re: Baby Boomers: The Entitled Generation?

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One generation being more intelligent than another?

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it's called the flynn effect

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but to blame an entire generation because your life is not what you would like it to be?

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MY life is fine. i'm not speaking about me. i'm speaking about raw data and the reality of being a 20-30 year old in modern America

for the record, i'm probably not a "millenial" b/c i'm 32. i kind of sit across multiple generations

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And to say your expectations are what we had is bullshite. We all grew up with the "you can be anything" garbage. It didn't take long to realize that some people aren't able to be successful at anything.

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but the opportunities are completely different. and that opportunity issues that the millenials face are not due to anything they have done, yet they are blamed for it. it's a raw deal (hence why i am bringing up facts)

the younger generations were born with $100-200k in debt at fricking birth. then they are brought into a society where mid-level employment is disappearing, so they go to college...and due to government policy (of the boomers), their college education is inflating at insane rates. they do not face the same educational opportunities (in terms of cost) that boomers did. so now on top of that $100-200k in debt at birth, they have to incur $50-100k in debt to get an opportunity at the modern economy. when they enter that modern economy, their wages are suppressed because there are too many boomers who are working very late into life to afford their materialistic chocies, which also inflates the prices of real goods. add in a monetary policy of the boomers to inflate the frick out of our goods, and this further destroys teh earning power of the paltry job opportunities that are presented these kids who are now in super debt

oh yeah, and the boomers expect that when they do retire, the kids assume the tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities that the boomers expect them to pay (when the kids receive nothing in return). so this debt is expanded expnentially and pushed upon these kids due to their birth.

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The biggest difference in the generations is that your group looks to blame someone else instead of just dealing with reality.

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the reality kids 20-30 face are shite

the scarier reality is the one they face in 10 years when they are forced to subsidize the lives of the boomers