re: I reject the idea that young adults/millennials “have it harder” than boomers at that age

I am. Most aren’t hiring, and government organizations require I already have my license before applying.

I’ve been applying to damn near every job I’m even remotely qualified to work at worldwide for the past 9 months while having also taken the bar exam during that time.

I disagree the boomers had the WW2 generation holding the fort down while they grew up. Also this country wasn’t the overpopulated turd pile it is now back when the boomers grew up.

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Must be some new math I am not familiar with.

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Or you didn’t read my whole post.

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That's the choice Millennials face: per square real estate has rocketed up in real terms. The difference in interest rates isn't going to make up that difference.

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Of course it’s not. Hats why when I was fresh out of school and everyone was telling me “you gotta buy a house thininteret rates are so low”. I didn’t bite. But apparently it was easy for me to buy a home I just didn’t know it.

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But to ignore that Millennials, on aggregate, have had a shittier hand dealt to them than their parents is to ignore every piece of hard data - economic, QoL, you name it - out there that suggests that to be the truth.

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Its easy to ingnore because it isn’t true.

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and applying for jobs that a tech school qualifies you for, doesn’t look like a huge success. Nor skilled in any particular area.

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..the post referred to a bio degree applying for ...bio research. Not a bio degree applying for tech jobs...

A BS in bio used to suffice for getting a job in research. not anymore, its more difficult and competitive now. Like the poster said what used to just req a bio degree now basically requires a masters. The same education of a BS in BIO wont get you the job it used to, but it will cost significantly more for the degree than it used to though.

1770s/early 1780s- revolution

18 teens- war with Great Britain on our own soil


1860s- civil war.

1870s/1880s- reconstruction era


19 teens- fear of being drafted into WW1. Most people still living in agricultural age with no electricity. Most people still toiled in factories and on farms. Most people walked, rode a bicycle, or traveled by horse and buggy.


1930s- 18-34 year olds had to worry about where their next meal would come from. What utility would be turned off. Would the Great Depression ever end?

1940s- 18-34 year olds had to worry about a war being waged across much of the globe. Constantly fretting the day their draft card was pulled. Families on constant edge of whether or not their son or father would be risking their lives in Europe, North Africa, or the Pacific.

1950s- see above but insert Korea

1960s- see above but insert Vietnam and civil unrest at home and Cold War fear of annihaltion by nuclear war.

1970s- My decade of birth. Personal experience of living in constant uneasiness that we would be attacked by ICBMs. Looked skyward with apprehension at the sound of any plane. Routine bong drills at school.

The people born between the early 80s and today are soft as hell. They have never known real fear or adversity. They live in the most peaceful and prosperous run of decades in our nations history. They are entitled and impatient to have the things previous generations busted their asses for when they turn 22. Luxuries that previous generations began to acquire in their 40s and 50s. They want those things and feel they are entitled to them in their 20s. Their whining and bitching about how hard they have it is comical when compared to the fears and thoughts of the future of people from previous generations. It’s pathetic.

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But to ignore that Millennials, on aggregate, have had a shittier hand dealt to them than their parents is to ignore every piece of hard data - economic, QoL, you name it - out there that suggests that to be the truth.
Its easy to ingnore because it isn’t true.

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It is 100%, unassailably, unflinchingly true. In real terms, Millennials have less disposable income, will accumulate less wealth absent some huge and unforeseen GDP growth, have to spend more on necessities, and on and on and on.

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into Social Security and Medicare and state pensions vs. what they'll get out of it is hilariously and laughably lopsided in their favor.

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You're absolutely correct for two of the three.

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Got it. Yeah too many lawyers. But you knew that when you started, right?

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Job prospects weren’t fantastic, but they weren’t that bad when I was applying for law school, and I had a lot of contacts and connections. The field I was in at the time looked like a major downturn and layoffs were just around the corner, and I was right.

Over the last 4 years, the legal job market in this state essentially collapsed, and nearly all of my contacts and connections in firms and state agencies retired and/or closed their practices. I just had really poor timing.

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So much this. It’s ok to admit that not all of millennials’ suffering is self-inflicted, and that government policy changes are needed to address their concerns. Simply shrugging off their grievances as all being the result of an entitlement mindset or just being “soft” serves only to alienate millennial voters and drive them into the arms of socialist sirens like Bernie Sanders who at least promise them the appearance of relief from some of the biggest symptoms that plague them.

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This is basically true.

I have a friend with a graduate degree in Computer Science and extensive experience in programming but he can't even get a call back from a large tech company like Microsoft. But it's so easy to get a job like that, you can simply teach yourself JavaScript on your phone while barely knowing English and you're making six-figures in Redmond, WA (which depending on the number, could be a decent income or simply the equivalent to $50k in Louisiana)

Oh wait, survivorship bias is an actual thing and cherry picking exceptions doesn't make it the rule. Or maybe my friend just hasn't worked hard enough, maybe instead of four-plus years of school learning JavaScript plus everything else, he should have been learning JavaScript on his phone or something.