re: Do millennials hold businesses to a higher standard?

I'm a millennial and I hold the company I work for to a higher standard, so I speak from experience that the observations of the OP are accurate.

I wasn't about to let Jamal serve that cop a burger with spit today. TPOS. I reported him to the manager and got him fired.

Honestly I cut the cord on cable and dont miss is one bit. I was paying $250/mo for my full cable from ATT Uverse and now I have a firestick thats jailbroken from amazon and I have every freaking game on earth and pay $0 monthly for it. So its silly to just pay these cable companies when other options do exist.

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the context of my original statement is that life has become sequentially less full of hardship (though relative) since the founding of our nation, with very few exceptions.

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Has life gotten easier since 1776? Absolutely. Has it really gotten that much better since 1960? I'm not convinced, and at least one old fart agrees with me.

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Diseases are constantly being cured or cures are less painful, new technology makes life easier, and physical work has become something fewer people do than in the past generation. Just the technology shift over the past three generations has been staggering.

I don't see a way anyone looking at the last 4 generations of adults, including millennials, could really argue this. Before millennials retire, it's likely you'll have new transportation technology, work fewer hours and enjoy more leisure time and live longer healthier lives.

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How many of those things are impacting my life today, and aren't huge maybes? The bolded part is what I'm especially curious about. Technology surely has changed life but as I spelled out in my last post I feel it has simply changed it in superficial ways. A work day is still a work day, even if I am emailing someone in Canada rather than dealing with a customer down the street. Google can't pay my bills, and it is gonna be a few years before I need a robot to give me a heart transplant. I'll give you that manual labor has decreased, but those jobs still exist, and most younger people I know would prefer they hadn't left. The rest of these cliches about how things are somehow easier now then they were 30 or so years ago are getting really old. How exactly is technology, right now, making it so I don't have to haul my arse out of bed every morning and go to work just like everyone else has done for the last century? Again, I think you need to lay off the facebook. You're letting a vocal minority of SJWs and bloggers convince you of things that just aren't true. Getting paid to work from home or write for a blog is still incredibly rare in this workforce.

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How many of those things are impacting my life today, and aren't huge maybes? The bolded part is what I'm especially curious about. Technology surely has changed life but as I spelled out in my last post I feel it has simply changed it in superficial ways.

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Having been an adult since the early 80's, I am in total disagreement with you. Life since 1990 has been an incredible journey.

The 70's, people lived in small homes, drove used cars, patched their pants, worked physical labor for the most part, had 3 TV channels, had window units and attic fans, no AC in schools, did book reports using card catalogues, waited on US postal service for any communication not possible over a land line which in some places was a party line.

Technology has made labor, living and communications changes for todays generation that has totally transformed the workforce and homefront.

I remember sending out bids at work via US mail, to 20-30 contractors and calling in pricing on bid day to each one. The simple fax machine gave me back about 10 or more hours a week at work. The computer has revolutionized even that.

Even seemingly superficial changes such as 200 networks of television compared to three has increased information dramatically. I'd call that a bit more substantial.

Millennials who are in their 20's today will work less hours, have more leisure and enjoy a robust lifestyle that their grandparents never had. It's probably not apparent to most who post here, but the average person growing up in the South struggled for the simple, basic things in life. I think young people are prone to believing all the negative talk they hear about their future, but we didn't even think we had one because of the cold war.

Your struggles will be faaaar less related to survival as it does the smaller details of life.

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The 70's, people lived in small homes, drove used cars, patched their pants, worked physical labor for the most part, had 3 TV channels, had window units and attic fans, no AC in schools, did book reports using card catalogues, waited on US postal service for any communication not possible over a land line which in some places was a party line

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You just described my childhood in the 70's and early 80's to a T, even down to the party line and having 3 channels on TV. And we had to go outside and turn the antenna to get the third one!

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You just described my childhood in the 70's and early 80's to a T, even down to the party line and having 3 channels on TV. And we had to go outside and turn the antenna to get the third one!

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Yeah, we wore those Toughskin pants from Sears. Mom just kept patching and sewing til school season ended, by then they were two inches too short.

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70's, people lived in small homes, drove used cars, patched their pants, worked physical labor for the most part, had 3 TV channels, had window units and attic fans, no AC in schools, did book reports using card catalogues, waited on US postal service for any communication not possible over a land line which in some places was a party line.

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That sounds miserable

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That sounds miserable

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I used to always watch TV laying on the floor so I could reach up and change the channel dial with my toes.

I was our first TV remote

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Technology has made labor, living and communications changes for todays generation that has totally transformed the workforce and homefront.

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Has it made it easier though? I mean there are still 24 hours in a day. You have the same or similar amount of leisure time, because even though technology has made work more efficient, it hasn't lowere the amount of hours worked, at least by any substantial amount of time. I mean the average work week has decreased less than 3 hours since 1960, and the vast majority of that occurred from 1960-1980.

Dropping a kid off 35 year in the past is going to be a shock regardless of the generation you choose, but is it really the fault of the generation? Every generation has more tech than the generation before them, but as a result more is expected out of that newer generation. It used to take half a day for my grandpa to find a replacement part for his lathe. I can find it and have it ordered within 10 minutes, but does the make me lazy? I mean our generation does more than the one before it in less time, but does that imply that we're lazy entitled brats? Are we supposed to buck the technology available to us just to prove our worth to 60 and 70 somethings?

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Haven't we established that millenials are going to fix the country that our parents destroyed.

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Every generation thinks this. Remember the folks who are fricking up the country now used to be hippies. Every generation of young people plans to save the world.

Every older generation thinks they are fricking idiots. Same holds true today.