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

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Same generation that didn’t even need a degree to find work and afford a house.

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You can still work and buy a house without a degree. Such moronic statements you've made so far in this thread but typical of the low-grade, shallow thinking behind your arguments. You fail to understand the difference between "wants" and "needs". A smart phone isn't needed, a new vehicle isn't needed, a college degree isn't needed. Taking out loans for college degrees aren't needed either, my fiancée put herself through college, dental school, her Ph.D, and her residency program without dime of loan debt. $550,000 worth of education and she owes nobody a penny because while her peers were spending their loan money on clothes, vacation trips, and avocado toast; she was writing applications for scholarships, working odd jobs, and cooking her own meals. Spoiled ignorance is the guiding principle of most Millennials today.

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lol no

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Strong rebuttal

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The problem is that many kids want now all of the material things their parents took a lifetime to acquire.

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Nah, we just want enough to afford a Nissan Altima and a fixer upper starter home.

the only thing i notice is that the world seems more fast paced today than it did 10-15 years ago. I blame technology. Other than that, there is no excuse that can be made by anyone as to why they can’t do something, or difficulty to achieve success.

unlike boomers who fled the cities (almost every major city on the eastern seaboard lost significant population in the 60s,70s,80s

I knew more than a few that bugged out to go find themselves. I would always tell them " Damn, man you're right here." They didn't know where the hell they were, and still don't. We called em Hippies.

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The homes people lived in, the cars people drove 30 years ago, most Millennials would not touch today.

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What? I lived in the LSU dorms circa 2005. I can assure you that they had not been touched in 30 years. They have only become nicer in the past few years. Millenials didn't get to use them.

Then I lived in Houston and New Orleans, again in apartments that probably hadn't been touched in decades.

Maybe rich kids have it different, but I didn't move into a "nicer" place until I was 30.

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It requires physical work and sacrifice though, which most young people don't care for...

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Yeah because baby boomers were always laying brick and learning foreign languages instead of watching Animal House.

Kids do what kids do. You act as if, with our current technology, you all would have used your phone to learn Farsi.

The first-ever spoiled generation has an opinion on who is spoiled.

It depends on what you mean by “have it harder”.

Education, healthcare, and housing are objectively much more expensive in real terms and swallow up a much larger chunk of paychecks than they did forty years ago. Older Millennials graduated into the teeth of the worst economic downturn in eighty years as well. The competition in the labor markets (both white collar and blue collar) is way more intense than it used to be.

On the other hand, many other goods - tradeable goods like food, technology, and so forth - are much cheaper than they used to be in real terms. Access to information is dirt cheap, basically free in most instances. The technical quality of services like healthcare and education is better than it has ever been.

It’s a trade off - some things are better. Some worse.

You people act like the only thing going in someone’s life after they graduate is college debt

There is a lot more to the story

General fall in price of consumer goods (electronics, food, clothing)

Increased quality of what you buy

Increased quality of medicine

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