re: Millennial's or Gen Y

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Thankfully I have exceptionally supportive parents who busted their asses (who taught that to me) and supported me getting a masters.

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Thanks Boomer!

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Nothing like an upper middle class middle aged (empty nest) housewife who had a housekeeper four days a week starting a sentence with "I've been on this planet for X# of years, and..."

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Thatsnot the reality of most people. If you were born in the South in the fifties or sixties, itsmost likely you were poor.

What you're describing is economic privilege.

I was too young for it to really affect me but this-

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Because it wasn't that bad.

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Is pretty stupid

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I was too young for it to really affect me but this-

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If it wa that bad you would be affected.

Explain how bad it was.

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Gen Z is being described as more conservative.

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More conservative than “overwhelmingly liberal” doesn’t necessarily mean they’re actually conservative

I guarantee you they’re not. Plenty of Bernie bro types among the group

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I guarantee you they’re not.

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Yep. Z is terribly soft. Softer than millennials.

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Explain how bad it was.

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explain how it wasn’t bad

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Hell, almost all of the 80's was pretty bad here in Louisiana.

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In La it was terrible. Almost two decades of bad economies.

Boomers had the same complaints millennials do now though. The steel mills closed, auto mfg dropped, oil was cheap. The biggest difference was over a decade of high unemployment and crippling inflation.

When I hear these millennials whine it reminds me of that song by Billy Joel, Allentown.

Well, we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem, they're killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line
Well, our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers at the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with them slow
And we're living here in Allentown

Well, we're waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved

So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No, they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke
Chromium steel
And we're waiting here in Allentown

Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face

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They created hardships for their kids because their lives weren’t hard enough

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The victim mentality.

Tell us how hard your life was sweet cakes?

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GreatLakesTiger24

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Still waiting for you to tell me how bad you had it. I would love to hear about you starving and begging on the streets. Turning tricks for pizza.