re: Millennial's or Gen Y

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Care to explain the raw deal and the bad hand y'all were dealt and the solutions that you millenials will put into place?

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First, keep in mind that I'm speaking in generalities. There are always outliers and anomalies to point to.

Issues -
1) Economic policies over the last 40 years have stripped the middle class bare.

2) A single middle class wage can't
hardly buy a house of any kind and can't raise a family.

3) Boomers insisted on their children going to college, tuition prices have skyrocketed forcing any average person who wants to attend college to take on massive student loan debt. Our national debt is insane and growing at an incredible pace.

4) Climate change science is still actively denied to this day and neither government nor the bulk of large corporations are doing much of anything.

5) Boomers coddled our generation and many of us feel like the world was ours if only we do what they say: go to college and work hard, yet social policies like participation trophies and scoreless games taught our generation that nobody truly loses. Millennials where wholly unprepared for the early bitch slap that is called life in your 20s.



Solutions? frick if I know, I'm not a politician or a genius. But here's some general ideas:

For starters, work on building back up our middle class. The middle class should be the backbone of our society.

In a similar vein, make vocational/technical schools tuition free and promote them heavily - skilled laborers like plumbers and Carpenters are going to be the last to be directly affected by the upcoming wave of automation.

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have stripped the middle class bare.

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It's a shifting, ambiguous term, and it's alive and well.

The entrenchment of the underclasses (single mothers, lowly educated immigrants, dependency on welfare) have done more to curb mobility than anything.

I'm solidly middle class and very comfortable, even in a very expensive location. The average middle class family lives a pretty easy lifestyle.

Housing is the biggest struggle but borrowing money is virtually free and the down payment requirements for many are ridiculously low.

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We have therefore imported a mass amount of people with questionable IQs.

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these people, and their ilk, have much higher birthrates than the respectable, decent people.

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Health has improved. Until about a two months ago we had the ability to sustain the most decrepit and sickly of our population in ways that were unimaginable.

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right. i meant more along the lines of 70% of the population being overweight or obese and everything that comes with that.

boomers and older allowed huge #s of legal and illegal third world immigrants for the lower wages and/or to be PC without considering the consequences. then expanded the welfare system so the underclass could grow even more.

but hey, they got a lawn guy for $40/week and remodeled their bathroom for half the price. i hope it was worth texas going blue.

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Think of political leaders. Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Newt Gingrich, and George W. Bush are all Boomers. What do they share in common

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Obama is a boomer too

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Think of political leaders. Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Newt Gingrich, and George W. Bush are all Boomers. What do they share in common.

According to the theory they were indulged as children, narcissistic as young adults, moralistic in midlife, and wise as they enter adulthood.

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spot on IMO. Obama too.

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Meh, he was a Boomer by several years

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It's a weird timeline. People born from 60-65 have way more in common with gen X than boomers.

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Well nobody can argue with the moving of manufacturing to an enemy country. That shite was dumb and greedy. But it takes 2 to tango and people buy that cheap shite.
That said the people that made those decisions to move it are a very small percentage of the population

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As a Finance person, I graduated just in time for the economic recession. I got a job (paid 60K), then was laid off, and could not find jobs due to lack of experience. I had to start at Target and work up (with an MBA). I worked contracts; I worked in a call-center; I did everything I could. I make very good money now (controller for large business/assistant CFO), so I'm ok, but jobs weren't exactly hanging on trees.