or buy a small house nowadays compare to before, calculation not using money but the workloads of a labour. Back then, you can borrow money to buy a house with almost little to no deposit, the bank would loan you extra for insurance. Now you need 20% deposit. Earn enough to buy a house, maybe takes the last generation 10 years of hardwork if you have low wages, nowadays, impossible even if you have the 20% deposit even when you work 7 days, day and night, because you wages is too low. Who set those wages? The last generation. See the problem here? The last generation have more, but they still want more at the expense of the younger generation. Thats why we cant afford anything and killing all those industry.
We cannot afford everything the previous generations cpuld, so we have begun to slim down to what we actually want rather than what is expected of us. Those things we are "killing" are things our society no longer needs.
+James Bohn That's Generation Z, dude.
God forbid we decide not to buy certain things, because we have to survive and pay bills and student debt instead...
I love the "Millennials to Snake People" Chrome extension !
Why did you say the same thing twice
I like "Underground Crab Empire" personally.
Fen Y Oooh! How do I get that one, I can't find it using Google?
Thank you so much for informing me this existed.
Anthony Ginger You're welcome :)
As not only one of the youngest Millenials (93) but also a United States Army Veteran. We are trying to drag our parents and society...kicking and screaming out of their disillusioned subjective realities because they wont come willingly. Admit the transgressions and mistakes on both sides and take an ethical and reasonable approach to running society which in all practical purposes requires education. We need critical thinkers. Scientifically literat politicians. More millenial mindsets. Millenials Unite🗺
Edgar Ussery We are the hero archetype generation after all
www.lifecourse.com/about/method/def/millennial-gen.html
I wish people wouldn't crap on Millennials.
if they deserve it.....
+golgo 13 They don't, though.
They're a bunch of lazy, entitled, selfish, hipster, snowflake crybabies
My 28 y/o manager complains about his subordinates as "us millennials". I'm 6 years younger. We are the same generation. It's exasperating. In my experience, we are not lazy. We are ambitious & stressed. Creative & open-minded. The art of conversation is not lost on us. Some of us are idealistic, but I feel that reflects young age rather than our generation specifically. Being pigeonholed is never fun :/
Your mom gay
Lou McLaren So, you're just another person who thinks they can majorly change the world in a few months or years.
WAIT are you a millennial still or are you gen z?
Your manager is a millennial
Millennials have already ruined this comment section!
NerdSync jfc chill 😹
TYPICAL
I literally scrolled down to say that myself.
NERDS
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Why are we ruining everything wholesale? Is this a Scooby Doo mystery?!
We were spoiled. We got too much, too fast. We didn't know how good we had it, globally speaking.
+Edward Gaines That's the same for the Baby Boomers.
No! We enhanced everything. Pop music has never sounded so delightfully dreadful (before it was just dreadful)
why is there is so little conversation regarding the actual economic hardships we have had to face as a generation or the failure for our generation to achieve upward mobility... I have never known prosperity... and before you say im lazy two business degrees ex military disabled veteran ... I crave a percentage of the opportunity our parents had... :/
Nathanial Exactly what the problem is. We are given little to no ways to prosper in the normal business field and even now today in said jobs they require us to do many many things and go above, beyond, and outside of what our job title says whilst getting less money (spending power wise) as the generations that have came before us
I feel your pain
Nathanial i think that part of it (certainly not all) is that there is more competition. more immigrants are coming in than ever, more women are working than ever, racial minorities have more opportunity than ever. this makes it harder for the people who used to solely have the opportunity to succeed. not saying that's a bad thing at all. just saying more competition leads to stiffer percentiles of those who succeed.
Except that this isn't a problem exclusively for under educated blue collar workers. This problem extends to college educated people as well. This generation has the most college educated workers in history. The competition is fierce but it's not the fault of women or immigrants. There are other factors like student loan debt, the flight of industrial jobs from small town america, the globalization of the economy in general among other things. On top of that those who are exceedingly wealthy are playing safe and holding on to every penny they can. It's taken a lot of social outcry for Walmart to even raise their wages when they've been able to easy afford and will probably even benefit from for years. We have some extremely complicated problems facing us and they are only going to be worked out if we have as many people as possible working on them. The age of the individual hero is dead. We need an age of cooperation and team work.
Thank you SkeinChug. Success and employment are not a zero-sum game, it's not a pie of a fixed size where someone ends getting a slice means your slice becomes smaller. Giving minorities, refugees, and the otherwise disenfranchised work does not mean that someone else loses their work because of it; and the process of ensuring they do get their fair chance should not be demonized using that falsehood. Allowing the workforce to grow often also allows the number of available jobs to grow. More people being paid fairly means more people able to spend money, business gets better with customers growing in both quantity and available spending money, and better business for a company means a greater need for more employees (aka jobs) as well as more income available to spend on said employees. Likewise many refugees are enterprising folks, instead of "taking a slice of the pie" a number of refugees often end up creating new businesses leading to new jobs available to both refugees non-refugees alike which would not have otherwise existed, making that "pie" bigger; and often in the long term making everyone's slice larger.
i really hope millenials can break this cycle and actually appreciate the new generation
Not seeing this happening anytime soon... ~ Me, a Gen Z
coorelation doesn't equal causation. the world is just going to shit and thats how it is
soon we will say that animals and plants are ruining everything
Imagine are parents when they were younger, there was probably a “Baby Boomers ruin everything....”
moviemagic I asked my dad, there were.
moviemagic That’s why the boomers said don’t trust anyone over 30 haha
I think the Amish religion was started to try and avoid this kind of crap?
Yeah, but in the same time they got too far
Melissa0774 they were rIGHT
The Amish religion is christianity, they just interpret some verses differently than your average christian.
Neil Hadlock and take it too far and being pretentious about it (a lot of lies)
Melissa0774 but no they are there as a type of people who doesnt use technology!
Because they want to impose their point of view as the "politically correct", without think the logical reasons if why is not correct.
Can I get a trophy for watching your video?
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Mike + Team - not on topic, but wanted to specifically call out how great this episode was as marker in the maturity of the Idea Channel format. [All the handclap emojis!]
The script, delivery, editing, visual and audio support - it all feels like it's hit the sweet spot for UA-cam in 2016. I've been a subscriber since the 2012 and it's a joy to see some of my favourite channels really 'find their voice' after some time. The information density (remember the 1/2 speed videos of Idea Channel that used to be uploaded?) and the tone of performance (intimate vs formal, informative vs entertaining) all feel like they're hitting equilibrium with something that perfectly fits the unique medium of contemporary UA-cam.
As someone struggling to get started with my own channel, I'm working through that 'voice finding' process myself now, and I just wanted to call out what a beautiful job you're doing here. Just wanted to say - I appreciate the effort you put in, and you make a wonderful thing. 4 years in and you're still getting better. Hopefully many more to come!
[100, fist bump, key emojis].
You're too kind - thank you very much; it's very appreciated and really means a lot
Did I actually miss an earlier video where you define millenials? Seriously, I'm lost.
Speaking as a Millennial, I feel that the resistance to "growing up" comes from a realization that of how ruined the world has truly become. My generation can no longer afford higher education without amassing insane levels of debt. We cannot afford a home without both partners working full-time, which means that if we actually want to raise a family we somehow need a third full time income to be able to afford it. Faced with this inevitable futility, who would willing "grow up" into that situation?
Zatstach this stuff is necessary to create the world most millennials want though. i'm 18, and whether or not these things are good or bad aren't important yo what i'm saying. I'm just reporting information, not commenting on it.
most millennials want federally subsidized college education. that increases the price of tuition because schools dont have to compete on the market anymore.
most millennials want more women in the work place. more people working means more money is in the system, and more jobs are created. prices rise to meet the requirements for all the extra workers.
again, not saying we SHOULD do this. but if you normalize half the population working when they hard to not, society will adapt to create the market to support those jobs. price of living HAS to rise to pay the wages of the increased workforce.
Riley Findley I think this is something people don't quite get. all the major progressive ideas come with costs that people complain about. be it tuition. diversity or female empowerment.
I think as Millenials get older (i'm 24) we'll reject our parents definition of success and "growing up" - we already have in areas like getting hitched and having children at young ages (they're called "Baby Boomers" for a reason)
caliph20 yeah!! any proposal comes with consequences. i quite like that women have more opportunity in the workplace. obviously, im a girl. but me having a job means someone else cant have it. more people working creates harder challenges towards upward mobility
Riley Findley
Of course any proposal comes with consequences both positive and negative. But one has to carefully weigh those options not just within our generation but in generations after us as well. Our parents had more resources per person than we do and luxury items were very much possible but when those resources get scarce because there are a ton of people then said people must adapt accordingly or die. And that's the situation us millennials are finding ourselves in, we live in a world built for the rich without the resources to allow everyone to be rich.
Even as a guy I like that women have opportunities in the workplace however I don't like things such as mandatory hiring quotas (I've lost more than a few potential job offers because although I was more skilled and qualified they had to hire a certain number of girls) and I certainly hate that people discriminate between other people and stereotype them instead of analyzing the factors that led to people becoming that way.
Yes I am disgruntled with society, but that's only because I understand it on a fundamental level. My other said I should visit poor countries to show me that it could be worse. I already know how bad it can be. I'm disgruntled because I can see that it could be a lot better.
The bad thing is that we gen z and Alpha have to pay and fix all the mistakes that the previous gens did while they were having fun and being sconsiderate. Just look they destroyed the economy, the earth is literally dying, we are going to work until we die and dOnT get me started on the school system.
You realize the majority of Millennials are just starting out, some not even finished with college yet, and had no hand or even ability to destroy the economy or earth. Stop repeating what you hear.
Kate Reynolds I wasn’t talking about Millennials but about gen x and baby boomers.
Ah, my mistake :)
Kate Reynolds Naah don’t worry hahah
for once i might agree.
We are just another generation in the long, seemingly infinite cycle of life. We are paving history just as others had their turn.
Everyone is trying to unique and special...
just like everyone else.
You're a unique and beautiful snowflake, just like everybody else.
ah yes, the millennials destroyed the mcwrap and vacations by trying to be special. it's all so clear to me now
Also real original comment there
BaneDain and if everyone is unique and special
*evil laugh*
then no one will be...
BaneDain You tried.
I've heard this before. It's set up to sound like a paradox, but it's not. The fact that everyone is doing it does not affect their uniqueness and specialness. The funny thing about actual snowflakes is that each one is completely different from all other snowflakes, and it didn't even have to try. Humans have the gift of creative will that they exercise regularly.
A lot of things I agree with have been pointed out in the comments already, but I want to bring in the more emotional perspective into the conversation alongside the logical. The world is rapidly changing and it becomes harder and harder to keep track, let alone fit in it. The older you are, the harder it will be, it's especially difficult for the boomers and older generations. I think each generation feels this fear of being left behind by society and become almost disconnected with it. It becomes worse with time as our society keeps changing faster and faster, the changes becoming more drastic. I mean, if I- as a 26 years old am already feeling this anxiety when facing younger people and seeing them overtaking everything, it's not surprising the older generations turn their accusations to the generation who started the most drastic of social changes(such as technological ones); our generation. That's why I think that in addition to miscommunication and lack of understanding due to
The generational gap, complaining about younger generations is something that often comes from an illogical place of anger and fear(and anger born from fear) because it's genuinely scary.
So I guess it's like, older people looking at the internet and smartphones and finding it hard to grasp and use the technology, then coming to the realisation that this world is no longer for them, that the younger generation are being catered to, that they're being seen by the media and some industries as becoming more and more obsolete? Agreed, that's scary; I'd be pissed too.
cheesypoohalo Yes. Exactly. I mean, they don't even use the same language anymore, and I mean their technological language, their view of society and their actual language; and these gaps only keep growing faster then they can handle (with the help of the internet and advanced technology). There are also other types of fears and over-whelming feelings to take into account, like the inability to understand your own children and communicate with them, not to mention loosing control of them. Because raising a kid you don't even understand and that doesn't really understand you either- kids that are living in a completely different world you lack access to- must be scary as heck, for a lot of different reasons.
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forevergitsandff4 I don't want to get political (warning I am actually about to get political), but this has an almost direct relation to my hypothesis on how Trump and the "alt right" have become so big in this election.
Older generations (but namely the majority, white male folk contingent of said generations) were used to a certain set of gender norms, acceptable phrases, values, etc. ad infinitum.
As Millennials go about tearing down everything "norms" that still stands in their way (though even Gen X did a lot to help this along) the older generations become more and more afraid of the new and completely frightening world they can't understand.
Gender is fluid!? I can't say [insert racial slur]!? Gays are alright!? Systemic oppression!?
As all of the pretentious scaffolding of their majority white male (esp. majority white male *power*) world crumbles before them and they sense the obsolescence they feared overcoming them at a rate they could not have foreseen, they lash out in a way that previous generations never sought to.
They accept a xenophobic, racist, misogynist, "businessman" because he embodies all of the things that their past *deemed acceptable* but no longer are. The entirety of Trump's power is derived from the death throes of white male power. Just a thought anyway (much of this hypothesis comes from stuff Joshua Topolsky said that I found insightful. Heard on his podcast, "Tomorrow")
Sorry for getting political, but to be fair I think that this is the one interesting thing about the entire election so I had to chime in. I would love to hear other people's thoughts/experiences/entitled millennial criticism.
I constantly find myself thinking like this. The funny thing is, people have been blaming younger generations....the generation(s) they, themselves, raised.....forever. And the next generation ponders it. Rinse, repeat.
“is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done” - Tsunetomo Yamamoto
Most people blame the older generations... not the younger ones. This new generation is just the dumbest ever despite have the most technology. go figure
This video is really just about a Millennial enjoying listening to himself talk and to spit out ideas that make him feel smart. He is strengthening the millennial stereotype.
You should dress as Straw Mike for halloween.
He is dressed; as a scarecrow. ;)
I checked out generational years a while back and they keep changing especially millennials first 85, 83, 81, now 1980. For God's sake, make up your mind people!
It's because they don't exist except as vague parameters designed to glean a little information for sociological purposes.
for me millenials should be those born in the 90s, people that grew up in the "digital world", with internet, cell phones, digital cameras, stuff like that.
80s kids was the last generation that had the "old childhood" and grew up in the "analogue world".
Ivan boom! Exactly!!
Being born in 1985 i can say, it seems a good place for Millennials to start because my age was the exact age that you were becoming* a young teenager for the first time when the internet was starting up and you were therefore the youngest and first to learn and explore the www. : D
Gen Alpha: 2032 - 2014
Gen Z: 2014 - 1996
Gen Y: 1996 - 1978
Gen X: 1978 - 1960
Boomer: 1960 - 1942
I think this is very fair and accurate (far more accurate than what most websites say), because I've factored in the whole "conscious youth" thing that everyone leaves out. The generation range is abstract, but not so much when we consider the generation nickname itself.
Millennials (gen Y) are the conscious youth of the new millennia. The year 2000.
Baby Boomers are the conscious youth of the baby boom after WW2. Families of 5+ were the norm in its time.
I don't know what happened in gen X's youth years to define it by; they're the youngest adults of the 80s?
Centennials (gen Z) are the conscious youth of the age of the internet. iKid/iGen is another label gen Z has because of that.
Here's a thing to understand about gen Z people. They still get referred to as millennials - on every tv program - because every tv program is managed by...old people. People out of touch with the younger generations they can't differentiate between them. So they lump them all together, to mean that young person = millennial. We know that's incorrect.
As a Gen-Xer, I love Millennials. Thanks to them my generation does get picked on as much as it use to :)
This guy probably doesn't have kids, he might change his mind when he actually has some sense of responsibility.
Bees are dying at an alarming rate.
It's even more simple than that. The world changes, and most people are uncomfortable with change, especially as they get older.
I never knew you had your own channel and I'm so glad I found it. You're my favorite crash course teacher and you're a wonderful presenter.
I can remember the 70s and people were complaining about that generation then . The only difference is that we now have social media - for better or worse .
I'm so blessed to be a part of Gen X. Our entire tagline was APATHY. We've never been interested in what other people think and we've never cared to try and earn their favor. It makes me feel warm inside when I see Millennials and Boomers shouting back and forth while I sit here gaming in my Nirvana T-shirt.
Outstanding Pajamas! remember the attitude era
Same
Awesome
The idea that media informs a generation's memories really caught my attention. Growing up in the nineties, I wasn't allowed to watch TV and instead was raised on films from the 30s-60s. Thanks to that, I've always felt like a part of me belonged to a different generation than my peers. While they were quoting the Rugrats I was repeating Groucho's jokes. And instead of the latest styles I wanted that dress from Rear Window. For the most part, it didn't matter much but there were those occasional moments on the playground where I felt like we were staring at each other from across a gulf. And that gulf didn't close until I gained access to the internet and I was able to 1) participate in the media culture that was informing my peers and 2) was able to look back at and catch up on the references they were making so I didn't seem so out of place. Notably though, as I've gotten older, I've found that the things retained/missed in my early childhood make less and less difference in how I connect with those around me. It's interesting.
Anyone here ever considered being an.....
(Wait for it..............)
INDIVIDUAL.?????
We are the ones that started crowdfunding. The only thing that we did kill was the casual dining establishments (Applebee's, chillies, Denny's etc) this is because they were trash. We now live fast casual (Chipotle McDonald's Starbucks) because they are quick and enjoyable even though they are chains. We also like one shop restaurant where the place is not a chain brand but a nice sit down place
Ethan Quinn I worked at 2 different Dennys.. y'all didn't kill Dennys. There's plenty of drunk 20something year olds at Denny's being annoying at 2 AM... trust me!
chiptole and mcdonalds suck, their foods are tasteless, and starbucks is everyones favorite, that includes boomers and x gens, so don't say that millenials helped starbucks grow from the beginning. denny's, applebees and chillies in my area is doing well.
Angelo Luna Chipotle sucks? Gtfoh! I live in Minnesota, it's Caribou and Dunn Bros. before Starbucks.
The way I see it, there are generations, and sub-generations - what I refer to as 'social generations.' I was born in 1983, which made me Generation Y (seeing as Gen X were very particular about who could and couldn't come into their club), but Gen Y has apparently been destroyed and made a part of the Millennials. even though I was born 17 years before the new millennium even occurred.
But in every generation is a type of person that leans more towards one end or the other. After a decade in the telecommunications industry, I noticed a definite difference between the entitled Baby Boomer who wanted everything free, and the more open-minded Baby Boomer that leaned closer to Gen X. I also saw a difference between people that leaned closer to Gen Z than Millennial, and even Gen X to Millennial.
I don't identify whatsoever with the Snapchat/crowdsourcing/take a photo of your damned food/can't live without the internet crowd, but I also don't identify with the 'I hate change SO DAMNED MUCH' Gen X crowd. Like Gen X, if my internet or power goes out, I just light some candles and read a book, or go for a walk, or hang with friends. Like the Millennials, I also embrace change, especially in technology - that's a 'social generation' in my mind; it's a sub-generation within the generation they're in, who hold a set of ideals not quite aligned with either side.
Fish in a Barrel stuck in the middle we are
Pretty much!
Fish in a Barrel same goes with me. i have an obsession with the history of art and i love learning what older generations made before us. but at the same time i enjoy technology and encourage e-reading and such. i am grateful to how fast we're developing but i also think there are many things we must learn from older generations.
I'm right there with you Fish. I was born in 1983, and don't really seem to fit in with either the Gen X hipsters or the SnapChat Facebooking Millennials. I mean, I use to do all that social media crap, but eventually found it too redundant and boring, and left it behind (which I'm still waiting for the rest of the world to do too). I think what we really need is a more honest critique of technological reproduction. I read Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, and it was good for it's time, as he wrote it in support of capitalist reproduction while fascism was on the raise, but we need something that reflects upon our time now. This video tried to do something like that, but it was too stuck in the ideology of generations, but that sounds too Hegelian to really be useful. I wonder if those born between '81 - '89 are really more of a forgotten generation who never really were a part of any generation. We have the memories of life before the internet boom, we have memories of life in the internet boom, and we have memories of life after this boom which we are still experiencing now. We're the only ones to have been becoming teenagers and adults as the internet became relevant. I don't really think kids have to learn the Dew Decimal system now do they? But I remember having a whole class period dedicated on how to use that card system in elementary school. Now all we have to do is work a search bar. If, as the video claims, memory is connected to technology now, in terms of appropriated and personal memories, what does that say about those of us that have both the memory connected to technology and memory not?
Why generations are bullshit.
Millennials are people from 1980-2000. According to this theory my brother from 1981 and my friend from 1998 should behave the same?
That's what wrong with the whole thing, stop blaming other people (entire generations) and get your shit together
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I saw the suggestion, to use important turning points to segregate generations [if 9/11 is history to me, I am no melanial?]
BMAN488877 I think it depends on who says it I've seen some website and people that say its from 1980-2000 and some from 1980-1995
BMAN488877 I've also seen a website that says it's 1982-2002
Tacocat No, millennials are born from 1980-1995, and people born in Generation Z are born from 1996-2010.
Which leaves many people, such as myself, wondering what generation I am apart of and if I can be mad at old people for complaining about my group, Millennials, or I can be annoyed at Millenials for ruining everything.
Either way, these problems are hilarious.
When are people going to learn to stop putting people into poorly defined boxes that don't work in reality?
Generations change gradually, so this artificial grouping and pitting against each other is beyond dumb
I think its funny that people say millennials killed home ownership when house prices have ballooned so much there is no way to afford a home. And we killed vacations even though the reasons we don't take them is because companies no longer give paid vacation time and cost of living is so high that if we don't work every single day we won't be able to eat or pay rent. We don't have huge amounts of disposable income to buy cars or pay for cable or newspapers. So we ride share and get our news and media for "free" from the internet. We make do with what we have and find joy where we can, even if it means playing video games or taking selfies and snapchatting your friends. All of these things have a great dollar per enjoyment ratio and keep us from looking at what for many people isn't prosperous future like our parents had.