re: Millennials earn 20% less than baby boomers did—despite being better educated

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Own that.

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Why?
Sounds like collectivism to me.

I'm Gen X

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That's b/c they all saw men and women with degrees getting ahead of them, despite their real world knowledge.

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So the answer was the augment the talent pool artificially via college and degrees? Why did they think that was going to work?

Plenty of blue collar positions can get close to or clear a $100k salary with experience and good work.

One of the biggest boomer rants is that "Millenials get worthless degrees, saddled themselves with debt and work in coffee shops." It's probably a safe bet that 60% of welders or more make more than a barista.

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One of the biggest boomer rants is that "Millenials get worthless degrees, saddled themselves with debt and work in coffee shops." It's probably a safe bet that 60% of welders or more make more than a barista.

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That talking point is absolute nonsense if you’re talking on a macro level

I'm just giving you a reason on why people thought that way then.


Obviously, looking back in hindsight, it was an oversold idea.

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Freauxzen

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moving you up in my rankings dude. great stuff

r/boomersbeingfools is another dude

can't go a morning without getting my daily lol at boomers fix in

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Boomers created an inescapable environment because they controlled colleges and the positions colleges were used to educate for. 

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You're the perpetual victim. It's impossible to reason with people who cannot accept responsibility.

Yeah, it gets old.

Everybody thinks life owes them something.

Life don't owe you jack-shite.

This generation leads the league in the blame game.

20 pages of I guess a lot of boomers talking smack about the idiot millennials.

Used to be, you worked until your 60s, then you retired for a few years, then you died.

Now, "retirement" is supposed to be this big thing. Well, most boomers didn't save enough money, so they need to work later in life, and demand higher paychecks, to save up enough money to be able to retire for 20-30 years.

Them staying around longer in the workplace, and drawing ever-higher salaries, stunts the ability of the youngins to start moving up in their careers.

I've seen firm partners in their 60s tell me about how when they were young, their bosses used to always encourage them to get involved in the community, would pass work down to them, help them develop, etc.

Yet, when today's young workers ask these partners for help or more work, they are told to figure it out.

The boomers are completely clueless. THEY have created this mess, and their only solution is to tell the millennials that they are stupid.

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You're the perpetual victim. It's impossible to reason with people who cannot accept responsibility.

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This isn't about me, I don't know why you try to make it. I just articulated above that my frustration with Boomers, regardless of where I fit, is that they royally f-ed up culture and education and we seemingly don't have the balls to swallow it - Millenials, Gen X, and Boomers all included. We have no desire to fix it, so we continue down the exact path that Boomers illogically laid out.

The other problem is that everything they did was so against logic and reason, driven by pride, and they still don't recognize that. It's funny that "not accepting responsibility" is the retort, when that's exactly what Boomers need to do AS WELL.

Yes, any millenial that wanted to be a rocket scientist but got a Literature degree should accept responsibility. Any Millenial still working in a coffee shop at 32 should still accept responsibility.

But people who were happy with mid-level jobs, but had to go to college and saddle themselves with $100k of debt because Boomers would only hire Bachelor degrees rather than just Associate Degrees have a little right to be upset.

I mean, do really hold people 100% accountable where they wanted a particular job that doesn't necessarily have sky high pay potential, but still requires a college degree so they have to go get a 4-year degree for no reason? Those are a good portion of modern jobs (I'm of the belief that most jobs, like 80%, do not require college degrees - there's a reason that it's an MD, JD, and PhD in terms of Graduate degrees. There were VERY few reasons to get accelerated degrees).