re: Is anyone else sick of gen z and millennials poor me attitude?

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No. I pretty much only hate the boomer generation.

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Your incessant whining over the years has made that clear.

GenX here and most of us hate listening to both of you.

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Your incessant whining over the years has made that clear.

GenX here and most of us hate listening to both of you.

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Joke's on you - I'm Gen X as well.

1) I don’t live in a big city and don’t ever care to
2) No monger have any social media presence
3) Pay my loans every month

4) Not really sick of them. I’m actually quite thankful because this generation is one of the laziest in history. I’ll always have a job

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less religious than the previous generation

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Ugh are we really going to have a future generation full of people who employ critical thinking instead of going through life attributing everything to a magical sky guy having a plan for them?

Lunacy!

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Is anyone else sick of gen z and millennials poor me attitude?

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Sure, but let's look at some reasons, eh?

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- Crying about working two jobs to get themselves through college and taking on student loans

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Well, boomers won't retire, meaning people aren't progressing through the career ladder, meaning there are fewer open "good" jobs. And many jobs have been sent overseas. Plus, boomers pushed them that "you have to go to college to be successful" and signed off on 18 and 19 year olds taking on huge debt. What a boomer parenting failure.

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Can't live in the big city without making any sacrifices like roommates

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Boomers run the government, which has artificially kept interest rates low. Low interest rates mean higher costs for building housing, which leads to higher rents. Higher rents plus lower wages = need roommates. Prior generations had roommates in college, not while employed fill time.

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mental illness skyrocketing thanks to social media and isolation due to covid-19 scare tactics

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Oh, you mean the scare tactics pushed by the boomer politicians?

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unwilling to learn a trade like plumbing or welding

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Boomer parents and guidance counselors told kids that these jobs were beneath them. They told kids you have to go to an expensive four year college if you want to have any success in life.

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unwilling to move to rural America where the jobs are

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What jobs? Boomers sold their family farms to international corporations. Boomers in the rural areas are not exactly welcoming, especially if people look different than they do.

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less religious than the previous generation

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These people grew up watching priests arrested for diddling kids. They grew up watching all these religious "leaders" talk about family values, and then get found having affairs. They see other religious leaders talk about how we need to sacrifice 10 percent for God, then see these leaders get onto their private jets after leaving their $7 million house.

So yeah, I'm tired of their poor me attitude, but understand that the attitude is 100 percent the fault of the boomers, who are going to have the distinction of creating a worse future.

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- Crying about working two jobs to get themselves through college and taking on student loans

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I was lucky and didn't have to work through college (did have a job for 2 summers), but I don't think you should have to work for two jobs and take out loans just to be able to afford to go to a public university.

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- Can't live in the big city without making any sacrifices like roommates

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Meh. A lot of people can't live in a small city without a roommate.

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mental illness skyrocketing thanks to social media and isolation due to covid-19 scare tactics

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I think mental illness was an issue long before social media. We're just getting better at talking about it and diagnosing it.

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- unwilling to learn a trade like plumbing or welding

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I guess you're right. I'm unwilling to do that.

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unwilling to move to rural America where the jobs are

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I don't know about the job thing, but I am unwilling to move to a more rural area.

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less religious than the previous generation

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Gave up religion for good about 10 years ago.

IMO, these kids bave been medicated at an early age by their parents and willing doctors....

Adderol, anti depressants, and so on.....presrcription drugs are still DRUGS!

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So yeah, I'm tired of their poor me attitude, but understand that the attitude is 100 percent the fault of the boomers, who are going to have the distinction of creating a worse future.

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That entire post is 100% accurate. Boomers created the shitshow that we currently have and then have the audacity to complain when other point out the problems they caused. Their hubris is amazing. They were all born on 3rd base (in terms of the economy and post war boom) and think they somehow hit a homerun.

And that doesn't even get into the issue of their success being a result of selling the country and their kids down the road in order to gobble up more of the pie themselves. The very success they are so proud of came from selling out their own kids and grandkids.

Yall should have raised them better

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Well, boomers won't retire, meaning people aren't progressing through the career ladder, meaning there are fewer open "good" jobs. And many jobs have been sent overseas. Plus, boomers pushed them that "you have to go to college to be successful" and signed off on 18 and 19 year olds taking on huge debt. What a boomer parenting failure.

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Not to mention when boomers graduated college, companies didn't really care what you majored in except for in highly specialized fields. All they looked for was a college degree, so you had plenty of people with humanities degrees landing good paying jobs. Those same humanities degrees they like to belittle millenials and gen z for pursuing. My uncle was hired by an insurance company to be an accountant when his degree was in sociology.