Are millenials entitled?

[Not getting younger]

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Lol don’t get me started on that topic…

read something once. Might have been 5-10 years ago. It was an extremely thoughtful article take on the this subject. If I recall written by a Gen X or Gen Z

While he acknowledged that many of the complaints about his generation and would hold true now with Milenials even more so.
He fairly summed why he blamed his parents/grandparents Boomers.

Post war. Let’s all agree on the benefits Boomers were handed. We can start with jobs, good paying ones without needing pedigrees. Pensions and so much more.

when they came of age, to vote, and join the workforces. They voted for more shit that made their lives comfy…In Canada think Trudeau.

when they hit their 30-40s. When was that, and where ? In politics, higher ups in places of power etc.And they were Boomers. The single largest demographic ever…

And they screwed those entering the work forces, now and recently voting themselves pretty comfy lives during their prime/working years.

Most of the stuff discussed here that Millenials will have to contend with. Be it housing, be it pensions/savings, be it enormous amounts of debt, jobs. And on and on.

can all be traced back to politics and policy, enacted by Boomers.

 

[onomatopoeia]

Lol don’t get me started on that topic…

read something once. Might have been 5-10 years ago. It was an extremely thoughtful article take on the this subject. If I recall written by a Gen X or Gen Z

While he acknowledged that many of the complaints about his generation and would hold true now with Milenials even more so.
He fairly summed why he blamed his parents/grandparents Boomers.

Post war. Let’s all agree on the benefits Boomers were handed. We can start with jobs, good paying ones without needing pedigrees. Pensions and so much more.

when they came of age, to vote, and join the workforces. They voted for more shit that made their lives comfy…In Canada think Trudeau.

when they hit their 30-40s. When was that, and where ? In politics, higher ups in places of power etc.And they were Boomers. The single largest demographic ever…

And they screwed those entering the work forces, now and recently voting themselves pretty comfy lives during their prime/working years.

Most of the stuff discussed here that Millenials will have to contend with. Be it housing, be it pensions/savings, be it enormous amounts of debt, jobs. And on and on.

can all be traced back to politics and policy, enacted by Boomers.

What I had to say on this subject on a different board, November, 2014:

The white first wave boomers, (born 1946-1952), saw to it that they, and there own, had enough time to fill the tenured spots in blue and white colour occupations. Then hey put out the "white quota filled" signs, to protect their positions from guys like them who were younger and just as good, if not better.

Imagine that a hurdles race was run, beginning around 1965, in a single lane, with starting positions determined by age, but the race covers several laps of the track. Each lap represents a decade of time.

There weren't too many guys in the 'born before 1920' group, and they weren't necessarily the best; we lost many of the best in World War II, and retained all of the ones who were deemed unfit for combat, and the ones lucky enough to come home in one piece.

In the first lap, the hurdles weren't very high. A guy with a strong back or some skill with a pencil, or one dexterous at shuffling paper, had only to show up on time, to get and keep a relatively good job, that paid a good wage, relative to the cost of buying things. He knew a good thing when he saw it, so he stayed at the same job for his whole working career, and spent his money on kids.

After the first lap, many of the older guys started to drop out of the race because they were winded, or couldn't keep up to a faster pace.

Once the first wave boomers took the lead midway through lap two, they started to raise the height of the hurdles they had already passed, but they also created a second lane with lower hurdles, only for the use of those who were unlike them in appearance.

Not surprisingly, the gap between the first wave boomers and the ones trailing them in the high hurdle lane started to increase, but many of the guys trailing them in the high hurdle lane were able to keep pace with the low hurdle lane; they just lost ground to the group who changed the rules in mid race, for personal advantage. They made it look like they believed those who joined the competition in progress ought to have an equal chance to lead, but only after the first wave had already completed their four laps, with themselves in the lead.

 

[Not getting younger]

In the first lap, the hurdles weren't very high. A guy with a strong back or some skill with a pencil, or one dexterous at shuffling paper, had only to show up on time, to get and keep a relatively good job, that paid a good wage, relative to the cost of buying things. He knew a good thing when he saw it, so he stayed at the same job for his whole working career, and spent his money on kids

you lost me right there.

Alternatively.
They created a world where people with drive, ambition, skill sets were passed by people that learned to study by rote, had little ambition and less practical skill.

I’ve known many a rocket scientist that were dumb as stumps, and many gutter rats that can fleece them nine ways to Sunday.

And if we want to see that. Just read the thread.

Milennials.
Many with pedigrees, Thought of as….lazy, no drive, less worth ethic, attention spans of gnats, entitled, blah blah and /or doing things they don’t really love but that piece of paper….

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And if you really and I mean really want to see that.

Look at Ottawa, and politicians these days. None more so than drama teacher, a failure at life, but whose greatest claim to fame is his dads name…