re: This is why millennials are unhappy

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Then the boomers decided

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MENSA candidates everywhere, huh, HOLLERING BOY?

What kind of absence of critical thinking is required to not understand that a demographic group does not decide one thing or another.

If it could, the blame for the out of control leftist scourge infesting this country is squarely on the millennials shoulders. That right - you did all of this to the country.

Seriously, how could anyone with intellectual capacity of IQ 80 or higher think such nonsense - AND THEN HOLLER LIKE A FCKG BANSHEE about it?

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Fauci has been an advisor to every president since Reagan.

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bit only went into medical tyranny when policy supported by millennials came into being

The reason is national debt.

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More parading of opinions as facts.

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The opinion is supported by facts. The average new build home in 2014 was 160% larger than it was in 1970.

Most millennials wouldn't know what polices they are voting for anyway. But that isn't a millennial problem but a very uneducated and ignorant American population. That is on a pandemic level. Either way one generation teaches bad habits and the next generation teaches bad habits to the next generation. Then the process keeps going. So it is hard to explain to a generation that doesn't know who the speaker of the house is and thus break the cycle is very difficult to do. But blaming them for all the problems isn't working either. Lack of communication is a huge problem.

Both generations are a problem, no one is a saint. Not everyone has the same plans and the same problems. Some people have had it much easier than others. But success varies from person to person and it is a vague term.

I wasn't talking just about personal responsibility because of what a corrupt government does but a generation getting blamed for high gas prices, inflation, foot shortages as examples. That isn't just a millennial problem but an American problem that refuses to take responsibility. This blame the generation game has to stop as it is petty and childish.

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So for all you boomers just saying "work harder"... this is the ultimate "OK Boomer" moment...

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I’m a boomer born in 1962. My wife and I married in 1985 and had four kids. We paid for their college, then gave each of them a car upon graduation - and no more. None of them lived with us after that, either.

Right now we are babysitting my youngest daughter’s kids while she and her husband are in Hawaii. She routinely jets across country to go to weddings and destination bachelorette weekends.

We leave here to go to the UK to baby sit for my oldest daughter for a week. She has two children, and she and her husband go to France a couple of times per year, and they drive to Wales for weekends 5 or 6 times per year.

My middle daughter lives on the West Coast. Like her sister, she and her husband take several trips per year to the East Coast for friends’ weddings etc.

My son lives about like his sisters. He and his wife jet all over the country three or four times per year.

All four of them, and all of their friends, dine out several times per week.

When my wife and I were that age we went ten years without seeing a grownup movie. The vacations we took were driving to a campground with the kids and camping in a tent. We could not afford to dine out more than once every two weeks or so. When I got paid my wife paid all the bills and split the rest between us in cash. She took the lion’s share because she had to pay for things for the kids. I got $20 to last two weeks not including gasoline money.

The error in your calculations is using minimum wage. Minimum wage is not supposed to be a living wage; it is intended for kids working after school, not that they do that anymore. That’s yet another reason kids have it easy these days.

All this is to say, Get a job, loser! Show up for work every day on time, and quit your complaining, you lazy mother fricker!

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I wasn't talking just about personal responsibility because of what a corrupt government does but a generation getting blamed for high gas prices, inflation, foot shortages as examples. That isn't just a millennial problem but an American problem that refuses to take responsibility. This blame the generation game has to stop as it is petty and childish.

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I get it. And I agree with you.

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Right now we are babysitting my youngest daughter’s kids while she and her husband are in Hawaii. She routinely jets across country to go to weddings and destination bachelorette weekends.

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Yep. As a GenX'er this kind of wealth is something I couldn't even dream of. Flying was special occasion, even in the 90s. Millennials do it and consider themselves "poor". It all comes down to expectations, I suppose.

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The rest of the country hates your generation.

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There is an old saying, "if you're playing poker with strangers, and you don't know who the patsy is, the patsy is you."
How does it feel to be used?
Seriously. ... or do you not even realized the game afoot?

You've been convinced the revisionist screed fed to you by politicians and media is factual. You could verify facts for yourself, but that's so tedious. It's much easier to just believe that life was so much better "then", or things are so much harder now. When those fictitious contentions abut with facts though, the facts are so anathema that you reject them as somehow false.

Here are some examples

Historical HH income levels inflation adjusted per capita:


or more recent income tracking:



or intergenerational performance of US GDP per capita vs the EU:



or home size:



or HH expenses:




But above all, the most important fact, the fact you'd better understand, is "boomer" descendants (Gens X, Y, & Z) are set to inherit LINK ]$68Trillion in the largest intergenerational money exchange in the history of the planet. The problem is their favorite uncle, Uncle Sam, is deeply in debt and wants to steal that "boomer money" for himself.

Which of the two should you actually hate?

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Who are these being built for?

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For people like my friend’s daughter. Her and her fiancé are house shopping for their first home in the St. Louis suburbs. They’re looking to spend ~$300k. They’re both 23.