Gen X dad nails it.

[Clay Showalter]

You do realize that a good amount of us on here are older millennials, we are 40 years old, I think you referring more to gen z and the young millennials. And I think you have completely missed the point I was trying to make. Because of covid the car and housing market is now out of control, my wife and I bought our first house together 10 years ago for 65k, both making 30k a year, salaries haven't increased that much, but that same house probably is selling for 150k plus. Unless the housing market crashes again Gen Z and my kids generation may not even have the opportunity to own a house if they do not have the right support growing up. Things are getting tougher for younger generation and we like to just put them all in the same box and say "buckle up your boot straps and get to work" . All the millennials that are on this site that I know can work circles around boomers, post war and wwII generations physically and intellectually, there are more lazy people now with eroding ethics and morals , but there were these types with boomers, post war and wwii as well.

Hum not to call you out, but you stated, “All the millennials that are on this site that I know can work circles around boomers, post war and WWII generations physically and intellectually”

I sure as hell hope you mean that you can out work a 70-90 year old man, because if you are comparing what you can do at your present age to what they could do at the same age, it is not even close. Intellectually? Again you can’t be serious with that statement?

 

[giles]

How many days until this season starts?

 

[finelyshedded]

No, this video shows the attitude of a person who understands that you start at the bottom with goals and determination, work hard and make sacrifices to get ahead in life. This takes most of us 10-20 years of diligent working and saving, not a few years. Millennials as a group have an unrealistic sense of entitlement and they are straight up fucking lazy. They want everything, and they want it NOW. They need to get jobs and stop spending $10 for a latte at Starbucks, drive crappy cars, and learn to save their money, even it's only $50 a month.

Seeing ALL of them that worked with me before I retired go out for B-Dubs/McAllisters/Panera/Longhorn and the like for lunch after walking into work with Starbucks/Dunkin Donuts and the like in their hands. I brew my own coffee and brought in my leftovers or P&J my entire 37 plus years. Spoiled and entitlement galore with this Gen X group! I get what Jon is saying but I made $2.75 an hour starting out and saved and worked long hours to have money to spend and save. My first car cost $895(‘72 Dodge Dart) but gas wasn’t like it is now either.

I completely agree. It's a shame that we aren't teaching kids financial literacy in school. I was amazed at how completely unprepared my nieces and nephew were after graduation. They had no idea how credit card interest worked. How to rent a home. How car buying worked. Good thing they spent so much time learning about the war of 1812 though.

it’s because they were being taught that this country is oppressive, fossil fuel is causing the the end of the world in 12 years, gender is fluid and capitalism is evil. Kinda limited on the amount of time to actually squeeze in the math, science and English. This doesn’t pertain to all teachers or schools but there’s a shitload of em cuz I saw today that 1/3 of teens see communism as a positive form of government and by a lot of street interviews I see with youth it is mind boggling how real stupid and ignorant many are these days. I mean never heard of Utah and thinking it was a country and that the Civil War was the Germans against the Nazis kinda STUPID SHIT!!!! Look it up! SMDH

 

[brock ratcliff]

Inclusion and equality. Seems to be the thing most institutions are concerned with teaching these days.

Ever seen a group of kids race across a playground. Naturally, a couple of fast kids lead the pack. A swarm of kids finish in the middle. The fat kid with bad knees comes rolling in last ( me as a youth. I had to hit a baseball like babe Ruth to be effective)
In today’s world, the fast kids are being programmed to slow down. To wait not only on the majority to catch up, but to drag their heels to wait on the fat kid. Essentially, they are programmed to spend more time looking back than to push forward.
As the fat kid, I remember being glad there were kids with the ability to run faster. If I was in group of kids chasing an ice cream truck that was on the way out of the park, the fast kids that could actually catch the truck would have been a benefit to me too. It’s like that in life. We shouldn’t be stifling excellence. This sense of entitlement is a direct result of that imo... like the fat kid screaming “wait for me”. If we are taught to wait, no one catches the truck.

 

[Bigcountry40]

,Hum not to call you out, but you stated, “All the millennials that are on this site that I know can work circles around boomers, post war and WWII generations physically and intellectually”

I sure as hell hope you mean that you can out work a 70-90 year old man, because if you are comparing what you can do at your present age to what they could do at the same age, it is not even close. Intellectually? Again you can’t be serious with that statement?

I shouldn't have made that statement so personal or indirectly dragged anyone else in this, and if I am personally attacked its my fault, I am just sick of hearing this fuggin statement about my generation and the next. What I am saying is I think the top tier of my generation is just as good if not better than the other generations, if you matched us both in our primes (which there is no way to measure any of this) I think my generation is better. We have gone through some rough shit in the late 2000's and we had to be just innovative and scrappy to survive. Obviously we didnt have WW2. How can I say that intellectually - I remember none of my grandfathers friends could balance a check book (their wives did all the book keeping), there were guys running machines in the 1990's that could barely read making stupid money in the UAW, they would leave go to the bar and come back and clock out. I had a buddy who just died in NC (Korean war Vet) that worked for the telephone company, the amount of shit that got away with and people that got to keep their jobs that were drunk on the job, could barely read, write and function was unbelievable, I often wonder if there were just as many turds back then as todays society, back then we could just hide them better kept them employed, instead of them making tik toks while collecting welfare in their section 8 apartment.

 

[Bigcountry40]

I feel an important missing link that would help children of any generation would be financial literacy programs integrated into their school curriculum. This would go a long way to develop a young adult who can make reasonable financial decisions, understand types of debt, and document priorities and goals with a timeline associated.

as for the video, seemed corny and scripted and maybe the young man can help the older man with some health tips so he doesnt end up needing handouts from the govt later in life to stay alive, in return he can teach him all those clever lessons.

They have these classes basically in every state curriculum. But nobody really follows that because foxnews is to busy covering the goofy teachers in the US that are teaching there is 3934948487 genders, that are making us all look bad

 

[Jackalope]

It's not just the school system though. Shit people usually raise shit people who are usually shittier than their parents, and they breed like rabbits because as a nation we incentivize it. I'm not a fan of abortion, but I also realize that in 14-16 years we're going to be completely swamped with fuckwit degens.

 

[Bigcountry40]

Now I’ll present why I believe middle class children have such a sense of entitlement. Todays youth have a lot more activities available to them. Most of these activities are capitalistic in nature, which creates competition to keep children engaged and wanting to do that activity so the club can continue collect $$$. End result we now have created a society where adults are trying to keep kids entertained and make activities fun 100% all of the time. Kids have become accustomed to being entertained with this non stop fun time. With unlimited options kids can quit whatever they want and move on to the next activity of non stop fun. I’m guilty of this with youth football, but it’s the nature of the beast