re: Why are Moronials such whiny losers that blame all of their failures on Boomers?

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You are an economic illiterate if you don't understand how to compare the cost of an 1000 sq ft home in 1980 to a 2000 sq ft home in 2020.

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He was comparing the cost of the same size home in his example, you jackass. Not everyone is living in larger homes, even though larger homes are the majority of what is built in single-family home neighborhoods. Most millennials are renting small apartments. It's largely boomers and gen-x in the larger houses. The costs of ALL homes have skyrocketed.

I know one thing without question…..these whiny little shite bird millennials, Gen X/Z, etc keep on bitching and there’s gonna be a lot of Christian charities well funded when we all pass on.

Caraway Rye - Everyone involved in every shite thing going on is a boomer or older

So

SlowFlowPro -Boomers had a golden ticket handed to them and left a shite sandwich for your average millennial.

TigerOnTheMountain- If you’re offended by the term boomer then it applies to you. You should have made better life choices.

Loserman - I turn 60 soon and Id still frick you up

JJJimmyJimJames - generational demographics dont take control. Individuals do. Blaming is more of your stupidity at work.

rooster108bm - Any motherfricker that downvoted this should just leave. Go on and die you crusty bastards. If you can't find the comedy and excellence in that post just go.

joh burroh - Your generation is the first generation to blame their failures on everyone else. The first generation to think that every generation ahead of them was handed a golden ticket.


YEAH BUT YOU STARTED THIS GAME

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He was comparing the cost of the same size home in his example, you jackass. Not everyone is living in larger homes, even though larger homes are the majority of what is built in single-family home neighborhoods. Most millennials are renting small apartments. It's largely boomers and gen-x in the larger houses. The costs of ALL homes have skyrocketed.

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Point to where what he pasted from is adjusting for the near doubling of home size over the period. "Median home price" does not take into consideration changes like size and features.


"To understand how expensive the American Dream has become — and whether it is still achievable today — we gathered Census data from 1960 to 2017 on home prices, rents, and household income. After adjusting for inflation over time, the future of the American Dream seems rather gloomy: Median home prices increased 121% nationwide since 1960, but median household income only increased 29%. Home buyers aren’t the only ones struggling. Median gross rent increased by 72% since the 1960s, more than twice the growth seen by adjusted incomes, making renting costlier than ever and saving for a future home difficult.

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Point to where what he pasted from is adjusting for the near doubling of home size over the period. "Median home price" does not take into consideration changes like size and features.

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Cool, go find proof of your claim then. Hundreds of pages of results and studies saying prices are up across the board when controlled for the types of things you are claiming.

It shouldn't be hard, go find us something.

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Who raised them?

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The millennial filth on here are calling their parents stupid.

The boomers used to blame everything on the silent generation and the greatest generation. Don't ever forget that. That meme was damn strong throughout the late 60's and 70's.

The reality is, that boomers and millennials are very similar in their attitudes, the big difference is time and circumstance. The economic picture for boomers wasn't exactly roses in the 70's, but there was a major difference in the ease in one starting a professional career at that time and supporting a family that way compared to today. The issue today isn't that overall life is more difficult, but getting that early start to one's professional career to the point that one is stable enough to start raising children occurs far later on average and is far more difficult to achieve via similar means. To get to the same place requires, on average, more work, more time, and more luck if not more innovation.

The problem is that rather than recognize the obvious fact that millennials were lied to and essentially defrauded by their schools, and that they bare some share of the blame for not innovating their ways out of disparate circumstance, they instead play the victim.

Boomers, rather than acknowledge the differences in circumstances and help to push for positive reforms, choose to victim blame and name-call. Boomers, like some of the posters in this thread, prefer the path of enthusiastic indifference to support feelings of moral superiority by criticizing a generation that they have pidgeon-holed as a bunch of progressive blue-hairs screaming at the sky from their parents' basements.

These stereotypes allow them to dehumanize tens of millions of people and ignore their real, statistically verifiable, problems and avoid any sense of responsibility for trying to understand or fix these problems via policy. They don't feel the same problems, they never experienced them at their age, so it's easy to pretend that they're made up for political reasons like so many "progressive" grievances.

The only thing worse than being the party of bad ideas is being the party of no ideas. It's not enough to just counter the left's bad ideas. You have to offer solutions of your own because the status quo is f&%king broken, and millennials have the stats on hand to prove it.

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Cool, go find proof of your claim then. Hundreds of pages of results and studies saying prices are up across the board when controlled for the types of things you are claiming.

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You're ignorant AF, but you're persistent. I'll give you that.

Do you seriously need to have "median price" explained to you? Or are you suggesting that homes haven't gotten dramatically bigger and more feature-filled over the last 50 years?

And I'll add another layer of complexity and hope it doesn't cause your head to explode. What would you ignorant AF whine look like ten years ago? See, if you argued that life is more complex today than it was 50 years ago, I'd probably agree with you. But so what?

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what!? Boomers have had the majority of seats in Congress since 1998. You’ve also produced Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden. So yes boomers are literally responsible for all of that.

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Who elected them, genius?

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I work in private equity in one of the largest cities in the world, ya boomer hick

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But still don't understand that 135 million millenial/GenX voters elected the boomers you're bitching about.

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The millennial filth on here are calling their parents stupid

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When a guidance counselor tells a millennial that they won't be anything in life unless they get a four year degree... what generation is the counselor from?

When the newspaper columnist says you have to buy a house if you want to achieve the American Dream... what generation is the journalist from?

When the Congressman votes to add another trillion in national debt because they don't want to raise taxes or cut spending... what generation is the Congressman from?

When the university president decides to raise college tuition by another 6 percent this year, and uses the money to hire 19 more diversity officers... what generation is the university president from?

Go ask a millennial if they are closer to their boomer relatives or their greatest generation relatives.

The boomers were born on third base and act like they hit a triple. Meanwhile, They took the greatest generation's money, bought the baseball team, and are running it like the Miami Marlins.